Donald Trump turns 80 and celebrates with UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn
President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday and was set to celebrate with one of the more surreal spectacles in both sports and the nation's capital: cage fighting on the White House lawn. We discuss it with our international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert.
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