Clyburn's Lament

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn and psychoanalysts Michael Maccoby and Judith Logue join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Clyburn weighs in on 5th Anniversary of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in South Carolina, the "defund the police" movement, rioters quoting Martin Luther King Jr. for justification, and President Trump choosing Tulsa, OK for his first post-covid rally. Then Maccoby and Logue discuss their book - Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:19.6	This morning, families here are grieving and praying for the death.
0:23.0	It is unfathomable that somebody in today's society would walk into a church
0:29.4	when people are having a prayer meeting and take their lives.
0:33.3	I do believe this was a hate crime.
0:58.5	5 years ago this week on the evening of June 17th, 2015, a white supremacist named Dylan Roof
1:13.2	walked into a Bible study class in the basement of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
1:20.6	And while shouting racial epithets open fire with a clock pistol killing nine,
1:26.6	it was one of the most horrific acts of racial violence in modern memory,
1:31.0	and prompted that remarkable moment when President Barack Obama sought to heal the wounds
1:36.4	by singing amazing grace at a memorial service for those who had died.
1:41.2	Nobody remembers the pain and horror of the Charleston Church shooting more than South Carolina
1:46.7	Congressman James Clyburn, who had fought for civil rights in his state since childhood.
1:52.6	But over the past two weeks, Clyburn has had to grapple with the legacy of the country's racist
1:57.6	past once again amid the protests over police killing of African Americans. We'll talk to him
2:04.0	about what needs to be done now and what shouldn't be done. And we'll talk to two psychoanalysts
2:09.6	who have contributed to a new book about President Trump's long history of narcissists behavior
2:15.6	on this episode of Skull Duggery.
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