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How Howard University shaped Kamala Harris

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rosalind S. Helderman on the new Senate report that alleges close ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Russia. Fashion critic Robin Givhan shares Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s journey to a historically Black university. 

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Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s Black identity blossomed at Howard University, according to fashion critic Robin Givhan.

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:04.0

Hi, this is Tracy Jamm Colley from the Post.

0:08.0

I'm a president for Up Power You.

0:10.0

Hi, it's Robert Given at the Washington Post.

0:14.0

This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.

0:18.0

It's Wednesday, August 19th.

0:22.0

Today, revelations about Trump's 2016 campaign

0:27.0

and how Howard University shaped Kamala Harris.

0:35.0

On Tuesday, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee

0:39.0

put out this report.

0:41.0

And it was the fifth volume of a multi-year study

0:46.0

that they've had underway of what exactly the Russians did

0:50.0

during the 2016 presidential election.

0:54.0

Ross Hellderman is a political investigative reporter for the Post.

0:58.0

And this is the one that people have really been waiting for

1:01.0

because it's the one that's about the Trump campaign.

1:04.0

How the Trump campaign reacted to what Russia did

1:07.0

and whether there was any signs that there was some kind of conspiracy

1:10.0

between the Russian government and the Trump campaign

1:13.0

to elect Donald Trump president of the United States.

1:16.0

So why are they studying Russian interference in the 2016 election

1:22.0

when we already had the Mueller report which addressed that exact same thing?

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