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‘Political Rewind’ replay: Donald Trump levels criminal charges, and ‘the funky’ MLK

AJC file

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

AJC file
By Jim Galloway
April 5, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" focused on President Donald Trump's charge that Obama's national security adviser committed a crime in "unmasking" Trump campaigners and their conversations with Russians – but also wanders to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech condemning the Vietnam War.

If you couldn’t catch it live, listen to it here now:

Today’s panelists: Host Bill Nigut; Andra Gillespie, the Emory University political scientist; and former Georgia congressman Buddy Darden.

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

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