In this week’s Trend Lines interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with Jake Sullivan, a former senior national security aide in the Obama administration, about the damaging effects of Donald Trump’s foreign policy and the challenges Democratic candidates face as they vie to take Trump on in 2020.

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