Are We At War?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 31, 2019

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of the forthcoming The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War, and Daniel Benaim, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, researching U.S. policy in the Middle East, as well as a visiting lecturer at New York University, continue the conversation on what kind of blowback the U.S. can expect after the Trump administration killed Iran's top general, Qassem Soleimani.

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