Summary
Spoiler alert… President Trump has been acquitted in his impeachment trial. Who’d have thunk it? But there’s still a lot to talk about, including Mitt Romney crossing the aisle to convict his fellow Republican on the first charge of abuse of power. And Maitlis has an exclusive interview with one of the men who testified against the President, former US special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker.
Producers: Emma Close and Haley Thomas Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to America, where like London buses, you don't see one for ages and then |
| 0:10.6 | suddenly two come along at once because it has been an amazing 24 hours in Washington |
| 0:16.2 | last night at the State of the Union address. Today the acquittal of Donald Trump, but |
| 0:20.6 | before we come to any of that, we just need to read some of the feedback we've had. |
| 0:24.6 | I love this from Hillary Burkitt. She goes accidental headphone failure and |
| 0:29.7 | realise I'd been broadcasting America's to entire train carriage. No one said anything, |
| 0:35.3 | which either means they were all enjoying mateless and co or were just too polite to complain |
| 0:41.0 | probably. They were just so happy that a train had come and they were on it. |
| 0:47.6 | That's from standing squashed and they're all they've got in be here. |
| 0:52.3 | We can't move. That's basically the scene of things. Soaps you sound truly dreadful. |
| 0:57.4 | Thank you. I'm sitting here in the studio with with lemon sip with lozengers with a cup |
| 1:03.7 | of green tea and I'm tissue stuffed up. Yeah, exactly, but thanks for making me feel so much |
| 1:09.3 | better about it. And this is Anthony Zurker here. I'm sitting in a safe distance away from |
| 1:13.4 | John, eyeing him nervously and looking at the hand sanitizer. I'm back in London. The |
| 1:20.8 | dog has come over to just check out what we're doing. Oh, booty. |
| 1:24.6 | Oh, booty. Who seems very, very excited or as excited as a whipper ever looks. Yeah. |
| 1:31.3 | And I've had some lovely feedback as well. We have one from Dave Jones here and he says, |
| 1:35.6 | America's does a great podcast if you're interested, but still somewhat confused by how the current |
| 1:40.9 | phase of the US presidential race works. Or sorry Dave, maybe I'm reading that wrong, maybe he means. |
| 1:47.4 | America has a great podcast if you're interested, if you're interested, but still somewhat confused |
| 1:53.0 | by how the current phase of the US presidential race works. I don't know. Anyway, Dave wants us to |
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