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Veteran NYT journalist Jeff Gerth exposes US media's Russiagate debacle

Pushback with Aaron Mate

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Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

Jeffrey Toobin: A story in the New York Times was very influential to fueling the Trump-Russian narrative. He says it helped fuel momentum for the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller just shortly afterwards. But he points out that this piece has a number of flaws, including Peter Strzok's text messages about there being no there there when it comes to Trump-Russia conspiracy. Toobin: In my time at the NYT and subsequent, I've never seen someone like Jim Comey go up and testify his story is so inaccurate or so flawed.

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