Trump's 'ridiculous' spy claim

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman speak with Avril Haines, former deputy director of the CIA and President Obama’s deputy national security adviser, in an exclusive interview about the U.S. government’s response to the early evidence of Russian meddling in American politics during the Obama administration. Isikoff and Klaidman also speak with lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz about his defense of President Trump’s legal position and his criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

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0:00.0	It was the late summer of 2016 and of real hands was the point person for President Obama's
0:07.0	White House in dealing with the most sensitive national security issue facing the US government
0:11.5	and attacked by Russia on the American election.
0:15.0	Who was of real hands and how did she find herself coordinating the response to a brazen
0:19.0	operation by a foreign power to subvert American democracy itself?
0:24.0	She was at that point the Deputy National Security Advisor capping an unlikely rise to the
0:28.0	top of the US American intelligence and national security establishment.
0:32.0	A graduate of an elite Japanese judo school with a brown belt she majored in theoretical
0:37.5	physics at the University of Chicago opened up an independent bookstore became a community
0:42.2	organizer and somehow also find the time to go to law school after which she landed a job
0:47.7	as a legal advisor in the State Department.
0:50.8	Before long she had become the top lawyer on Obama's National Security Council where
0:55.0	she was weighing in on the legality of highly classified covert operations and lethal drone
1:00.2	strikes.
1:01.2	Obama took a shine to Haines admiring her sharp legal mind her ability to build consensus
1:06.1	and her ferocious work ethic.
1:08.4	He appointed her deputy director of the CIA in 2013 the first woman to hold that position.
1:14.0	In 2015 Haines returned to the White House as the top deputy to national security advisor
1:18.7	Susan Rice.
1:20.1	Just months before Donald Trump announced he was running for president and the FBI began
1:24.2	to see the first evidence of Russian meddling in American politics.
1:28.6	How did the Obama White House respond to the Russian attack?
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