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Week In Politics: Trump Defends Call To Gold Star Family, Gives Puerto Rico Response An 'A Plus'

NPR
Published October 20, 2017 at 9:06 AM PDT
President Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Gov. Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico in the Oval Office at the White House on Oct. 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
President Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Gov. Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico in the Oval Office at the White House on Oct. 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

This week President Trump and his chief of staff John Kelly defended Trump’s call to the widow of a soldier killed in Niger. And Trump gave high marks to his administration’s hurricane response in Puerto Rico.

MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart (@jdbalart) and NPR’s Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) join Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson and Robin Young to review the week in politics.

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