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A rigorous contest of ideas in the Firing Line tradition, every week on @PBS with @MargaretHoover Pod: https://t.co/kVhniMMzHQ YouTube: https://t.co/N5ahtR8W1j
Joined March 2018
Long before bipartisanship was a catchphrase, Rob Reiner helped match Republican Ted Olson and Democrat David Boise to advance the cause of marriage equality. “The fact that they teamed up basically took the politics out of the issue,” Reiner told Margaret Hoover in 2019.
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"There's no guarantee that democracy survives forever." In an updated 2019 interview with previously unaired material, Rob Reiner discusses his political activism and his fears for America's future. FRIDAY @PBS Local listings: https://t.co/yjV9uYyL5J
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The Senate is debating and is expected to pass its largest annual bill to authorize the Defense Department.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth rejected calls to release the full video of a boat strike the military carried out in September. That attack was the first of 25 acknowledged strikes that the administration...
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"The Obamacare exchanges have become unaffordable for too many," says Sen. Bill Cassidy. "If you give the money to the insurance companies, they take 20 percent for profit and overhead. They have to give you permission to get the care you know you need."
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Sen. Bill Cassidy is a key player in the Capitol Hill debate on health care subsidies, and he's also a physician. The Louisiana Republican joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest.
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NEW: Seven in 10 Americans say the cost of living in their area is unaffordable, including nearly half of Republicans and three-quarters of independents, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
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Fifty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the economy, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
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At a summit starting on Thursday, many of the leaders will press for tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets held in Europe to be used to meet Ukraine’s economic and military needs for the next two years.
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At a summit starting on Thursday, many European Union leaders will press for tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets held in Europe to be used to meet Ukraine’s economic and military needs...
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"I'm trying now to give new advice to a new generation." Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling discusses his upcoming book, "If I Don't Return," which is based on journals he wrote for his sons while serving in Iraq in the 1990s. Follow on Apple: https://t.co/bowKsvjxu5
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Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling says President Trump’s focus on regional hegemony is “troubling.” “It appears that instead of looking at worldwide potential deployments that would stand for the values that we hold dear, we're focusing on just one part of the world.”
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Hong Kong's High Court found pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and sedition. The case has become a symbol of Beijing’s crackdown on dissent.
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Hong Kong's High Court found media mogul and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and sedition. The case has become a symbol of Beijing’s crackdown...
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The naturalization ceremony is the final step of a lengthy legal process to become a U.S. citizen. In recent weeks, they've been canceled for immigrants from countries deemed "high-risk" by President Trump.
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The naturalization ceremony is the final step of a lengthy, often years-long legal process to become a U.S. citizen. In cities across the country in recent weeks, they've been abruptly canceled for...
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"President Trump was asked about this pushback and he doubled down," says Tamara Keith. "It seems very clear that Reiner's politics had nothing to do with his murder. But President Trump often finds a way to make everything about himself, and that's also what that post did."
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NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump garnering rare backlash from members...
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"We have a strong reason to try and counter any kind of malign influencers anywhere in the world," says @MarkHertling. "But it's the way you do that that's important. It isn't by driving people away or going in and killing people." Follow on Spotify: https://t.co/S2uwFIBHo7
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Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling calls for Congress to do "a whole lot more" to dig into the Trump administration's Venezuelan boat strikes, including probing the retirement of the head of U.S. Southern Command after reported tensions with Sec. Hegseth. "That tells me there's a whole
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Publisher and democracy activist #JimmyLai faces life in prison after his conviction on national security charges in Hong Kong. "Dad and his journalists worked on the principle that information, that the truth gave people choice," his son Sebastien Lai told @MargaretHoover last
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A Hong Kong court has convicted publisher and democracy activist #JimmyLai of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiracy to publish seditious material. Last fall, his son Sebastien Lai explained why he stayed in Hong Kong despite the risks. "He always used to tell
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"We know that our ideology and our values drive our strategies, and our strategies drive our policies and approaches," says Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling. "So when you don't start off from a base of values...the rest of it doesn't matter." On Spotify: https://t.co/S2uwFIB9yz
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Questions continue to surround a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean after two people survived the initial strike. Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling says if not-yet-released video of the strikes shows the survivors were "outside the fight," then "that's murder."
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"This is a two-way street, both supply and demand," says Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling of fighting drug cartels. "We don't seem to be addressing the demand problem at all, other than just saying fentanyl is bad or cocaine is bad. There's got to be more to it than that." Follow on
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“You can't see any of our values in the current National Security Strategy. And if we're not living by our values, then we are going to turn away from who we are as a nation.” Ret. Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling says a National Security Strategy is a “bankrupt piece of paper” if it is
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"If you have these end states of what you want to accomplish...if you don't have the ways you're going to do it abiding by our values, then to me it's a bankrupt piece of paper." -- @MarkHertling on Trump's National Security Strategy FULL EPISODE: https://t.co/ROKwPdju0e
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