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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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker and Historian Rick Perlstein join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Walker takes us inside the heart of the protests in front of the White House this past weekend painting a picture both peaceful and aggressive. Then Perlstein, author of the book Nixonland, discusses the parallels between events of the past to those happening today.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.1	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.4	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:21.2	We are in downtown Washington, DC about two blocks from the White House.
0:26.0	Yes, see me out!
0:28.0	These people are now saying, go to CVS.
0:29.8	If you hear those cracks behind me, the police are shooting.
0:33.1	We're here in downtown DC across from the White House.
0:36.8	Protesters are being dispersed from Lafayette Park.
0:40.2	And the police are shooting.
0:41.9	Rubber bullets, I believe. There was tear gas. There's been flashbangs.
0:47.2	I'm going to get out of this area.
0:49.6	I heard multiple shots that I believe were rubber bullets coming from law enforcement.
0:56.4	That was Yahoo News correspondent Hunter Walker covering protests in front of the White House this weekend
1:01.9	as the demonstrations over the horrific death of George Floyd spread and escalated throughout
1:07.8	the country. As Walker discovered, those protests started out as largely peaceful.
1:13.0	And then started taking a darker turn with agitators confronting police and looters barging
1:19.5	into an upscale shopping mall, historic church, and other facilities in Washington,
1:24.7	leaving a trail of destruction that has spooked the nation's capital.
1:28.8	We'll talk to Walker about what he saw and recorded during the DC protests.
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