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Skullduggery

A House Republican's lament

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

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike McCaul, Republican U.S. Representative for Texas, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." McCaul talks about how he now views President Trump, someone he has long supported. Also, his concerns about the growing domestic terrorist threat and the future of the Republican party.

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0:00.0

Congressman Mike McCall struggled over what to do. A veteran Republican from Texas, he

0:08.4

had voted to certify the Electoral College results that Joe Biden had won the November

0:13.0

election, only to get his district office vandalized with protesters spraying it with the

0:18.2

words swamp trader. He was, he says, appalled by President Trump's rhetoric at the January

0:24.5

6 rally that riled up the mob at assault at the Capitol. In the end, after going back

0:30.1

and forth, he voted against impeaching Trump, saying he was uncomfortable with the house

0:35.5

rushing through such a historic move. But McCall also isn't letting the matter drop.

0:41.6

He's formally asking the Justice Department to more fully investigate the president's

0:45.9

conduct to determine if Trump took other steps to incite the riot at the Capitol and then

0:51.4

failed to protect lawmakers when it was clear they were under attack. We'll talk to McCall

0:56.3

about how he views the president he has long supported, and his concerns about the growing

1:01.0

domestic terror threat and the future of his party on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:06.7

Because people have got to know whether or not they're president or subcrime, well,

1:16.4

I'm not a crook. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart

1:21.2

and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me

1:25.9

it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:30.8

There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

1:45.1

I'm Michael Isacov, Chief Investigator correspondent for Yahoo News.

1:48.6

I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

1:51.2

So I think we've been eager to talk to Mike McCall for some time. He's a Republican from

1:58.3

the Austin suburbs, a former federal prosecutor. Actually, he was chief of the his office's

2:06.6

counterterrorism section. And he's one of those Republicans who has worked with Democrats,

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