The Report, Part V: Russian Overtures
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🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It’s the morning of April 25, 2016. At a hotel in London, a Maltese professor meets with a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. The two have been in touch over the past few weeks; the professor has been helping the young man connect with Russian officials. Now, over breakfast, the professor lets him in on a secret. On a recent trip to Moscow, high-level government officials told him that the Russians have “dirt” on Trump’s opponent. What was the “dirt” in question? “Emails,” he says. They have “have thousands of emails.”
This is the fifth episode of our narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. This is the story of three men associated with the Trump campaign: George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Paul Manafort.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.6 | Previously on the report. |
| 0:33.6 | The real estate tycoon is betting the value of his brand name will help him continue |
| 0:37.4 | to strike lucrative deals. |
| 0:38.6 | The president's former fixer pleads guilty on a charge of lying to Congress about a plan |
| 0:43.0 | for a Trump tower in Moscow. |
| 0:45.1 | Once it's known that Trump Jr wants to have this meeting, they start setting everything |
| 0:48.3 | up behind the scenes. |
| 0:49.6 | When Trump Jr. came into the room and walked behind his father's desk, we have no dealings |
| 0:55.3 | in Russia. |
| 0:56.3 | We have no projects in Russia. |
| 0:58.2 | We have nothing to do with Russia. |
| 1:00.4 | Obviously highly sensitive information, but it's part of Russia and its government's |
| 1:04.4 | support of Mr. Trump. |
| 1:05.9 | If it's what you say, I love it. |
| 1:20.6 | It's the morning of April 25th, 2016. |
| 1:27.4 | At a hotel in London, a multi-use professor meets with a young foreign policy advisor |
| 1:33.6 | to the Trump campaign. |
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