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welcome to the Red Box politics podcast in the Times I'm Matt Jolly

and with Parliament in recess and the government doing nothing except not preventing flooding

breaking up the BBC and hiring eugenics loving weirdos now seemed like a good time to check in on what is happening on the other side of

the Atlantic. If you thought the Labour leadership contest was a long-winded

underwhelming affair, just wait till we get stuck into the race to be the

Democratic candidate to take on Donald Trump.

We'll discuss the state of the special relationship and ask Henry Zefman who swapped

Westminster for Washington three weeks ago how he is getting on learning American.

He's also just started US elections email it's like Red Box but he only does it once a week

to sign up to that and Red Box or any other of the Times brilliant emails you can go to the Times

dot-Cuddy UK forward slash bulletins if you're a time subscriber.

Before that a big hello to everyone who waited and reviewed the podcast last week as you were instructed to do.

A special cheerful hello to Catherine Landale, Bergen Street and Phil G.S.

for being so nice. It would make me blush to repeat what you said, but it's slightly

less special, I know to Jimmy the Fox, who apparently doesn't enjoy sycophantic giggling, and hello to Rubber Ricci, but he won't hear it because he's unsubscribed.

Shame.

So to this week, I'm joined on the line from Washington by David Charter, the US editor of the Times,

and Washington correspondent Henry Zefman and from California Ben Hoyle the US

West Coast Bureau Chief of the Times which sounds very glamorous but I have been to the

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