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Stay Tuned with Preet

Putin, Pawns and Propaganda (with Garry Kasparov)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.832.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player of all time. But today, he dedicates his life to human rights and fighting Russian President Vladimir Putin from exile. Kasparov talks about the Kremlin's massive misinformation campaign, and what he thinks happened when Michael Flynn met with Russian diplomats. Plus, more questions about the Mueller investigation, answered.  Do you have a question for Preet? Tweet them to @PreetBharara or call 669-247-7338 and leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:55.9

From Cafe and WNYC Studios, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara.

1:02.9

The Summit propaganda tried to present an image of the bright future. It was a fake but positive

1:09.2

image of the future. Putin's propaganda is different. It's more like cult of death. It's

1:14.4

not about positive future. Actually, there's no future at all.

1:18.5

That's Gary Casparov. He's the best chess player who ever lived, an advocate for human rights,

1:25.3

and a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin. Here's why I was dying to talk to Gary Casparov

1:30.8

on the show. He's got an incredible mind. That's obvious from the way he's played chess

1:36.5

for years and years. But his incredible mind is also at play when he talks and thinks

1:41.8

about democracy, the press, truth, and human rights, which is what he's dedicating his

1:49.4

life to now. What I thought was cool about this interview is, as I ask him a question,

1:55.2

some of which were not really perfect questions as he pointed out. You can literally hear

1:59.8

his brain working in real time. That's coming up, but first, your questions. So obviously,

2:07.7

the biggest piece of news in the last week has been the guilty plea of Michael Flynn, the

2:11.2

former National Security Advisor for President Trump. I tried to anticipate a lot of questions

2:16.4

that have been lobbed about by doing a special episode this past Monday. So if you haven't

2:21.0

listened to that, I would encourage you to go and check it out. But I wanted to just

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