The team go through your questions for the last time this year.
How bid would the Watergate scandal be if it happened now? Should Supreme Court justices be elected? And are the British presenters developing American accents…
We’ll get into all this and more on a very festive episode of Americast.
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* Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent
* Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
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