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With me as always in Washington senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine

Hi John

Across from me unjust author and associate editor of commentary no arothman hi John and

senior executive

Puba editor

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Major Domo the head of the big cheese the top dog the head honcho. Oh, this is great. Yeah, Abe Greenwald. Hi John

So two two things and then we'll get going so

Richard Burr the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee pretty much announced on Monday that after two years of

investigating they have found no evidence tying the

Trump campaign or Donald Trump to Russia

The response by Democrats

And on the committee was to say well, we haven't not found it which is an interesting response

Major news reporter for a major network said you know, they found they haven't found any evidence of the collusion

But they haven't found a sculpatory evidence either set on Twitter

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