ambassador gordon sondland, welcome back to the program. we spoke to do a little bit before the election. i want to start by asking you were you surprised by this sweeping result? >> i was surprised, primarily because the pollsters were all talking about a neck and neck race. there are a lot of pollsters that will be out of business today. >> let us ask you now what this all means. first and foremost, as he said at his election, he said "america has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. we have taken back control of the senate." no, will he, how will he rule, do you think? >> well, first of all, he will review the next four years in terms of a stopwatch. they will be -bent on getting as much done as quickly as possible. he was in the white house previously, he remembers every mistake he made in terms of personnel, in terms of legislation. i think you can see a trump administration 2.0 hitting the ground running, with executive orders, the toughest legislation passed very quickly up front in order to codify it. you are going to see

gordon sondland talking to me earlier.times's us national editor. he has written a piece today warning of the trepidation many feel in washington fearing retribution. he did campaign very explicitly, the basis of his campaign was to take rhetoric, to say, "i will be your retribution," to personify those in america who feel persecuted for one reason or another, with trump's sense of persecution over the prosecutions from 2020. so the appointment that matters the most in the coming days, we haven't had it yet, and the one thatjd vance said would be the second most important person in the trump administration is who he appoints as attorney general to head the department ofjustice. then we will see and get an indication with that appointmentjust how serious trump is about retribution, or whether this was just rhetoric. you remember he did say he would lock hillary clinton up, and he made no real attempts in that direction. appointment is so important, because ordinarily you'd look at all manner of other appointments — secretar

we'll get analysis from gordon sondland — republican donor, and donald trump's former ambassador to theunion in his first term. a palestinian militant group has released a video of an israeli hostage, alexander troufanov, held in gaza since the october the seventh attacks. and here, the father of sara sharif tells a court he takes full responsibility for the death of the ten—year—old — found dead at her home near london last year. now with all the latest sport here's pippa. hello from the bbc sport centre. now the opening tie of the billiejean king cup between spain and poland has been postponed. this is due to a severe weather alert following periods of heavy rain in the southern region of spain. the tie was originally scheduled for wednesday and will now take place on friday. meanwhile in turin at the atp finals, carlos alcaraz has defeated andrey rublev after a surprise defeat to casper ruud in his opening fixture. the spaniard had been suffering from an illness during practice yesterday but it didn't seem to be hamper him too much today. the four—time grand slam champion took the fi