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rachel, who is in foster care and was separated from her siblings. and scott experience. thank you so much for speaking to us today. thanks for having me. i know you went into foster ca re having me. i know you went into foster care when you were seven and you were separated from your sister and your brother. for me, i found that amazing that siblings were separated. many people watching this will be surprised. what effect did that have new? it was a traumatising experience. like, really heartbreaking. because obviously you are separated from your mum and that. and then you're separated from your siblings, which, for me it was easier to get separated from my mum and that, because i had my siblings there. but then getting separated from my siblings was heartbreaking because now i'm by myself in the world. did you get to see them regularly? how did work for you? when i us got separated from them, i was allowed to see them every christmas, easter, halloween, then sort of holidays. once they got moved away from home, i wasn't allowed to see them when they got move

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assemblyman david chew, rachel swan, and also our politics and government senior editor, scott shafer. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> and that will do it for us. please tune in over the next two weeks for our encore show on the arts in the bay area and our half hour special, stand up san quentin. and we'll be back in the new year with our regular weekly show. you can find more of our coverage at kqed.org/newsroom. i'm thuy vu. thank you for joining us, and we wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season. ♪ robert: in alabama, an epic upset. and republican urgency on taxes. i'm robert costa. the victory by democrat doug jones upends both parties on the hill. and ahead of the midterms. tonight, on "washington week." president trump: we want to give you, the american people, a giant tax cut for christmas. robert: president trump says republicans are on the verge of passing a sweeping tax cut bill, one he says will boost the middle class. critics say the tax overhaul would provide generous cuts for corporations and the wealthy and would add more than $1 trillion to th

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then at 8:45, rachel discusses the impact technology has had on trust. then on booktv's afterwards at 10 p.m. astronaut scott kelly recalls record setting time in space he's interviewed by former nasa administrator charles boldin and wrap up our time time programs at 11 that provides history of the civil war. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv, 72 hours of nonfiction authors and books this holiday weekend. television for serious readers and now here's cohen on growth and influence of silicon valley. hello. we're going to get started here tonight my name is seth i'm the director of the communications forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start, these are held three times semester six times year if you would like to be informed of future events there's a signup sheet over there -- put your name and e-mail and only send news about our six events a year. we have pretty good ones, we had it earlier this year john last semester. these three we have some great stuff planned for next semester already. also tonight's forum is being filmed by c-span so° the question part of the tore rum, if you

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