The View from Russia
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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This week, while Senator John McCain was describing the Russian cyber attacks on the U.S. as a potential "act of war,” Russian-backed Syrian soldiers were accused of massacring civilians in Aleppo as the Assad regime took back the city. Joshua Yaffa joins Dorothy Wickenden from Moscow to discuss how these controversies are viewed inside Russia.
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| 0:48.7 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, |
| 0:55.3 | December 15th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. At a press conference |
| 1:01.2 | over the summer when the issue of Russia's hacking into the computers of the DNC was first making |
| 1:06.2 | news, Donald Trump had this to say. What do I have to get involved with Putin for? I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. |
| 1:12.7 | I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesn't respect our president. |
| 1:18.2 | And if it is Russia, which is probably not, nobody knows who it is. But if it is Russia, |
| 1:23.6 | it's really bad for a different reason. Because it shows how little respect they have for our country |
| 1:29.9 | when they would hack into a major party and get everything. |
| 1:36.7 | But it would be interesting to see. |
| 1:38.6 | I will tell you this. |
| 1:40.5 | Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. |
| 1:49.0 | I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. |
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