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The Magnitsky Act and The Looming Russian Danger

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Bill Browder, the investor and author of Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. The two discuss how business in Russia operates, the threats made on his life by Vladamir Putin, and the dangers facing our country with a President that's willing to curry favor to Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.8

I think the effect will probably, in some areas, give ISIS some more propaganda.

0:12.0

You call me up, you said, put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.

0:17.0

And if there folks that shouldn't be in this country, they're going to be detained.

0:20.9

And so, I apologize for nothing here.

0:27.6

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:30.0

The show about the man who says the massive airports over the weekend

0:34.2

wasn't because of his executive order.

0:36.7

It was because of a Delta computer glitch.

0:39.7

Donald Trump.

0:41.2

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:43.3

So I want to tell you a story about refugees.

0:46.5

My mother died last year and I spent some time going through her family papers.

0:51.1

One of the things I found was a folder labeled 1940 immigration, Jewish relatives.

0:57.2

It was a thick packet of letters and cables that told the amazing story of how my grandparents

1:02.4

in Chicago helped a family of distant relations escape the Nazis.

1:07.9

They were called the title mons.

1:10.3

Saul title mons had a knitting business of some kind in Frankfurt.

1:13.8

And by 1938, he was desperate to get his wife and two daughters out of Nazi Germany.

1:19.8

Here's what he wrote to my grandparents.

1:22.0

At all events, we do not want to lose hope.

1:24.5

For it would be impossible to live here any longer in our situation without hope.

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