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Skullduggery

“I believe you have some information for us”

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

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman break down the latest news coming out of the Trump White House this week, starting with new insights into Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer on June 9, 2016. There was also a financial disclosure form from the President that lists a repaid debt of more than $100,000 to Trump’s embattled former attorney Michael Cohen. Finally, the Trump administration just abolished the job of the White House cyber czar. Isikoff and Klaidman speak with a former White House cyber coordinator, Michael Daniel and investigative reporter Mark Hosenball about all the latest developments this week.

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0:00.0

I believe you have some information for us.

0:04.0

So said Donald Trump Jr. to the Russian lawyer who showed up at Trump Tower on June 9,

0:09.3

2016, supposedly bringing a smoking gun, incriminating files about Hillary Clinton straight

0:16.3

from Kremlin archives.

0:18.7

More than 2,000 pages of transcripts just released by the Senate Judiciary Committee

0:23.3

offer new insights into that now notorious meeting between top Trump campaign officials

0:29.2

and a delegation of Russians.

0:31.4

The release came during a week of major new developments about the investigations into

0:35.5

Trump and the events of 2016, including a new financial disclosure form from the president

0:42.5

that lists a repaid debt he somehow omitted from last year's form.

0:47.3

More than $100,000 he paid to his embattled personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for funneling

0:53.4

hush money to a porn star.

0:55.9

And for those of you who thought Russian cyber hacks posed a major national security

1:00.3

risk, there was this largely overlooked story.

1:03.5

The Trump administration has just abolished the job of the White House cyber czar in charge

1:09.0

of thwarting such attacks.

1:10.7

We'll talk about this with a top investigative reporter on the Russia story, as well as

1:15.4

a former White House cyber chief on today's episode of Skolduggery.

1:20.1

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

1:38.2

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

1:43.6

tell me it is not.

1:45.2

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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