The Sprawling Government Effort to Prosecute Barack Obama

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few weeks, the most senior intelligence officials in the federal government have released a series of new documents which they claim shows that, starting in 2016, President Barack Obama and his deputies carried out a criminal conspiracy against President Trump. Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter for The Times, explains what’s behind the sudden re-emergence on the Trump-Russia saga, and what happens when heads of the C.I.A., F.B.I. and Justice Department all turn their attention to the president’s domestic enemies.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:03.8	This is the Daily.
0:13.0	Over the past few weeks, the most senior intelligence officials in the federal government
0:18.0	have released a series of new documents that they claim
0:21.8	shows that President Obama and his deputies carried out a criminal conspiracy against President
0:28.4	Trump starting in 2016. Today, Mike Schmidt on what's behind the sudden re-emergence of the Trump-Russia saga and what happens
0:40.8	when the heads of the CIA, FBI, and DOJ all turn their attention to the president's domestic
0:49.2	enemies.
1:01.0	It's Wednesday, August 13th.
1:13.2	Mike, I think for a lot of us, this all started a couple of weeks ago, inside the White House press briefing room. Hello. Good afternoon, everybody. And I wonder if you can take us back to that moment.
1:18.5	Let me begin with a few scheduling items off the top. It starts with the White House press secretary holding her regular daily press briefing.
1:28.3	We have a special guest with us today who will speak momentarily.
1:31.7	But for this briefing, she brings out a special guest.
1:37.1	Thank you very much. Good afternoon.
1:39.0	President Trump's direction.
1:41.3	She hands over the podium, the biggest bully pulpit that the White House has,
1:48.1	to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. The stunning revelations that we are
1:55.3	releasing today should be of concern to every American, who oversees all of the intelligence community agencies.
2:03.5	The implications of this are far-reaching and have to do with the integrity of our Democratic
2:09.1	Republic.
2:10.4	And she proceeds to claim that she has uncovered a massive conspiracy involving President Obama, his intelligence agencies,
2:22.0	Russia, and Trump.
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