Ep. 9: Russiagate
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
Nebulous Media
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The trial of former Washington lawyer Michael Sussman began this week—highlighting how the Hillary Clinton campaign tried to gin up FBI investigations into her opponent's ties to the Kremlin. That's right—we're talking Russiagate on this episode of The Re-Education with Eli Lake. Featuring Washington Free Beacon senior investigative reporter Chuck Ross.
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- 00:02 - Segment: Introduction
- 00:19 - Segment: Monologue
- 19:33 - Segment: Interview with Chuck Ross
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| 0:00.0 | This is Eli Lake, and on this episode of The Reeducation, the topic is Russia Gate. |
| 0:06.0 | Our guest is Washington Free Beacon journalist Chuck Ross. |
| 0:10.0 | This week, the trial of a former lawyer for Hillary Clinton's campaign named Michael Suspin began. |
| 0:24.4 | He is charged by special counsel John Dorham with one count of lying to the FBI. |
| 0:30.6 | A jury has now been selected for the trial of one of Hillary Clinton's former campaign lawyers. |
| 0:35.8 | Michael Susman is charged with lying to the FBI during its Trump |
| 0:39.1 | Russia investigation. This is the first trial stemming from the investigation led by special counsel |
| 0:44.5 | John Durham. A single count of lying to the feds is small ball. This is what the Justice Department |
| 0:50.3 | charges when they can't get their target on a larger conspiracy or a more serious crime. |
| 0:56.2 | What's more, Sussman's lawyers have vigorously disputed the charge, claiming he didn't lie at all. |
| 1:01.9 | If this was just a story about a well-connected Democratic lawyer in the crosshairs of another special |
| 1:06.7 | counsel, then I wouldn't waste your time talking about it. But the Susman trial is about much more. |
| 1:14.3 | Dorham's court filings have illuminated the origins of the scandal that crippled the first two and a half |
| 1:20.1 | years of Donald Trump's presidency, Russiagate, the allegation that his campaign colluded |
| 1:25.7 | with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. |
| 1:29.3 | In the run-up to Trump's inauguration, a series of explosive disclosures in the press |
| 1:34.1 | revealed the FBI had an active investigation into whether that campaign had conspired with Russia's |
| 1:40.6 | efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. |
| 1:43.7 | President Trump is lashing out at the FBI as the Russian investigation moves closer to the White House. |
| 1:48.9 | The president used Twitter to attack the Bureau's credibility. |
| 1:52.0 | He said this weekend that the FBI's reputation is the worst in history. |
| 1:56.5 | Fired FBI director James Comey responded with a quote from his own Capitol Hill testimony earlier this year. |
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