Russian probe gets jolt from Yates and Clapper Senate hearing
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Intelligence officials have long since concluded that Russia interfered in last year's US election. After yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, what more do we know about the threat to future elections and how it's being handled by the Trump Administration?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.6 | The Russians were coming. Did anyone listen? |
| 0:13.6 | Hello again, I'm Aronalne, and this is To the Point. Yesterday, Senate testimony by former Obama administration officials was as much a warning about elections |
| 0:21.0 | to come as it was about last year's campaign. |
| 0:24.3 | But the focus was on how former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told the Trump White |
| 0:28.8 | House that his national security advisor had been compromised. |
| 0:32.8 | She thought action was needed, but General Michael Flynn was not fired for almost three weeks after he had |
| 0:38.8 | attended high security meetings. Democrats want an independent investigation, but President Trump |
| 0:44.5 | still calls it fake news. How real is Russia's threat to democracy? That's today's topic on |
| 0:51.1 | our talking point later, destroying monuments to an ugly past in New Orleans. |
| 0:56.5 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:31.5 | Hello again, Mormon. I'll name back with To The Point. Intelligence officials have long since concluded that Russia interfered in last year's U.S. election after yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee, a hearing, what more do we know about the threat to future elections and how it's |
| 1:45.8 | being handled by the Trump administration? Today's talking point faced with death threats, |
| 1:50.4 | New Orleans officials destroyed one monument to the Confederacy in the dark of night. Now they're |
| 1:55.4 | having trouble getting rid of three more as tensions are flaring. First is news update. |
| 2:11.5 | Supporters in Seoul today chanted the name of the newly elected President of South Korea, a human rights lawyer who supports dialogue with North Korea. The South first liberal |
| 2:17.4 | leader in 10 years could clash with policies of the Trump administration. |
| 2:22.2 | James Person specializes in Korean history at the Wilson Center in Washington. |
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