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Sep 2023
47m 18s

A defining test for the president

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About this episode

First: Auto workers walk out on the big three. It may force Joe Biden to make a choice between the unions he says he loves and the economy that will help decide his reelection fate. 

Plus: The president's Justice Department charges his son with crimes. Hunter Biden's attorneys respond by borrowing from the Trump political playbook. 

And: Temper tantrums and big divides over how to pay the nation's bills up the odds that Kevin McCarthy can't steer away Congress from a crippling shutdown. 

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