Showdown in Portland
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As President Trump's poll numbers continue to fall, and coronavirus cases spike, the White House |
| 0:08.6 | settles on a classic law and order strategy, ordering in armies of heavily armed federal law |
| 0:14.6 | enforcement agents to quell the street protests over racial injustice and arrest vandals and |
| 0:20.4 | demonstrators threatening federal property. The epicenter of this clash is Portland, Oregon, |
| 0:26.3 | where protesters have been gathering ever since the death of George Floyd at the hands of |
| 0:30.5 | Minneapolis police officers last May. We'll talk to Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden |
| 0:36.5 | about why he is determined to stop the Trump administration's moves in his city, |
| 0:41.5 | and we'll talk to journalist Patrick Sims, who is on the ground in Portland, |
| 0:46.0 | about what he is seeing there on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 0:56.6 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, but I'm not a |
| 1:00.3 | crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions |
| 1:05.8 | still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have |
| 1:12.3 | sexual relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the |
| 1:20.4 | truth and nothing else. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:31.7 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Manager and Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 1:34.5 | You know, it strikes me that this is a pure case of the duality of America, the two |
| 1:41.4 | America's we live in. If you live in one America and you watch Fox News every night, |
| 1:47.2 | you are seeing images of violence and vandalism in Portland and other cities played up to the |
| 1:55.1 | Hilt. This is the threat that is being conjured up on the right. And if you watch CNN or MSNBC or any |
| 2:03.3 | of the networks, you see the images of these federal agents not identified driving around in vans |
| 2:11.8 | that are not identified scooping up protesters, arresting them and hauling them off. It's quite a |
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