Russia Redux

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Screenwriter, producer, and film director Billy Ray joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." The group take a deep dive into Ray's upcoming two-part Showtime mini-series The Comey Rule. Part one follows the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and their impact on the election. Part two is an account of the first months of the Trump presidency.

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0:00.0	On behalf of his clients, he compiled a dossier of 17 separate reports on you and your past
0:08.4	dealings with Russia.
0:11.3	One of those reports asserts that in 2013, you spent a night with Russian prostitutes
0:17.7	in a Moscow hotel room, which was secretly videotaped.
0:20.3	No, no prostitutes.
0:21.3	There were never prostitutes.
0:24.3	You'd have to be an idiot to believe something like that.
0:29.8	I am not saying that the FBI believes these accusations we simply have a duty to make
0:33.7	you aware of.
0:34.7	I look like I need to go there.
0:37.0	That scene, capturing the exchange when FBI director James Comey met with then President
0:42.7	Electile Trump at Trump Tower in January 2017, is just one of the dramatic moments in
0:49.6	a new showtime series, The Comey Rule.
0:53.2	It's a reminder that the issue surrounding Russia's attack on American democracy and
0:57.6	Trump's curious affection for Vladimir Putin are still with us and likely to forever be
1:03.6	central to the historical debate over Trump's presidency.
1:07.3	We'll talk to Billy Ray, the writer and director of The Comey Rule, on this episode of Skull
1:13.9	Duggery.
1:15.2	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well,
1:24.4	I'm not a crop.
1:25.4	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:28.6	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
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