The Ripple Effect Of The 2016 Russia Investigation

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Earlier this week, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard declassified new documents effectively reopening the 2016 Russia investigation discussion. She claims these documents indicate that former President Obama was the driving force behind ensuring that the first Trump Administration had an unsuccessful presidency. Host of the Breaking History podcast and veteran journalist for The Free Press, Eli Lake, breaks down the newly released documents from Director Gabbard and describes the ripple effect the investigation had on American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.4	Welcome, everybody, to the Untold Story podcast for the end of this really busy week.
0:52.1	And one of the biggest stories this week has been this ongoing rollout of new documents that have been released by the Director of National Intelligence,
0:55.8	Tulsi Gabbard, which has reopened this entire Russia investigation discussion.
1:02.7	And in this case, she is releasing documents that she says substantiate a role for President
1:09.7	Barack Obama that was not fully established and that there
1:15.5	are new memos, new emails that indicate that he was the driving force, according to her,
1:22.4	in making sure that the new Trump administration, which after the election that really shocked
1:29.8	everybody, and suddenly the president, Barack Obama, was faced with his successor being Donald
1:36.7	Trump. And the indication from the DNI is that he played a very strong role in wanting to
1:42.7	leave this albatross of this Russia investigation
1:45.4	around the neck of this presidency of Trump and really weigh it down.
1:51.5	And the suggestion by Gabbard is that this was a disservice, is a light word, I think,
1:57.4	to the American people who had elected Donald Trump and that the former president,
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