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When the President Takes Putin's Side Over Yours

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to the former American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, about how he ended up in Putin's sights, Trump not confronting Putin, how the Kremlin abuse Interpol and more. Plus, all the presidents' all caps statements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2

So when I said today that there was no collusion and therefore, and that collusion also is no crime,

0:35.6

I've been saying that for the very beginning, so to jot down, it's a very, very familiar

0:40.1

lawyers argument that in the alternative, my client didn't do it, and even if he did it,

0:45.6

it's not a crime.

0:47.4

So I mean, you need a whiteboard for some of this because they're slightly different.

0:50.8

Yeah, there's so many different iterations of it.

0:52.8

The only crime here is hacking, and it's ridiculous to think that the president had.

0:57.1

The person who's controlling the overall communication strategy is obviously the president, right?

1:00.8

Well, first of all, he said there was no collusion whatsoever.

1:03.8

I guess he said as strong as you can say it, they have no information on Trump.

1:12.9

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man,

1:17.0

Jonesing for a showdown over a government shutdown.

1:21.2

Donald Trump, I'm Jacob Weisberg.

1:24.7

So you know the phrase moving the goalposts?

1:27.1

That's of course a football metaphor for redefining the rules while the game is still being played.

1:32.4

It's almost a cliche about the Trump administration and everything.

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