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Skullduggery

Iowa caucus debacle

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Democratic Pollster Joel Benenson and Yahoo News’ own National Politics Reporter Brittany Shepherd join hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Brittany breaks down the debacle that took place in Iowa and what the effects that will have on the democratic party nominees moving forward. Then Benenson talks polls, Bernie and Buttigieg, and the Michael Bloomberg factor.

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0:00.0

I'm Michael Azgoth, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:03.0

And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

0:05.3

And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.

0:09.9

And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,

0:14.1

tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.

0:19.2

It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cups, it was leakers and liars.

0:27.0

And this should never ever happen to another president, ever.

0:31.1

We first went through Russia, Russia, Russia.

0:36.3

It was all bullshit.

0:40.6

That was President Trump taking his victory lap the day after he was formally

0:45.1

acquitted by the Senate in the third impeachment trial in U.S. history.

0:50.0

The president, of course, was true to form, defiant, unrepentant, profane,

0:54.7

without a hint of contrition or magnanimity to those who had crossed him or tried to hold him accountable

1:00.7

for his conduct. It was the culmination of an extraordinary four days in American politics

1:06.5

that saw a complete meltdown of the Iowa Democratic Caucus, a near collapse for the party's

1:12.2

presumed frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, and a state-of-the-union speech

1:17.0

more acrimonious and bitter than anybody can remember. We'll break it all down,

1:21.9

get an on-the-ground account of what actually happened in Iowa, and look forward to what we can

1:26.4

expect for the rest of the campaign with veteran Democratic Polster Joel Benenson on this episode of SkullDuggery.

1:40.3

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President or Supra, well, I'm not a crop.

1:44.2

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions still

1:49.8

tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have sexual

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