Media in 2017: “Russia Hacked” the Election | Now They Don’t Want to Talk About It

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- Bill D’Agostino—Senior Research Analyst at Media Research Center—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to breakdown some of the best (and worst) moments from corporate media: flashback to 2017 when networks like CNN, MSNBC, and NBC insisted that there “was no doubt” that “Russia hacked” the 2016 presidential election. Plus, only 20 people showed up to a scheduled protest designed to save Stephen Colbert’s late-night show. 5:30pm- Woke cancel culture takes several big losses: Sydney Sweeney becomes the face of American Eagle jeans, Paramount pays $1.5 billion for new South Park content, and Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbough shoots down a reporter trying to insult President Trump. 5:50pm- On Sunday, President Donald Trump—alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen—announced a new trade deal with the European Union. As part of the agreement, the EU will buy $750 million of U.S. energy and will invest an additional $600 billion into the U.S. economy. There will be a 15% tariff placed on most EU goods.

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0:41.0	Bill DiAgostino Media Research Center, he's on X at Band underscore Bill.
0:47.2	Bill, hope you had a good weekend, my friend.
0:50.4	There's no doubt that the Russia Gate story was dominating the news and uh no doubt the media
0:58.1	would love to be talking about something else right now yeah yeah they're trying to avoid
1:04.0	russia gate as much as they can the broadcasts have been have been dodging it but cable is
1:08.9	spending a lot of time trying to claim that it's complete nonsense
1:12.0	because they just want to get back to Epstein, right? They finally smell blood in the water for something
1:16.6	on Trump. And so that's like Epstein is literally all they want to talk about. So Russiagate is kind of
1:22.0	just, it's noise to them, right? It's like it's jamming up the gears.
1:27.3	Now, I heard I heard their excuse.
1:29.9	Tulsi Gabbard is pushing this because she just wants to get Trump's good graces.
1:33.6	But I haven't heard them come up with a theory as to why the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, would be pushing this.
1:39.6	Because he's the one that actually got the ball rolling on this.
1:43.2	And they didn't even mention his name.
1:46.5	Yeah, of course, because that's an inconvenience to them, right?
1:49.4	That destroys the narrative if you count the fact that Ratcliffe is also pushing for this.
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