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Skullduggery

Freedom Lost

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Michael Abramowitz, the President of Freedom House, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Trump told his supporters at the first Presidential debate to "go in and watch the polls very carefully." Standard poll watching or blatant voter intimidation? The group discuss that as well as additional un-nerving trends about the state of our democracy here in the US and around the world.

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0:00.0

It was one of the more unsettling moments in the presidential debate between President Trump

0:06.8

and Joe Biden.

0:08.4

As directly, whether he will force Stahl declaring victory before all the votes are counted

0:13.0

in next month's presidential election and the results independently certified, the president

0:18.4

declined to do so.

0:20.5

Instead, he issued a chilling exhortation to his supporters to, quote, go into the polls

0:26.2

and watch very carefully.

0:28.6

Is this standard poll-watching or blatant voter intimidation?

0:32.7

A threat to disrupt the most sacred act in American democracy?

0:36.7

We'll discuss that and other unnerving trends about the state of our democracy here in

0:42.0

the United States, as well as around the world with Michael Abramowitz, the president

0:47.0

of Freedom House, on this episode of Skull Duggery.

0:51.2

Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the Trump, well,

1:01.0

I'm not a corrupt.

1:02.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

1:05.2

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

1:10.0

tell me it is not.

1:11.0

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:15.4

There will be no lies.

1:18.2

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

1:29.3

I'm Michael Isigof, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.

1:32.8

And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

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