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PBS NewsHour | Bob Woodward on 'The Price of Politics,' Fiscal Fight | PBS

Duration: 08:25
Program: PBS NewsHour #10448
Broadcast Date: Sep. 19, 2012

In summer 2011, a partisan Congress sparred with the White House on how to solve the U.S. debt crisis. Judy Woodruff talks to journalist Bob Woodward about his new book, "The Price of Politics," about how Washington's politicians couldn't look past their own political aspirations in order to forge a deal.

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Post Date: September 19, 2012