A few days ago we learned that Donald Trump was under investigation by the FBI because they were concerned he may be acting as an agent of Russia.

However, they launched this investigation after Trump had fired James Comey, so you have one side saying that Trump is working with the Russians, of which we have no evidence, and the other side is saying that they're simply retaliating against Trump because he fired their boss.

Obviously, Trump has responded saying it's complete utter nonsense, but Glenn Greeneld has a pretty interesting take on all this.

Part of the reason we keep hearing about the Russian narrative is because the media is chasing after it for ratings. They call it the Trump bump, and I've talked about it many times.

But a former journalist mentions that many of these mainstream news outlets employ former government actors that maybe they're a little biased, or maybe it actually goes a bit deeper, maybe even conspiratorial.

So today, let's take a look at exactly what happened with Donald Trump and this Russia investigation and how Glenn Greenwald is framing it in terms of journalists pushing a narrative, maybe for money, or for political reasons.

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The first story from the New York Times, the FBI opened inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia.

In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as FBI director,

Law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president's behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests,

according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.

The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president's own actions constituted a possible threat to national security.

Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow influence.

The investigation, the FBI opened into Mr. Trump also had criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.

Not only would it be an issue of obstructing an investigation, but the obstruction itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the Russians had done,

and that is what would be the threat to national security. Mr. Baker said in his testimony, portions of which were read to the New York Times,

Mr. Baker did not explicitly acknowledge the existence of an investigation of Mr. Trump to congressional investigators.

Now here's the important part. No evidence has emerged publicly that Mr. Trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from Russian government officials,

and FBI spokesman and spokesman for the special counsel's office both declined to comment.

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