Lawrence O'Donnell
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'LIES BY SMILING PROPAGANDISTS': Historian rebukes Trump whitewashing history in Smithsonian fight
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8:46Now PlayingMS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning Yale History Professor David Blight to discuss Blight's House testimony criticizing the Trump administration's attacks on the Smithsonian and U.S. history. Blight tells O'Donnell, "It's free thought that's at stake here."
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