Donald Trump’s 'Big Gray Cloud'
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This week, in testimony before Congress, the director of the F.B.I., James Comey, confirmed that the agency has been investigating possible coördination between the Trump campaign and Russia. Ryan Lizza joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Presidencies can be crippled by scandal.
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| 1:11.3 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about |
| 1:16.2 | politics. It's Thursday, March 23rd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. |
| 1:23.2 | Presidencies can be crippled when several forces converge. Revelations about official investigations into wrongdoing by AIDS or the president himself, nonstop press coverage, denials and smoke screens issued by the White House, and defections within the president's party. |
| 1:40.3 | These forces have been gathering momentum this week, starting on Monday morning with FBI Director James Comey's opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee's first public hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election. |
| 1:53.9 | I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the |
| 2:03.6 | Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 residential election. |
| 2:08.6 | And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign |
| 2:15.6 | and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination |
| 2:21.0 | between the campaign and Russia's efforts. |
| 2:24.4 | As with any counterintelligence investigation, |
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