The Russia Investigation and The President's Foreign Deals

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🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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New Yorker writer Adam Davidson and NPR national security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly join Sam to talk about a central question raised by Adam's reporting: What will investigators find when they look into President Trump's foreign business deals? Adam Davidson's latest story is here: http://bit.ly/2wr8pEx. Mary Louise described reporting from Moscow here: https://n.pr/2tJaMxS. Email the show at [email protected] and follow Sam on Twitter @samsanders.

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0:30.8	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here. It's Ben and Ben and every Tuesday on the show,
0:34.3	we bring you a deep dive. Today I'm talking with two really great reporters about President
0:39.1	Trump's Foreign Business Steals and Russia. Adam Davidson is a writer for the New Yorker.
0:44.5	He also worked at NPR for a long time. Some of you might know his work from his days at
0:49.2	Planet Money. Adam's written two really big stories this year for the New Yorker
0:53.5	about some recent business deals between the Trump Organization and some sketchy foreign actors.
0:58.8	Also in the mix today we have NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. She covers National Security for NPR
1:04.3	and she has been following a lot. All the spy world and political threads on Russia and Trump,
1:10.3	Russia's possible interference in the 2016 election, and any possible collusion with the Trump
1:16.0	campaign. The two of them together just make for a really smart and informed view of what is
1:21.4	going on with Russia. And specifically from Adam, he talked about how the Russia story and the
1:26.9	Trump Organization are connected. We'll also talk about how that story has been covered,
1:32.0	writ large, and they will give you and me some tips on how to follow all this stuff, this drip,
1:37.7	drip, drip of Russian news. All right, let's get to it. Here's me with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly
1:43.6	and Adam Davidson from the New Yorker.
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