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CAFE Insider 10/7: Crooked Diplomacy

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this clip from the CAFE Insider podcast, "Crooked Diplomacy," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram break down the evolving Trump-Ukraine scandal and newly released text messages between State Department officials. Listen to the full episode with a free 2-week trial of the CAFE Insider membership. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS STATE DEPT. TEXT MESSAGES “Read the Text Messages Between U.S. and Ukrainian Officials,” New York Times, 10/4/19 “Read Kurt Volker’s opening statement for testimony in Trump impeachment inquiry,” Vox, 10/4/19 [Text of Volker’s opening statement] “Kurt Volker, Ukraine and a Turbulent End in the Trump Administration,” New York Times, 10/5/19 “Kurt Volker resigns as executive director of McCain Institute,” Politico, 10/7/19 “The U.S. diplomat who questioned Trump’s Ukraine scheme,” Politico, 10/4/19 “How Gordon Sondland, a wealthy hotelier turned ambassador, became the latest key player in the Ukraine inquiry,” Washington Post, 10/4/19 “Trump Ordered Ukraine Ambassador Removed After Complaints From Giuliani, Others,” Wall Street Journal, 10/3/19 “From ‘America’s mayor’ to Trump’s pit bull: Rudy Giuliani emerges as central figure in Ukraine firestorm,” USA Today, 9/27/19 “Ukrainians understood Biden probe was condition for Trump-Zelensky talks, says former Ukrainian adviser,” ABC News, 9/25/19 “Ukraine’s president needs to repair ‘damage’ with Europe after the Trump call scandal,” CNBC, 10/1/19 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey folks, another week of head-spinning news to make sense of. Ukraine's scandal continues

1:03.7

to evolve. We've learned that there are now multiple whistleblowers. Text messages have

1:08.4

been released between US diplomats that suggest military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on

1:12.8

an investigation into the Biden's and Democrats have issued more subpoenas in their growing

1:17.6

impeachment inquiry. I talk about all this and more with Anne Milgram on the Cafe Insider

1:22.5

podcast. Each week we break down the news and take stock of what's happening. Today we're

1:27.8

making a clip from the most recent episode available in the stay tuned feed. To listen

1:31.9

to our full conversation and access all other Cafe Insider content, try our membership

1:36.9

free for two weeks. You can do that at cafe.com slash insider. That's cafe.com slash insider.

1:46.7

Whether or not there's a quid pro quo, in my mind and in the minds of a lot of people,

1:51.1

yourself included, the mere fact that the president of the United States makes a request of

1:55.1

a foreign power directly in a phone call to investigate by name a political rival is

2:01.5

an abusive power, potentially impeachable offense, period. And I also said, and I think

2:06.5

maybe you agreed with me, that you never see written evidence of a quid pro quo. And

2:12.6

then I had to write this weekend, I stand corrected. Yes. Because here you sort of, you

2:17.4

have that. You don't need it. It's enough without it. And I remember some Democrats were

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