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Skullduggery

I'm crushing it!

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

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It was a busy week in Washington. President Trump’s new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, declared during an interview that Trump wouldn’t have to comply with a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller. Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee and faced tough questions about torture. Finally, it was revealed that Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, received millions from companies, after he sold them on the fact that he had direct access to the president. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman break all this news down with national security expert and University of Texas School of Law professor Stephen Vladeck and Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who blew the whistle on torture in the intelligence community.

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0:00.0

I'm crushing it.

0:02.5

So-boasted Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal lawyer and all-purpose fixer,

0:07.9

as he was raking in Big Box last year in the aftermath of his client selection as president.

0:13.9

But now it looks like Cohen is the one who is about to be crushed by federal prosecutors

0:18.5

pouring over those payments that were funneled into a Delaware shell company that he originally

0:24.0

set up to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels.

0:27.2

AT&T pumped in $600,000, Novartis, the big pharmaceutical company, 1.2 million, Korean

0:34.3

Aerospace, another 150,000, and a company tied to a powerful Russian oligarch $500,000.

0:42.2

What were they paying Cohen for and why?

0:45.0

How did they find him in the first place and what did he do with the money?

0:49.2

Those are among the questions we'll explore on today's episode of Skull Duggery.

0:54.0

There is absolutely no collusion.

0:56.6

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

0:58.6

I have nothing to do with Russia.

1:00.4

Everybody knows it.

1:01.9

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt, but I'm not a

1:06.4

crook.

1:07.4

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

1:11.2

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

1:16.6

tell me it is not.

1:18.2

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:22.6

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities

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