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Of FOIAs And Buzzfeed Investigative Fights

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Buzzfeed senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold -- who with partner Anthony Cormier has broken several Trump stories -- about FOIAs, cultivating specific sources, media mistrust, insights into a checkered past, and of course, those Buzzfeed stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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They'll be able to see how this hoax how the hoax or witch hunt started and why it started

0:36.6

It was a

0:38.4

An attempted coup or an attempt to take down to the president of the United States

0:42.9

You're gonna learn a lot. I hope it's gonna be nice, but perhaps it won't be

0:49.0

It's part of the

0:50.6

Trump and Republican plocted dirty up the intelligence community

0:55.6

The the public narrative they wanted to tell was

0:59.0

This deal ended before the primaries even began before the Iowa caucuses

1:03.7

We had no business dealings with any Russians or the Russian government after that point that was a lie

1:13.9

Hello and welcome to Trump cast I'm Virginia Heffernan

1:16.7

You know when people quote themselves they make themselves sound good like they might say something like okay

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So Spencer's like we're done and I'm like no we are done

1:26.4

Meaning I'm the one making it done you douchebag. You know they sound like

1:31.0

Disciase and eloquent and powerful in their own telling well not Trump when he quotes himself

1:36.6

He sounds just as garbled as when he actually talks case and point here's Trump talking

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