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United State of Emergency

Americast

BBC

Politics, Government, News

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Posting for the first time since his Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours, President Trump criticised the violent protests that saw five people lose their lives, and called for an ‘orderly transition of power’. But, what’s behind this change in rhetoric? Emily, Jon and Anthony talk through this and all the fallout from Wednesday’s dramatic events.

Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi and Ben Weisz Editor: Dino Sofos

Transcript

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0:00.0

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America Astas, we begin today with the shortest detective drama the BBC has ever put out.

0:16.5

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0:23.5

Police, as we know, are searching for perpetrators after Wednesday's events that attempted

0:30.2

coup at the Capitol building. So is that a tough case to crack?

0:34.6

Well, let's enter some of the writers themselves on social media, telling the world exactly

0:42.8

what they claim to have got up to. Can this case be cracked? Well, let's start with the

0:48.6

broken door to the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office.

0:53.3

We did break down the Nancy Pelosi's office door.

0:59.3

Hmm, well that's a tall tale and a bold theory, but is there any evidence?

1:07.2

And took a picture sitting in the chair, flipping off the camera, and that was on Fox News.

1:14.2

Yeah, but what about the hammer, the gavel, with which she brings the House of Representatives

1:19.4

toward her? Are we going to have to call in Puyro Miss Marple's Inspector Morse Colombo,

1:24.9

or is it not worth getting out of bed for? The gavel has vanished without a trace. Do

1:30.0

we have a lead? And somebody stole her gavel? Hmm, no, it's odd. Well, it seems another

1:37.0

mystery has been sold. It's not exactly Scandinoia, but welcome to America's.

1:44.0

America's from BBC News. This is the time to heal America. This is a flood on the American

2:01.1

public. Joe Biden will be the 46th president of these United States. While I may be the

2:07.0

first woman in this office, I will not be the last. All the networks. Wow, where are

2:13.2

you from at BBC? Here's another beauty. It's Emily in London. It's John in Washington,

2:21.4

DC. And it's Anthony in Arlington, Virginia. What a difference, a couple of days make. The

2:27.7

last time we were together, we were talking about the appalling scenes of violence that

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