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The Beat with Ari Melber

BONUS: Ex-Fox analyst Ret. Col. Ralph Peters calls Trump a "slave" of Putin

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Government, Politics, Daily News, News

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, listen to two interviews with Ret. Col. Ralph Peters, who has worked against the Russian military and who quit Fox News over its coverage of President Trump. Peters explains why he views Trump's actions at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin as "treason" and examines the impact Fox News has had on being a "propaganda machine" for Trump.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari, and this is one of our Sunday special extras,

0:04.7

and we want to focus on the biggest story this week, the Trump-Pooten summit that took place on the

0:09.0

heels of Bob Mueller indicting 12 different Russian army officials for their interference in the election

0:14.6

and their hacking of Democratic Party email accounts. Now, sometimes we do an interview that you guys

0:19.4

respond to in a major way.

0:21.2

We see that because we read your emails. We see that online. And one of the responses to this

0:25.9

set of events this week got a lot of traction. It was from retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters,

0:32.0

and he specialized in Soviet relations, served his country was a fox news analyst and he is

0:37.5

completely outraged

0:39.0

over what he feels is donald trump betraying the nation this week

0:43.5

in our interview he talked about trump basically siding with putin

0:47.0

he used the t-word and said in his view it was a quote act of treason

0:50.9

and he also said something that got a lot of attention he said quote donald

0:53.9

trump is a slave of latimer He said, quote, Donald Trump is a

0:54.5

slave of Vladimir Putin. Now, Peters also had quit Fox News basically over what he viewed as the way

1:02.1

it covered Donald Trump and his concerns about journalism in this very pivotal period we are living

1:08.1

through. So what I'm about to play for you

1:10.9

is the newsmaking interview this week,

1:12.5

as well as another conversation I had with Colonel Peters

1:14.7

about that intersection of the way Fox News

1:16.8

fits into all of this.

1:18.4

Two important sets of interviews based on the comments he made,

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