Trent Lott and Tom Daschle on Overcoming Partisan Politics

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 29, 2016

This is a rebroadcast from an interview that originally aired on January 20, 2016.

Is it possible to bring an end to hyper-partisan politics in Washington, D.C.? Two veteran senators from opposite sides of the aisle, Trent Lott and Tom Daschle, tell us how and why the system needs to be fixed in Crisis Point: Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America

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