"Former Deputy Secretary of state on ‘a deep hole’ for American diplomacy" PBS NewsHour 3/19/2019

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SUMMARY:  William [J.] Burns, former Deputy Secretary of State and Ambassador to Russia, may have spent more time with Vladimir Putin than other American diplomat.  In his book, “The Back Channel,” Burns discusses how a “sense of grievance” underlies Putin's interactions with the U.S.  Judy Woodruff talks to Burns about a "failure of imagination" on Syria and the current state of American diplomacy.