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Oct 5
55m 28s

Rick Wilson & Bhaskar Sunkara

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The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson stops by to talk about Trump hanging out with all the wrong people.
Then we’ll talk to The Nation’s Bhaskar Sunkara about how socialist issues can deliver for the American people.

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