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🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Mueller Report at long last; how the rich exploit philanthropy; and the NRA's PR machinery.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:04.9	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
0:07.3	I'm Bob Carfield.
0:09.6	The president insisted for two years that it was all a hoax or whatever.
0:15.0	Phony, Russia, witch hunt. That's all we hear about.
0:18.2	Collusion with Russia. The collusion delusion.
0:21.4	And they said, I have an idea. Let's blame Russia.
0:24.0	It was a hoax. It was all a big hoax.
0:26.3	So, naturally, with the report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election
0:32.6	finished and no new charges filed, I guess this was inevitable.
0:37.3	The collusion delusion is over. and no new charges filed. I guess this was inevitable.
0:40.3	The collusion delusion is over.
0:47.2	Total exoneration, complete vindication.
0:51.7	Well, actually, yes, there was vindication Thursday with the release of Robert Mueller's report.
0:54.2	Vindication of the media, whose reporting was proved by Mueller to have been right all along,
1:01.2	beginning with the accounts of intelligence consensus on Russian meddling,
1:05.9	which not long ago, standing alongside Vladimir Putin, Trump was still dismissing.
1:12.0	They said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia.
1:19.1	I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be.
1:22.0	When the press passed along leaks about Trump asking then FBI director James Comey to go easy on fired aid Michael Flynn,
1:30.9	Trump tweeted, quote, I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn, just more fake news
1:37.7	covering another Comey lie. But in volume 2, page 44, Mueller says, quote, despite those denials, substantial evidence corroborates Comey's account.
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