S8 Ep180: The Revolving Door: Democratic Insiders and Foreign Influence: Colleague Ken Vogel explains how Democratic operatives like Anita Dunn and Antony Blinken leveraged government experience for lucrative consulting roles at firms like SKDK and WestExec, also d
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
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- The Revolving Door: Democratic Insiders and Foreign Influence: Colleague Ken Vogel explains how Democratic operatives like Anita Dunn and Antony Blinken leveraged government experience for lucrative consulting roles at firms like SKDK and WestExec, also discussing Hunter Biden's pardon regarding Chinese business dealings and Robert Stryk's representation of sanctioned Russian defense executives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm John Batchel with Ken Vogel, the New York Times investigative reporter, and his new book, Devil's Advocates. |
| 0:13.3 | It's highly entertaining. |
| 0:14.6 | It's very revelatory. |
| 0:16.5 | It's not in any direction. |
| 0:18.4 | It's in all directions in Washington. |
| 0:20.5 | This might be how the swamp works. |
| 0:23.3 | It might be. |
| 0:24.3 | And the swamp is entertaining. |
| 0:26.5 | The hidden stories of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington insiders on the payrolls of corrupt foreign interests. |
| 0:34.5 | If you go to Washington in foreign policy and you don't come out rich, what's wrong |
| 0:38.7 | with you? It's the question that gets asked again and again as I read this book. We now go to the |
| 0:43.4 | Biden administration, elected in 2020. Yes, there are problems for the Trump administration, |
| 0:50.1 | January 6th, and Rudy Giuliani in claims of fraud that were fraudulent claims, |
| 0:56.0 | but we're going to concentrate on how the Democrats do foreign interests and lobbying and connections. |
| 1:02.8 | They don't hide it as in any fashion. |
| 1:06.6 | They actually give it titles. |
| 1:08.8 | The people who move back and forth, |
| 1:12.8 | the New York Times has used a metaphor for years, |
| 1:15.1 | it's very evocative, revolving door. |
| 1:19.1 | You can be a director of intelligence here, |
| 1:22.3 | and you can be a member of a lobbying firm there. |
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