Can a Whistleblower Really Bring Down Trump?

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The chaos inside the White House, from immigration to Ukraine, would still be a big secret if not for whistleblowers in the Trump administration. John Tye, a former government official turned whistleblower himself, joins Nick to talk about the rise of people leaking information from all corners of America, from the MeToo movement to Trump’s misdeeds to employees at Google decrying projects they see as uniquely evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. It has been a pretty insane week in the news and it's
0:25.1	only going to become more insane as the week goes on and I have the perfect guest to discuss
0:31.2	what is going on in the cultural climate in Washington and
0:34.8	with whistleblowers and so on and I want to welcome John Ty to the show John how's it
0:39.7	going great Nick thanks for having me so let me ask you to give a very brief 140 character introduction of yourself and then we'll jump right in.
0:48.0	Yeah, I'm the founder and the CEO of Whistleblower Aid, we're a non-profit legal organization in Washington, D.C.
0:55.2	We launched in 2017.
0:56.6	We've represented a variety of whistleblowers
1:00.4	from departments of energy, state department, CIA, federal housing finance
1:05.4	agency and we are supporting the legal team representing the two anonymous
1:09.6	whistleblowers in the Ukraine matter.
1:11.0	Okay so before we get to the Ukraine and the hearings that were going on everything
1:16.8	I'm curious is the whole whistleblower climate?
1:20.4	I mean I you know there's been movies and TV shows and things that have touched on this stuff in the past
1:26.8	Specifically around the informant with smoking a couple like a decade or so ago and things like that. But it seems like this the rise of
1:34.4	the whistleblower is among us. Is this because of the the internet because it makes
1:39.6	it easier to release information or is it because of the political climate or what has brought
1:45.0	this about at this point in time do you think?
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