152 - w/ Steve Kornacki "Straight News, Political Tribalism, Chappell's Sticks & Stones"

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Recorded: September 4th 2019

Published: September 7th 2019

Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Author of "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism"

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