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The Gist

Clint Watts, Testifier Extraordinaire

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We're zooming out on Russia's influencing machine with the help of Clint Watts, the national security expert who had a star turn in March with his soundbite-ready testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Watts explains why the partisan skew on fake news is "kind of garbage." Plus, he has tips for testifying—just in case you get a call from Congress. Watts is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. In the Spiel, hanging on every phrase President Trump invented this week.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.5

It's Thursday, May 11, 2017, from slate to it's the just-time Mike Pesca, there is no

0:14.2

good way to be fired, but there are worse ways than others, out of a canon sag.

0:19.9

Or via the scroll on CNN while you're in Los Angeles.

0:22.9

Actually, that doesn't sound so bad.

0:24.8

That's how I'd like to go via the scroll on CNN.

0:27.5

It means you've made it or at least had made it until the news moved across the wires.

0:31.8

Here was Tom Nichols on Trumpcast last night about the indignity of being fired this

0:35.7

way.

0:36.7

The idea of, you know, having your body guard drop off a letter while you're in LA and

0:41.9

you learn about it looking up at a TV, that's just going to, I think that will generate

0:46.8

a lot of sympathy for Comey and a lot of kind of puzzled head scratching.

0:52.0

Gonna generate a lot of sympathy indeed.

0:53.4

It did the New York Times reporter Adam Goldman was on their podcast The Daily.

0:58.2

Trump didn't even have the decency to bring Comey into his White House and say, thank

1:03.3

you for all the service you've done.

1:05.6

I wish you the best of luck.

1:06.6

We're going to go in different ways.

1:08.2

No, instead, you know, he fired him when he wasn't in the town.

1:11.3

The best sense of abandoning him in LA.

1:13.2

It wasn't even clear if Comey was going to be able to take the government jet back.

1:17.6

The truth seems to be Comey was widely respected within the FBI.

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