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Skullduggery

Spanberger on Trump's "mind-blowing insanity"

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

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Abigail Spanberger, U.S. Rep. for Virginia, joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Spanberger talks about her personal experience going through the Capitol riot and how her time as a CIA operations officer played a part in her escape. She also discusses voting for impeachment and gives her reaction to Trump's latest statement condemning violence leading up to and during President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

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0:00.0

For eight years Abigail Spanberger was an undercover CIA operative who recruited spies to help

0:07.2

thwart terrorism attacks overseas. On January 6th, Spanberger, now a democratic member of

0:14.2

Congress from Virginia, used some of our espionage training to evade detection and calm

0:19.8

our colleagues as a group of domestic terrorists invaded the US Capitol and threatened their lives.

0:26.6

This week Spanberger was a co-sponsor of the resolution to impeach President Trump for

0:31.2

inciting that attack. We'll talk to Spanberger about what she went through on that horrific

0:35.8

day and what the historic impeachment vote means for her and the country on this episode

0:41.5

of Skull Duggery.

0:43.4

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of Sir Crump, well I'm

0:52.8

not a Crump.

0:53.8

For the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions

0:58.5

still tell me that's true but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not

1:04.2

have sexual relations with that woman.

1:07.0

There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

1:21.0

I'm Michael Isacoff, Chief Investigative Crosmonet for Yahoo News.

1:24.4

And I'm Dan Clyde-Manneter and Chief of Yahoo News.

1:27.0

So first of all I just want to say I'm super excited. We've got Spanberger finally on

1:32.4

Skull Duggery. She's made quite a mark in Congress since she was elected in 2018, knocking

1:39.0

off one of the far right Republicans from the Virginia suburbs, David Bratt, but somebody

1:46.6

who's also Spanberger also stood up and clashed with some of the more progressive members

1:53.0

of her caucus. So she's carved out quite a niche. But look, we are talking the day after

2:01.6

Donald Trump has been impeached. It is really mind-boggling to think a year ago, exactly

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