America Trends Podcast

EP 891 A Longtime Washington Insider Provides His Perspective on How D.C. is Functioning


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 Attorney Ira Shapiro is a man who has seen it all in Washington. As a long-time U.S. Senate staffer, he has written three books about the upper chamber. The collection has been described by one scholar as an ‘epic trilogy’, capturing sixty years of Senate history.  He was the chief U.S. trade negotiator with Japan and Canada in the Clinton Administration and now he shares his vast knowledge of the affairs of the U.S. Capitol on Substack with a post titled “Truth Be Told.”  I wanted Attorney Shapiro to come back because I have interviewed him twice before and felt that with norms being shattered by this Administration he would have a lot to say on a range of issues.  I was not disappointed.

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