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The Daily

Thursday, July 13, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It was the secret force behind stories about John Edwards’s $400 haircut and Mitt Romney’s decision to put the family dog on the roof of his car. Donald Trump Jr. says it motivated him to meet with a Russian lawyer. We discuss the dark art of opposition research. Guests: Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent for The Times; Ben LaBolt, the national press secretary for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. For more information on today’s episode, visit http://nyti.ms/2vF4L6w.

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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarrow.

0:33.0

This is The Daily.

0:36.0

Today, it was the secret force behind stories about John Edwards' $400 haircut and Mitt

0:45.6

Romney's decision to put the family dog on the roof of his car.

0:50.7

Now Donald Trump Jr. says it's what motivated him to meet with a Russian lawyer, the dark

0:57.3

art of opposition research.

1:01.5

It's Thursday, July 13th.

1:08.2

For me, this was opposition research.

1:09.8

They had something, you know, maybe concrete evidence to all the stories I'd been hearing

1:13.7

about, but they were probably under reported for, you know, years, not just during the

1:17.3

campaign.

1:18.3

So I think I wanted to hear it out.

1:19.9

Jonathan Martin.

1:20.9

Hey, Mikey.

1:21.9

How are you?

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