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Skullduggery

The troll farm hiding in plain sight

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

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Mike Isikoff and Dan Klaidman examine the latest developments in the Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller recently revealed Russian trolls plotted information warfare against the United States. Where was the U.S. intelligence community while this was happening? Could Putin be an indicted co-conspirator in the case? Skullduggery talks to Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., about the status of the Russia investigation in the House Intelligence Committee and attorney Ken McCallion who brought a lawsuit against Paul Manafort that may have led to the latest charges by Mueller.

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0:00.0

In a drab unmarked office in St. Petersburg, Russian trolls plot information warfare against

0:07.9

the United States.

0:09.6

As early as 2014, they start creating phony personas online, writing up divisive postings

0:15.7

on Facebook and Twitter using the stolen identities of real Americans.

0:20.6

They even send operatives to this country to collect intelligence and organize political

0:24.8

rallies.

0:26.1

No charges Robert Mueller, the Justice Department special counsel investigating Russia's

0:30.1

role in the 2016 election in a new indictment unveiled last Friday.

0:35.4

And where was the faunted US intelligence community while all this was happening?

0:39.7

Did anybody notice?

0:40.9

Was anybody paying attention?

0:42.5

We'll discuss that as well as another new plea agreement secured by Mueller's team and

0:47.6

what it means for his investigation and for the still ongoing inquiries by Congress on

0:53.2

today's episode of Skolduggery.

0:56.1

There is absolutely no collusion.

0:58.6

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

1:00.5

I have nothing to do with Russia.

1:02.8

Everybody knows it.

1:04.2

Because people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt, but I'm

1:08.1

not a crook.

1:09.1

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

1:13.2

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

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