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An Obama Staffer's 'Good Idea'
Alyssa Mastromonaco, co-host of Crooked Media's Hysteria Podcast, former assistant to President Obama and the author of Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House (Twelve, 2017), talks about the news of the day, including the President's latest trip to Europe and the latest tallies in Florida and Georgia.