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Dec 2023
42m 14s

Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Wo...

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Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him? We have a built-in weakness of basing our constitutional norms on the honor system. Plus, the Democrats have a Hamas problem. Adam Kinzinger joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
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