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The Intercept Briefing

Criminal Indictments at Home, Secret Wars Abroad

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week on Intercepted: New York Times reporter Charlie Savage and former federal prosecutor Ken White of Popehat break down the recent indictment and plea deal and what it may mean for Trump. Investigative journalist Nick Turse and Kenya scholar Samar Al-Bulushi take us into the world of US militarism in Africa: secret drone bases, US commandos and Washington-backed African forces operating under the guise of the “war on terror.” Musician Roberto Lange of Helado Negro performs.

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0:00.0

Today, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted and we learned that

0:04.5

former Trump campaign adviser George Poppidopoulos, who played guilty to lying in the FBI, has been

0:09.5

cooperating with the Mueller investigation and former foreign policy adviser Donald Trump's

0:13.7

presidential campaign carer, praise joins me now. Are you, Carter?

0:16.4

We want to talk about stress. We want to talk about stress. Okay?

0:18.8

Congratulations for not being indicted. I've stumbled onto a major conspiracy, Mac, how about that

0:22.6

for stress? Now let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about the mail? Please, Mac,

0:26.0

I'm dying to talk about the mail for you all day, okay? So you and Poppidopoulos,

0:29.3

you probably were on email change together, right? Those probably included discussions of Russia.

0:34.0

Pepe Silvia, this name keeps coming up over and over again. Every day, Pepe Silvia's getting sent

0:37.9

back to me, Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia, look at the mail with this whole process, Pepe Silvia!

0:42.0

You went to Russia, you have cooperated with the FBI and you gave five hours of test,

0:46.3

money, sound intelligence, coming in. But you told them what you did and who you talked to.

0:50.0

So I said to myself, I gotta find this guy. I gotta go up to the surface, I gotta put his

0:53.2

mail in the guy's goddamn hands otherwise he's never gonna get it. He's gonna keep coming back down here.

0:56.8

Well, I mean, one of them just got pinched, right? You're another one of them.

1:01.8

You still, Pepe Silvia. The candidate doesn't say the name of a person randomly, right?

1:07.2

Now you travel over the summer. All right, so I start marching my way down to Carol and H.

1:12.6

Char, and I knock on a door and I say, Carol! Carol, I gotta talk to you about Pepe. When I open the door,

1:19.1

what do I find? There's not a single goddamn desk in that office there is no Carol in H.R.

1:27.0

So what did I do? I mailed it halfway to Siberia. Do you have legal reposition?

1:31.3

You don't seem to own shit. Genuinely hope, Carter, that you're innocent of everything.

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