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Skullduggery

A warning from The Mooch

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

42K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci and Yahoo News Contributor Zach Dorfman join co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on this episode of Skullduggery. "The Mooch" has been outspoken about Trump's recent flurry of racist tweets and warns the President he may be heading down the wrong path to re-election. Then Dorfman fills us in on what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is as well as what they are up to around the world with an exclusive story.

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0:00.0

There was an audacious cyber operation that snared some of the country's brightest minds

0:06.7

in its web.

0:08.4

E-mails sent to thousands of college professors in the United States, purportedly from overseas

0:13.3

academics, lavishly praised their research, complete with links to articles of mutual interest.

0:20.6

Only the links were fake, embedded with malware, that exposed their email accounts to what

0:26.2

federal prosecutors last year called one of the largest state-sponsored hacking campaigns

0:32.3

ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.

0:35.7

But it wasn't the Russians or the Chinese who pulled this off.

0:39.0

It was the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, an all-powerful arm of the Iranian government

0:44.4

with its own army, navy, air force, and military, as well as lucrative business interests

0:49.8

and a covert action arm that has for years been relentlessly targeting the United States.

0:55.9

A new article by Yahoo News contributor, Zach Dwarfman, digs deep into the IRGC operations

1:01.7

around the world and why they continue to pose a threat to US interests, a threat all

1:06.8

the more ominous in the wake of President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iranian nuclear

1:11.1

deal.

1:12.1

We'll talk to Dwarfman about what the IRGC is up to and what it means for US-Iranian

1:16.9

relations.

1:17.9

And we'll talk to Anthony Scaramucci, aka the Mooch, Donald Trump's one-time communications

1:24.4

chief who has spoken out about the President's recent racially charged tweet storms on this

1:30.2

episode of Skull Duggery.

1:32.7

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well,

1:42.1

I'm not a crop.

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