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Skullduggery

Corona at CPAC

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp and Time Magazine Writer and Author Charlotte Alter join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." An attendee of the recent CPAC 2020 event was found to have the coronavirus and now members of congress including the organizer, Schlapp, are "self-quarantining" themselves. Schlapp discusses what it's been like and where we go from here. Then Alter breaks down her new book, The Ones We've Been Waiting For, an optimistic look at the future of American leadership and the impact millennials will have on politics.

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0:00.0

The conservative political action conference is a grand gathering that brings together members

0:06.7

of Congress, top Trump administration officials, and political activists for speeches and seminars

0:13.2

aimed at decrying and ridiculing Democrats and liberals of every stripe.

0:18.7

But this year, one of those attendees, with a gold-level VIP ticket, stoked fear and

0:24.7

paranoia that rapidly spread through the political right.

0:28.6

The attendee, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, was infected with the coronavirus.

0:34.9

He hobnob with high-profile speakers and may have shaken hands with the conference leader

0:39.5

Matt Schlapp, who later shook hands at the event with President Trump himself.

0:44.9

As we speak, at least five members of Congress, including incoming White House chief of staff

0:50.0

Mark Meadows, have quarantined themselves while the national freak out over the virus

0:55.5

accelerates.

0:56.8

While other CPAC attendees get the lethal virus, is the President himself at risk?

1:02.5

We'll talk to Matt Schlapp about how he's been handling the coronavirus fears and the criticism

1:07.8

from his fellow conservatives that CPAC hasn't done enough to keep them informed about the

1:13.0

risk they are facing.

1:14.9

And we'll talk to Time Magazine's Charlotte Alter about her new book, The One's We've

1:19.3

Been Waiting for, How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America on this episode

1:24.8

of Skull Duggery.

1:31.8

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well I'm

1:35.8

not a crop.

1:36.8

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:39.8

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

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