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Politics Day

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Reconciliation, military rule or civil war--the three possible paths for Egypt. What can, or should, the U.S. do in regards to the Egyptian crisis? 

Host Ben Kieffer along with political scientists Steffen Schmidtand Dave Peterson of Iowa State University discuss Egypt and other foreign policy challenges for the U.S.  Also, is Texas Senator Ted Cruz's Canadian citizenship a political liability?  And what does the move by some in the GOP to defund the Affordable Care Act mean for the future of Obamacare?

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River
Katherine Perkins is IPR's Program Director for News and Talk