Hi guys, Susan here with a quick announcement before the episode of today. Looks like we chose a bad

time to do a two-part on Russia because since we recorded this episode earlier in the week,

kind of a lot has gone down in the world of the Trump administration.

But for now enjoy part two of our update in all things Trump and Russia.

And we'll be back next week to see just how much farther Mueller's investigation has gotten. There's the big board, the 20 electoral votes from the state of Pennsylvania.

We just got new metrics in.

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It's real. Hi and welcome back listeners of the 45th. We are going to start our second part of the Russia deep dive and I'm excited to welcome back our very special guest John Crier.

John, how are you?

I'm great, great, can't wait to get started still holding my urine.

Wow, like days later, how long has it been?

It's about a few of days.

This is highly anticipated.

Yes, it turns out that my estimate of one episode

for the Russia Russian contacts was grossly

underestimating an amount of time to take to get through the many many contacts but what we

left off was in roughly about April with Popadopoulos.

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