Rejecting Jared

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Well, what do you know? In 2016, Trump tweeted that he wasn't trying to get a top security clearance for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. A year later, he's finally right. On The Gist, what's so special about an octopus? Slate's Daniel Engber has a takedown of the many-armed beast of the deep: The research on cephalopod intelligence is flimsy, he says, and the octopus is hardly the first animal to have fascinated us with its methods of escape. In the Spiel, it's time to name another Lobstar. One more thing: Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at Slate.com/podcastsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.8	It's Friday, March 2nd, 2018 from Slated to the Gist. I'm Mike Pesca and I am not trying
0:42.3	to get top level security clearance for my children. This was a typically false news story.
0:49.0	Okay, when I say, I don't mean me, I speak in the third person executive. Donald Trump
0:54.6	tweeted that and he tweeted that November 16th, 2016, scoffing at the reports that perhaps
1:01.5	a member of his immediate family would get top level security clearance. The more we know
1:07.6	about Jared Kushner and learn about what's happened to him, the more we once again learn
1:13.2	how correct Donald Trump truly was. So to just recap what's gone on today, NBC News is
1:19.8	reporting that Mueller is looking at loans Jared Kushner got meetings he took meetings
1:26.1	he took with the Russians. Mike Flynn is talking to Mueller about meetings that that he
1:31.7	and maybe Kushner took with the Russians. Kushner is the high level campaign staffer referenced
1:37.7	in the Flynn indictment. Now as far as Turkey, Flynn met with Erdogan son-in-law. So that
1:42.7	means he met with the Turkish Jared Kushner. Now let's go back to that famous tweet.
1:47.2	Trump denied these scurrilous reports that he'd ever try to get a security clearance
1:51.4	remember. I'm not trying to get a top level security clearance for my children. This was
1:55.7	a typically false news story. Let's count the number of ways this was true. One, maybe
2:01.0	he wasn't trying. Maybe it just happened. Good things happen to the guy. Two, for my
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