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Well, since we have met on the weekend newscast, there's never been actually never been a week like it.
No, there hasn't.
Not because it's been busy with the news.
We have lots of weeks when there's busy with the news and all sorts of different stories happening.
But because of the pylon meltdown, car crash of epic proportions, whatever you want to call it in the Oval Office last night, that I still probably think to a lot of people listening and even to me, to be honest, you still kind of think, did I really see that?
Did it actually really happen?
So the row is now, well, 18 hours old.
We're recording at 2:00 on Saturday afternoon, but I don't think the dust has settled, far from it.
So let's get underway with Saturday's newscast.
Newscast, newscast from the BBC.
I like landscapes.
I don't think I'm being rude.
Jabbing unemployed people who are overweight.
That is not the agenda.