The Formation of Stephen Miller

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Trump adviser Stephen Miller seemed to burst onto the national scene this past February, with his memorable defense of the White House's travel ban and claims of voter fraud. But New York magazine's Reeves Wiedeman says Miller's education in punditry came years earlier, as a Duke University student commenting on the Duke lacrosse scandal for cable news. Back then, Miller was recognizably pugnacious and self-assured—but he was also right. In the Spiel, we live in times of confusion and flashing-neon warning signs. How does all that add up to utter indifference? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.5	It's Monday, May 8th, 2017 from Slate.
0:10.4	It's the Gestai Mike Pasca.
0:12.5	And testifying before the Senate Intel Committee was former acting attorney general Sally Yates.
0:18.7	A lot of qualifiers to that title.
0:21.0	Not exactly a cleaning title.
0:22.6	They didn't know Chief Content Officer of the Attorney General Office.
0:26.4	You know what I'm saying?
0:27.4	Well, here's Senator Diane Feinstein questioning former acting attorney general Sally Yates.
0:33.3	Lieutenant General Flynn remain a national security adviser for 18 days after you raise the
0:41.8	Justice Department's concern.
0:44.3	In your view during those 18 days, did the risk that Flynn had been or could be compromised
0:51.4	diminish at all?
0:53.9	You know, I don't know that I'm in a position to really have an answer for that.
0:58.3	I know that we were really concerned about the compromise here.
1:02.2	And that was the reason why we were encouraging them to act.
1:05.9	You know, it is a sad commentary on the current state of politics that the only form of compromise
1:12.5	we have is at the hands of the Russians.
1:16.5	Is the sort of thing I'd entone if I were positioning myself as America's most trusted
1:21.1	newsman, leveling with his audience as we fade to commercial.
1:26.3	Scratch chin so wise.
1:28.6	And that's your world today.
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