Witch Hunt: NYT’s Peter Baker on WH turmoil

05/18/17 • -1 min

Bob Schieffer's "About the News" with H. Andrew Schwartz

This morning President Trump tweeted, “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” We spoke with New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker about the tumult in Washington and about the President’s upcoming foreign trip, his first as President of the United States. Download transcript here.

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