Senator Claire McCaskill: We Have Become Tribal

With the new US Congress getting underway this week, the Democratic Party is now in control of the House of Representatives. Their first challenge is to find a way out of the government shutdown. On Friday, a meeting between the two sides ended without any progress. Claire McCaskill, a former Democrat senator for Missouri, tells Weekend that politics in the senate has become tribal.

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