This is the Tom Hartman program.

So when the Mueller report came out,

Bill Barr had gone through and redacted big chunks of it. There were big blocks of just black lines and black blocks of text and things in the Mueller report.

And the and the judge or one of the judges in one of these lawsuits had said I want to

see what's behind those redactions.

And in part as a result of a lawsuit from BuzzFeed actually,

a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

And so some of the redactions got removed.

And this was reported on last Friday.

And frankly, I think very few people picked up on it.

The headline over at the New York Times last

Friday was Mueller report details highlight Trump's interest in emails

damaging to Clinton. And then the subtitle was The Justice Department, that would be Bill Barr, had

kept the newly revealed information secret while it was investigating

Roger Stone and only released it in response to a lawsuit,

which is what happened.

So what did we learn when these redactions were uncovered? Well up until last Friday what

we knew was that Donald Trump had reached out to Russia publicly. He said you

know Russia if you're listening find Hillary Clinton's emails you'll be

rewarded by the American media and we know within hours rushed operative started

doing just that and then gave him what he wanted via

WikiLeaks. So we know that you know Trump asked for the help and Russia

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