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Oct 2019
31m 37s

How Trump’s Syria decision is testing GO...

THE WASHINGTON POST
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First, Pentagon reporter Dan Lamothe explains the complexities of the Turkey-Syria conflict. Then, political reporter Robert Costa explains how Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the border area might be putting his political coalition at risk. 
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