Welcome to an emergency edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

This is Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief at the Federalist, here for a very special rare occurrence is our CEO and the wind beneath our wings, Sean Davis.

Welcome, Sean.

Thank you for having me.

So why are we doing this?

Yes, we got big news today.

So D&I, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a declassified version of a report that many of us have known about and been waiting to see for years.

And it is a report from the House Intel Committee that was put together over many years in Trump's first term and then given to the CIA for review in I think September of 2020.

And what this document and what this investigation does is it digs into what's known as the ICA, the intelligence community assessment that was issued by the Obama admin in late December 2016.

And it sounds very academic and weighty and hefty, but it's a really important document because this became the basis for the entire Russia collusion hoax.

And if you'll recall, the Russia collusion hoax had two main aspects to it.

One, that Putin personally wanted Trump to win and was going to do everything he could to interfere in the election to help Trump win.

And number two, that Trump was aware of this and actively colluded with Putin during the 2016 election to steal it from Hillary Clinton.

So I think it's been pretty conclusively debunked

the collusion aspect of it.

We had a long special counsel investigation

from Robert Mueller, which turned up absolutely nothing

having to do with Trump, Russian collusion.

They spent tens of millions of dollars in many years and never found anything.

So we pretty conclusively shown over many years that Russia collusion was a hoax.

But this right here has to do with the claim from the beginning that Putin actively wanted Trump to win

and took measures specifically throughout the 2016 campaign to help Trump. And what we learned

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