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The Magnitsky Update with Bill Browder

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg and Virginia Heffernan are joined by Bill Browder to chat about the latest surrounding the Magnitsky Act, corruption, and those seeking to discredit his efforts worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mr. President isn't accused, child molester, better than a Democrat, isn't accused?

0:06.0

Well, he denies it. He denies it.

0:09.0

He doesn't buy the authenticity of these accusations.

0:12.0

What the hell? I don't know why the president, you know, is always punching down.

0:18.0

We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat. He totally denies it.

0:23.0

He says it didn't happen. And, you know, you have to listen to him also.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who refers to himself as your favorite president.

0:39.0

But definitely is not Donald Trump. I'm Jacob Wiesberg.

0:44.0

And all eyes are on Alabama this week, where the revelations about the double defrock judge Roy Moore

0:51.0

have given the term mall rat a whole new meaning.

0:55.0

Moore is unwillingness to exit the Senate race after a mountain of evidence about his sexually assaulting teenagers as young as 14

1:03.0

has divided not only his state's Republicans, but the Trump family.

1:07.0

About more Ivanka Trump said last week, there's a special place in hell for people who pray on children.

1:14.0

Ivanka added that she had no reason to doubt the victim's accounts.

1:18.0

And we don't. But her dad was reportedly furious about that.

1:22.0

He points out that more says it didn't happen.

1:25.0

You have to listen to him also, the president says.

1:28.0

The people around the president keep trying different strategies to edge him away from Moore.

1:33.0

And Trump keeps dashing back to Moore's corner, which is right up the escalator between the perfume connection and American eagle.

1:40.0

Congressional Republicans who don't want more mated with them and Democratic campaign ads are a gas.

1:46.0

They know that seating the jailbait judge could doom their prospects for continued control of both houses in 2018.

1:53.0

And all this creates a funny dilemma for Trump's opponents.

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