Donald Trump cannot seem to help himself when it comes to staying quiet on the Russia investigation. What started out as an investigation in to Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election has now become a wider probe in to Trump’s subsequent actions to apparently obstruct the investigation from proceeding. Would Robert Mueller have been hired as special counsel for this investigation if Trump had kept his mouth shut and stepped back from all the noise being generated from this investigation? Is Trump’s combative style and propensity to contort facts which served him well as a real estate developer come back to bite him as a public official? Steve and Ben examine the past fortnight’s coverage of the Russia investigation and Trump’s antics, discussing whether or not we would be where we are if Trump has simply kept himself out of it.

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