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Skullduggery

Who poisoned the Russian double agent in England?

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A failed assassination attempt on an ex-Russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent in England is raising a lot of questions. Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman talk to a former CIA agent, Daniel Hoffman, who arranged the swap that freed the former spy, to find out why he thinks this attack happened and who might have carried it out. They also check in with Randy Credico, a comedian who also is a friend of Roger Stone, and pleaded the fifth after he subpoenaed by the House Intel Committee in the Russia probe.

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0:00.0

You're a retired spy living on a pension in a quiet town in the south of England.

0:05.5

Well, you're not really your everyday run of the mill spy.

0:09.0

You're actually a one-time double agent, a Russian military intelligence officer who

0:13.4

passed secrets to the British and then gets caught by the Russians.

0:17.4

You're convicted of espionage in a Russian courtroom and you get thrown in jail, only

0:22.1

to be released in a spy swap straight out of a Cold War saga.

0:27.6

That was eight years ago and it seemed your cloak and dagger life was long behind you.

0:32.1

Then one Sunday afternoon you go for a leisurely walk by your house, down a covered alleyway

0:37.6

past the bubbling stream and not long after, you and your daughter are found slumped on

0:43.5

a park bench in a catatonic state.

0:46.8

And within a few days, the police discover you are poisoned by a nerve agent.

0:52.3

What happened to the ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal?

0:56.0

And why?

0:57.0

We'll talk to one of the US government's foremost experts on the subject, the former CIA spy

1:01.9

in Russia who arranged the spy swap that freed Skripal on this week's episode of Skolduggery.

1:09.2

There is absolutely no collusion.

1:11.6

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

1:13.6

I have nothing to do with Russia.

1:15.9

Everybody knows it.

1:17.3

Because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook.

1:20.4

Well, I'm not a crook.

1:22.0

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.

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