Evan Osnos, David Remnick and Joshua Yaffa on Trump and Russia
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Stories about Russia’s interference in the election and its alleged secret dealings with Donald Trump and his associates have dominated the news lately. David Remnick compares notes with the reporters Evan Osnos, who is based in Washington, and Joshua Yaffa, who is based in Moscow. Together, all three wrote “Active Measures,” an investigation into the Trump-Putin drama that appears in the next issue of the magazine. Yaffa says that the pro-Trump Kremlin quickly cooled its celebratory mood after the White House ousted the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn. Meanwhile, some powerful Republicans in Washington seem determined to investigate Russian involvement in the campaign, even if it leads to the President’s doorstep. It’s possible that Russia got more than it bargained for in its efforts to promote Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Presidency.
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| 0:51.1 | On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with New Yorker writers |
| 0:55.6 | Evan Osnos and Joshua Yaffe. They discuss the relationship between the U.S. and Russia |
| 1:00.7 | and how it is developing in the early days of the Trump presidency. |
| 1:07.4 | Not since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, has Russia and its relationship to the United States been so much in the news. |
| 1:15.6 | Like other precedents before him, Donald Trump promised to reset relations with Russia and make them better. |
| 1:21.6 | But now the subject of Russia seems to be the source mainly of scandal, confusion, and confrontation. |
| 1:29.4 | I've been writing about the situation in Russia for, I don't know how long, since the late 80s. |
| 1:34.7 | And I've been working now with two great reporters for the New Yorker, Evan Osnose, and Washington, |
| 1:39.4 | and Joshua Yafah, who's joining us from Moscow. |
| 1:42.7 | Josh, we had the impression that Trump's victory was celebrated in Russia initially, |
| 1:48.0 | at least by the Kremlin elite and therefore official state television. |
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