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a Greenwald or senior editor high Abe. Hi John and no a Rothman or a

associate that are high Noah. Hi John. So our Bermari is out today so I thought

we would take some time today to try to unpack the big story of the weekend which

is Donald Trump demanding unofficially and then saying that he was going to

demand officially that the Justice Department launch an investigation into the

Justice Department specifically on whether or not any untoward or illegal

efforts were made to penetrate or the Trump campaign in 2016 by Justice

Department desirous of preventing Donald Trump from becoming president. Would

that be does that have accurate description? Yeah I think so from the

perspective of the contingent of individuals who say that Donald Trump has been

getting the raw end of the of the stick in various degrees. Yeah I think that's

fair. So with a bunch of stories last week detailing the inauguration of the

so-called Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The Crossfire Hurricane

investigation being as we said on the last show the opening of an inquiry by the

FBI into whether minor Trump campaign associate not even an employee they

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