An Interview With George Papadopoulos

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

George Papadopoulos, a former campaign aide to President Trump, was sentenced on Friday for deceiving the F.B.I. about his relationship with a person thought to be a Russian operative who had offered to arrange a meeting between Mr. Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington correspondent for The Times, who spoke with Mr. Papadopoulos before his sentencing. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:32.8	This is Daily.
0:37.0	Today.
0:42.4	On Friday, a former Trump campaigned was sentenced for lying to the FBI about his relationship
0:49.2	with a suspected Russian operative who offered to arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin.
0:56.0	My colleague Mark Mazzetti spoke to George Poppettopoulos for the first time ahead of his
1:02.4	sentence.
1:09.5	It's Monday, September 10.
1:13.0	George, thanks for doing this.
1:20.2	Thank you so much for hosting me, Mark.
1:22.0	So he's never actually spoken about this.
1:25.6	That's right.
1:26.6	You were an advisor to the Ben Carson campaign.
1:29.6	How did you end up with Trump?
1:32.0	I joined the Carson campaign just for a couple months, two or three months.
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