Suddenly, people are looking excited.
Republicans are looking shocked, looking joyful.
And so then it was just a great night to be there with everybody wanting to be interviewed.
You know, excellent access to all kinds of Trump officials for the live coverage.
And then it all...
finished at sort of three in the morning and the next day I was being sworn in as an American citizen,
actually.
So I had to get myself to the federal courthouse at eight o'clock in the morning.
So I got no sleep and I got to the courthouse and it was like a microcosm of America.
You know,
all these people from across the world becoming citizens pretty much divided down the middle on what they thought about Donald Trump.
So of course I had to do a piece about becoming an American citizen and interview everybody who was becoming a citizen with me.
On the 9th of November 2016,
one day after Donald Trump's first election as President of the United States,
the British journalist Laura Trevelyan became an American citizen.
This while she was the lead presenter of BBC World News America,
a news show that was dedicated to a U.S. audience airing on PBS,
and that Trevelyan would present for over a decade.
Laura Trevelyan was born into a colorful, historical family that includes,
among its members, a famous historian of England,