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Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow.

Welcome to Words Matter. I'm Katie Barlow. Our goal is to promote objective reality. As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. Words have power and words have consequences.

This week, we want to tell you about a fantastic new true crime mini-series from one of our favorite podcast producers, Wondery.

It's called Spy Affair, and it's a must listen. Russian influence in the

2016 U.S. presidential election shook the American political system to its core. It had been more

than two decades since Russia had been a serious threat to the power and influence of the United

States. With an economy the size of Italy's,

Russia was not the formidable Cold War foe had been for the more than 70 years it ruled

the Soviet Union with an iron fist. The U.S. government, and more specifically, the U.S.

intelligence community, discounted Russia's ability to threaten U.S. interests,

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