The worst version of himself

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

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🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Congressman Jamie Raskin, member of the house oversight committee, joins co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on this week's episode of Skullduggery. They discuss everything that took place during the Michael Cohen public hearing from why he believes campaign finance charges aren't grounds for impeachment to emoluments as well as Trump's tax returns to whether or not Cohen is now a credible witness. Raskin also answers the question, " Will we ever get to see the Mueller Report."

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0:00.0	Since taking office, he has become the worst version of himself.
0:08.4	He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind.
0:13.5	He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous.
0:18.5	He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.
0:23.4	That was Michael Cohen unloading on his former boss, Donald Trump, before the House Oversight
0:27.4	Committee this week.
0:28.7	It was riveting testimony in which the president's longtime lawyer and personal fixer
0:33.7	described him as a racist, a conman, and a cheat.
0:38.3	Cohen also presented tantalizing new evidence of Trump's complicity in federal crimes while
0:43.8	in office, displaying a copy of checks personally signed by the president, reimbursing him for
0:49.8	hush money payments to a porn star.
0:52.4	A transaction that federal prosecutors have determined was a violation of campaign finance
0:56.8	laws and for which Cohen himself has pled guilty.
1:00.6	There was more.
1:01.6	Cohen asserted that Trump was personally informed by his longtime political adviser Roger
1:06.6	Stone about the imminent release of damaging Democratic emails by WikiLeaks, and that
1:12.6	Trump was intensely interested in efforts to negotiate a Trump tower in Moscow during
1:18.2	the 2016 presidential campaign, while telling the public he had no business interest in Russia.
1:25.1	How damaging was Cohen's testimony and where to the multiple investigations into his conduct
1:30.3	by federal prosecutors, state attorneys generals, and by House committees go from here.
1:36.3	We'll discuss with one of Cohen's inquisitors on the House Oversight Committee on this episode
1:41.1	of Skull Duggery.
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