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PBS NewsHour full episode Aug. 18, 2015

Season 2015 Episode 2300

Tuesday on the NewsHour, a look at the Trump strategy in Iowa. Also: A critical take on the Iran nuclear deal, the first two female graduates of Army Ranger School, how a high school district and local college partnered to increase graduates, innovations in telemedicine for patients in rural America and what we’ve gotten all wrong about Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.”

Aired: 08/17/15
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