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Now playing Next USA Congress, DHS watchdog probing if U.S. border agents targeted journalists NBC News and KNSD revealed Wednesday that U.S. border agents in California had a list of reporters, lawyers and activists to be questioned at the border. 08/03/2019
Now playing Next USA In surprise announcement, Sherrod Brown says he won't run in 2020 "I will do everything I can to elect a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate in 2020," the Ohio Democratic senator said in a statement. 07/03/2019
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