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PREVIEW: RUSSIAGATE: Author Lee Smith, "Disappearing the President," explains the Nunes Memo of Winter 2018 that first revealed the hoax. More tomorrow.,

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: RUSSIAGATE: Author Lee Smith, "Disappearing the President," explains the Nunes Memo of Winter 2018 that first revealed the hoax.  More tomorrow., 

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0:00.0

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0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague author Lee Smith,

0:35.8

the new book, Disappearing the President, Trump, True Social, and the

0:39.6

Fight for the Republic. Here Lee reflects upon the Nunes memo, the winter of 2018, a result of

0:49.5

the investigation conducted by the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes, in 2017.

0:56.5

Cash Patel is mentioned here. That's the same Cash Patel now nominated to be director of the FBI.

1:03.6

The Nunes memo, identifying the Russian hoax very clearly. However, Lee points us to something else that's been classified

1:13.8

and never read by the public, certainly not by me.

1:17.3

The Russia report, the complete story of the investigation

1:22.6

before and after the Russia hoax.

1:27.5

Here's Lee Smith on the Nunes memo of the winter of 2018,

1:35.4

Cash Patel, Devin Nunes, and Lee Smith.

1:38.1

Much more of this this week.

1:40.7

I'll have the full interview with Lee.

1:43.3

I hope to have it as early as Monday night.

1:46.8

Thank you. Lee Smith. Well, the Nunez memo, I mean, this was a, this was a report written mostly by Donald Trump's nominee to run the FBI, Cash Patel. So Cash was one of the lead authors. There were a few others

2:02.6

who were involved in it as well. But what the Nunes meant, what we refer to as the Nunes memo,

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