A defector from Trump World

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Former Senior DHS Official Elizabeth Neumann, Actor, Comedian, and Musician Harry Shearer, and Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Walker recaps the last night of the Republican National Convention including the President's long-winded speech from the White House and the non-socially distanced and mask-less crowd. Then, Neumann takes us behind the curtain of the DHS and answers the question of who the real threats is - Antifa or right-wing extremists? Finally, Shearer weighs in on the 2020 Election and shares his latest musical project, The Many Moods of Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	And over the period of 2017 to 2018, we started to see that rise of the white supremacist agenda.
0:07.6	I and my leadership at the Department of Homeland Security were very clear that we found the
0:13.6	ideology behind white nationalism, white supremacy, to be a rowing threat. A very common refrain
0:19.7	that I was asked was, does the president's rhetoric make your job harder? And the answer is yes.
0:25.5	The president's actions and his language are in fact racist. Things like they're good people
0:31.6	on both sides or send them back from where they came from. Those words gave permission to white
0:37.7	supremacists to think that what they were doing was permissible. That's Elizabeth Newman,
0:43.5	a lifelong Republican who until five months ago served in the Trump administration as the assistant
0:48.9	Homeland Security Secretary for threat prevention and security policy. This week she became the latest
0:55.2	defector from Trump World to speak out and announce that she will be supporting Joe Biden for president
1:01.1	because she could no longer accept the president's divisive rhetoric and policies. We'll talk to
1:06.5	Newman about what pushed her over the edge and we'll check in with comedian and actor Harry Sheer
1:11.7	to get his take on the Republican convention that just ended on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:18.4	Because people have got to know whether or not they're president's or corrupt, well I'm not a
1:28.0	corrupt. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best
1:32.9	intention still tell me that's true but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have
1:40.0	sexual relations for that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with
1:47.9	the truth and nothing else.
1:56.1	I'm Michael is God Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News and I'm Dan Clyde,
2:00.0	been editor in Chief of Yahoo News and we are joined by our White House correspondent Hunter
2:05.9	Walker Hunter. Welcome back to Skull Duggery. Thanks for having me guys.
2:11.2	So interesting finale to the Republican convention last night. The president's more than hour-long
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