'Saddest Media Spectacle I've Ever Seen': Journalists Glenn Greenwald and David Cay Johnston Debate Russiagate

"I continue to believe that we should see the full Mueller report. I support that completely." (Photo: Screenshot)

'Saddest Media Spectacle I've Ever Seen': Journalists Glenn Greenwald and David Cay Johnston Debate Russiagate

"There will be no reckoning and consequences for this story that the media got radically, fundamentally and deliberately wrong for almost three years now in a very dangerous way."

As congressional Democrats call on the Justice Department to release the full Mueller report, Democracy Now! spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who have closely followed the probes into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election: Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept and a leading critic of the media coverage of alleged Russian collusion, and David Cay Johnston, formerly of The New York Times, now founder and editor of DCReport.org, who has written critically about Donald Trump for decades. His most recent book is "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America."

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