Jeffrey Goldberg
@WashingtonWeekPBS·209K subscribers·2.6K videos
What evidence says about 2020 election interference
Posted
July 20, 2026
Views
5,422
Likes
298
Engagement
5.50%
July 20, 2026
5,422
298
5.50%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Episode Timeline
Every episode in order around the one you’re watching — click any card and the page flips straight to it.
1:40Now PlayingMonths ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address last Thursday and claimed that the U.S. election system is in danger. Trump provided no evidence to back up his claim.
Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg asked The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum if there evidence that U.S. elections are in danger from foreign interference or "other nefarious players that Donald Trump believes exist out there."
"There's no evidence at all, and actually, he didn't produce any,” Applebaum told Goldberg, noting that there's no evidence another foreign nation has changed votes, affected voting machines or altered an election’s outcome.
“There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," Applebaum added.
Washington Week with The Atlantic is a partnership between @PBSNewsHour, @WETAPBS, and @TheAtlantic, airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Tap the link in Washington Week's bio to watch this week’s episode.
Watch the latest Washington Week with The Atlantic here
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
