Politics & Government

Former GOP and Dem Senators Converse with Obama

VIDEO: Watch a conversation with three former Illinois lawmakers and the president about how they worked together in the Senate.

Watch an interview conducted by Tribune Publishing White House correspondent Christi Parsons with President Barack Obama and Obama’s former Illinois Senate colleagues Larry Walsh, D-Elwood, Denny Jacobs, D-East Moline, and Kirk Dillard, R-Hinsdale, on Feb. 10, 2016, in Springfield.

The four men share ideas about differences, shared interests and how Republicans and Democrats tried to work together in the past.

By Brian Nguyen and Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune

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