12 Russians Indicted, Helsinki Putin Panic, Trump's Reversal

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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🗓️ 21 July 2018

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the latest Mueller indictment of 12 alleged Russian intelligence (GRU) agents in relation to the alleged Russian state-sponsored hacking of the DNC and 'meddling' in the 2016 US presidential election. Robbie breaks down the charges and why the indictments aren't meant to actually bring anybody to justice but are instead meant to paint a 'visual narrative' for public consumption (a phrase used by Yasha Levine). They also discuss headlines like Elon Musk donating to the GOP and Ocasio-Cortez’s Palestine controversy. Later Trump's performance at the Helsinki summit and the hysterical media reaction is discussed in detail. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	On Saturday you told us your doctrine is strength and achieving peace through strength.
0:05.0	Right.
0:06.0	After Helsinki, Lindsey Graham said you showed weakness.
0:10.0	Well, Lindsey Graham said it was the most serious mistake of your presidency.
0:14.0	Let me just, I totally disagree. I think I did great at the news conference.
0:17.0	I think it was a strong news conference.
0:20.0	You have people that said you should have
0:21.8	gone up to him, you should have walked up and started screaming in his face. We're living in the real world.
0:27.9	Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
0:47.7	Hello, welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:49.6	This is Robbie Martin.
0:51.4	And this is Abby Martin.
0:53.0	Welcome, everybody.
0:55.8	Welcome, everyone. Sorry I'm sick today.
0:58.3	A little stuffed up. But yeah, we have a lot to talk about.
1:09.0	We basically just wanted to do an entire podcast based on the new indictments about the Russians that allegedly hacked into the DNC, etc., etc. So my brother did a shitload of research that we're just going to go through.
1:13.3	And, yeah, it's been kind of disappointing to see the coverage, frankly, of left-leaning
1:19.3	progressive organizations on the indictments because I just haven't seen anything like
1:25.0	lucidly breaking down, you know, what they mean and what's really going on.
1:29.8	It's just kind of, I don't know.
1:31.9	Except for people who believe them and like accept all the, let's just put it this way, non-evidence listed in it.
1:38.3	It's an opaque indictment where we don't actually see the evidence that was used to gather this, you know, to construct this case,
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