Bridge Building
Let’s Find Common Ground
Hosted By Bob Shrum; Mike Murphy (current, post-merger); originally Richard Davies & Ashley Milne-Tyte
Cross-partisan interviews built around specific contested issues, pairing journalists with guests like Judy Woodruff, modeling structured disagreement in practice; the episodes spotlighted here are from the show’s original run, before a 2025 format change.
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Last verified August 2026

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