"Who's the sucker now?

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

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode of Skullduggery, co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman are joined by General John Allen who is the current president of the Brookings Institution, retired United States Marine Corps four-star general, and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces - Afghanistan. They discuss the recent removal of US Troops from Syria, the possible impact it could have, and the President's first trip into a war zone.

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0:00.0	The Defense Secretary quits in protest.
0:04.2	The U.S. Special Envoy charged with defeating the Islamic State does the same, telling colleagues
0:09.1	he could no longer in good conscience serve this President.
0:12.6	A national security establishment trembles, worrying if the world may be unraveling before
0:17.8	its eyes.
0:19.1	But President Trump, having presided over yet another government shutdown, does what he always
0:23.9	does.
0:24.9	He doubles down.
0:26.2	He flies off to an air base in Iraq and tells the troops, where no longer the suckers
0:30.6	folks?
0:32.0	In the course of doing so, Trump does much else that he always does.
0:35.7	He attacks the Democrats, signs make America great again, hats, and tells a bunch of whoppers
0:40.7	to the troops, claiming falsely that they hadn't gotten a pay raise in 10 years, and then
0:45.6	boasting that he gave them one more than three times bigger than he actually did.
0:50.9	Are we really no longer the suckers, or have we once again been sucker-punched?
0:55.9	We'll discuss with a retired Marine Corps general who served as a top commander in Iraq
1:00.6	and Afghanistan on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:05.2	There is absolutely no collusion.
1:07.6	I didn't make a phone call to Russia.
1:09.6	I have nothing to do with Russia.
1:11.9	Everybody knows it.
1:13.8	People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.
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