My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

We will be back in some form.

We are still deeply divided.

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

Absolutely.

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

That is the history of the journey of America.

It's Irishman in America every Friday with Marion McKeown of the Sunday Business, BBC, NPR, Today FM, you name it.

She's on the line, as always, making sense of what is happening and giving us a deeper understanding

of why. Today on the show, Marion turns her focus to the aftermaths. We are forced to listen to

seven weeks of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard tearing strips off each other using the weapon of the courts.

Should this thing have ever been televised? What is the wider impact of the trial?

Why is everyone asking what does it mean for the Me Too movement when this wasn't even a Me Too case?

Did Johnny Depp even win? We'll talk about President Biden's dramatic U-turn on Ukrainian

weapons. Cheryl Sandberg stepping down as chief operating officer of Facebook and more. What does it all

mean, Marion? Where do we start? How are you, first of all? All good. All good at this end.

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