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Skullduggery

"The fish does stink from the head down"

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

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's communication and relationship with the media is like no other. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman speak with former 10-day, although he would argue 11, White House Director of Communications Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci about his brief tenure in the role as the middle man. Yahoo News White House Correspondent Hunter Walker joins in reaction to the conversation with "the Mooch" and we get an update on the midterm elections via Yahoo News West Coast Correspondent Andrew Romano.

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0:00.0

Well Street Wizard Anthony Scaremucci didn't last long as White House Communications Director.

0:07.8

The Mooch, as the tabloids dubbed him, was named to the job on July 21, 2017.

0:14.2

For the end of the month, he was gone.

0:16.6

After the New Yorker published a eye-popping story, quoting him engaging in an obscenity-laced

0:22.4

screed about two of his White House colleagues, Chief of Staff Ryan's previous and senior

0:28.2

advisors, Steve Bannon.

0:30.6

But notwithstanding his brief tenure, the Mooch in a new book recounts a meeting during

0:36.2

which he made an important appeal to President Trump.

0:39.7

Stop bashing journalists, he told him, we gotta have an armistice with the media.

0:46.3

It's advice that President Trump obviously didn't follow.

0:50.2

People talk to the Mooch about how he feels about that and much else on today's Skull

0:55.6

Duggery.

0:56.6

There is absolutely no collusion.

0:58.6

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

1:01.2

I have nothing to do with Russia.

1:03.6

Everybody knows it.

1:04.6

Because people have gotta know whether or not their presidents are corrupt, but I'm not

1:09.0

a crook.

1:10.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

1:14.0

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true.

1:17.1

But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

1:20.9

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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