CNN’s Jim Sciutto on getting Trump insiders on the record for 'The Madman Theory'

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jim Sciutto's new book, "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World," contains on-the-record interviews with an array of Trump administration foreign policy officials. The CNN anchor shares his reporting process and his observations about the Trump years with Brian Stelter. “It amazes me, the threshold for outrage or controversy” these days, Sciutto says. He points out that warnings about Trump from people previously in his inner circle are “dismissed as kind of partisan hectoring, even though it comes from inside his own administration.” He also discusses the disturbing impacts of Trump’s anti-media rhetoric around the world.

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0:00.0	President Trump takes on the world and the world snaps back.
0:07.0	That's one of the themes of a new book by CNN's Jim Shuto.
0:11.0	So how did he tell the story of Trump's foreign policy? How did he gain on the record
0:17.6	interviews with so many people from inside Trump world? Those are some of the questions for this week's Reliable
0:24.5	Sources Podcast. So let's cue the music. I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly
0:29.9	podcast is our chance to go in depth with media leaders and newsmakers talking
0:36.1	about how the news gets made. And there has been so much news about foreign
0:42.4	policy about President Trump's chaotic reaction to the world
0:46.4	around him. Those are some of the topics in Chudo's brand new book titled The Madman Theory. Trump takes on the world.
0:55.7	Earlier in the Trump administration, the Shrudu came out with a book called The Shadow War,
1:00.4	inside Russia and China's secret operations to defeat America.
1:05.0	This time he looked directly at the Trump administration
1:08.2	and what has happened in the foreign policy arena
1:11.6	since 2017.
1:13.6	So let's talk about what he learned
1:15.4	and some of the media reporting takeaways
1:18.1	from his reporting about foreign policy.
1:20.5	Jim is joining me now.
1:22.0	Jim, congratulations on the book launch.
1:24.5	Thanks so much.
1:25.1	It's gonna be on.
1:25.8	I appreciate the good words.
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