The rift between the news and opinion shows on Fox gets more toxic with every day of impeachment coverage.

Even Rush noticed.

Your Fox really ought to change the name of the network from the Fox News Channel to the Fox Never Trumper Network.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Political historians have long held that conspiracy theories are the province of the fringes, but...

If you actually look at the history of American paranoia and conspiracy theories,

you often find that they're very elite figures who believe in them.

Things like the Red Scare were led by J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy.

And a trip to Ukraine reveals a different perspective on our impeachment. Things like the Red Scare were led by J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy.

And a trip to Ukraine reveals a different perspective on our impeachment woes.

Is it okay for the President of the United States to have Attorney General of the United States to call the President of Ukraine to discuss investigation? Is that okay?

Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I believe you are a lawyer.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.

Let's talk about the global conspiracy against the American president that Trump himself is always talking about.

As it becomes ever more obvious that Trump's conspiracy theories drive much of his foreign relations,

we thought it timely to connect the dots of his worldview.

So let's begin at the beginning with a low-level foreign policy advisor in the Trump campaign

named George Papadopoulos.

We might remember that the entire reason the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation

of the Trump campaign was because Papadopoulos drunkenly told the Australian ambassador

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