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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Similarities between Italy's new government and Donald Trump

    President Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte today. He noted that Conte was also an outsider, elected in part to crack down on immigration.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 30, 2018 • 1 min read

    President Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte today. He noted that Conte was also an outsider, elected in part to crack down on immigration. Conte is seen as a figurehead for the two right wing parties that won the last parliamentary elections: the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement and the far right League Party. Theirs is the first populist government to take power in Western Europe.

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Wildfires from California to the Arctic -- it could get worse
    1. 0:00Similarities between Italy's new government and Donald TrumpYou’re reading this
    2. 7:58Paul Manafort heads to court
    3. 16:22Fires burning all over the world: We might look back and say 'those were the good old days'
    4. 24:40Writer Simon Rich targets pervasive celebrity culture
    5. 41:27Land in Beverly Hills comes with $1 billion price tag, no house
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