From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. On Tuesday, a new set of emails

surfaced revealing that Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met with a Kremlin-connected

Russian lawyer on the promise of dirt from the Russian government on Hillary Clinton, in which Don Jr. wrote,

quote, If it's what you say, I love it. Now, prior to these disclosures, made by the young Don

to get ahead of a New York Times scoop, we heard constantly from the White House that there

was no collusion, no shred of evidence, and therefore, nothing

to talk about. Here's Don Jr. with CNN's Jake Tapper a year ago just after that meeting

with the Russian lawyer. Well, it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. I mean,

they'll say anything to be able to win this. I mean, this is time and time again, lie after

lie. You know, just he won't say, well, I say this. We hear experts. I mean, this is time and time again, lie after lie.

You know, he won't say, well, I say this. We hear experts. You know, his house cat at home once said that this is what's happening with the Russians. It's disgusting. It's so phony.

Now that there is proof of at least willingness to collude with Russia to damage Clinton's

campaign, evidently there's still nothing to talk about.

To the right-wing media, it was just the latest...

Nothingburger.

Is a nothing burger?

Total nothing burger.

Here's Fox's Sean Hannity.

A friend of the Trump's offered to coordinate a meeting to share opposition research

on Hillary Clinton, which Donald Trump Jr. agreed to, nothing came of it, because there

was no information exchanged. And it ended there. Democrats, the mainstream media, are right now

hysterical over the story. Alex Jones of Infowars, faults the Democrats. This is a failed attempt

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