McConnell's Freight Train
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Lawyers Robert Bauer, a Democrat, and Jack Goldsmith, once a Republican join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Whitehouse, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, talks about his new report on the financial interests that support the conservative movement to get conservative judges on the courts. And then, Goldsmith and Bauer talk about their new book - After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency - which provides a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in a post-Trump era.
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| 0:00.0 | One by one, they fall in line. |
| 0:05.2 | The news on Tuesday that Mitt Romney will not oppose consideration of a new Supreme Court |
| 0:10.0 | nominee in the closing weeks of the election, was a crushing blow to progressives who had |
| 0:15.0 | hoped to stop Mitch McConnell's freight train barreling through the Senate. |
| 0:20.2 | Is there anything Senate Democrats can do to stop it, or at least slow it down? |
| 0:25.3 | And whose interests will President Trump's nominee, whoever it turns out to be, serve? |
| 0:30.8 | We'll discuss those questions with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a leading Democrat on the |
| 0:35.4 | Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:37.2 | And we'll talk to two law professors, former White House counsel Bob Bauer, and former |
| 0:41.6 | Justice Department official Jack Goldsmith, about their new book proposing reforms for a |
| 0:46.9 | post-Trump era on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 0:53.9 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're President Sir Cruff, well I'm |
| 1:01.0 | not a Cruff. |
| 1:02.0 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
| 1:05.2 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
| 1:09.9 | tell me it is not. |
| 1:11.2 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 1:15.2 | There will be no lies. |
| 1:18.1 | We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:32.7 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Senator and Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 1:35.4 | So I got to say I was surprised somewhat by Romney's coming out with his statement |
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