What Next TBD: The White House's Favorite Tech Billionaire

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Why did Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt spend over a decade building relationships with the most powerful Democrats in America? Guest: Alex Thompson, reporter at Politico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7	Last fall, Politico reporter Alex Thompson wrote a short news story about President Biden's then-science advisor, Eric Lander.
1:02.0	And it was about how Eric Lander was driving everyone in the White House crazy.
1:06.4	He was changing deals, going up to Capitol Hill on his own, the kind of internal fighting that's not unheard of in official Washington.
1:14.5	But then, after writing that article, Alex got a tip.
1:18.6	Then I received an anonymous email from a proton mail count that said, I was missing the real story.
1:26.9	The real story is how he treats his subordinates, how he treats his staff.
1:33.0	Lander, according to Alex's sources, was verbally abusing his staff, including a lawyer named
1:38.9	Rachel Wallace.
1:40.4	She was the general counsel at the White House Science Office for Joe Biden, and she alleged that Dr. Lander bullied her and retaliated against her after she repeatedly raised ethical red flags about his behavior.
2:00.5	One of those red flags was about Eric Landers' closeness with another Eric, former Google
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