The Bill Newman Show

Posted on August 29, 2014 by

Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with poet and professor Martin Espada about the life and death of his former student, James Foley. Plus Brent Durbin, Smith Professor on spies, intelligence and the CIA and John Bonifaz on overturning Citizens United.

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