You’re hired! Trump chooses his top team
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President-elect Donald Trump has spent the week since his election picking out his cabinet members and closest advisors who will help him through his second term. Sarah, Marianna and Anthony give you the latest on who’s been nominated so far.
Among them is Elon Musk, who has been tipped to run the new Department of Government Efficiency. But what does that mean, exactly?
And, this afternoon Trump met with President Biden in the White House for a transition meeting, which was partly drowned out by the sound of a fireplace.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Ameriasters, we hope you've been enjoying the AmeriCast pop-up podcast studio as we've |
| 0:04.6 | travelled around the US covering the election. Before Donald Trump's inauguration in January |
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| 0:29.1 | Anyway, here's today's episode. Enjoy. |
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| 0:36.5 | Hello, everyone. There is so much to discuss in this episode. |
| 0:39.9 | We're going to be looking at all of the people Donald Trump's been picking for the top jobs in his administration. |
| 0:45.2 | What that tells us about what his policy is going to be like and the people he surrounds himself with. |
| 0:49.9 | But there's another meeting first we've got to mention. |
| 0:52.7 | The president-elect and the former president were meeting the current president, |
| 0:56.4 | and yet there were only two of them in the room, work that one out, |
| 0:59.0 | in the Oval Office with an absolutely enormous roaring fire in the background |
| 1:03.8 | that was maybe to melt any frostiness between the two of them. |
| 1:07.4 | It was so big, it was practically as big a part of the meeting as the two men. |
| 1:11.0 | Transition to everything we can to make sure you're accommodated, what you need. We're going to |
| 1:16.4 | get a chance to talk about some of that today. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you very much. |
| 1:22.3 | And politics is tough. And it's, in many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much. |
| 1:32.3 | A transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as it can get. |
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