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Robert Reich: This is a shameful day. The president seems to regard the world as a zero sum game, as mathematicians we put it, in…

On the recordMay 31, 2017
This is a shameful day. The president seems to regard the world as a zero sum game, as mathematicians we put it, in which either we win and everybody else loses or everybody else wins and we lose.
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Robert Reich

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Reich expresses his disapproval of Trump's worldview and the implications of withdrawing from the climate agreement.

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