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Jan 2023
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2025 China War Risk, Federal Police Refo...

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Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Joe Mathieu delivers insight and analysis on the latest headlines from the White House and Capitol Hill, including conversations with influential lawmakers and key figures in politics and policy.

Joe spoke with Matthew Kroenig, Deputy Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council on geopolitical tensions and General Mike Minihan's internal memo that the US and China risk going to war in 2025, Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Wisconsin on federal police reform efforts after the killing of Tyre Nichols. Plus, our politics panel, Bloomberg Politics Contributors Rick Davis and Jeanne Sheehan Zaino on the China war risk, Kevin McCarthy's debt ceiling meeting with President Biden, police reform in Congress and Trump on the campaign trail.

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