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Skullduggery

It's time to remove the filibuster

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

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin and Yahoo News National Correspondent Andrew Romano join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Romano weighs in on what worked and what didn't work during the Democratic National Convention and what it's going to take in these final months to win the 2020 election. Then Sen. Durbin talk about his frustration in regards to the filibuster in the Senate and that its removal is on the table if the Senate flips.

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0:00.0

I'm not a crook.

0:10.0

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

0:14.0

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true.

0:17.0

But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

0:20.0

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

0:24.0

There will be no lies.

0:27.0

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

0:38.0

I'm Michael Lysigov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:41.0

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

0:43.0

And we are joined by our Yahoo News colleague Andrew Romano.

0:48.0

Andrew, welcome back to Skull Duggery.

0:50.0

Hey, thanks for having me, guys.

0:52.0

So a lot of time we have all spent watching the Democrats do their virtual convention this week.

0:59.0

Andrew, do you think it was a successful convention for the Ds?

1:04.0

I think so.

1:05.0

Yeah.

1:06.0

I mean, we were, this is our first virtual convention.

1:09.0

No one knew what to expect.

1:10.0

I think there was a lot of, especially in the media, which is always looking for attention, conflict problems.

1:16.0

There was a lot of speculation that something would go terribly awry.

1:20.0

There would be technical glitches that distracted from the message.

1:23.0

And I think it went really smoothly.

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