How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From having written about a number of people who've done things that are way over the line |
| 0:06.4 | They almost always find a way to justify it to themselves and to hide it from themselves |
| 0:13.6 | So I mean I think to this day Clarence Thomas probably thinks he was deeply wronged and that he never said those things to a need a hill |
| 0:30.0 | On May 7th Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow published a story in the New Yorker detailing New York Attorney General Eric Schneidermann's history of |
| 0:43.8 | sexually and and psychologically |
| 0:46.9 | terrorizing the women he dated hours later of the New York governor Andrew Cuomo he called on Schneidermann to resign |
| 0:53.0 | hours after that Schneidermann step down |
| 0:56.6 | Journalism comes in many forms and it has many uses but the most honored and necessary form is a form that Jane Mayer excels at |
| 1:04.6 | Investigative journalism the revelation of what the powerful do not want us to know so that we may as a citizenry |
| 1:11.2 | Hold them accountable so that we can protect ourselves |
| 1:14.3 | Over the years mayors done more than anyone else to map the Koch brothers influence on their public and party |
| 1:19.8 | She has added immeasurably to our understanding of America's torture programs to our knowledge of need a hills allegations against Clarence Thomas |
| 1:26.7 | To our understanding of Donald Trump and Michael Pence and the influence the financiers like Robert Mercer have on this |
| 1:32.6 | Administration she's one more words and I can count and she's deserved them all |
| 1:37.1 | I've known mayor for years and I've always wanted to know |
| 1:41.1 | How she does what she does? |
| 1:42.6 | How she breaks stories on everything from waterboarding in Iraq to sexual devancy and the New York government |
| 1:48.4 | But I've never gotten a chance to do to sit down and ask her that isn't until now |
| 1:53.1 | Of course if there's anything you want to sit down and ask me you can email me at as a client showed box.com |
| 1:57.9 | You see that smooth transition how I did that |
| 2:00.6 | I hope you've sat down and watched boxes at new Netflix show explained a lot of my work is going into that these days |
| 2:05.8 | And I would love to know what you think of it |
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