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Skullduggery

Skullduggery Live!

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

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman host a new episode of the podcast in front of a live audience at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., joins the show to discuss the latest developments from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections. A panel of journalists also take the stage for an engaging conversation about the media’s coverage of the Russia investigation and answer questions from the audience.

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0:00.0

Absolutely no collusion. I did make a phone call to Russia. I am nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it.

0:07.0

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt. Well, I'm not a crook.

0:12.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for costumes.

0:16.0

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

0:23.0

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

0:28.0

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently saw a significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

0:34.0

But he times left to answer this question. Russia is a ruse.

0:44.0

Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Skolduggery. I'm Michael Isakov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:51.0

I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. And we're in live from the museum in Washington, D.C. in front of a great audience.

1:03.0

And we're also excited to be live streaming the podcast for the first time on Yahoo.com.

1:10.0

Dan, this is a very special weekend in Washington. It's the White House Correspondence Dinner event tomorrow night.

1:19.0

And for the second year in a row, President Trump is going to be a no-show.

1:24.0

You know, it's interesting he's going to be in Washington. He's going to be in Washington, Michigan.

1:31.0

We have some counter-programming to the swamp. And you know, the White House Correspondence Dinner historically has not been his favorite event.

1:40.0

Some might remember that he was gently mocked. Some would say humiliated by President Obama a few years back, where he went after him about the celebrity apprentice.

1:54.0

Right. Obama said something like, you know, these are the decisions that keep you up at night. And what people don't remember is that he was right at that time that Obama was actually making the decision to do the raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.

2:09.0

And of course, the theory is that the mocking of Donald Trump at that event is what inspired him to run for President.

2:20.0

And in a way, gave birth to Skull Duggery in directly.

2:23.0

Well, then we can all thank him.

2:24.0

But look, and thank the White House Correspondence Dinner for that event.

2:26.0

But because it's the White House Correspondence Dinner, one of the things we're doing on this show is we're having a, we're kind of turning the lens on us on the press.

2:36.0

And we're going to have a great panel of journalists to discuss the media and our coverage of this scandal. So that should be great.

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