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WATCH: Jessica Tarlov Gets Obliterated By ‘The Five’ For Puzzling ‘Russiagate’ Reaction

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Chaos reigned briefly during a Fox News panel on Thursday after Jessica Tarlov, the token liberal co-host of Fox News’ “The Five,” referred to the Trump administration’s newest disclosures in the Russiagate hoax as “erroneous.”

Tarlov, a Democratic strategist, split with Kellyanne Conway and Jesse Watters over whether Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, shared anything new this week when she referred former President Barack Obama for prosecution.

Her reaction came after co-host Jesse Watters asked Tarlov if she had thoroughly read all the new declassified intelligence that “Tulsi dropped.”

“I did not read all 200 pages,” Tarlov responded.

“Well, it wasn’t 200 pages, it was 44,” Watters said. “That’s why I read them, because it wasn’t 200 pages. Did you know that the assessment said that Putin wanted Trump to win, Putin tried to help Trump win, Putin had blackmail on Trump, and that Putin tried colluding with the Trump campaign? All of those things were erroneous, and they cooked the intelligence.”

Tarlov countered, claiming Russian president Vladimir Putin “wanted Trump to win” the 2016 election over Hillary Clinton.

After Watters pointed out the report released by Gabbard concluded that Putin “would have known that Putin had no preference who won,” Tarlov shot back that the point “has nothing to do” with her contention.

“Well, that’s one of the main points in the report,” Watters said.

“The report is erroneous,” Tarlov said, the Daily Caller reports.

Allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia first surfaced during the 2016 campaign when U.S. intelligence officials claimed that evidence showed Putin was trying to sow chaos by hacking America’s election infrastructure. The discredited Steele dossier, which contained hearsay allegations about Trump conspiring with Russian forces, was ultimately included in a report on the election, which stated Russian activity would not have changed the outcome of the race.

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Still, the narrative of a positive relationship between Trump and Putin persists to this day. Only with Trump’s recent turn against Putin over the war in Ukraine have fissures begun to show in mainstream news coverage.

Gabbard this week delved into stunning detail about a “criminal conspiracy” and “weaponization” by Obama and top intelligence officials that saddled Trump with alleged ties to Russia for years. She and officials with the U.S. Justice Department are said to be exploring criminal charges against other alleged participants in the so-called scheme, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Some of the new disclosures allege that Clinton was aware her staff was seeking to “stir up” controversy around Trump with allegations of Russian collusion.