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Left, Right & Center

Taxes, Obamacare and sexual harassment in Congress

Should sexually harassing politicians step down?

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By Josh Barro • Nov 17, 2017 • 51m Listen

[Note: audio was initially clipped for this episode- if you experience issues, please access the full episode here.]

Republicans' tax bill has passed the House. Can it pass the Senate? What will it mean for your taxes? Will it cut Obamacare? As more women come forward to accuse Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of hitting on them as teenagers, a news anchor has her own sex harassment story about Senator Al Franken. Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses President Trump's Asia trip and what we should make of the turmoil in Saudi Arabia. Asha Rangappa joins us to discuss investigations into Trump, and perhaps Hillary Clinton.

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  • Sarah Leonard on how to stop predators who aren't famous

  • Ben Wittes on Sessions' admission that DOJ is not acting on Russia threat to US elections

  • Barro on why it's going to be hard to win over GOP senators objecting to the tax bill

  • Lowry on Roy Moore as pure Steve Bannon

  • Vanden Heuvel on why the Republican tax bills would be paradise for plutocrats

Photo: Judge Roy Moore speaks as he participates in the Mid-Alabama Republican Club's Veterans Day Program in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, November 11, 2017. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters)

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    Josh Barro

    Former host of Left, Right & Center

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    Rich Lowry

    National Review / KCRW's Left, Right & Center

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    Katrina vanden Heuvel

    The Nation

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    Production assistant, 'Left, Right & Center'

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    Producer, 'Left, Right and Center'

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    Megan McArdle

    Washington Post

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    Asha Rangappa

    Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

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    Richard Haass

    Council on Foreign Relations

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