Welcome to the Podforce One podcast. I'm Miranda Devine. Today we're joined by the lawyer and

internet sleuth who broke open Russiagate, Hans Munker. He's author of Swift Boating American.

Hans Munky, thanks so much for joining us on the Podforce One. And I first got to know you from afar because of your

amazing Twitter and now ex-posts in which you and a handful of other, I guess we call them

internet researchers on the side, people like Steve McIntyre, people like you who've now written books and become quite famous

because of your discoveries on a whole lot of mysteries and scandals that the media has failed

to fully investigate for various reasons.

I think it's because the media sort of become so much

of it, the mainstream media political rather than investigating anything that might damage

their side of politics. So thank you for coming. And tell us, you're, I think, best known,

or I knew you best for your revelations on Russia

Gate, on the Russia hoax.

So can you tell us just the broad brush strokes of the Russia hoax and how you got involved?

Sure, yeah.

Thanks for having me.

You're absolutely right.

If the media had done his job, we wouldn't be sitting here right now.

My Twitter account would be tiny.

I wouldn't, might not even be on Twitter and I'd just be, you know, teaching law and kind

of living my old life.

And that all changed because the media did not do their job.

So Russia Gate is a, well, it began as a Hillary

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