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President Obama's Reassurance Tour
President Obama begins his last foreign tour as POTUS in hopes of reassuring world leaders that his successor, Donald Trump, won't be a threat to the diplomacy the current administration has cultivated.
Eli Stokols, national political reporter for POLITICO, talks about his latest piece on President Obama's farewell tour, and Tara Palmeri, Politico EU reporter, joins to about what to expect from President-elect Donald Trump as citizens and as journalists.