4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Author Michael Wolfe wrote one of the biggest blockbuster books of Donald Trump's presidency, |
0:06.6 | Fire and Fury, a book that depicted a portrait of a White House in golf and chaos, and |
0:12.2 | filled with backstabbing feuds among rival staffers, all presided over by a vain, narcissistic, |
0:19.0 | highly unstable chief executive. |
0:22.2 | Once Trump himself announced it on Twitter, Fire and Fury shot to the top of the best |
0:26.1 | cellar list and stayed there for weeks, solidifying Wolfe as among the most commercially successful |
0:31.6 | chroniclers of the Trump era. |
0:34.5 | Now Wolfe is out with a new book, Siege, Trump Under Fire, that fills out his portrait |
0:39.7 | of Trumpian chaos with more juicy details from inside the White House and, so he claims, |
0:46.2 | from inside Robert Mueller's special counsel operation as well. |
0:50.7 | But how much of Wolfe's reporting can actually be trusted? |
0:54.1 | Judging with his claim that Mueller had actually drafted an indictment of Trump and |
0:58.1 | assertion that has been flatly denied by Mueller's office, we'll ask Wolfe about that and |
1:03.3 | other dubious passages in his book, and we'll talk to the hosts of the wildly popular |
1:08.2 | Mueller she wrote podcast on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
1:13.6 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the Trump, well I'm |
1:22.8 | not a crook. |
1:23.8 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
1:27.0 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
1:31.8 | tell me it is not. |
1:33.0 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
1:37.1 | There will be no lies. |
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