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The Intercept Briefing

Donald and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Presidency

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is spectacularly bad at being president. This week on Intercepted, investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler and The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald analyze the latest insanity emanating from the White House. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tim Weiner and Intercept writer Trevor Aaronson discuss the firing of James Comey and debate his FBI legacy. And Palestinian author and journalist Rula Jebreal explains why President Trump is going to Saudi Arabia and Israel on his first international trip.

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0:00.0

What I did is I was going to fire

0:03.2

call me my decision. It was not you would make the decision before they came in. I was going to fire call me.

0:08.3

There's no good time to do it by the way.

0:11.0

Are you doing that on purpose?

0:12.6

I can't make up your mind.

0:14.4

That's the trouble. I can't make up my mind.

0:17.2

I haven't got a brain. Only store.

0:21.0

How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

0:24.0

I don't know.

0:26.0

But some people without brains do a awful lot of talking.

0:29.2

Don't they?

0:30.2

Yes. I get show right.

0:32.2

I talk all the time. Just spoke with the head of the FBI. We had a very nice dinner.

0:37.2

I said, if it's possible, will you let me know?

0:41.2

And at that time, he told me, I'll tell you this.

0:44.2

No, I'm not doing that. I think that,

0:47.2

well, I think that looking into me and the campaign,

0:52.2

there's so many investigations, I want to get to the bottom.

0:55.2

I said to myself, I said, you know?

0:58.2

And perhaps I'll deserve you and be even worthy of you

1:03.2

if I only had a brain.

1:20.2

This is intercepted.

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