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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

RELEASE THE RUSSIA REPORT

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

The long awaited Russia report drops this morning, and there is a lot to chew on. Join me, Bill Browder, John Sweeney and the report's original author, Dominic Grieve for a full breakdown. This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:14.5

Three minutes after ten is the time. I don't know where the phrase comes from about the anticipation being the best part,

0:21.8

but I think I explained to you last year that the longer this delay went on, the damper or the less

0:29.0

exciting, for one of a better word, the so-called Russia report would be. I mean, the problem is it

0:33.5

comes out at half past 10, okay? So we will be across it. We'll be on it like a car bonnet,

0:38.4

but I don't know how long it will take

0:39.7

to be able to absorb enough elements

0:41.9

to inform our conversations together.

0:44.5

We should be talking to Dominic Grief,

0:46.0

who of course was chair of the committee

0:48.3

when the report was signed off

0:50.3

and sundry other interested parties.

0:52.6

But the telegraph are already spinning this morning

0:55.5

in one direction, presumably under instruction from Downing Street. They tried to influence the result

1:01.5

of the Scottish independence referendum, but they didn't go near the Brexit vote. Something

1:06.1

which, as you just heard in the news bulletin, Pauline Neville Jones, one of the country's most senior spies formally, was unconvinced by.

1:15.0

I don't know. Let's get that front and centre to begin with. But here's my personal perspective, a possibly problem, but certainly perspective.

1:24.5

If there's nothing juicy in it, why would they not have published it sooner?

1:29.1

And given that it is being published with some fairly chunky bits missing, how confident

1:33.9

can we really be that the full picture will become clear? It's an odd morning this, because

1:38.8

it is in many ways the only story in town, but we don't actually know what's in the story

1:42.9

for half an hour. So I thought we could chew the fact together, if you fancy it, about what the key concerns maybe should be

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