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Skullduggery

Bonus Episode: The Crisis at Justice

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

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode of Skullduggery, co-hosts Mike Isikoff and Dan Klaidman, alongside Justice & Security Analyst Matt Miller, discuss the fallout from the Jeff Sessions firing and what possible scenarios may come in its wake. Was this the plan all along? Who is Trump's new acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker? And is he here to stay? All of this just days after the midterms.

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0:00.0

Well, that didn't take long.

0:03.5

No sooner did the election returns come in with their split verdict, Republicans keep

0:07.9

the Senate and get shalacked in the House, that President Trump fires his beleaguered attorney

0:13.5

general Jeff Sessions.

0:15.8

The new acting AG, Matt Whitaker, is a Trump loyalist, barely known to anybody in Washington,

0:22.2

except for what appears to be his only real qualification for the job.

0:27.4

In media appearances last year, he sharply criticized the Mueller investigation.

0:33.5

What happens now?

0:34.5

We'll discuss on this special constitutional crisis edition of Skull Duggery.

0:41.6

There is absolutely no collusion.

0:44.0

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

0:46.0

I have nothing to do with Russia.

0:48.0

Everybody knows it.

0:50.2

People have got to know whether or not they're President Sir Crook.

0:53.0

Well, I'm not a Crook.

0:55.7

I told the American people I did not trade arms for Putin.

1:00.5

My heart and my death intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:05.9

tell me it is not.

1:07.8

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:12.4

The British government has learned Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities

1:16.7

of uranium from Africa.

1:19.6

How many times have to answer this question?

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