Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein knocked Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham for their letter to the DOJ referring a criminal investigation into CHristopher Steele, the author of the infamous dossier.

Anderson Cooper asked him, “Do you think this is a distraction? Is this an attempt by Republicans to run interference for the President?”

“Yes,” Bernstein responded. “It’s not just a distraction or a red herring, it’s a glowing red herring in the Washington swamp!”

He argued it’s clearly a “sideshow” and “another attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation.”

Bernstein said the Russia probe should play out as normal and concluded, “Let’s cut the nonsense already.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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