Summary
Long: 2000 miles, 24 hours, two cities and one podcast - and there are still no final results from the Iowa Caucuses. Good start…
Producers: Ione Wells, Emma Close and Haley Thomas Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.0 | It is 7 o'clock in the morning, Iowa time. We're about to board a plane. You can probably hear the noise of the tarmac in the background. |
| 0:13.0 | We're in Iowa where we are going to give you the results of the Iowa caucus. |
| 0:18.0 | We've literally broken Iowa. This is our first podcast and we're coming to it without any result. |
| 0:25.0 | Because of all the cock up and confusion with the Democratic Party results process that has kept everyone up all night. |
| 0:34.0 | So there are a lot of very tired faces boarding that flight and a lot of really disillusioned hacks and staffers and possibly people part of the campaign who are heading back to Washington DC. |
| 0:48.0 | Thinking they'd have a result and a clear winner and have wasted their time. We've got nothing to show for it. |
| 0:54.0 | I should say that the Iowa Washington flight doesn't normally exist. This is especially charted plane that united to put on. Other airlines are available. |
| 1:04.0 | For the Iowa caucus and everyone's booked onto this flight, we're all boarding and we don't have a story to tell yet. |
| 1:12.0 | Not yet. So we're going to get on the flight now because this would be a really stupid way to miss the state of the union. |
| 1:19.0 | And who knows, we might have the result of the Iowa caucus by the time we land in Washington. |
| 1:23.0 | Of course you've ingest for us. |
| 1:26.0 | America. |
| 1:27.0 | America. From BBC News. |
| 1:29.0 | The president's anger was on full display yesterday. |
| 1:32.0 | They're trying to impeach the son of a bitch. Can you believe that? |
| 1:36.0 | The polls show a very tight race heading into the caucuses. |
| 1:39.0 | Democrats turn their fire on each other. |
| 1:41.0 | I think you told me a liar on national TV. |
| 1:44.0 | Let's not do it right now. Where are you from? |
| 1:46.0 | A BBC. |
| 1:47.0 | Here's another beauty. |
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