The Senate Committee and may 2 for the house in the. The democrats want the report released april 2nd. Mueller released it last week followed by barrs own four page to congress which included 74 word from mueller. In the meantime, we have witnessed the largest inoculation effort since the eradication of polio. Listen, i need your full attention. Im going into the weeds on this. The president has aggressively attempted to conflate both the findings of muellers report and the origin of the underlying russia investigation. According to barr, mueller found no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russian government. A clear and legitimate win for the president. But mueller reached no conclusion on obstruction of justice and it was barr along with deputy ag Rod Rosenstein who then said they found quote the evidence developed during the special counsels investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. Thats not an exoneration. But the president has been treating it as such. At his rally thursday night in grand rapids, he said this. And after three years of lies and smears and slander, the russia hoax is finally dead. The collusion delusion is over. On the same day that the president spoke those words in michigan, the New York Times broke the story that the Mueller Report, itself, exceeds 300 pages. The length of the report is something ag barr had not told congress in his fourpage letter. As the times pointed out that link suggests barr western beyond the bare report that he set out on obstruction of justice, barr told under the circumstances, quote, the special counsel states while this report does not committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. This all suggests that if and when the public ever gets a look at the full Mueller Report, it wont be pleasant for the president. But by then hes hoping to have protected himself with his declarations that this is all about partisanship, not facts. At his first rally since the mueller conclusion, he said this. The democrats have to now decide whether they will continue defrauding the public which are dig lus bull [ bleep ]. Its not just the outcome of the Mueller Probe, which the president seeks to poison, its the origin of the Russian Investigation, itself. On wednesday night, the president granted a 45minute interview to sean hannity on fox news. How did it start . You had dirty cops, people that are bad fbi folks. I know so many, theyre incredible people. But at the top they were not clean, to put it mildly. And what they did to our country was a terrible, terrible thing. Whos the they . He later pointed to former fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe. I mean, mccabe, his wife got hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was running the fbi and running all sorts of the cases and his wife got hundreds of thousands of dollars from essentially clintons, from clintons closest friendened and then he ruled so favorably. The president and hannity sought to spin the beginning of the Russian Investigation as the stuff of deep state conspiracy. As philip bump pointed out in the Washington Post, mccabes wife ran for the Virginia Senate in 2017 and lost and received money from a pack of former mcauliffe and a number of other candidates. That election was over well before mccabe had any oversight into the investigation into Hillary Clinton also emails, much less the investigation into trump and russia. And then there was hannity. This is what we know that in august of 2016, we know bruce orr warned everybody at the doj and fbi that Christopher Steele hated you, that Hillary Clinton paid for the fossier, it was fought verified, still in october and three renewal application warrants approved they were told by the grassley grand memo, the bulk of information came from that phony dossier, Andrew Mccabe said, no dossier, no fisa warrant. Sfwu has philip bump at the Washington Post points out, hannity is referring to a page of march 2017 as a voo an advisory, paige traveled to moscow and his trip was mentioned in a doosier of reports compiled by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele, but that october 2016 warrant also had nothing to do with the launch of the investigation into possible collusion between Trumps Campaign and russia. That investigation is believed to have gun 2016 after the fbi was tipped off by another foreign diplomat, george pap lop lus, discussed incriminating emails in russias possession. Look, this is complicated stuff. It requires a much higher level of attentiveness than i fear most americans are willing to giver. But thats exactly what the president hopes for. The barr summary over the weekend, it was the vaccine. Trumps response is the building of the immunity in the body and, therefore, the public, particularly the base that it not be infected by the bad news to come. It makes the bad stuff in the report seem like spin. Rather genius, actually. But thats political bet with no margin for error. The president tried it out in grand rapids. Remember, he won michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes. 2 of 1 . Which leads me to this weeks survey question, by the time the Mueller Report is released to the public, will its contents matter . Go vote. Results at the end of the hour. Joining me to discuss philip bump of the wag post and rich rao from the Market Research firm engage us, the argument i hear from hannity is that the russia investigation is all fruit of a poisonous tree. Its the dodgy dossier. Its strzok, its paige, its mccabe. What was the defining event that really caused the beginning of the probe . So according to various reporting that we have seen over the course of the last year or two, the final event, the crystallizing moment was when this australian diplomat whose name was downer, his government informed the fbi after wikileaks started to dump documents in july, 2016. They said this guy George Papadopoulos told downer the russians had these emails. We dont know if thats the case. Thats when strzok launched the probe into conclusion. The fact that Michael Flynn had been to russia in 2017 and there was chatter apparently the british authorities tipped us off about that carter paige was on the if ib fibs radar in 2017, he was possibly season that flipped. The fbi talked to us in march, 2016. Before all this began and Paul Manafort had longstanding ties to the russian government through his working ukrainian politics. There were all these factors that went into the fbi saying, hey, there is a lot of weird connections between Trumps Campaign and russia. Apparently it was crystallized in july. There were lots of factors that went into this decision making. Its presented, though, by the president and sean hannity, wednesday night, i watched hannitys opening monologue at the end of that hour, i was ready to grab my own pitch fork and go after the deep state. The way its weaved together with a piece of this and piece of that at the end its compelling, but it overlooks a lot. Thats my point. Its all cherry picked. They start with the conclusion this was a bad act. They work backwards to support that concollusion it doesnt stand p stand on its own. The nonsense about the fisa warrant in october against carter paige, not only was that well after the investigation begun, it was after paige left the campaign. He wasnt in the campaign anymore at the time this warrant was issued. So there are all these reasons, they focus on that because thigh like to focus on the dossier, they like to focus on the Text Messages between peter strzok and this woman lisa paige in which they do disparage president trump. What they have done is picked out those particular things and assembled a what i to talk about the genesis of this probe that is both inaccurate and probably intention ally dishonest, because what theyre trying to do is say the entire probe itself wasnt valid. The president similarly says, hey, no collusion, and no obstruction. Ill give him his credit. There was a finding of no collusion, but there was no conclusion on obstruction by mueller. And yet i think it all gets conflated and in the public mind, i dont know if people are going to be able to sort it all out. Its a fair point. Not to nit pick, but its also not the case that barr or mueller said anything about collusion as a term. They talk about conspiracy. Collusion doesnt mean anything, we dont need to go too far down that path. Not only has trump though tried to use this barr letter as a way of saying we can ignore anything about obstruction and collusion and talked about all the other investigations they have launched, into the trump organization, the inauguration, the trump foundation, all the various things democrats are pushing on, now theyre a majority in the house, he is saying none of that is legitimate, i have this letter from barr that shows i am clean, that is taking it well beyond the boundaries of whats fair. My argument here is only for an evidencebased conversation and then conclusion. By the way, im reading all y r stuff. I think thats where you are coming from. Thank you. Joining me now is the president of the Market Research firm engage us. Hes an expert if swing voters, those who voted for obama and then went to trump. Or romney and then went to clinton. He is conducting monthly focus groups in the upper midwest and florida from now until the 2020 election. Richard, yesterday, the first caller to my Radio Program after i discussed these events in a monologue, dan, from the villages in florida. When i took his call, he said to me, im just exhausted with all this stuff. I think he is probably typical of many. Hes typical of many, but hes also not typical of a lot of other people. The folks i met in upper wisconsin were fascinating because they were not paying close attention to what was going on. They didnt know much about the mueller investigation, they knew nothing about the green new deal. I asked about it. I heard crickets. I asked about medicare for all. I heard crickets. These are low information voters but they are swing voters. Those of us play attention to tends to ignore. Which is there are a lot of other people out there just are not paying close attention. For them its local news, cats playing with yarn videos on facebook. Thats where they get their news, we have to be mindful of the fact that not all america is getting information. Low information does not mean low intelligence, right . These folks you are surveying, theyre intem gent. Theyre not dialed in on this stuff . Thats whats so fascinating, michael. These are folks who i had in my focus group. They had at least some college education, they were well spoken, intelligent. They live their lives. Theyve are not consumed by politics like the people watching fox, cnn, msnbc, reading the wall street journal and New York Times, most of america is not consumed by this stuff day in, day out. Its hard for us to forget that. That how they are. Heartsres a snippet from on our focus groups in appletop, wisconsin. Were all human, we make mistake, what are the consequences . We dont need to keep rubbing it in peoples faces. Rich, it makes me wonder when we see the full Mueller Report, will it even matter . Im very doubtsful as to whether it will matter much at all. It will be a huge thempest in the tea pot for the people on the beltway and folks in the midwest are concentrated on the economy whether they have a job up. In appletop, wisconsin their view of trump rose and fell with the economy. Theyre more supportive of him and his policies when the economy is doing well as it is now. Some of them are feeling it. They told me if the economy turns, hes going down. So their feeling is tied into the economy. A lot of this other stuff is just noise. I think its a good message not only for the public, its a good message for those seeking the presidency. Its a good message for the media. I can tell you, im fixated on all of this mueller and barr business. And its a wakeup call to hear from you that out in the country, there are a lot of people who are totally disengaged from it. Richard, thank you for being here, rich thau, i thank you for your time. Thank you, mike. What are your 1240thoughts . I will read some responses throughout the course of the program. From facebook, i dont think it will matter in that it wont change anyones mind. Laurie, you are see the efforts at inoculations the president is involved in. I am not taking anything away from the no occlusion. I think thats good for the company. I dont want to think the president of the United States or his campaign clued with the russians. I think for so many of us now our opinions are baked in. We havent even read the report. One more, if ive got time. 2. 5 years for nothing. Of course, people are exhausted. Hey, dave, wait a minute. When you say for nothing, you are overlooking the 37 individuals and entities indicted by mueller for screwing with our election. Thats the part thats gotten lost in all of this in the no collusion finding, lets us not forget that russia screwed with our election. Thats not to be overlooked and for that finding alone, the Mueller Probe has absolutely been worth it. Remember, i want to know what you think, go to my website atmosphere smerconish. Com. Answer this question, by the time the Mueller Report is released to the public, will its contents matter . Up ahead, info war host george jones with the sandy hook massacre for completedly claiming its a hoax. Whats his defense . And the swearing in of the first muslim woman in pennsylvania started with a prayer, repeatedly invoking jesus, 13 times as a matter of fact. Ill is her, did it feel like a prayer or Something Else . Thank you for this honor, jesus, jesus, god, jesus, god, i claim all these things in the power. Mighty name of jesus, the one who at the name of jesus, every knee will bow and every tong will confess, jesus, that you are lord. The first everyone muslim woman to the state legislature was sworn in this week. The customary opening prayer that kicked offer the sex became a political lightning rods. About to be sworn in was states representative Movita Johnson harelle. Including dozens of family muslims. Everyone was delivered by a prayer by her soon to be colleague stephanie borowitz. She invoked lord and good six teams each. Her message struck many as problematic. Here to discuss is the representative and the president of the Family Research council tony perkins. Id like to play an excerpt of the prayer for our audience and have you watch along with us. Roll it. God for give us. Jesus, weve lost sight of you. Weve forgotten you, god, in our country. Were asking to you forgive us, jesus, god, i pray for our leaders, speaker turzai, leader cutler, governor wolf, president trump, that we are blessed because we stand by israel and we ask for the peace of jerusalem as you word says, god. We ask we not be overcome with evil with good in this land once again. I think that was about a 30second excerpt of a prayer that was 90 or so seconds in length. As you watched, before you were sworn in, whoorp ywhat were you thinking . Well, initially, i wasnt bothered by it because i have friends and family from different religious background and im used to going to church. I go to synagogue. Initially i did not really know it was a problem until it continued and then i became very disheartened and i felt very disrespected. Did you think it was directed at you . In other words, im not one who normally believes in significance, did you think, its my day to be sworn in as the first female muslim . Why this particular prayer . Or did you think it happened so . Absolutely, michael. It did not just happen. It was intention am, it was deliberate and it was planned. Have you thought through the consequences if you similarly had stood in that position reciting from the quran . I would have it was made to make me feel like i was not included in that space. But the people of the 190th legislative district invited me to be in that space. My presence i knew it would draw attention, would draw some criticism, especially with the pandering of White Supremacy by mite White Nationalism coming out of the white house, i knew i would have to engage in these conversations. I just did not know that members of the house would intentionally attempt to harm me and my family on the day that i was being sworn in. So your colleague representative borowitz is saying i can put it up on the screen, she will not apologize for praying. I dont think, representative, that she is being asked to apologize for praying. I mean, to me, ill weigh in myself, i was raised by my parents to believe in a time and a place. This to me was not the time and place for that particular prayer, but you go ahead and react to her saying, hey, dont ask me to apologize for praying. So i did not ask for the trip to apologize. I think the rep has more of an apology to the constituents of the commonwealth. Because we need to realize that the commonwealth is diverse in nature and that when we are aelected to represent, we are elected to represent every person in the commonwealth. Not just particular groups of people. So, how should these matters be handled . You just arrived in the legislature, but if i gave you the magic pen, what level of prayer and whos prayer is it are we going to permit to open a Public Session of the peoples business . So we need to do one of two things, michael. We need to either make the clear divide between chu