The Russia Tick-Tock: Clint Watts Explains the Timeline

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts joins Chuck to walk through the timeline of events around June 2016, beginning with Donald Trump, Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer and ending with then-candidate Donald Trump asking for Russia to release Hillary Clinton's emails.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:06.0	Meet the press.
0:09.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.8	This week we learned that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016
0:16.2	campaign on a promise of damaging information about Hillary Clinton sourced from the Russian
0:21.4	government.
0:22.4	The bombshell news got us thinking about how the timeline of events is no longer just
0:26.4	the context of the Russian investigation.
0:28.6	It's part of the evidence.
0:30.1	So to help clarify and understand that timeline, I guess today is Clint Watts.
0:34.0	He is the former FBI special agent who became famous, at least in Washington for a bunch
0:40.6	of us, when he testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in March, describing
0:46.4	in detail exactly how the Russian propaganda interference worked.
0:51.2	Clint, welcome to 1947.
0:53.2	Thanks for having me, Jeff.
0:55.0	So you know we're not making you travel back in time, but 1947 is the year of our birth.
0:58.8	I always try to say it.
0:59.8	I know it's a weird thing to say to people.
1:01.4	Welcome to 70 years ago.
1:03.6	But in some ways, hey, 70 years ago was essentially the start of the Cold War, so here we are.
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