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I'm Katie Helper.

I'm Mary Mate.

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On this week's show, our guest is Tim Weiner.

He is the author of the brand new book, The Mission, the CIA in the 21st century.

It's the follow up to his first book on the CIA, a classic called Legacy of Ashes.

That book covered the CIA's first 60 years.

This new book, The Mission, picks up the story in the 21st century.

And we'll be speaking to Tim about what's going on with the CIA. There's a whole lot.

And make sure that you subscribe if you don't already at useful idiotspodcast.com.

So you can hear the full interview with Tim.

All right. Let's get to our four basic food groups, starting with Democrats suck.

The Justice Department under the Trump administration has opened up a grand jury investigation of the Russia investigation.

Yes, more than nine years later, we have another investigation of the Russian

investigation.

We're in a nonstop 2016 loop.

And this is how MSNBC reported news of this grand jury investigation. And MSNBC,

for those who might have forgot, was like the preeminent Russiagate network. It was all Russia

Gate all the time, pushing the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was in cahoots with Russia.

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