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Somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-descript building, we once again made contact with our leader, Mike. Love that.

Hello, everybody. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811-877-381-3811.

There's a very interesting piece I'd like to start off with. And by the way, don't miss hour 2.

Going to be announcing the book signing locations, you folks who live around the Reagan Library area, you're going to want to pay close attention. First come first served.

But we have big announcements, hour 2.

It's a piece in the Rolling Stone by Eiffelah by the name of Matt Tabby.

I understand he's quite liberal, but he's also been quite sober when it comes to this so-called Russia collusion stuff.

I know Rolling Stone, pretty amazing.

In the title of the piece the other day, the press will learn nothing from the Russia Gate Fiesco.

The inability to face the enormity of the last few years of errors will cost the news media its credibility even with blue state audiences.

I can't read the whole thing, but I do want to read some of it to you.

It says, you know what was fake news? Most of the Russia Gate story. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy.

That thing we just spent three years chasing. The Mueller report is crystal clear on this. He didn't just fail to establish evidence of a crime.

His report is full of incredibly damning passages like when about Russian officialdom's efforts to reach the Trump campaign after the election.

They appeared not to have pre-existing contacts and struggled to connect with the senior officials around the president-elect.

Unquote. Not only was there no collusion, the two camps didn't even have each other's phone numbers.

In March of 2017, in one of the first of what would become a mountain of mafia, hierarchy-style Trump-Russia context graphics, and major newspapers.

The Washington Post described an email, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sent to the Kremlin press secretary, Dimitri Peskov.

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