America’s Collision Course With The Debt Ceiling
As the nation counts down to default, Diane talks to longtime Congress watcher Norm Ornstein about the debt limit negotiations, what's at stake and whether he sees a way forward.
Pulitzer-Prize–winning reporter Anthony Shadid joins Diane to talk about his work in Iraq, where he was “embedded” not with U.S. forces but with Iraqi civilians. He talks about what the war looks like through Iraqi eyes.
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- Anthony Shadid Reporter for The Washington Post, author of "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" (Picador) and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer for International Reporting
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