The "Last Week Was Awful and This Week I Have to Go to Cleveland" Edition

Live from Washington D.C., David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson

discuss the terrible recent U.S. shootings and they debate if we're

all to blame for politics' failures and what to expect at the

Republican National Convention.

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