Minneapolis on fire

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Former Chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." From protests to violence to press members of CNN getting arrested live on television, Minneapolis has become a hotbed of tension after the death of George Floyd. Gupta discusses her work during the Obama administration which focused specifically on police abuses. The group also discuss the threat the President has cast over the right to vote in the upcoming election.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.1	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.4	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.
0:20.4	Give us a second, guys.
0:23.2	We can move back to where you'd like. We can move back to where you'd like here.
0:28.2	We are alive on the air at the moment.
0:32.4	This is the four of us. We are one team.
0:35.9	I'm sorry?
0:36.3	No, I'm your arrest.
0:37.3	Okay, do you know what I'm telling you?
0:38.8	Why am I under arrest, sir?
0:41.2	Why am I under arrest, sir?
0:44.9	If you're just tuning in, you are watching our correspondent on Martha Menna's being arrested
0:52.1	by state police.
1:22.4	The events from Minneapolis this week seem emblematic of a country in crisis,
1:28.8	with a president whose first instinct is always to divide and inflame,
1:32.9	tweeting his threats to bring in the US military and then adding when the
1:37.1	looting starts, the shooting starts.
1:40.0	We'll discuss with Vanita Gupta, the former Chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights
1:44.8	Division, during a period under President Obama that it was intensely focused on investigating
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