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Skullduggery

Sex, Spies, and Bank Account Lies

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

David Enrich - New York Times Financial Editor and Emily Brandwin - former CIA Operations Officer join co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on Skullduggery. Trump's dealings with Deutsche Bank and what it's like to be a "spy" in the CIA are all discussed alongside Mike and Dan's thoughts on Mueller's final public statement.

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0:00.0

I think when Deutsche Bank records are going to show, and his income taxes at the Russians

0:07.4

owning, and they have a president who's owned by the Russians, that was Tennessee Democratic

0:12.4

Congressman Steve Cohen speaking on last week's skull-duggery about what he views as the

0:17.2

corrupt relationship that is at the root of the Trump-Russia scandal.

0:21.8

Cohen of course is an unabashed advocate of impeachment, a position that gained new

0:26.0

traction this week after special counsel Robert Mueller spoke for the first time, explaining

0:31.1

why he couldn't clear President Trump of obstruction of justice charges in the Russia

0:35.4

affair, and as many saw it, all but invited the Democratic House to begin impeachment proceedings.

0:42.3

But what exactly would the House impeach Trump for?

0:45.6

Over his firing of FBI director James Comey and his stumbling efforts to get rid of Mueller

0:50.2

and shut down his investigation, and then lying about it?

0:54.2

Or as Cohen and many other House leaders fervently believe, is there evidence of something

0:59.4

darker, and arguably much more serious, a secret financial tie between Trump and Russia related

1:06.0

to the president's massive loans from Deutsche Bank, an institution that has been fined in recent

1:11.4

years for laundering billions of dollars in illicit Russian cash.

1:15.8

We'll talk to one of the world's experts on Trump's finances and his curious relationship

1:21.0

with Deutsche Bank, and examine exactly what the evidence is and isn't, on the claim

1:26.1

that as Cohen put it, Trump is owned by the Russians.

1:30.6

And we'll meet a rather unorthodox former CIA spy-turned-podcaster, all that and more,

1:36.9

on this episode of Skull Duggery.

1:45.8

Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the Trump.

1:48.8

Well, I'm not a corrupt.

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