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Federalist Radio Hour

Why The Durham Findings Dwarf Watergate

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Benjamin Weingarten, a senior contributor at The Federalist and deputy editor of RealClearInvestigations, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down why Special Counsel John Durham's findings exposing Democrats' role in the Russian collusion hoax dwarf the Watergate scandal.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:19.6

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

0:22.0

As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.

0:25.2

Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.

0:27.3

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

0:30.8

Today we're joined by Federalist Senior Contributor Benjamin Wiengarten.

0:34.3

He's also the deputy editor of RealClear Investigations.

0:38.4

You can subscribe to his substack at Wiengarten.substac.com.

0:42.8

Ben, thank you so much for joining us.

0:45.0

Emily, thanks so much for having me. It's pleasure.

0:47.0

Yeah, we played on Monday's show, audio of Molly Hemingway,

0:51.6

our editor-in-chief reacting on Sunday morning

0:54.4

to news that broke over the weekend from a court filing

0:58.3

that Special Counsel John Durham made.

1:01.1

And Molly said that Donald Trump is right to consider this worse

1:06.3

than Watergate, more severe than Watergate.

1:09.4

The revelation from this filing, of course, in addition to all of the information

1:14.4

that it comes on top of.

1:17.2

And I think it's incredibly difficult to disagree with Molly's assessment,

1:22.0

although the media has not really wanted to touch the story at all.

1:25.3

So Ben, I'm curious if you could give us your take

1:28.6

on how this compares with what we consider

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