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Weekend Edition: President Trump Pardons TX Democrat Henry Cuellar, AfghanEvac, and Electricity and Utility Prices on the Rise

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In this weekend’s episode, three segments from this past week’s Washington Journal.

First: President Trump stuns House Republicans with a surprise pardon this
week for Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar – whose Laredo seat Republicans were hoping to pick up in the midterms. We’ll get the scoop from Gabby Birenbaum Washington Correspondent for the Texas Tribune.

Then: A conversation with Shawn VanDiver — founder and president of
#AfghanEvac –a nonprofit run by American veterans helping to resettle Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the two-decade war.

Plus: Electricity and utility prices are rising across the country as winter weather starts to kick in. We speak with Robinson Meyer – Founder of the website Heatmap News – about what’s driving the increases.

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