The tale of two Amazons

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Former Amazon Employees Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa and Former US Ambassador to China Gary Locke join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Isikoff and Klaidman discuss the recent news about Bill Barr and the DOJ dropping the charges against Former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Then, Cunningham and Costa tell their story about being fired from Amazon for bringing attention to the current conditions at the company during the Coronavirus pandemic. Finally, Locke talks about his experience as Ambassador to China and what we should be doing with our current relationship with the country.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.7	Amazon is one of the country's most iconic companies owned by the world's richest man,
0:25.4	Jeff Bezos. But even while consumers stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic
0:30.4	are becoming increasingly reliant on Amazon and its stock price soars while the economy craters,
0:36.4	the firm is enmeshed in controversy. Workers in more than 100 of its warehouses have tested
0:42.2	positive for the virus, and many of them have no sick leave or health insurance.
0:46.8	We'll talk to two Amazon whistleblowers who are fired for trying to call attention
0:51.6	to conditions at the company. And we'll talk to Gary Locke, the former US ambassador to China,
0:56.8	who bizarrely found himself in a recent Donald Trump campaign commercial on this episode of SkullDuggery.
1:10.0	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop.
1:13.0	Well, I'm not a crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:17.3	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
1:22.2	tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:27.5	There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:41.5	I'm Michael Isogov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:44.8	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
2:45.6	What he said in his blog post about this is Tim Brae.
2:49.9	His name is Tim Brae. He was an Amazon vice president and senior engineer,
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