Who’s in Trump’s Top Team?
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at who is tipped for key roles in President-Elect Trump’s White House.
Donald Trump has announced that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, will be his new Chief of Staff. Laura and James speak to Gary O'Donoghue, BBC’s Senior North America Correspondent, about what her role will be and what challenges she might face - as well as which other famous faces from his campaign team might take key roles in the Trump administration.
Plus, Laura and James look at the reaction to the election from the international defence community. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and James Cook. It was made by Miranda Slade with Anna Harris. The technical producer was Johnny Hall. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham
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| 0:23.6 | James, did you stay up all night watching Washington? |
| 0:26.3 | Well, I had to take my daughter swimming at 4.30 in the morning. |
| 0:30.8 | What? |
| 0:31.3 | Who does that? |
| 0:32.4 | I know, well, my daughter does, as it turns out. |
| 0:34.4 | So I tried to go to sleep, and then I woke up at 3 a.m. |
| 0:38.6 | and I said don't check your phone don't check your phone because then you'll never sleep |
| 0:41.9 | and I was oh I have to check my phone and see what the result what is and and Trump had won |
| 0:46.1 | North Carolina and I thought oh that's it Harris's toast and try to go back to sleep and get up |
| 0:50.6 | an hour later and completely failed and just was scrolling on the phone for an hour. |
| 0:54.5 | Ah, so it was all over. |
| 0:55.4 | So I did the opposite. |
| 0:56.2 | I tried to stayed up and I was watching on the sofa and then I kept following sleep |
| 0:59.7 | on the sofa and then sort of waking up and then actually the results were coming in very |
| 1:02.9 | slowly. |
| 1:03.4 | So I went to bed and I think I had a couple of hours sleep. |
| 1:06.0 | But there we are. Lucky Adam was actually in D.C. covering it this week on newscast. But on today's program for our weekend episode, it's lovely to have you with us. We're going to be talking about how Trump's White House team is shaping up. And also, what might President Trump's election mean for |
| 1:28.7 | defense spending in this country and across the rest of Europe? So, tons to talk about |
| 1:33.9 | on this Saturday's episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
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