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Kelly-O'Donnell

NBC Nightly News Goes Trivial when the nation needs Insight

January 21, 2019 Arthur Lieber Immigration, Media, Trump Leave a comment

What was not mentioned was that Trump not only did not express empathy for federal workers, he did not even acknowledge their existence.

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