How Deep Is a Deep State?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 22, 2017

Marc Ambinder, editor-at-large of TheWeek.com and the author of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry  (Wiley, 1st Edition, 2013), talks about the deep state, the "Deep State," and what's at stake when President Donald Trump doesn't get along with the secret-keepers (hint: someone might be undercutting the executive branch).

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