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Skullduggery

The spy, the reporter and the memo — the inside story

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

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman discuss the House Intelligence Committee’s release of the Nunes memo, which accuses the FBI of bias in the Russia investigation. Within the memo, Isikoff is prominently mentioned as a key player. How did Isikoff come to play such a starring role in this highly anticipated memo?

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0:00.0

So at September 2016, and my old friend, the journalist, turned private investigator Glenn Simpson,

0:07.0

invites me to meet a secret source at a Washington restaurant.

0:11.0

Glenn has booked the private room upstairs so nobody will see us.

0:15.0

The secret source he wants me to meet is a mysterious former British spy by the name of Christopher Steele.

0:21.0

During the hour or so we talk that day. Steele tells me an amazing story.

0:26.0

I want to Donald Trump's foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, had flown to Moscow and held private talks with close associates of Vladimir Putin about lifting US sanctions against Russia.

0:38.0

And Steele tells me something else that day that gets my attention.

0:42.0

He's taken this information to the FBI and the Bureau is very interested.

0:47.0

Why were they interested?

0:49.0

What did the Bureau know that would prompt them to take the extraordinary step of launching an investigation into an adviser to the Republican nominee for president?

0:58.0

We'll delve into those questions and the hotly controversial new memo about the FBI's investigation into Carter Page and the role I played on today's episode of Skolduggery.

1:10.0

There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it.

1:18.0

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt. Well, I'm not a crook.

1:24.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true.

1:31.0

But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:39.0

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

1:46.0

But he times left to answer this question. Russia is a ruse.

1:53.0

I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

1:56.0

And I'm Michael Isogoff, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.

2:00.0

Okay, so is the cough. The memo that we've been waiting for with baited breath has finally been released. It's Royaling Washington.

2:07.0

And it turns out you're all over it. In fact, the memo says that I'm going to read from it now.

2:13.0

The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23rd, 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isogoff.

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