S1E3: Bonus Episode 1

Conspiracyland

Yahoo News

Medical Ailments, Biden, Conspiracy, Yahoo News, Investigative Journalism, Havana Syndrome, Conspiracyland, Michael Isikoff, Russian Intelligence, News, Vladimr Putin, Cuba, Obama, Trump, Conspiracy Theories

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In these special bonus episodes, Yahoo Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and CNN Contributor Bianna Golodryga talked to Yahoo Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff about his new six-part podcast series on the 2016 murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Isikoff discusses why he delved into his case and what he discovered as he traced how the conspiracy theories about the Rich murder proliferated throughout social media, migrating from obscure websites to alt-right Internet celebrities and ultimately Fox News — with a helping hand from Russian intelligence and the Trump White House. In the first bonus episode, Isikoff talks about the background of Seth Rich, what he actually did for the Democratic National Committee and how Russia's intelligence service planted the original seeds of conspiracy about his death.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody I'm Dan Clydman, editor-in-chief of Yahoo News, and welcome to this
0:08.2	bonus episode of Yahoo News's Conspiracy Land. A new podcast series on the murder of Seth Rich brought to you
0:14.5	by Scull Duggery. I'm here with my colleague and Scull Duggy co-host Mike
0:18.4	Isikoff, Yahoo News's chief investigative correspondent and the host of
0:22.3	conspiracy land and Bianna Goladriga. investigative correspondent and the host of Conspiracy Land and
0:23.4	Bianna Goladriga, the veteran news broadcaster who's
0:26.6	reported for ABC News, CBC News,
0:29.2	is currently a CNN contributor, and is our former colleague at Yahoo.
0:34.0	In these special episodes we will tell the story behind the story of Conspiracy Land,
0:38.0	explore the larger themes that this tangled and tragic case raises,
0:42.0	and hear from Mike what it was like to report on the
0:44.7	Seth-rich murder as he plumb the depths of the dark netherworld of American political
0:48.9	conspiracies. Each bonus podcast will be available with the episode it corresponds to.
0:54.0	Today we're discussing episodes one and two, the last days of Seth Rich and the Russia Connection.
0:59.0	Mike Biana, welcome.
1:00.0	Great to be here.
1:02.0	So first of all Isikoff, just got to say this podcast series is a tour de force of reporting
1:09.0	and narrative storytelling.
1:10.4	So congratulations.
1:11.4	That's phenomenal.
1:12.4	Thanks a lot. It's phenomenal. Thanks a lot.
1:12.9	It's an amazing story to dig into.
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