When the US government was trying in the summer of 2016 to figure out what Russia was doing

to disrupt America's presidential election, a key man in the middle was James Clapper.

He was director for National Intelligence and had the thankless job of collecting everything

the US intelligence community knew about the Russian attack and making sense of it.

Clapper learned a lot more than he could say publicly, but he dropped some intriguing clues in his

new book, Facts and Fears. We'll talk to him and we'll also discuss some good news and

potentially very bad news for President Trump on his birthday on today's edition of Skull Duggery.

There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia.

Everybody knows it. Because people have got to know whether or not they're president's a crook.

Well, I'm not a crook. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant

quantities of uranium from Africa. Many times I have to answer this question.

Russia is a ruse.

I'm Michael Isogov, Chief Investigative of Correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clyde, Manager and Chief of Yahoo News.

So we're going to start out today with our esteemed colleague Hunter Walker.

Because nobody knows Donald Trump and the Trump presidency better than he.

And this was a clearly a big week for the president going from the Singapore summit,

flying back to get the to learn that he's been sued by the New York Attorney General

and on his birthday on his birthday, no less.

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