Has Putin Fixed the World Cup?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago, a chance encounter between Christopher Steele, of the now-famous Steele Dossier, and an FBI agent who was working on a gambling case at Trump Tower, opened the door to a multi-year investigation into the massive corruption taking place at FIFA, the soccer federation. Ken Bensinger, author of the new book, “Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal,” joins us to tell a wild and crazy story that involves the mob, British spies, a 450-pound informant who gets around on a mobility scooter with a parrot on his shoulder, Vladimir Putin, Robert Mueller, a soccer-obsessed IRS agent in Orange County, and tangentially, none other than Donald Trump. We also discuss if Putin might have already fixed who will win this year’s World Cup. Hint: Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, thanks for subscribing. I cannot wait to get to this week's show. We're going to be talking
0:04.7	about Russians and soccer and the FBI and money laundering and the mob and of course Donald
0:11.4	Trump and how they all kind of come together in a crazy
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0:57.7	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton.
1:02.8	All right my guest today is Ken Bensinger.
1:05.4	He wrote a amazing book called Red Card
1:08.1	How the US Blue the Whistle on the World's
1:10.3	Biggest Sports scandal, which of course is the soccer scandal.
1:14.0	Lots of fascinating crazy shit in here.
1:18.0	I'm just going to start cursing straight away because there's no other way to begin this.
1:22.0	You've got Russia, you've got Christopher Steele, you've got FBI, like, I mean mob related, Donald Trump.
1:31.0	So let's actually start., first welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.
1:36.4	Let's start in the place that we're all the most familiar with these days Trump Tower
1:40.9	where the story actually begins. So how does this actually end up
1:46.5	becoming this massive scandal that we now we all know about?
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