April Ryan on American Unity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 3, 2017

April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and author of The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America (now out in paperback), discusses the latest national political news from the Trump White House.

"To understand Trump we go back to his base," says Ryan, "but he represents all of America now. Pitting groups against each other is not good."

 

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