Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show, the No Chit Chat Podcast.

But we will take a moment to say this is our first edition of 2021.

And thanks for joining us.

Thanks for listening in 2020. And we hope to do a lot more in 2021.

So let's get right into it and what we're going to get right into today is Trump and Russia. Has there been any, any topic discussed more in the last four

years in our political conversation than Trump and Russia.

Democrats and their allies in the media consistently

tried to accuse the president of being soft on Russia and worse. All through those years,

all through those years. They spent the last four years accusing President Trump of being soft on Russia,

of being a Russian asset, of being a trader,

Vladimir Putin's Patsy, and much, much more.

It just went on for years and years and years.

I don't have to tell you how much it was done. So now we're not

going to go through all that again but now guess what? One media voice has come out to say, wow, you know what? Trump was actually

tough on Russia. He really was.

The voice is actually tough on Russia.

He really was.

The voice is CNN's Farid Zakaria.

On New Year's Day on CNN's morning show,

Zakariah was asked how US Russia policy under the new president would differ from

Russia policy under President Trump and here's what Zakaria said quote I

think in general there isn't going to be as much difference as people

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