This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague author Lee Smith, the new book, Disappearing the President, Trump, True Social, and the Fight for the Republic.

Here, Lee reflects upon the Nunes memo, the winter of 2018, a result of the investigation conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by

Devin Nunes, in 2017. Cash Patel is mentioned here. That's the same Cash Patel now nominated

to be director of the FBI. The Nunes memo, identifying the Russian hoax very clearly.

However, Lee points us to something else that's been classified and never read by the public,

certainly not by me.

The Russia report, the complete story.

Much more of this tonight.

Here's Lee Smith.

Well, the Nunes memo, memo i mean this was a this was a report written mostly by uh donald trump's nominee to run the fbi cash patel so cash was one of the

lead authors there were a few others who were involved in it as well but what the the Nunes meant, what we refer to as the Nunes memo, we might well call the cash memo.

That was really a report, a report of some of the research that they'd done, getting to the bottom of Rushinggate, explaining what the Steele dossier was, how it came about,

and how the FBI used this to get a surveillance warrant to spy on the Trump team.

And this was a very, very important part of their work. But look, they came up with another

important work as well, which is, which I imagine that cash will declassified

or will argue to have declassified,

and that's the Russia report.