Pod Save America's Tommy Vietor

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 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Tommy Vietor, former spokesperson for President Obama and the US National Security Council turned Podcaster (Pod Save America) joins co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman. They discuss Trump's comments about excepting political dirt from a foreign government, his attack's on the intel community and why we no longer talk about national security issues like drones. Then co-hosts of the podcast Words Matter, Joe Lockhart and Katie Barlow jump in to comment on the state of impeachment, court fights over subpoenas, as well as executive privilege.

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0:00.0	I'm going to the FBI when he got that email.
0:04.6	Okay, let's put yourself in a position.
0:06.6	You're a congressman.
0:07.7	Somebody comes up and says, hey, I have information
0:10.4	on your opponent.
0:11.6	Do you call the FBI?
0:12.7	I don't think I'm right.
0:13.6	I do want to do.
0:14.4	I've seen a lot of things over my life.
0:15.9	I don't think in my whole life I've ever called the FBI.
0:18.5	This is somebody that said, we have information on your opponent.
0:22.0	Oh, let me call the FBI.
0:23.9	Give me a break.
0:24.7	Life doesn't work out.
0:25.7	The FBI director says that's what should happen.
0:27.5	The FBI director is wrong.
0:29.8	That was President Trump speaking to ABC News's George Stephanopoulos this week in a remarkable
0:35.2	interview, asserting that he sees nothing wrong in taking opposition research from a hostile
0:40.8	foreign power.
0:42.4	Exactly what his son and top campaign aides were prepared to do three short years ago
0:46.8	when they were offered dirt on Hillary Clinton straight from Kremlin files.
0:52.2	Even for a president prone to say all sorts of wild and crazy things, the president's remarks
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