With all due respect...

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman examine the week’s news, starting with the “confusion” between U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley and President Trump over the announcement of new sanctions on Russia. They speak with Ambassador Daniel Fried, a former sanctions expert in the Obama administration, about these recent developments and the importance of sanctions against Russia. Klaidman and Isikoff also sit down with Adam Davidson of The New Yorker to discuss the latest developments in the Michael Cohen saga, including Davidson’s latest article on the subject, “Michael Cohen and the End State of the Trump Presidency.”

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0:00.0	With all due respect, I don't get confused.
0:05.6	So declared Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations.
0:09.8	After White House officials suggested she didn't understand the Trump administration's policy
0:14.1	plans when it came to sanctions on Russia.
0:17.4	On Sunday, Haley had said on Face the Nation that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin would
0:22.5	be unveiling new sanctions the very next day to punish firms that were bolstering the Assad
0:28.4	regime in Syria.
0:30.1	But President Trump once again flinched, and the sanctions that had already been approved
0:34.8	were shelved.
0:36.5	Was it Haley who was confused or a Trump White House that can't get its story straight?
0:42.4	And why is it that every time the administration takes tough measures to punish Russia, his
0:47.2	officials are quickly undercut by Trump himself?
0:50.2	We'll talk about that with the Obama administration's former sanctions are.
0:55.2	Now retired career diplomat who is one of the US government's top experts on Putin's
1:00.3	regime on today's episode of Skolduggery.
1:05.4	There is absolutely no collusion.
1:07.9	I didn't make a phone call to Russia.
1:09.9	I have nothing to do with Russia.
1:12.2	Everybody knows it.
1:13.5	Because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.
1:16.6	Well, I'm not a crook.
1:18.3	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages.
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