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The Collusion Story Info Spectrum

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk talks to Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and editor-in-chief of Lawfare Blog, about why having more facts doesn’t help us understand what’s happening in the collusion story, potential narrative arcs from what we do know, and what we might be about to learn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One thing we can all agree on, no one wants another energy crisis.

0:07.1

But just talking about it won't make it go away.

0:09.7

Here's what we're actually doing at British Gas.

0:12.2

We're increasing the UK's gas storage so that we can help make energy prices more predictable

0:16.9

for everyone.

0:18.3

And so the 8 million homes and businesses who rely on us for their energy today can

0:22.9

rely on us tomorrow too.

0:25.4

That's enough talking.

0:26.4

Let's get on with the doing.

0:28.2

British Gas.

0:30.4

We're learning tonight about yet another undisclosed exchange the president had with

0:34.7

Vladimir Putin.

0:35.7

It was attended by no American note takers, no American interpreters, just the president

0:40.0

and Melania and Putin and Putin zone interpreter.

0:43.4

This is wildly out of step with the usual protocol.

0:49.2

Andrew Miller saying no to that subpoena.

0:51.7

That is the way some conservative legal groups are trying to challenge the constitutionality

0:56.5

of Mueller's investigation.

0:58.6

I had no collaboration with Wikileaks.

1:00.7

I'm not charged with conspiracy.

1:02.8

Believe me, they could have made that case they would have.

1:05.6

But they want to silence me because I almost stand up for Donald Trump.

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