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In Germany this past weekend, world leaders gathered for the annual Munich Security Conference, where the big topic was, what does diplomacy look like in the age of President Trump?
Notably, a number of prominent Democrats, who all have a lot of buzz around them potentially running for president themselves, made the trip to pitch their own vision for American foreign policy.
We're going to play you three clips of Democrats' appearances in Munich.
See if you can ID who these potential 2028 hopefuls are.
Ready?
That was, in order, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
At the conference, there were actually so many maybe, possibly, will-they-won't-they candidates that one political strategist joked, Munich is the new Iowa.
Next question.
This week, Stephen Colbert said his network, CBS, was too nervous about angering the FCC with its newly revived equal airtime rule to let him broadcast an interview with a Democrat running for Senate.