Whistleblower at the DHS
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The charge has been a constant one throughout the Trump administration. |
| 0:05.7 | The president and his top aides have been manipulating intelligence for political purposes, |
| 0:11.0 | playing down or concealing reports that could embarrass the White House or reveal misconduct. |
| 0:17.1 | Such allegations were at the heart of the events that led last year to Trump's impeachment, |
| 0:21.5 | and they have resurfaced again this week when Brian Murphy, a top homeland security official, |
| 0:26.7 | stepped forward with a whistleblower complaint, alleging that he was ordered to stop producing |
| 0:31.7 | reports on Russian interference in the U.S. election. |
| 0:35.0 | In one case, because, he claims, he was told by acting secretary Chad Wolf, it would |
| 0:41.3 | quote, make the president look bad. |
| 0:44.4 | We'll talk to Murphy's lawyer, Mark Zaid, yes, the very same Mark Zaid who represented |
| 0:49.5 | the whistleblower in the impeachment saga, and we'll discuss the continued controversy |
| 0:53.9 | over the bombshell tapes revealed in Bob Woodward's new book on this episode of Skull |
| 0:59.3 | Duggery. |
| 1:00.9 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're president of the Trump, well, |
| 1:09.6 | I'm not a corrupt. |
| 1:10.6 | I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. |
| 1:13.8 | My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence |
| 1:18.6 | tell me it is not. |
| 1:19.6 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 1:24.0 | There will be no lies. |
| 1:26.8 | We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
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