Trump Asks if West Has the 'Will to Survive'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 7, 2017

According to a speech President Trump gave Thursday in Poland the West is in trouble. He claimed that "the fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive." Carla Robbins, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) who runs the master of international affairs at the Marx School at Baruch College, unpacks Trump's speech in terms of western values and nationalism.

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