Trump’s agitprop video

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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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Washington Post Media Critic Erik Wemple and Yahoo News Reporter Alex Nazaryan join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Wemple and Nazaryan discuss the bizarre and controversial Coronavirus Task Force media briefing that took place on Monday April 13th. Everything from Trump's claim of "total" authority to what looked like a campaign or agitprop video he showed in the White House press room in addition to the confusion and contradiction while berating and attacking the press on a personal level.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor in Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.2	Yes.
0:20.5	I've never seen a video like that played in this room.
0:24.8	It looks a bit like a campaign ad.
0:27.0	Who produced that video?
0:29.0	That was done by a group in the office.
0:30.8	And it was done just by we just put some clips together.
0:33.2	I could give you, I'll bet you I have over a hundred more clips, even better than them.
0:38.6	They were just piece together over the last two hours.
0:41.6	That was just, oh, we have far better than that.
0:43.5	That's nothing compared to some of them.
0:45.0	Was the producer in the White House?
0:46.4	Yeah, just was done by Dan and a group of people.
0:49.2	And they just put it together in a period of probably less than two hours.
0:52.5	Why do you feel needed to do that?
0:53.8	Because we're getting fake news and I like to have it corrected.
0:57.5	That's ABC Newscast, Montenegg, Jonathan Karl,
0:59.9	challenging President Trump in one of the more bizarre moments from a White House briefing on COVID-19.
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