Friday Flashback: ISIS crisis, the battle for the Senate, gay marriage and the Supremes

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Sep 5, 2014

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Friday Flashback: ISIS crisis, the battle for the Senate, gay marriage and the Supremes

A funny and informative look at the week that was. Washington Post reporter (and stand-up comic) Elahe Izadi takes on, and tries to make sense of, the week's news.

Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell (R) of Virginia and his wife Maureen McDonnell greet the crowd at his victory party on November 3, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia.

A funny and informative look at the week that was. Washington Post reporter (and stand-up comic) Elahe Izadi takes on, and tries to make sense of, the week's news.

Washington Post reporter Elahe Izada joins Take Two for a look at the headlines of the week, and how they may affect the news that's yet to happen.

Izada tackles the fall of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, the strange political bedfellows that have emerged in the debate over what to do about ISIS, and events in Kansas that may have thrown a wrench in Republican hopes to capture a majority in the US Senate.