The Trump Dossier
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 January 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickened to discuss Trump’s alleged entanglements with Russia, and what we learned this week about how the Trump administration will govern.
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| 1:12.9 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:18.9 | It's Friday, January 13th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:24.4 | This week, the world got a preview of the new administration in Donald Trump's first press conference and in the testimony of the nominees who distanced themselves from Trump's positions on Russia, Iran, NATO, climate change, the banning of Muslim immigrants and the border wall and torture. |
| 1:42.0 | The press conference was dominated by questions and answers right out of a |
| 1:45.3 | Cold War thriller, which featured a dossier put together by a former British spy. Let's hear |
| 1:51.5 | what Trump said when he was asked whether Russia had any leverage over him. |
| 1:55.7 | If Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks? That's called an asset, not a liability. |
| 2:02.0 | Now, I don't know that I'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin. |
| 2:05.6 | I hope I do, but there's a good chance I won't. |
| 2:08.7 | And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me? |
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