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Skullduggery

Ready for War

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

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Neumann, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Department of Homeland Security to DHS Secretary John Kelly, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." As the House gets ready to impeach President Trump for the second time, the group discuss the ongoing threat from right-wing extremism and the Trump Adminstration's refusal to take it seriously.

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0:00.0

In early January, FBI agents in Norfolk, Virginia picked up some alarming intelligence about

0:07.6

what was being planned by some right-wing activists headed to Washington for the rally

0:12.7

called by Donald Trump to protest the results of the presidential election.

0:17.8

The activists were talking among themselves online and making no secret about what they

0:22.4

had in mind.

0:24.0

Be ready to fight, one of them wrote, Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being

0:29.0

kicked in and blood.

0:31.9

Stop calling this a march or a rally or a protest.

0:34.9

Go there ready for war.

0:37.6

We get our president or we die.

0:41.2

On the 5th of January, the Norfolk Office circulated a situational information report about

0:46.6

what had it learned, but there is still no indication that the document was widely distributed

0:52.0

and shared throughout the government.

0:54.5

Is this a failure of imagination as some have suggested or a failure by senior officials

0:59.8

at the highest levels of the U.S. government to do their job?

1:04.0

As the House prepares to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, we'll talk to Elizabeth

1:08.4

Newman, the former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Counterterrorism, about the

1:13.8

ongoing threat from right-wing extremism and the Trump administration's persistent refusal

1:19.4

to take it seriously on this episode of Skullbuggery.

1:26.4

Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump, well, I'm

1:33.1

not a crook.

1:34.1

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

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