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‘Political Rewind’ replay: Dissecting a 77-minute, Donald Trump press conference

AJC file

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

AJC file
By Jim Galloway
Feb 17, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" focuses on the extraordinary, 77-minute confrontation that President Donald Trump arranged with the White House press corps on Thursday.

Our conversation has a crucial subtext: When is it proper to publicly denounce administration representatives as fountains of untruth and deny them air time?

If you missed it live this afternoon, you can listen to it here now:

Today’s line-up: Host Bill Nigut; yours truly; Hank Klibanoff, author and former managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Republican strategist Brian Robinson; and Bob Garfield, co-host, of NPR’s “On the Media.”

About the Author

Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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