“Who is minding the store?”
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | More than a week later, the fallout from that disastrous Trump Putin summit in Helsinki has not abated. |
| 0:06.5 | And while events were unfolding, Skolduggery was at the Aspen Security Forum, |
| 0:11.5 | interviewing some key players who have unique perspectives on the story. |
| 0:16.6 | There is absolutely no collusion. I didn't make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it. |
| 0:24.6 | Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Krupp, |
| 0:28.6 | but I'm not a crook. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. |
| 0:33.5 | My heart and my destined tension still tell me that's true, |
| 0:37.5 | but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. |
| 0:40.5 | I did not have sexual relations with that woman. |
| 0:45.5 | The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently saw significant quantities of uranium from Africa. |
| 0:51.5 | Many times I have to answer this question. |
| 0:53.5 | Russia is a ruse. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Michael Isikov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:04.5 | And I'm Dan Clyde, the Netter and Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 1:07.5 | Well then, we've got a Skolduggery first today. Tom Basser, the Trump White House former Homeland Security Advisor, |
| 1:16.5 | who was recently shoved out by John Bolton, the new National Security Advisor, |
| 1:22.5 | is going to appear on the show. And I think that makes him the first Trump administration official ever to appear on Skolduggery. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, and it's a fascinating interview. |
| 1:34.5 | He, some fairly sort of thinly veiled criticism of his former boss, particularly on cybersecurity, |
| 1:42.5 | which was a really big part of his portfolio as his, as Trump's Homeland Security Advisor. |
| 1:49.5 | And also, he fits into this pattern of very senior Trump national security advisors who have begun to really criticize the president himself. |
| 2:02.5 | At the Aspen Security Forum, we saw Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, pushback pretty hard against Trump, Chris Ray, the FBI director, did the same thing. |
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