The Compromises That Create Kremlin Double Agents

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Bill Browder, financier and author of Red Notice, about Natalia Veselnitskaya, how the Kremlin influences even well-intentioned U.S. civil servants, the origins of the Magnitsky Act and the evolution of the Russian oligarchs, and what Putin might be doing next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I never worked for Russia, and you know that answer better than anybody.
0:03.8	I never worked for Russia.
0:05.4	Not only did I never work for Russia, I think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question.
0:13.7	As we head into a new work week, the 24-day partial government shutdown drags on, and it
0:18.9	is now the longest in U.S. history.
0:21.1	Major news to my President Trump railing against headlines involving the Russian investigation
0:26.1	and private talks with Vladimir Putin.
0:28.5	Hillary Clinton is having a talk to some moment tweeting quote, like I said, a puppet.
0:38.5	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:40.0	I'm Virginia Heffernin.
0:41.7	So the President, while he was President, has been under formal FBI counterintelligence
0:47.0	investigation, and explicitly he's been under suspicion of working for the Kremlin against
0:53.7	the interests of the United States while he has been in the Oval Office.
0:58.9	Don't get me wrong.
1:00.4	Donald Trump has been under investigation for much longer than this counterintelligence
1:05.0	investigation, which started in May of 2017.
1:08.5	He's been under investigation by journalists and concerned citizens, and really anyone
1:13.3	who's been paying attention to that exact crime.
1:16.7	Trump working for the Kremlin against the interests of the United States.
1:20.5	Later is filled with journalists and citizens who've been tirelessly connecting dots well
1:25.0	before the election.
1:26.5	And then there are reporters and some investigators even who've known Trump is dirty, mobbed up,
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