And now, after years of investigation, the inspector general said there was nothing wrong with the origin of this investigation.

So this conspiracy theory that the President of the United States has been pushing for years was a total lie.

And I was just briefed on it, and it's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things

that were done to our country. It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible,

far worse than I would have ever thought possible. If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.

Welcome to the Muckraig podcast, the political podcast, The Promises to Dig Deeper.

I am Jared Yeh Sexton.

I am joined, as always, with my host, Nick Housselman.

Later on, we'll be talking to writer and journalist Ross Barkin about his article about

growing fascism in the Republican Party.

Not that that is a timely subject at all.

But here we are on the day that the impeachment inquiry keeps going forward.

The IG report just dropped that said that the investigation

in the Russian collusion in the 2016 election was done properly, which completely gets rid of all

well, it doesn't get rid of it. It begins to poke holes in every conspiracy theory and eradicates

them that Trump and its cronies have hidden behind.

So here we are, Nick.

How are you?

Jared, I am doing great.

And in light of Trump's response to this IG report, my question to you is, as a writing professor,

how often do you grade papers that you don't actually read?

Nick, can we just be very clear that Donald Trump has not read a single word of a report that has been read in the past three years about his crimes, impeachment, the Mueller report,

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