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Political Junkie Ken Rudin: Trump Campaign And Russia

Ken Rudin, The Political Junke
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Ken Rudin, The Political Junke
Ken Rudin, The Political Junke
Credit Credit kenrudinpolitics.com
Ken Rudin, The Political Junke

President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but they two leaders offered little indication of policies for what Trump had described as a "great" peace deal. Meanwhile, new reports show Trump campaign officials repeatedly communicated with Russian officials.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Political Junkie Ken Rudin about the latest from the White House.

Trump's pick for national security advisor Michael Flynn resigned after his interaction with Russian authorities came to light. Host Frank Stasio talks with political junkie Ken Rudin about the latest.

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Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.