The World and Everything in It: February 25, 2025

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Germany’s political landscape is shifting and voter frustration is rising. Where’s the disconnect?

LANGENBACHER: Germans keep voting center-right, and they keep getting governed center-left.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also today, some states want to bring an end to no-fault divorce—but what about unintended consequences?

Later, aging Holocaust survivors wrestle with re-living the nightmare.

LEIPCIGAR: The thoughts come back uninvited, and they come back at difficult times.

And WORLD Opinions managing editor Andrew Walker on lasting change.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, February 25th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Trump-Macron at White House  » While talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have only just begun, President Trump says he is very optimistic. He told reporters at the White House:

TRUMP:  I think the war could end soon.

REPORTER: How soon?

TRUMP: Within weeks. Yeah, I think we could end it within weeks — if we're smart..

The president heard there in the Oval Office during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron Monday. The two leaders talked trade and defense, but discussions about peace in Ukraine topped the list.

For his part, Macron says he sees a real opportunity.

MACRON: President Trump is a game-changer. And I think he has the deterrence capacity of the U.S. to re-engage with Russia.

But Macron emphasized that early concessions on Moscow’s part should be measurable and must be verified.

Kyiv summit » Meantime, in Kyiv, Ukrainians marked the three-year anniversary Monday of Russia’s full-scale invasion. And President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted a summit of leaders from allied nations. Some stressed the importance of keeping the pressure on Russia as peace talks begin.

British British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed back on a recent comment by President Trump that the Russians—quote—“have the cards” after capturing a lot of Ukrainian territory.

STARMER:  Russia does not hold all the cards in this war because Russia's economy is in trouble and because they have now lost the best of their land forces and their Black Sea fleet in this pointless invasion.

Starmer announced another new round of sanctions against Russia.

And European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said the West must speed up its delivery of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

U.S.-Ukraine ties » And the United States is still backing Ukraine. Despite President Trump’s recent criticism of President Zelenskyy, the Trump administration has not cut off support to Kyiv.

And a deal appears to be in the works regarding rare earth minerals that may help address President Trump’s frustrations over US aid provided to Ukraine thus far.

TRUMP: The deal’s being worked on. And we’re, I think, getting very close to getting an agreement where we get our money back over a period of time.

A partnership agreement would give the United States access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. Those minerals are critical to making advanced technologies, both commercial and military. And China currently dominates the global supply.

The White House says the partnership would also be lucrative for Kyiv.

It’s believed that such a deal would contain some security guarantees for Ukraine.

SOUND: Israeli tanks

Israel / Tanks in West Bank » Israeli tanks were seen moving into the West Bank yesterday. It's the first such deployment in more than 20 years...when Israel responded to a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings.

Israel's foreign minister says the tanks are necessary to keep his country safe.

SA'AR: What we are doing in what you call West Bank and we call Judea and Samaria, is defending our security. It's military operations taking place there against terrorists and no other objectives but that, but this one.

Israel says the operation may last as long as a year, and in the meantime, West Bank residents who fled will not be allowed to return to their homes.

Israel / Hostages » Meanwhile, the parents of two Israeli hostages still held by Hamas say their sons were forced to witness the release of six of their fellow hostages on Saturday. A camera recorded their reactions, and their pleas that they also be freed.

Ilan Dalal is the father of one of the hostages:

DALAL: On one hand it is a sign of life...But in the other hand, we saw the cruelty of Hamas where they... just torturing them by letting them see their friends go home and bringing them back to the tunnels.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delaying the release of 600 Palestinian prisoners...citing what he characterizes as the humiliating ceremonies that take place when Israeli hostages are freed.

Ramaswamy announces Ohio gubernatorial bid » Businessman and former Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is running for another elected office.

RAMASWAMY:  I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio!

He made the announcement near his hometown of Cincinnati.

If elected, Ramaswamy would succeed term limited GOP Gov. Mike DeWine.

SONG: [Killing Me Softly]

Roberta Flack obit » Singer and pianist Roberta Flack has died. The Grammy-winning artist was known for hits like “Where is the Love?” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song …”

SONG: [Killing Me Softly]

She became an overnight star in the early 1970s after Clint Eastwood used her song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in one of his films.

Flack died Monday surrounded by her family. She was 88 years old.

I'm Kent Covington. 

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 25th of February.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

First up, a political groundswell in Germany.

Over the weekend, Germany’s most conservative party took second place in national elections. The Alternative for Germany party is known by the German initialism A-F-D: the “D” for Deutschland.

A German nationalist party has not achieved this much popular success since the 1930’s.

EICHER: The success of the AfD set off political shockwaves. Many worry Germany may be sliding back towards fascism. But others believe the AfD is their best chance to overturn an unsatisfactory status quo. One in five voters backed the AfD as Germany grapples with mass immigration, and a string of terror attacks.

REICHARD: What does all this mean? And how could it alter global politics? WORLD’s Grace Snell has the story.

GRACE SNELL: On Saturday, pro-AfD Germans gathered in Erfurt, Germany’s main square.

AUDIO: Five years ago, we had mostly older people. But now mostly young people.

Voters like this AfD event coordinator come from all over the political spectrum…from German nationalists to immigration skeptics. All agree the German system isn’t working.

HӦCKE: Friends, the mantle of history is just passing us by, like in 1989.

That’s AfD regional leader Björn Höcke proclaiming a new era of freedom in Germany.

HӦCKE: We are well-advised as Germans to take action and not allow the future of our country to be lost—until the future of our beloved German fatherland is secured!

German courts have twice convicted Höcke for using the Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany” at his rallies.

Across the square, protestors outnumber and outshout AfD supporters…waving rainbow flags and homemade cardboard signs.

AUDIO: Nazis raus! Nazis raus! Nazis raus!

They’re chanting: “Nazis out! Nazis out!”

They’re all here for a single reason, too:

LAURA: Because we don’t want the AfD in our country…

Laura is a 16-year-old who supports Germany’s left-wing party—die Linke. She and her friend Kim came to protest the AfD policy of mass deportation, or “remigration.”

KIM: We want a Germany for everyone and not for just a few people.

For them, a vote for the AfD is a vote for Nazis.

Rows of police cars and a metal barricade keep the protestors far away from the AfD campaign rally. Like Germany’s national public square: the country’s left and right extremes face off across a rapidly-eroding political center.

The AfD hasn’t always been this controversial. Here’s Georgetown University professor Eric Langenbacher.

LANGENBACHER: When it was founded, it was a very different party. It was founded by economics professors…

Economics professors who resented Germany footing the bill for the European Union bail-outs of debt-ridden members like Greece. They formed the Alternative for Germany as a eurosceptic and free market party in 2013.

But, Langenbacher says the AfD soon morphed into something quite different.

LANGENBACHER: Very quickly they kind of evolved into a populist right radical party that in particular is very much against migration, and especially migration from Muslim majority countries.

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed over a million asylum seekers into the country. Most were fleeing conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. That created a massive cultural collision…and an added financial burden to the country’s welfare system.

The AfD’s party platform talks about protecting Germany’s borders, tightening asylum law, and ending cash benefits for asylum seekers…though, leaders have used stronger language to describe the migration crisis facing Germany.

Support for the party ticked up as the country grappled with an economic downturn and a string of terrorist attacks carried out by migrants.

One of the most controversial things AfD leaders have done is to say Germany focuses too much on Hitler and the Holocaust…and should remember more of the nation’s previous millennia of history. Here’s Langenbacher.

LANGENBACHER: The state leader in the eastern state of Thuringia,

He’s referring to That’s Björn Höcke…

LANGENBACHER: …said that, you know, the Germans are the only people that would build a monument to shame in their nation’s capital, referring to the memorial to the murder Jews of Europe, which was opened back in 2005.

Langenbacher says many AfD voters aren’t as extreme as party leaders like Höcke. But they feel frustrated and fed-up with their current political options.

On Sunday, one in five Germans voted for the AfD—a high tally in a Parliamentary system with lots of parties vying for power. But it’s still a minority overall.

In the German parliament, parties must form governing coalitions to secure the majority needed to pass legislation. And all of Germany’s other political parties refuse to work with the AfD…calling the move a firewall against the AfD’s extremism.

That means Germany’s victorious center-right party—the Christian Democratic Union—only has left-leaning or left-wing coalition partners to choose from. As a result…

LANGENBACHER: Germans keep voting center-right, and they keep getting governed center-left.

Langenbacher says there’s a lot of overlap between the AfD’s platform and the MAGA movement in the United States. Both groups support tax cuts, express climate change skepticism, and oppose gender ideology. And the Trump administration seems to be taking note.

MUSK: I think you want more self-determination for Germany and for the countries in Europe and less from Brussels.

In December, Elon Musk endorsed the AfD as — in his words— the “last spark of hope” for Germany’s future. And Tino Chruppalla—the AfD’s other co-chair—attended Trump’s inauguration. Then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz was not invited.

JD VANCE: President Trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent.

More recently, at the February 14th Munich Security Conference, Vice President J.D. Vance urged German politicians to abandon their firewall and invite the AfD to the table.

STELZENMÜLLER: No American senior politician has ever done something like that before.

Constanze Stelzenmüller is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She says Vance’s speech stunned mainstream German politicians. Especially since Germany’s domestic intelligence service has named the AfD a suspected anti-constitutional threat.

STELZENMÜLLER: The AfD is overtly pro-Russian and overtly pro-Chinese, and it’s befuddling to many of us why an American administration should think that that was a good thing to have governing Germany.

Stelzenmüller says the U.S. government’s decision to court Germany’s political pariah threatens to drive a serious wedge between the long-time allies. She says many German politicians admit the country should do more to take ownership of their own security.

STELZENMÜLLER: But, espousing the view that the Alternative for Germany is, as it were, the salvation of democracy in Germany is, I think, a step too far for more than 80% of Germany’s voters.

In the meantime, Germany seems to be headed for another “grand coalition” —an alliance between its center-right and center-left political parties. It’s the same political configuration that dominated German politics for several terms under long-time Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Once again, the CDU leader has vowed to shun the AfD as a coalition partner. And Georgetown University’s Langenbacher says that means Germany’s next election will be one for the history books.

LANGENBACHER: If the next government can’t start to address the multiple, serious structural problems that Germany has right now, I think the AfD will be even stronger four years from now.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Grace Snell...in Erfurt, Germany.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Divorce and the children of divorce.

There’s little question that no-fault divorce has sped up the process. But at least one state wants to add extra steps before couples with children can walk away from their marriages.

WORLD’s Juliana Chan Erikson has the story.

STEVE GRISSOM: Thank heaven I had an office with a door, and I could close my door, and I would close my door and sob.

JULIANA CHAN ERIKSON: Divorce shattered Steve Grissom. When his wife filed the paperwork to end their marriage, Grissom said there were days when he could not function at work. The couple initially shared custody of their daughter.

GRISSOM: I became an every other weekend and Wednesday night dad until my wife relocated to another city. That throttled my contact.

Grissom, founder of the ministry DivorceCare, is one of hundreds of thousands of Americans who’ve gone through a divorce with children. His happened in the 1990s, but he says walking away from a marriage is too easy now.

GRISSOM: Every divorce has its own story, and there are many nuances, but in general, we've made it too easy for people to get a divorce, and that's through the enactment of no-fault divorce legislation.

In all 50 states, anybody who wants a divorce can get one without having to prove their spouse did anything wrong, like abuse or adultery. They can file for what’s called a no-fault divorce. California was the first to make it legal in 1969 and ever since then, many credit no-fault with streamlining the process but it also raised the likelihood that marriages would end in divorce.

Divorcees like Grissom and family advocates say speedy court proceedings don’t give people enough time to think about the toll divorce takes on their emotions, their finances—and their children.

That’s led some state lawmakers to try to make filing for divorce harder.

NEWS CLIP: House Bill 1684 specifically impacts couples who share custody of children.

Last month, an Indiana state lawmaker proposed a bill that would require couples with children in the state to have a witness testify that the marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

Micah Clark is the executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana. In his state, couples have a 60-day waiting period before a divorce is finalized. Clark says that’s not long enough.

MICAH CLARK: The argument that this makes the divorce take longer, I actually think, is probably a good thing. Attorneys don't like it, but the reason is, the longer a divorce takes, the more of a cooling off period. They have more of a time for consideration, more of a time for counseling.

The Indiana bill isn’t expected to get far. That hasn’t stopped other states from trying.

NEWS CLIP: Newly sworn in Oklahoma senator wants to make it harder to get a divorce in Oklahoma.

That senator recently tried a second time to end no-fault. And a legislator in South Dakota has tried four times. Neither have been successful.

Another proposal in South Carolina would require signatures from both spouses to file a no-fault divorce application. Current law only requires one. That proposal’s not likely to get anywhere either.

Getting rid of no-fault won’t be easy. Still, some wonder if it’s even the right approach. Experts say that since no-fault became an option in the United States, rates of domestic violence have declined. So have homicides committed by a partner.

Removing no-fault also won’t help those who need to leave a marriage quickly, like in cases of abuse. Rik Lovett, a divorce lawyer in North Carolina, says laws that slow down the process will make divorce even messier and more acrimonious. It could also bankrupt spouses.

RIK LOVETT: A lot of people don't have the money, don't have the funds, they can't afford to go to court one, two, three, four times for these kinds of actions. So the more powerful person with the money in the assets wins.

Lovett says making divorce more difficult sometimes leads to another unintended consequence: divorcing parents could make concessions based on potential legal costs instead of what’s best for the children.

LOVETT: The harder you make it, the more often justice is not done because the moneyed spouse beats the other spouse down. They give up and they either waive alimony or they waive the right to retirement account division. They waive something big and say, that's fine. I'll give you 50-50 custody even if you're an unfit dad. I just need to get it over.

Lovett added that family courts don’t have enough judges to handle longer divorce battles. Still, the extra legal hurdles, the added expense, and the longer wait times might make some reconsider filing for divorce, but not everyone.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Juliana Chan Erikson.

NICK EICHER, HOST: A million-dollar project to dam a river in the Czech Republic hit a wall ... of the bureaucratic sort. Permits, environmental studies … all grinding progress to a halt.

But while officials haggled over every Latin phrase in the legal code, a team of engineers just got busy—Castor fiber, to be precise. That’s Latin for the Eurasian beaver. They needed no permits. No committees. No delays. Just results.

In the very spot where conservationists planned to build a wetland, the beavers just built one.

Maybe next time, public works ought to start with a pile of sticks, not a pile of paperwork.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, February 25th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: reliving the nightmare.

This winter, Auschwitz and other concentration camps are holding memorial events, commemorating those who died in the Holocaust, and celebrating those who survived. Every year, survivors return to the camps to tell their stories. But their numbers are dwindling.

REICHARD: As of January, there remain fewer than a quarter of a million Holocaust survivors, and most over the age of 90.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy discovered that as these survivors age, their care becomes a bit more complicated.

NATE LEIPCIGER: The thoughts come back uninvited, and they come back at difficult times.

MARY MUNCY: Nate Leipciger is a Holocaust survivor. He was taken to Auschwitz when he was 11 and liberated when he was 15. Now, he’s 97.

LEIPCIGER: When you get older, when the ability to move and your ability to do things is reduced. You have more time to think. Your mind is not as sharp as it was before. You're bothered with dreams. You’re bothered with images.

The images come flooding in when he picks up his great-grandchildren.

LEIPCIGER: You imagine how my grandparents must have felt when they picked up their children-grandchildren, and they knew that they're going to die for no reason other than the fact that they were born Jewish.

Leipciger has been telling his family’s story since his father died in 1972 and he’s still telling it at schools and events but every week, it gets harder.

LEIPCIGER: It's more difficult to express yourself. It's more difficult to relive it. You're more frail. Your mind wonders, your ability to talk diminishes, your physical strength diminishes.

And he’s not alone. Thousands of Holocaust survivors all over the world are dealing with the same problems as they age and until relatively recently, resources were few and far between.

Geriatric care specialist Paula David is trying to change that.

PAULA DAVID: With survivors, there were some really unique problems.

Her first job in geriatric care was at a facility in Toronto with a large population of survivors. She says they were often labeled problem patients because they would hoard food, panic when they felt like they couldn’t leave, or wouldn’t wear something like an institutional wristband—among other things.

DAVID: There was no history of care and how to support people properly, effectively and apply best care practices to a group with really unique needs.

So, out of necessity, David and her team took it upon themselves to come up with systems for caring for older adults with trauma.

It started with a lot of trial and error.

DAVID: Usually error, and we would have some kind of catastrophic reaction based on best intentions of good practice, and when, in hindsight, some of them were extremely obvious, some of them we had to be hit on the head with.

For example, on one Jewish holiday, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra volunteered to do a concert for David’s patients.

So they gathered people together, but as the musicians began, a few people started having negative reactions.

DAVID: That was the music that the Jewish prisoner survivor musicians would be told to play as they were marching Auschwitz survivors into the gas chambers.

Other triggers were more subtle, but made sense when David and her team put themselves in their patient’s shoes. Things like a lack of privacy, crowded spaces, and hearing other patients crying or in pain.

As they learned more, they created lists of triggers and started distributing them to other care facilities around the world.

About this time, David started noticing another group of people who could use their resources—survivors’ children.

MARALYN TURGEL: My name is Marilyn Turgel.

Turgel’s father Sam Gardener was taken to a Nazi glass making factory when he was 13 and worked in labor camps for almost four years.

But as a child, all Turgel knew was that her father was a survivor and that her family was different.

TURGEL: It was always a very big problem for me, because I was always told not to upset my dad. He was very highly strung and got upset very easily.

She didn’t hear his story in detail until she was in her 40s and the Speilburg Institute interviewed her father.

TURGEL: I said to him, why did you never tell me your story? And he said, ‘I didn't want you to feel sorry for me,’ but it was because he couldn't face it.

But it allowed her to face it.

TURGEL: When I heard his story, I grieved terribly, and he was very sorry he told me, and I said, ‘But didn't you know, Dad, I needed to grieve for my grandparents.’

That first conversation opened a door. Her father started sharing his story with other interviewers, historians, and schoolchildren. Turgel says it helped bring him peace, even if neither of them truly got over their losses.

In his last few years, the memories started bubbling up when he didn’t want them to. And dementia set in.

TURGEL: He used to say to me, ‘the Nazis didn't come tonight to kill me. I don't think they're going to shoot me, but I think they'll poison me.’

Turgel and her family did their best to care for him as he declined, but eventually, he needed more care than what they could give.

About a year before he died, they had to persuade him to go into a care facility. It was hard on all of them.

TURGEL: In those days, they didn't have psychiatric help. They didn't know how to help people's trauma and that affected his whole life.

After he died, Turgel joined a group for children of Holocaust survivors in the UK and now she spends her free time telling her father’s story.

Back in Toronto, Paula David started a similar group for the second generation there. She says that community and sharing stories is one of the most helpful things for survivors and their children.

DAVID: It's been a very, very challenging and exciting and rewarding journey I've been on, and find myself still on, because so much of what we started exploring, very simplistically at the beginning continues to evolve.

When David started, she just wanted to help the people in her care, but it’s turned into a life of trying to understand trauma.

A few years in, she started a group for survivors in the facility.

They would sit in the circle for an hour. David would ask questions about their past—usually with a theme, things like starvation and abuse.

DAVID: Nobody really said anything to me for the first year.

She offered to stop it a few times, but the survivors always insisted that she had to keep it going.

DAVID: And then when they opened up, it was like a dam broke. And that's when my real education began.

She learned each of their stories and asked if she could write them down. She says as they aged, they started leaning on each other more and more too, not just her.

It took time, patience, and a lot of listening, but she feels like she’s helped in a small way—even though she knows the work is never done.

DAVID: I'm in awe of how much has been learned in the last four decades—how much, heartbreakingly, we still have to learn and understand, because war and trauma and genocide hasn't stopped.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, February 25th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Cultural and political winds have changed direction of late. But WORLD commentator Andrew Walker warns: it’s a mistake to assume they’ll continue.

ANDREW WALKER: There is an air of triumphalism in many corners of the American right since Donald Trump’s re-election and inauguration. After years of feeling like political and cultural underdogs, victories are stacking up.

Big changes are evident everywhere. Mainstream media’s influence seems to be at an all-time low. Corporate America is repealing its commitments to woke capitalism. Censorship regimes are falling while renewed commitments to free speech spring forth. The “demographics are destiny” canard that Democrats based their future upon is now matched by a Republican coalition that is as diverse as it has ever been. Add to that the rapid-fire sequence of executive orders undoing four years of Joe Biden’s chaos at the border, lawfare, and gender ideology…it seems like the wind in the right’s sails has never been stronger.

But let me offer a word of caution: As welcome as all this newfound momentum is, it will be nothing but a halfway revolution if we do not combine our cultural momentum with a moral vision. Until we address the deeper cultural rot that has corroded our national soul, we are celebrating prematurely. The mere act of defeating an opponent does not mean we have built something in its place. “Owning the libs” may make for an entertaining political spectacle, but it is not a strategy to build a culture of marriage, stem the tide of pornography consumption, or revive our civic and spiritual health.

What would it mean for America to be “back”? In short it would mean that a cultural consensus emerges that uniformly celebrates the Declaration’s famous dictum: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” American society must return to God. Not just the idea of God, but God himself. The pillars of Western civilization that had Judeo-Christian values as their foundation would once again be normal. Only by returning to the truths of nature and Nature’s God could America ever really be “back.”

If the American right stops at the political and fails to rebuild the moral and social fabric of the nation, we are merely winning skirmishes while losing the war. The real battle is not over tax rates or regulatory reform but over the nature of family, the dignity of the human person, and virtue itself.

The progressive left did not create all of these problems, but its policies and philosophies have exacerbated them. The right’s response must be more than just defeating them at the ballot box—it must be about offering something better. Conservatives should hope that our efforts create a new mainstream.

Most importantly, we must reclaim the idea that truth exists, and that human nature is not infinitely malleable. We know that human flourishing is found not in endless self-reinvention but in anchoring ourselves to eternal truths—truths about what it means to be men and women, about our responsibilities to each other, and about our duty to God and country.

This is the true revolution we need—a counter-revolution to the chaos of the last six decades. If you are wondering how to start this revolution, begin at home. Eat dinner together around the table. Take yourself and your family to church. Read your Bible. Tell someone you care about that you love them. Invite another family over for dinner. Make ordinary things normal again.

If we fail to seize this opportunity before us, if we are content to simply play defense while the cultural decay continues, then all current victories will be temporary. A nation cannot thrive on policy wins alone—it must build a moral and spiritual foundation to sustain those wins.

I’m Andrew Walker.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: Washington Wednesday, what does “America-first” mean when it comes to confronting totalitarians around the world? We’ll hear from a variety of conservatives. And, we’ll meet a mother thrust into the national spotlight after an illegal immigrant allegedly murdered her daughter. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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