Colbert Jostles With Lando (Not Calrissian)
Stephen Colbert interviews former "60 Minutes" producer Barry Lando, whose book "Web of Deceit" chronicles "the history of Western complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush."
Stephen Colbert interviews former “60 Minutes” producer Barry Lando, whose book “Web of Deceit” chronicles “the history of Western complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush.”
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