"I don't feel comfortable being a Republican anymore”

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Skullduggery, co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman sit down for an exclusive and highly sought after interview with George T. Conway III, husband to the Counselor of the President, Kellyanne Conway. No stranger to speaking out against President Trump, he fills us in on the goals of his recently formed coalition entitled Checks and Balances, why he's no longer a registered Republican, his reaction to being called "Mr. Kellyanne Conway" by the President, and what he'd do if Trump was re-elected in 2020. No stone is left unturned.

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0:00.0	A little less than two years ago, George Conway was one half of what looked like it was
0:05.5	about to become the new power couple in Donald Trump's Washington.
0:10.6	His wife, Kellyanne, who helped engineer Trump's upset victory in the 2016 election, had just
0:16.1	landed a big job in the White House as the president's senior counselor.
0:20.2	Conway himself, a high-priced litigator at Atonie New York Law firm, was offered a top
0:24.6	post at the Justice Department as chief of the Civil Division.
0:28.3	But then to the surprise of many, Conway backed out and never joined the Trump administration.
0:34.2	Ever since, he has emerged as one of the president's sharpest legal critics on the right,
0:39.1	skewering the White House's positions in a series of ever-more stinging tweets and newspaper
0:44.3	op-eds.
0:45.3	He recently launched a new organization, Chexon Balances, that hopes to mobilize conservative
0:50.8	Republican lawyers to protest with they see as the president's serial violations of legal
0:56.7	and constitutional norms.
0:59.0	And now, George Conway is speaking out, ready to explain for the first time what he's
1:05.0	doing and why in an exclusive interview on this episode of Skullbuggery.
1:11.4	There is absolutely no collusion.
1:13.4	I didn't make a phone call to Russia.
1:15.9	I have nothing to do with Russia.
1:17.9	Everybody knows it.
1:20.0	People have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Kruk.
1:23.0	Well, I'm not a Kruk.
1:25.5	I told the American people I did not trade arms for Russia.
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