We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on.

Which is where Newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears.

It does mean we have to put in the hard work, though.

Listen to Newscast every day on BBC Sounds.

What you're about to hear is a little

experiment, dare I say, a successful one in which Nick and I, after I've been presenting the Today

program on Thursday morning with Justin Webb, who's in Washington, D.C., I ran upstairs to the Today

podcast where I found Nick ready and already broadcasting live. Yes, because the idea of live is not exactly new.

We've been doing that for a few decades here at the BBC, but the idea of a live-streamed

version of the Today Podcast is new to us.

And here it is.

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Amol is chasing up the stairs from the third floor where he's been presenting the today program. Meanwhile, Justin is not one floor down, but 3,662 miles away in Washington, D.C., where we've had him chained to a microphone for what seems like months,

and at some stage we're actually going to allow him to escape.

But we're going to let them catch their breath for a little bit as they come off air,

and I will just give you a sense of what we're going to do.

We're going to take your questions over the

next half an hour, 40 minutes or so about what this new Trump era will mean, why it came about,

and of course whether people in our business got it right or got it wrong, because let's be

honest, and Justin's listening now, I know, in Washington, all the talk

was that it would be days, possibly weeks, until we got a result. Why? Because it would be so close

that there would be endless legal dispute and political dispute too. But in fact, it came before

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