Before their rear end hits the chair

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

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman are joined by Ron Klain, a Washington, D.C. lawyer and veteran of Democratic administrations, to discuss how Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement impacts the balance of the Supreme Court. Isikoff and Klaidman also talk with David Sanger, a New York Times national security correspondent and senior writer, about the upcoming summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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0:00.0	Washington goes to DEF CON-1.
0:03.4	That may be the only way to describe the impact of the decision this week by Justice Anthony
0:07.7	Kennedy to resign from the Supreme Court.
0:11.0	Given that Kennedy was often the critical swing vote on a deeply divided court, the confirmation
0:16.5	battle over his successor is certain to be a battle royale, unlike anything Washington
0:22.0	has seen in decades.
0:24.1	There is much at stake, the future of abortion rights, gun rights, gay rights.
0:28.1	The list is endless, but on that list is much that could well determine the future of
0:32.8	the Trump presidency.
0:34.7	Can a president be indicted or subpoenaed?
0:37.5	Can this president be forced to testify in the Russia investigation?
0:41.5	Can he pardon himself?
0:43.4	All questions that the next Supreme Court justice may have to resolve, and as the Trump White
0:48.7	House calls its list of possible nominees, what, if anything, can Democrats do to slow
0:54.2	the process down, or even block Trump's ultimate choice?
0:58.6	We'll discuss that with a senior Democratic strategist who has been through multiple Supreme
1:03.3	Court battles, and we'll also talk about the stunning news about the upcoming summit
1:07.7	between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on today's episode of Skolduggery.
1:24.2	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.
1:33.1	My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
1:38.4	tell me it is not.
1:39.9	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
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