Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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George Papadopoulos drew worldwide attention when he was identified as the low-ranking foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who got in over his head with Russia and inadvertently set off the Mueller investigation. But another foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, also drew the attention of the F.B.I.: Why did his story end so differently? Guest: Jason Zengerle, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. To take our audience survey, visit nytimes.com/podcasts and look for the "take our listener survey" button.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Varbaro.
0:32.8	This is The Daily.
0:36.0	Today, George Poppidopolis has become infamous as the low-ranking foreign policy adviser to
0:46.7	the Trump campaign, who got in over his head with Russia and inadvertently triggered the
0:52.8	Mueller investigation.
0:54.9	But there was another foreign policy adviser on the Trump campaign who drew the attention
1:00.2	of the FBI, who is Carter Page, and why did his story end so differently?
1:10.1	It's Wednesday, January 10th.
1:20.8	From the very beginning, they framed me as the Russia guy.
1:25.5	Admittedly, having lived there for several years as a professional, and then having done
1:34.2	all those degrees of anyone else on the hit list, anyone else on the hit list, I'm definitely
1:42.5	the one who made the hit list, just the Trump associates that are kind of being looked
1:53.9	at.
1:54.9	Jason Zangreli recently interviewed Carter Page for the Times magazine.
1:57.8	But the hit list, I mean, is that like Manafort and do you, I mean, it seems like there
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