The Distraction in Chief

The Intercept Briefing

The Intercept

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week on Intercepted: Rami Khouri breaks down the Saudi agenda in the Middle East, its destruction of Yemen and the bizarre case of the exiled Lebanese prime minister. Aram Roston of Buzzfeed, Spencer Ackerman of the Daily Beast, and The Intercept’s Matthew Cole join Jeremy for a discussion on the mysterious death of a Green Beret in Mali and why the CIA and US military are quite content with the Trump presidency. Wikileaks slid into Donald Trump Jr.’s DMs. Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald analyzes what the messages say and how the media covered the story. And we talk to two newly elected Democrats in Virginia: Lee Carter and Elizabeth Guzman. Donald Trump stars in American Beauty.

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0:00.0	I need a father who's a role model.
0:02.0	Not some horny geek boy who's gonna spray shorts
0:04.5	whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school.
0:07.0	What a lame-o.
0:08.0	Someone really should just put him out of his misery.
0:17.0	My name is Donald Trump.
0:20.0	This is my White House.
0:22.0	This is my golf course.
0:25.0	This is my life.
0:29.0	I'm 71 years old and in less than a year, I'll be dead.
0:34.0	Mr. Trump would like a hamburger to go.
0:37.0	A hamburger to go.
0:42.0	Of course, I don't know that yet.
0:46.0	And in a way, I'm dead already.
0:49.0	I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things.
0:54.0	Oh, look at me, yanking my putt in the shower.
0:58.0	Wow.
0:59.0	What a glamour hammer.
1:01.0	Hey, sperm.
1:02.0	You're fired.
1:05.0	This will be the high point of my day.
1:08.0	It's all downhill from here.
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