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Skullduggery

Bolton of Lightning

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Washington Post National Investigative Reporter and Author Carol Leonnig, as well as, Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 campaign chief Kevin Sheekey join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Isikoff and Klaidman walk us through the bombshell news from Bolton and his book, then Leonnig dives deep into her new book A Very Stable Genius. Then finally, Sheekey takes us into the mind of Michael Bloomberg and why he's running for democratic presidential nominee.

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0:00.0

I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:03.0

And I'm Jan 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.

0:15.6

Now let's get on with the show.

0:19.6

Do you have any idea what John Bolton would say if he's called to testify?

0:23.3

That's not my task here, okay?

0:26.3

No, I do.

0:27.1

But do you...

0:28.1

My task here...

0:30.0

I'm not...

0:31.2

Well, look, my task here is to deal with the existing record, okay?

0:35.7

There will not be a record with regard to what John Bolton might testify to.

0:40.4

Until such time as the Senate and its wisdom

0:43.1

decides that it needs to hear from John Bolton.

0:45.4

And what happens if the Senate does vote that it wants to hear his testimony?

0:50.0

Then we are prepared for all contingencies,

0:53.0

including a trial with witnesses, it's necessary.

0:57.0

That was Robert Ray, one of President Trump's lawyers,

0:59.9

during a SkullDuggery interview on Friday,

1:02.8

struggling a bit with a simple question

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