Capitalism’s Consigliere
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The Intercept
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🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Former senior health insurance executive-turned-whistleblower Wendell Potter explains McKinsey’s role in our insurance nightmare and how Pete Buttigieg is using industry talking points to attack Medicare for All. Potter also discusses his career working for insurance giants, soaring medical costs in the U.S. and his role in killing Hillary Clinton’s health care initiative in the 1990s.
Propublica reporter Ian MacDougall discusses McKinsey’s relationship with the Saudi regime, its work for Rikers island, and how it helped push opioids to doctors and patients. MacDougall also lays out his reporting on how McKinsey’s work for ICE in detaining and deporting immigrants disturbed career immigration officials.
And, the Justice Department’s Inspector General blasted the FBI over its lies and omissions in obtaining a secret FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign operative Carter Page. Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald discusses how the report vindicates civil liberties activists and serves as a striking rebuke of the bipartisan love affair with law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
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| 0:00.0 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. |
| 0:04.0 | The Grinch hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season. |
| 0:08.0 | The impeachment is a hoax, it's a sham, it's impeachment, the whole impeachment thing. |
| 0:16.0 | That's one thing he hated. |
| 0:19.0 | The impeachment thing is a total hoax. |
| 0:21.0 | And people behind my back are trying to do a subversion of government. |
| 0:27.0 | Which was something the Grinch couldn't stand in the least. |
| 0:32.0 | These people are sick, they're sick. |
| 0:35.0 | The more the Grinch thought I must stop this whole thing. |
| 0:39.0 | To use the power of impeachment on this nonsense is an embarrassment to this country. |
| 0:47.0 | But you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick, he thought up a lie. |
| 0:54.0 | And he thought it up quick. |
| 0:56.0 | I like transparency here and I'm the most transparent president in history. |
| 1:01.0 | And the most transparent president in history. |
| 1:09.0 | God bless you, God bless Israel and God bless the United Church. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you very much. Thank you. |
| 1:24.0 | This is intercepted. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Jeremy Skahill coming to you from the offices of the intercept in New York City. |
| 1:37.0 | And this is episode 111 of Intercepted. |
| 1:47.0 | Mackenzie proposed cuts to spending on food, medical care and supervision of people in immigration jails. |
| 1:54.0 | You know, per doing we learned this last week, hired Mackenzie, the PR firm, |
| 1:58.0 | to figure out a strategy to combat the message of the messages of these parents who had lost their children and their grief. |
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