Political Junkie Ken Rudin: Tillerson Visits Russia And Gorsuch Takes His Seat

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published April 13, 2017 at 12:21 PM EDT

Relations between the U.S. and Russia are tense this week as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Moscow on a diplomatic trip. Tillerson urged Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, to pull their support from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. These talks come a week after the U.S. launched a missile strike against Syria. Meanwhile, Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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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.

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​Political Junkie Ken Rudin: Tillerson Visits Russia And Gorsuch Takes His Seat

Political Junkie Ken Rudin: Tillerson Visits Russia And Gorsuch Takes His Seat