Should Barr be disbarred?

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

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker, Congressman Jamie Raskin, and former Amazon employees Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Walker takes us through his firsthand witness account of the protesters being cleared out of Lafayette Square for the Trump photo op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church. Then, Raskin walks us through the illegality of what took place at said event. Finally, the Amazon whistleblowers return to talk about what happened during the recent Amazon shareholder meeting as well as the PR stunt dispersed by the company posing as a real news story that was broadcast word-for-word across several local news stations.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:19.8	The order came from William Barr. Early Monday evening, the attorney general of the United States
0:26.0	walked out of the White House, spotted hundreds of protesters in Lafayette Park,
0:30.8	and ordered park police officers, some on horseback, to clear them out.
0:35.5	What happened next seems destined to become one of the iconic moments of the Trump era.
0:40.4	The park police and other federal officers on the scene used smoke canisters, peppercorns,
0:45.6	riot shields, and flashbangs, sending the demonstrators fleeing from the park.
0:50.2	Many of them choking for air, thereby allowing President Trump to stroll over to St. John's
0:55.7	Church across from the park so we can hold up a Bible for a photo op.
1:01.0	What does the scene tell us about Barr, his attitude toward the protests,
1:04.5	and his larger view about the use of federal power to enforce his vision of law and order?
1:10.9	We'll discuss with a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Democrat Jamie Raskin in Maryland,
1:15.6	and we'll talk to two Amazon whistleblowers about the revelation that the company prepared
1:20.4	pre-packaged news spots, touting its purported record for safety, that wound up unadded word for
1:27.0	word on TV channels across the country, corporate propaganda masquerading as news.
1:33.2	All that and more on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:43.3	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump,
1:46.4	well I'm not a crook.
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