Breaking Bread: Shelley Moore Capito
Country Pancakes and Country Roads: In Fayetteville, West Virginia, Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Alexander Heffner, host of PBS’s The Open Mind, share a breakfast of pancakes, eggs and bacon, and then visit America’s newest national park. Capito discusses the issues she sees as nartural areas for bipartisan agreement, from access to Wi-Fi to funding for education. Breaking Bread is a series aimed at finding common ground across a deeply divided America. Journalist Alexander Heffner journeys from Maine to New Mexico, sitting down for meals and candid conversations with powerful political figures on both sides of the aisle. Heffner seeks to draw out lawmakers by incentivizing empathy and compromise in pursuit of a new consensus.