Breaking News Edition: Why Roger Stone's Arrest Should Scare Don Jr.
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🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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A special breaking news edition of the Mother Jones Podcast: On Friday morning, the FBI arrested Roger Stone, the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone was charged with seven counts that include witness tampering, false statements, and obstruction. So, who is Roger Stone? What was his connection to Wikileaks and the hacking of the DNC during the 2016 campaign? And, most importantly, how close do these new charges get to the President of the United States? Joining us is Washington DC bureau chief, David Corn, and Dan Friedman, who covers foreign influence and national security for Mother Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm Jemila King in New York. |
| 0:04.7 | On today's show, on today's show, the State of the Union address. Who needs it anyway? How |
| 0:18.1 | Pelosi's shutdown, Smackdown, put Trump in a corner and rewired power in Washington. |
| 0:26.2 | An argument for scrapping this extravagant overbaked format altogether. |
| 0:32.1 | What history can teach us about doing this thing better, and the lasting |
| 0:36.9 | impact of Trump's extreme norm-defying approach to presidential power. |
| 0:43.0 | Our state of the Union is strong, weak, scary, confused, all of the above. |
| 0:51.0 | Stick around. The state of the union was supposed to be last night. |
| 1:02.6 | But then, the shutdown. |
| 1:04.4 | The state of the Union tonight, in a state of doubt. |
| 1:07.1 | The state of the Union speech has been canceled by Nancy Pelosi |
| 1:12.1 | because she doesn't want to hear the truth. |
| 1:13.6 | And an unprecedented skirmish in which Speaker Nancy Pelosi disinvited Trump |
| 1:18.8 | until after he reopened the government. |
| 1:21.2 | I think that's a great blotch |
| 1:24.8 | on the incredible country that we all love. |
| 1:28.6 | Pelosi's response of first in American history. |
| 1:31.2 | Denying him a big fancy stage. This is a president who's a |
| 1:34.8 | former reality TV star he understands the power of optics and hitting him |
| 1:39.3 | where it hurts. Doesn't get much bigger than the state of the union address. |
| 1:43.2 | As we tape this show, Pelosi has now officially re-invited the president to give his address |
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