From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

For the mainstream media this week, as most weeks, there was chaos in Trump land.

Up front next, breaking news.

The government shutdown.

No end in sight. anti-Trump protests across

the nation.

A day of Russia-related developments, all of which hint at a ramped-up investigation in at least

the obstruction of justice part of thing.

Late today, NBC News reporting Mueller has interviewed former FBI director Comey focusing on

if Trump interfered in the Flynn investigation.

...and Post is reporting that Special Counsel Mueller is seeking to question President Trump.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed apparently just last week for hours.

But for many on the far right, the Trump administration is on the brink, not a failure, but of total vindication.

A growing number of House Republicans now demanding the release of a top secret memo.

That four-page memo that is at the center of these allegations that top Obama officials at the FBI and the Justice Department

were conducting surveillance of top Trump officials.

This scandal is one of the biggest abuses of power in American history.

It is time that you, the American people, get the truth.

We are once again calling on you to contact Congress.

Let them know you want the memo released.

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