I'm Sarah Kanzir, the author of the best-selling books, The View for Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

We are here with Michael Isikoff and Dan Clydman, co-hosts of the podcast, Skull Duggery.

Michael Isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, where he is also

editor at large for reporting and investigations. He digs into national security, money and politics,

and whatever else strikes is fancy. Previously, he was an investigative correspondent for NBC, as well as a staff writer for Newsweek

and The Washington Post.

Isikov has written several bestsellers, including Uncovering Clinton and, with David Korn,

hubris, about the selling of the Iraq War.

He is also the author of Russian roulette

with David Korn, the inside story of Putin's war on America, and the election of Donald Trump,

which features the story of my sister, Alexandra Chalupa, the DNC consultant who tried to warn

both Democrats and Republicans about Paul Manafort, then chairman of the Trump campaign,

and as long history working for Kremlin interests.

Dan Clydman is editor-in-chief for Yahoo News.

From 2006 until 2011, he was Newsweek's managing editor.

Before that, he served as the magazine's Washington Bureau Chief Middle East correspondent and as an investigative reporter.

He is the author of Kill or Capture, the War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama presidency.

Welcome Skull Duggery to Gaslit Nation.

Great to be with you guys.

Thank you so much.

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