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More fake news today by CNN Fake News about a Russian spy trying to once again suggest the President Trump is connected to Russia.

CNN blew it. More fake news. Once again, more lies. In fact, it was The New York Times who debunked CNN.

Welcome to the Mark Levin show. The great one is off tonight. He is at a Russia Shana event that was previously scheduled.

I'm Rich Ziole from Mark's hometown of Philadelphia. Great to be with you tonight. My fellow Levinites 877-3813811 is our number 877-3813811.

So once again, CNN totally blew it. You know, there's a reason Mark wrote on Freedom of the Press because the media now is absolutely on a crusade against the President.

Not every single media source, of course, not every outlet, but CNN takes the cake.

You know, it's amazing how their ratings are so bad because night after night, somebody over there is just trashing the President whether it's the Lesser Cuomo or whether it's Don Lemon or somebody else.

And now you've got this political reporter over at CNN, this Jim Skeuto guy, he writes this whole piece exclusive US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017.

All right, except there's a problem because it's wrong. It was actually the Obama administration who extracted the top spy, not the Trump administration.

You see the CNN story essentially now wants to paint the picture for you over the following that the President of the United States Donald Trump compromised all kinds of classified information.

And that's why now they had to pull this asset out. But it's completely wrong. CNN totally blew it.

And when the New York Times has to correct CNN, boy, does that tell you something? Does it not? Does that tell you something right there?

I'm going to read you this paragraph from the New York Times because I'm going to contrast this. Now this is the CNN headline exclusive US extracted top spy from inside Russian 2017.

Right. This is a paragraph from the New York Times.

Quote, the information itself was so important and potentially contentious in 2016 that top CIA officials ordered a full review of the informants record according to people briefed on the matter.

Officials reviewed information. The source had provided years earlier to ensure that it had proved accurate.

And then it talks about how they took him out later that year, that year, 2016, as in when Barack Obama was still president of the United States, Donald Trump did not become president until the inauguration in 2017.

So the fact that the New York Times had a point out that it was the Obama administration and one of the reasons why they might have taken the CIA spy out is because they thought potentially now he could be a double agent.

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