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Today’s ‘Political Rewind’: Tornadoes, President Trump, and marching women

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Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

AJC file
By Jim Galloway
Jan 23, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" started with a timely summation of south Georgia's deadly encounter with at least two tornadoes, and ended with Saturday's marches – the one in Atlanta led by former mayor Shirley Franklin, who tells us about it.

Oh, and in between, we talk about first impressions made by President Donald Trump. If you missed it live, you can listen to it here:

Today’s line-up: Host Bill Nigut; yours truly; former mayor Franklin; Beth Schapiro, the retired Democratic strategist and pollster; and Chip Lake, the unretired Republican strategist.

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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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