Hello, my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics. And this is the episode

when we're going to look back on some of the memorable things from 2017 of fairly uneventful

year I think in the history of the world, but we're trying to find something.

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I'm delighted to say we've got our super full full panel with us, Helen Thompson,

Aaron Rapport, Chris Bickerton and Chris Brook, one of whom is the other Chris, but we haven't

worked out which. Trump happened in 2016 and then Trump continued to happen in 2017. There's a lot

to pick from and I'm going to ask everyone for a Trump moment, a Trump memory, something

that makes you think this was his year, Aaron. I keep getting drawn back to John Oliver's

take on Trump and the Trump Russia scandal which is that it's stupid watergate as John Oliver calls

this. Watergate by people who have neither the knowledge nor inclination to gain the knowledge

necessary to successfully pull off a caper of this magnitude. The tweet that caught my eye the most

was the one where Trump virtually admits to obstructing justice which he'd already kind of done

before in the past when he had announced on live television. You know, Russia, if you're listening

do hack into the DNC emails and release more dirt, you know, that wasn't so much an obstruction of

justice. That was, you know, asking a foreign adversary to intervene in the US sovereign.

And that was so 2016. That's so 2016. So now we're to the point where again, after saying,

you know, Michael Flynn was a very good guy. He said, well, yeah, but Michael Flynn did lie to

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