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The Intercept Briefing

Intercepted Live from Brooklyn

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Legendary reporter Seymour Hersh on what he thinks of Donald Trump, his analysis of the Trump/Russia story, and some wild stories from his new memoir, “Reporter.” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt recounts the latest on the immigrant families that are being ripped apart and separated indefinitely, and shares personal stories of the victims he represents in a nationwide class action suit against the Trump administration. Activist Mariame Kaba explains the historical foundations of the American carceral state and calls for the abolition of ICE and the prison industrial complex. Multimedia artist and rapper Yassin Alsalman, better known by Narcy, performs an original spoken word and premieres his new song, “Yemenade.”

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0:00.0

Warriors come out to play. Warriors come out to play. Warriors come out to play.

0:14.0

We must have American dominance in space. Do we want? The Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force.

0:24.0

Separate Buddy. Why? I don't know what you mean by that.

0:29.0

Baby talk to the youth. You have to take the children away. The Democrats have to change their look.

0:35.0

I'm going to kiss my butt. I can't do it through an executive order.

0:38.0

I'm going to stay down here all day. We're signing an executive order. Keeping families together.

0:43.0

A gang of vile savages known as MS-13. You've all heard of them. They're bad.

0:52.0

Everywhere they go, the thousands of MS-13 gang members.

0:57.0

I'm one of your biggest supporters, you know. I tell everybody that comes in this taxi the day after vote for you.

1:02.0

The world is a mess. Oh yeah? The world is as angry as it gets.

1:07.0

New York City is a part of each of us.

1:22.0

This is Intercepted.

1:29.0

I'm Jeremy Scayhill coming to you live from the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

1:40.0

This is episode 62 of Intercepted.

1:49.0

The main reason we wanted to do this tonight was to get Sihersh at a rap show.

1:54.0

I think we're the only people that could ever get Sihersh to come out to hear hip-hop.

2:00.0

So big ups to everybody here for making it happen and sharing the night with Sihersh and an Iraqi rapper.

2:11.0

Sihersh was the very first guest that we had on Intercepted when we started just days after Donald Trump was inaugurated and gave his American carnage speech.

2:24.0

Sihersh has been in the game of journalism for almost his entire adult life.

2:31.0

This was a man who decades before Edward Snowden blew the whistle on warrantless spying,

2:38.0

not only on people around the world, but inside the United States, exposed CIA operations targeting the anti-war movement in this country and engaging in spying on all forms of dissidents.

2:53.0

Sihersh was one of the key journalists that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

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