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Sep 2024
47m 45s

The Harris-Trump Debate

Foreign Policy
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Former Trump administration National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster joins FP Live to debrief after the Harris-Trump debate.

Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):

Christina Lu and Amy Mackinnon: Top Foreign-Policy Moments From the Harris-Trump Debate

FP Contributors: Letters to the Next President

H.R. McMaster and Gabriel Scheinmann: U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World 

H.R. McMaster: At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

H.R. McMaster: Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

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