Stone Coldish Sentencing

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 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Former Deputy Attorney General Don Ayer and Yahoo News’ own Hunter Walker join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First up, Isikoff & Klaidman talk Roger Stone and his sentencing. Then, Ayer weighs in on all things Bill Barr, the pressure he's facing to resign, and what it's like working in the DOJ. Finally, Walker reports from the scene of the Nevada primary and paints the picture of where things are headed post debate which featured Bloomberg for the first time.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgoth, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.1	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.4	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.
0:20.0	The judge was not pleased. At the long awaited sentencing hearing for Roger Stone,
0:25.6	US judge Amy Berman Jackson could barely contain her annoyance, with Stone himself,
0:31.3	and with the Department of Justice over its unorthodox handling of the case.
0:35.6	First recommending a tough seven to nine-year sentence for Stone,
0:39.2	and then pulling it in an apparent attempt to soften the blow for one of the president's
0:44.4	fiercest political allies, a move that prompted four prosecutors to withdraw from the case.
0:51.2	Stone, she declared, was not prosecuted for standing up for the president.
0:55.6	He was prosecuted for covering up for the president.
0:59.0	As for the Justice Department, she drilled the new Assistant US Attorney in charge of the case
1:04.4	to explain the department's reversal, and got no clear answers.
1:09.0	In the end, she sent in Stone to a sentence of three years and four months,
1:13.3	less than the original prosecutors wanted, but still a stiff sentence for the self-styled,
1:19.1	dirty trickster. It was, for the time being, an affirmation that the rule of law still holds
1:24.7	in Donald Trump's America. But for how long? We'll discuss with Don Ayer, a former deputy attorney
1:31.0	general who was calling on Bill Barr to resign, and we'll talk to our colleague Hunter Walker,
1:37.2	who was on the ground in Las Vegas for this week's Nevada Caucus, all on this episode of Skull Dugger.
1:50.0	Because people have got to know whether or not they're president or subcruel, well, I'm not a crook.
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