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Podcast: Foundation Radio
Episode: Ira Shapiro
Description: Our guest on the program is former trade ambassador and best selling author, Ira Shapiro! Adam and Ira discuss his new book, "The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America". The Founding Fathers gave the U.S. Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its raison d’etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America’s first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the ni...