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Skullduggery

The Candidate and the Ghostwriter

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Seth Moulton - a 2020 Presidential Candidate and Charlie Leerhsen - President Trump's former ghostwriter join co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on Skullduggery. The Moulton discussion covers National Security, impeachment of Trump, and why a moderate and former Marine with three Harvard degrees should be the next Commander-in-Chief. Then, Leerhsen lets us behind the curtain during a time period that saw Trump lose over a billion dollars while the two of them put together a follow-up book to his best seller, The Art of the Deal.

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0:00.0

As a 24-year-old Marine Corps officer, Seth Moulton led an infantry platoon into Baghdad

0:06.7

during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

0:09.3

He would serve four tours in Iraq that included some of the bloodiest fighting of the war,

0:13.2

in places like Nazaria and Najaf, names of Iraqi towns that once rolled off the tongue

0:18.4

but are barely remembered today by most Americans.

0:21.5

It was this formative experience of leading Americans in combat that would set him on a

0:25.2

course of public service.

0:27.2

In 2014, Moulton ran for Congress from Massachusetts in one.

0:32.1

He was a man and a hurry, and a bit of an upstart.

0:34.8

It wasn't long before Moulton was agitating for new Democratic leadership in the house,

0:39.3

calling for Nancy Pelosi's ouster as minority leader, and generational change in a party

0:43.9

that he believed was drifting too far to the left.

0:47.2

But in 2018, the Democrats took back the House and re-elected Pelosi as Speaker.

0:52.6

That apparently has been deterred Moulton.

0:54.6

He thinks he's found another way to bringing about a changing of the guard in the Democratic

0:58.2

party.

0:59.2

He's running for president and he sees a path to the White House.

1:02.3

His argument, Donald Trump's biggest vulnerability is national security, and Moulton's combat

1:07.3

experience in Iraq and foreign policy expertise gives him the best chance of defeating Trump.

1:13.5

We'll talk to Moulton about what he views as the biggest national security threats

1:16.6

in the United States faces, including Iran and Russia.

1:19.6

We'll ask him about his views on impeaching Trump, and we'll press him on why he thinks

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