A Spy Story: With Guest Craig Unger
The Michael Steele Podcast
Two Squared Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:44.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Michael Still podcast. I'm Michael Still. It is always a pleasure |
| 0:48.6 | to have you in the house. Not too much going on. It's been kind of quiet out there. You |
| 0:54.5 | know, someone said the president's getting a piece. I'm like, what the in-peach and Biden already? |
| 0:58.8 | No, no, no, no, the other guy. But it's a serious time for the country. Obviously, we're |
| 1:04.0 | going through a lot still on the hills, hills of January 6th. The horror of that day is now |
| 1:12.2 | being replayed for the country in great detail by the house prosecutors. We'll see how this |
| 1:21.1 | turns out. I think we know it's unfortunate, but we'll see. Meanwhile, as all that is happening, |
| 1:32.4 | noted author has snuck in a book that exposes a whole other tale on the Trump saga. There's |
| 1:43.7 | none other than Craig Unger, who has written a book that has stirred quite a few pots, not |
| 1:51.6 | just here in the US, but globally. The book, American Compromot, How the KGB cultivated |
| 1:57.8 | Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery is out. It is quite a |
| 2:08.3 | tale, which we'll get into. Mr. Unger, for 15 years, was a contributing editor for Vanity |
| 2:15.9 | Fair, where he covered national security, the Middle East, and other political issues. |
| 2:20.8 | He's a frequent analyst on my network in MSNBC. We've not had a chance to actually be on |
| 2:27.4 | together, I don't think. I'm just, you know, I'm low-brow politics. You're doing the |
| 2:35.6 | highbrow stuff, but he was a longtime staffer at New York Magazine. He has served as editor-in-chief |
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