The oppo on Bernie

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

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Washington Post Foreign Policy Columnist Josh Rogin and David Enrich, Author of Dark Towers, join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First Rogin discusses the philosophical duties as a reporter when you receive oppo research from a source unwilling to be named. In this case, research potentially harmful to Bernie Sanders. Then, Enrich returns to update the Trump / Deutsche Bank scandal, now headed to the Supreme Court, and whether Trump's loan information with ever see the light of day.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.5	Josh Rogan is a columnist for the Washington Post who specializes in foreign policy issues.
0:25.7	Not long ago, he got a dump of opposition research from an operative for a democratic presidential candidate.
0:32.8	He consisted of a trove of documents dug up from an archive at the University of Vermont
0:38.5	about Bernie Sanders' days as mayor of Burlington more than 35 years ago.
0:43.6	Disclosing that he had gotten the material from a rival campaign, but not saying which one,
0:49.1	Rogan laid out some juicy nuggets from the archive. Sanders had met with a Soviet embassy official
0:54.9	widely suspected of being a spy in his office in Burlington and got an alliter from the
1:00.1	punitive spook congratulating him on his reelection as mayor. In response to a critic objecting to his
1:06.4	praise of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, Sanders had defended the country's socialist leader,
1:12.5	Daniel Ortega, and his clampdown on human rights and blamed the United States for the country's
1:17.8	problems. Rogan's column, headline, Bernie Sanders' foreign policy, is a risk for Democrats against
1:23.9	Donald Trump, anticipated a critique that is getting lots of traction as the candidates head into
1:29.7	Super Tuesday. But it also revealed the role that opposition research, or APO as Politico's call it,
1:36.8	is playing and is likely to continue to play in the 2020 presidential campaign. We'll talk to Rogan
1:42.9	about what his documents show and how he got them, and we'll talk to the author of a new book about
1:48.0	Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:53.9	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump, well I'm not a
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