on a new batch that shed light on the russia collusion hoax in 2018 under devin nunes, who wast then running the house intel committee. that committee compared to prepared a confidential memo confirmingo confir that the dept of justice had spiedhe on the trump campaign, which is completely illegal over the top without recent precedent. so rather than address this as an attack on courseisse the liberties, democrats in the house dismiss devin nunes as a tool of putin.a tool adam schiff and dianne feinstein claimed that a twitter hashtag calling for the memos release was, quote, linked to russian influence operations. okay, so if yo u wanted to see spyin the facts about domestic spying, you were working forg, t putin, but that was a lie. we now know for sure newly docun revealed documents prove thatng twitter and these democrats knew it was false and kept saying, we knokn reportinw thisf matt taibbi reporting. he s the author of griftopiar and he joins us now. matt , thank you so mu
he was undergoing surgery for a hernia. his cancer a highly curable. francona going along with him to the hospital, shows what a great guy he is. ferrell said francona is a i lw joking and making fun of every situation. he will probably just give him a laugh as he s going through a tough time. what he said is important, when a friend of yours comes down with something like cancer, you don t know what to do and what to say, but you want to be with them in some way. those two guys i m sure have been together through a lot of different things. they were in the red sox dugout together for years when francona was the manager and ferrell was his pitching coach. they ve been in a lot of dicey situations. none of them comparing to what ferrell is about to go through, but i m sure he will be happy to have francona at his side as he begins this treatment. thanks so much, andy scholes. i appreciate it. all right. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts now.