Takeouts: Dalai Lama’s presidential treatment, Olympics update

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WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: We talk to Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times, who describes the political cost of the president’s upcoming meeting with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

SPORTS TAKEOUT: New York Times’ sports reporter John Branch joins us from Vancouver with the latest Olympic news and previews the week of winter sports ahead.

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