Listener questions: you asked, we answered

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  I'm John Prideaux, and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist.

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  Today, we're going to do something a little bit different.

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  Over the past few weeks, you, our listeners, have been sending us your questions.

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  And in this episode, we're going to be attempting to answer them, or at least some of them.

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  We've had a wonderful response to our call out for questions,

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  so we won't be able to answer every single one we receive.

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  But thank you to all the listeners who got in touch,

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  and we're going to get through a decent number of them today.

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  Your questions range from the possibility of a third Trump term,

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  to asylum law, to Elon Musk's plan for a new political party.

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  So we've got a lot to cover today.

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  But luckily, I'm joined by Charlotte Howard in New York and James Bennett, who's in Washington, D.C.

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  And together we're going to do our best to answer the toughest questions you've sent our way on what's been a pretty extraordinary period

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  since Donald Trump's second inauguration back in January.

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  Charlotte, are you ready?

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  I am.

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  And James, how about you?

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  I'm as ready as I'm going to be.

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  That's reassuring.

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  What's up in D.C. at the moment?

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