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Welcome towards the White House.

In the centre of Washington, there’s a circus. It’s raucous, loud and filled with clowns. Reporting onto it is a daily cacophony. Four major stories can blow up and blow out before breakfast, and political weather conditions systems are shifting at warp velocity. The one thing absent from the weather forecast may be the tranquil eyesight of the surprise. That we never see.

In A Year on the Circus: Inside Trump’s White House, BBC THE UNITED STATES Editor, Jon Sopel, takes about A Year ON THE Circus: Inside Trump’s White House you inside Trump’s West Wing and explores the impact this presidency has had within the most iconic of American institutions. Each chapter starts inside a famous Washington space, uncovering its history and its new resonance in the Trump period.

You are invited to step in the Oval Workplace where Trump needed loyalty from FBI Director James Comey, and encounter life like a reporter in the Briefing Room, where the tense relationship between the media and the President is played out. Guiding you through these areas, Jon unveils the internal workings of the Trump White House and details the key moments and conversations which have unfolded within its wall space.

From Kim Jong-un and Kavanaugh to Merkel as well as the Mueller Inquiry – that is your insider guideline to the Washington Circus. Roll up, move up …

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