Unhappy anniversary

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A year after the Capitol riot, the people who were there tell us it’s still dividing America today. US Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett calls it “an attempted coup” and says the country is “in an ideological civil war”. Fiona Hill – a former advisor to Donald Trump – says the way many Republicans have responded reminds her of Soviet disinformation campaigns. And Gabriel Montalvo, from the New York Young Republican Club, explains most people who went to the rally in Washington that day were peaceful. Americast is made by Estelle Doyle and Phil Marzouk. The assistant editor is Alison Gee ad the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.5	The former President of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies
0:13.0	about the 2020 election.
0:15.7	And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our constitution.
0:22.1	He can accept he lost.
0:25.1	He has no one, no president in American history.
0:28.4	The history of this country has ever, ever done.
0:30.7	He refused to accept the results of an election and the world of American people.
0:38.1	That was Joe Biden.
0:39.9	As we've never heard him before, this was Biden 2.0.
0:45.4	Forget what you remember this time a year ago of the man pleading unity.
0:50.6	This was a man who is angry to the very depths of his soul.
0:55.4	And it's important that that speech came today because today the US is marking the one
1:00.5	year anniversary of that attack on the capital.
1:04.2	He attempted insurrection.
1:10.8	And if you're honest, anniversary programs can sometimes be quite annoying because you
1:17.1	kind of think why are they harping back to this, you know, it's been and gone.
1:21.4	Well, this one has been but it hasn't gone.
1:25.5	It is still going and that's why a year on we're going to dedicate the podcast today to
1:32.1	understanding and asking what if anything has changed since that violent mob took hold
1:40.0	at the streets of Washington.
1:44.2	And on anniversaries we tend to use the words of solemnity.
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