January 6th: Will it matter? (w/ Julie Pace & Stephen Engelberg)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"Do you know what it feels like to have the President of the United States target you?" Those were the haunting words of Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County Georgia describing to the January 6th Committee what it was like when Donald Trump and his allies spread grotesque lies about Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Shaye Moss, accusing them of illegally dredging up suitcases of Biden ballots late at night to throw the 2020 election. None of it was true of course. The FBI, the US Attorney's office in Atlanta, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, they all reviewed the video of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss counting ballots on election night. And concluded none of it showed anything improper. Just two humble election workers doing their job under difficult circumstances. It was yet more powerful testimony of the chaos that Donald Trump unleashed upon the country. But are the hearings breaking through? Are they penetrating the public pre-occupied with soaring gas prices, punishing inflation, and scorching summer heatwaves? Julie Pace, Executive Editor of the AP and Stephen Engelberg Editor of ProPublica join live from the Collision Conference in Toronto Canada to discuss.
GUESTS:
- Julie Pace, (@JuliePace), Executive Editor, The Associated Press
- Sol Wisenberg, (@SteveEngelberg), Editor in Chief, ProPublica
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Yahoo News' story on Trump's pressure put on state election officials - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | There is nowhere I feel safe. |
| 0:04.0 | Nowhere. |
| 0:07.0 | Do you know how it feels to have the President of the United States to target you? |
| 0:16.0 | The President of the United States is supposed to represent every American. |
| 0:22.0 | Not to target one, but he targeted me, Lady Ruby. |
| 0:28.0 | A small business owner, a mother, a proud American citizen who stand up to help Fulton County run an election in the middle of the pandemic. |
| 0:42.0 | Do you know what it feels like to have the President in the United States target you? |
| 0:47.0 | Those were the haunting words of Ruby Freeman, an election worker in Fulton County, Georgia. |
| 0:52.0 | Describing to the January 6th Committee, what it was like when Donald Trump and his allies spread grotesque lies about Freeman and our daughter, Manda Shea Moss, |
| 1:02.0 | accusing them of illegally dredging up suitcases of Biden ballots late at night to throw the 2020 election. |
| 1:10.0 | None of it was true, of course. |
| 1:12.0 | The FBI, the US Attorney's Office, and Atlanta, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, |
| 1:16.0 | had all reviewed the video of Ruby Freeman and Manda Moss counting ballots on election night, and concluded none of it showed anything improper, |
| 1:25.0 | just two humble election workers doing their job under difficult circumstances. |
| 1:30.0 | It was yet more powerful testimony of the chaos that Donald Trump unleashed upon the country. |
| 1:35.0 | But are the hearings breaking through? |
| 1:37.0 | Are they penetrating a public preoccupied with soaring gas prices, punishing inflation, and scorching summer heat waves? |
| 1:45.0 | We'll talk to two veteran news media figures, Julie Pace, executive editor of the Associated Press, and Steven Engelberg, editor of ProPublica, on this episode of SkullDugger. |
| 1:58.0 | Hi, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. |
| 2:05.0 | I will, to the best of my building. |
| 2:07.0 | Reserve, protect, and defend. |
| 2:09.0 | Constitution of the United States. So, help me, God. |
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