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John Heilemann is an American journalist known for his in-depth reporting on politics and business. Born on January 23, 1966, he has been active in the news industry since the 1990s.

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“If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided? Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.”

Palin Obama 2008 Presidential Election

Book:Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Source: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

“To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.”

Defense Substance Controversial Adviser

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“In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.”

People Roles Security Campaigns Establishment Harsh National Security Partisans

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“This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.”

Guy Republican Clinton Conventions Locks Stood Up

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“[Michael Flynn] has called President [Barack] Obama a liar.”

President Barack Liars President Barack Obama

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“[Michael Flynn] has just said that the U.S. Justice system is corrupt.”

Said Justice Justice System

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“[Michael Flynn] become someone who for a lot of his former colleagues, people like Stanley McChrystal who looked at General Flynn and sort of said, this is not the person I thought I knew.”

People Persons Said Former Colleagues Stanley

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“[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.”

Kind Persons Military Figures Tone Partisans

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“[Michael Flynn is] someone who has advocated for a much tighter ties with Russia and had raised some eyebrows in terms of some of the consorting that he did around Washington.”

Term Raised Russia Ties Eyebrows

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“[Michael Flynn has] seen at a dinner party famously sitting next to Vladimir Putin.”

Next Party Sitting Dinner Putin Dinner Party

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“[Dinner with Vladimir Putin has] raised a lot of eyebrows among national security officials who looked at [Michael Flynn] and thought these kind of behaviors were not what they had thought what he was like previously.”

Kind Security Behavior Raised Dinner Officials National Security Eyebrows Putin

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“There`s a - kind of an undercurrent of the stories we read during the campaign of, [Michael Flynn] was a guy we thought we knew who seems to have changed in a profound way and become this much more kind of [ controversial] person .”

Way Kind Persons Stories Seems Guy Changed Profound Campaigns Controversial

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“I think Donald Trump now thinks it`s time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump first voiced his exasperation with Sessions, that Sessions made it clear to Trump that if Trump wanted his resignation, he would offer it. It seems to me now Trump is sending a pretty clear signal that what he wants is Jeff Sessions to resign, and it`s also pretty clear to me he`s now at war with everyone in the world of justice and law enforcement in the administration.”

Thinking World War Justice Law Enforcement Resignation Exasperation

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“Donald Trump is now at war with Jeff Sessions. He`s now at war with James Comey. He`s at war with Andrew McCabe, and he`s at war with Robert Mueller. He`s attacked all of those people in this New York Times extraordinary interview. And I`ll just remind people that the last time Donald Trump went to war with an establishment, that was the intelligence establishment, he started that back in December 2016 , that did not work out for him well.”

People War Extraordinary Work Out Last Time December

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“I don`t know who Donald Trump has in mind given that the circle of loyalists around him, the circle of people that he genuinely trusts is very small and getting smaller all the time.”

People Mind

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“He is obviously an American hero. John McCain is a vanishing breed. He is an iconoclast, he is in his own mind and often in reality a maverick. And I think, you know, you having spent the time that you spent in the Senate know that this is true.”

Thinking Mind Reality Hero Mccain Maverick

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“There are very diminishingly few United States senators who you would like always want to have dinner with. It used to be in the Senate there were an awful lot of them. There are very few of them today that you would just be dying to go out and have dinner with. John McCain is someone I`d have dinner with seven nights a week.”

Today Night Week Dying Seven Mccain

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“You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.”

“Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.”

America Saddam Hussein Palin

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“I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.”

Ifs Thinking Should Law Views Bills Clinton Rule Of Law

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Born: January 23, 1966
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