Newscast x Americast Q&A
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, Newscast and Americast join forces to answer your questions on the US election.
What brought Donald Trump and JD Vance together? If Kamala Harris does run to be President, who would be her VP? And, Is President Michelle Obama a possibility?
Adam is joined by Americast’s Justin Webb and Marianna Spring. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to this bonus and extraordinary edition of America. |
| 0:07.5 | It is a bonus edition because of hell we're doing editions almost every minute. |
| 0:11.6 | This is a very important one and a particularly |
| 0:14.0 | important one and a particularly special one because Adam from Newscast is with me in what I like to think of |
| 0:20.8 | as the AmeriCast studio. He may have other views. |
| 0:24.0 | Adam, you are very welcome to AmeriCast. Can you do a convincing American accent? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, no. I mean, I think it's hard enough to do my Scottish one. |
| 0:32.0 | The thing is though, I've been listening to |
| 0:33.6 | America's every day this week and I thought oh yeah that's what we do on newscast |
| 0:37.8 | a podcast every single day but I mean it's been it's been so compelling |
| 0:41.5 | because every two hours it hours basically something has happened. |
| 0:44.4 | We have got the news haven't we? |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah I mean we really have got the news. |
| 0:47.6 | My job in this is basically to just read out emails from listeners and get you to answer them. |
| 0:52.7 | But that's fine. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm honored to play that role. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm up for it, let's begin. |
| 0:56.7 | Americaast. |
| 0:59.7 | Americaast from BBC News. |
| 1:02.3 | Let me start off with two words, made in America. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm not running for state here. |
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