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Please keep listening and watching. Today we are going to be talking about Russia, Russia, Russia.

Yes, that is the endless or seemingly endless story that is Russiagate, the Russia collusion hoax,

the Trump-Russia story, whatever you want to call it, it's got many names.

But it's bubbling back up into the news at the moment because in the last few weeks, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence for the Trump administration, has been releasing evidence to suggest that Barack Obama and other Democrats engaged in what she calls a treasonous conspiracy to derail and destroy the first Trump presidency.

And yesterday, Pam Bondi, Trump's Attorney General, has announced a grand jury probe

into the allegations contained within Tulsi Gabbard's assessment. It's all very, very complicated,

and you can go mad thinking about it. Plenty of people have. One person who hasn't, I'm pleased to say,

is Ben Dominic, our editor at large, who has a very good understanding of what's going on.

Ben, I mean, a lot of people think that this is the Trump administration

undoing all the lawfare of the last eight, 10 years, all the lawfare against Donald Trump.

And in fact, reversing through all the claims and counterclaims against him,

and perhaps we are getting to a situation where it's lawfare,

whoever's in charge, against the previous administration, and that's bad.

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