Portland police make arrests on the scene of the nightly protests at a Portland police precinct on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020 in Portland, Ore.

Sen. Murphy on Americans and Violence

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 31, 2020

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D CT), member of the Foreign Relations committee and author of The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy (Random House, 2020), talks about his new book that seeks to explain America's high levels of violence -- from our history to today's violence at protests and the police shootings that sparked those protests.

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