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Brooks and Capehart on Trump's vision for a 2nd term

Season 2024 Episode 125 | 10m 26s

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, including protests against the war in Gaza growing on college campuses and Donald Trump gives the clearest vision yet for what he would do with a second term.

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