washington post story. at one level, i can appreciate this story looks like oh, i ve heard something about this. the sinkhole is spreading a little further, right? seems like an incremental development and the ongoing concerning news about the new administration and its ties to russia. feels like an incremental little shift in something we ve been watching for a long time. but if you can step back from this story, look at it fresh, array some news stories we understand for the purpose of gaining perspective on it, i think what this new development is about the national security advisor is basically like an 800 foot tall dam that s about to be overtopped. this is not a little marginal development in a medium-sized story. this is like an, oh, my god, you can t run water down this thing, what do you mean we have no choice, she s gonna blow. we have congressman adam schiff from the house intelligence committee joining us live to give us his perspective on this story. he said if this ne
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