Hi, it's Ilya Maritz, co-host of Trump Inc. Andrea Bernstein and I are hosting WNYC's

special coverage of the Republican National Convention, and we're going to share with

you a couple of our favorite conversations here in the podcast feed.

This one is about the recently released Senate report examining counterintelligence risks

connected with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

It is an eye-opening document, and my guests are Politico's Natasha Bertrand, the Atlantic's

Franklin Four, and Andrea.

Here we go.

Last week, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its fifth and final

report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Earlier volumes had focused on election infrastructure, social media, and the American

response to the Russian Active Measures campaign.

This report is focused on counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities, or in plain

English, it's focused on the ways in which we are and have been vulnerable to foreign

espionage.

It's a thousand pages of eye-opening at times, hair-raising information, and we thought

now would actually be a great time to discuss it, not only because the report is fresh

and perhaps didn't get the attention it deserves, but also because it has so much to say

about the last Trump campaign, with plenty of echoes for today.

In this report, we learned that 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort was in regular contact

with a Russian spy during the campaign.

A situation the report describes as quote, a grave counterintelligence threat.

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