234: From The Civil War To The Middle East w/ Professor Sean Wilentz and Indira Lakshmanan
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
Politicon
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Email your questions to James and Al at politicswarroom@gmail.com or tweet them to @politicon. Make sure to include your city, we love to hear where you’re from!
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Indira Lakshmanan:
Twitter | AP | Pulitzer Center | Bloomberg
Professor Sean Wilentz
Twitter | Princeton History Department | Author of “No Property In Man” & Many Other Books
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| 0:28.0 | Eligibility may vary, consumer action required. Hello and I'm Al Hunt. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Politics War Run with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt. |
| 0:45.0 | This week our guests are historian and Princeton Professor Sean Whelens |
| 0:50.0 | and foreign policy expert and journalist in Derelachman. |
| 0:55.0 | Now remember, we love taking your questions, so write into politics war room at gmail.com |
| 1:00.0 | or send a tweet to at polit on for next week's show. |
| 1:03.2 | We'll get to as many as we can, but don't forget to tell us where you're from. |
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| 1:26.8 | Hey James, the Trump cult, aka the Republican Party, gets nuttier and really more disgraceful by the day. |
| 1:36.0 | Here are some low lights. |
| 1:38.0 | Texas Rep Chip Roy sometimes depicted as the more reasonable and rational of the right-wing caucus in the |
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