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    Left, Right & Center

    President Trump lashes out

    Trump criticizes the media. Monument removal and Republicans

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    By Josh Barro • Aug 25, 2017 • 51m Listen

    Charlottesville was two weeks ago, but it still feels like yesterday, partially because President Trump continues to say the media has been unfair about his reaction. His outgoing chief strategist Steve Bannon says that stoking racial tensions is a winning political play. Is bringing down Confederate monuments a slippery slope? We discuss the escalating war in the Republican Party, the border wall and a possible government shutdown. Trump announces we will stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. Two economists discuss what could happen if Trump makes good on his threat to exit NAFTA.

    LRC Panel

    Josh Barro (Business Insider) moderates from the Center. Rich Lowry (National Review) is on the Right. On the Left is Jamil Smith (Daily Beast). Amy Walter (Cooke Political Report) is our special guest.

    Afghanistan In-Focus

    Evelyn Farkas (Atlantic Council)

    Trade Panel

    Stan Veuger (American Enterprise Institute) Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research)

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    • Lowry in praise of Trump's Afghanistan speech

    • Lowry on Trump's war against the media

    • Smith on the president of white America

    • Walter on what defines Trump

    • ESPN's Robert Lee controversy

    • Barro on spending five days without Twitter

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      Josh Barro

      Former host of Left, Right & Center

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      Rich Lowry

      National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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      senior writer for Rolling Stone

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