The Full Brennan
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the spring of 2018, the world got to see in vivid technicaler the full Brennan. |
| 0:09.7 | That's the phrase that John Brennan, the former director of the CIA, uses to describe |
| 0:14.9 | his own outbursts of explosive Irish temper, something well known to his colleagues, but |
| 0:20.9 | usually, though not always, hidden from public view. |
| 0:24.8 | That set Brennan off in this instance was President Trump's gloating over the firing |
| 0:29.5 | of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, somebody that President perceived as a deep-state |
| 0:36.0 | enemy. |
| 0:37.4 | When the full extent of your vinyality, moral, turpitude, and political corruption becomes |
| 0:42.0 | known, wrote Brennan on Twitter, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue |
| 0:49.0 | in the dustbin of history. |
| 0:51.8 | Now Brennan is written a book, undaunted, in which he lays out his case against President |
| 0:56.2 | Trump, while at the same time offering a colorful and revealing account of his 25-year career |
| 1:01.6 | at the CIA as tenure as President Obama's Homeland Security Advisor and later as Director |
| 1:08.2 | of the Spy Agency. |
| 1:09.6 | We'll talk to Brennan about his book and the controversy surrounding his public criticism |
| 1:14.8 | of the President on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:21.8 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well, |
| 1:28.1 | I'm not a crop. |
| 1:29.1 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
| 1:32.3 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
| 1:37.1 | tell me it is not. |
| 1:38.3 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
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