stopped. i am sure if you remember and reported on this that republicans went to celebrate 4th of july in russia and they actually said they're going there to build a rapport and the russian state media repeatedly talked about donald trump being held back by the mueller investigations from being able to move forward with restoring good relationships with russia, although there never was a good relationship but what they really mean is that once the mueller report concluded, trump's hands are untied and he could move forward with whitewashing russia and removing sanctions and one way to remove the sanctions is to say it is not really clear who interfered and may have been ukraine and not russia. they're marching towards the same goal from the republican side, they're doing that to help president trump. from his side, he's doing that