Political Junkie: Distractions from Trump's ambitious agenda and media fairness

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up while speaking to Navy and shipyard personnel aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, Thursday, March 2, 2017, at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. Trump has promised to bulk up the military, but tweets about former President Obama might distract from Trump's agenda.
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This week Ken Rudin wasn't alone discussing political news with host Kerri Miller.

Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, and Vann Newkirk, politics and policy reporter for The Atlantic, talked about the agenda President Trump laid out for Congress earlier this month and how tweets about potential wiretapping might distract from that.

Later in the hour, Hemingway and Newkirk stuck around to talk about whether or not the media is being too hard, or hard enough, on President Trump. You can listen to that here.

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