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Episode 6 | 4m 37s
From Reagan’s Star Wars to Trump’s Space Force, New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz examines why politicians who have no patience for science can’t resist spending billions on science fiction.
Aired: 10/22/19
Expires: 10/06/26
Video has closed captioning.
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