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OVERTIME: EP.72 | Bob Kerrey on Party-First Politics and the Role of the Saudi Government in the 9/11 Attacks

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dear Hidden Forces Subscriber,

I'm so excited to share this inaugural piece of Overtime content with you. 

In the first half of the segment, I press the senator on the issue of "party-first politics," and if he thinks the Democratic Party lost the 2016 election by putting its own interests above those of the country. We also discuss the Muller investigation, the likelihood of further indictments, and what the possible impeachment of President Trump could mean for the country. 

Lastly, we discuss Senator Kerrey's time on the 9/11 commission, his opinion on the involvement of Saudi Arabia - at the highest levels of government - in orchestrating the attacks, and why the Bush administration seemed unwilling to hold the Kingdom accountable. 

Feel free to share your thoughts as comments below!

Demetri

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0:00.0

All right, we're back.

0:04.3

That was a nice break.

0:05.3

That was a great.

0:06.1

That was a great break.

0:07.1

So the one thing I want to ask you before we get to this, your experience in the

0:10.0

commission, ask you about Khashoggi and all this stuff now with the Saudis, we

0:14.1

were talking about Elizabeth Warren 2020.

0:16.5

What do you think is going to happen in 2020?

0:18.7

We have now Donald Trump, who's a phenomenon. I've

0:21.7

never seen anything like him. Certainly, Andrew Jackson could qualify maybe, right? But he was

0:26.8

also at a different time. No, my God, Andrew Jackson. Well, they had to resuscitate him in the White

0:30.7

House. So he drank out his inauguration. He was pretty bad. Yeah, so he drank big deal, but he didn't

0:36.1

lie every five minutes.

0:38.0

I mean.

0:40.0

But don't politicians all lie?

0:40.8

No, no. No, no. He's take offense to that. Look, all, no, no. First of all of us lie. You find me a human being lying. He's the guy in the street corner saying the world's going to come to an end. So there isn't anybody that it's true that politicians probably lie 20% more than everybody else,

0:55.5

but we've never seen anything like Donald Trump. So there isn't anybody that it's true that politicians probably lied 20% more than everybody

0:55.0

else, but we've never seen anything like Donald Trump.

0:58.6

We've never seen anybody that covers his observations of what's going on in the world with

1:02.8

things that are factually incorrect.

1:04.7

So it's way beyond anything we've seen before.

1:06.8

Is it just about his lying or his facts, or is it more about, to me, like... It's not just lying. It's taking credit for everything. There's a boastfulness that I find to be offensive. Because I don't think it's the way you get things done. I don't think you get things done by saying, I, I, I, I all the time. Oh, shit, I agree. Yeah. But for me, now, it's not about the lying. What makes him so unique in that sense is the temperament. Look, it's his temperament. You had two reports that came out yesterday that were ordered by the Senate Select Committee and Intelligence, run by a Republican. It's a bipartisan group. Enhanous vote to authorize those two reports. They provided these two organizations with all the stuff they had from Facebook, Google, all the other social media stuff that they had been provided, Twitter. Tell us what happened. That's what they said. First of all, they said what happened is these companies came before you and they didn't tell you the truth. But the most important thing is, Vladimir Putin made a decision. He wanted Donald Trump to

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