There was collusion and so much collusion that we’re swimming it! That’s according to bombastic CNN host Chris Cuomo and washed up Watergate-era reporter Carl Bernstein. Not only was there “a ton of collusion” but if you didn’t realize that after reading the Mueller Report, you’re just not that smart and too political, they declared late Thursday afternoon.

Despite the many “bombshells” reports that blew up in the media’s collective faces over the last two years, Bernstein insisted the Special Counsel report was “the connective tissue that explains everything almost we've been reporting over the past two years.”

Among their false narratives was there claim President Trump colluded with Russia and was really a Russian spy asset. According to Bernstein they only people who could see that evidence in Robert Mueller’s report were smart, good people: “It’s here in substance, in nuance, in context and it is there for all people of good will in this country, if they are not so dug in politically or ideologically to process information and make some sophisticated judgments about the behavior of everybody I've mentioned here.”

Cuomo was in full agreement that only smart people could find collusion in the report. He even argued that Mueller had found so much collusion that you shouldn’t try to deny it:

Sophisticated judgment is the operative phrase because I don't know how, in good conscience, if you have a dose of shame in you -- and you want to support the President, that is fine, stick to criminality. Stay away from the word collusion, because there is a ton of collusion. There is a ton of clever secretive behavior and Mueller lays it all out. The idea that there is nothing in here or that it was a witch hunt or this is a hoax, I don't know how they make that case in good conscious anymore.

Adding on to their already ridiculous hyperbole, Bernstein suggested that the reason certain venerable members of Trump’s administration had left was because the President was “in fact a danger to the national security of the United States. And that, too, comes through this report.”

Bernstein then pleaded with Republicans to read the report and oppose their President:

So you have to ask, at a certain point, when does a political party become beholden so much to a kind of self-interest of one man that it abandons its own principles about putting the country first in terms of what our system of law has always been about in this country. This is an opportunity, a real, smart, able Republicans and read this report. I think they can make some sophisticated judgments about their President. It is not pretty. It is an ugly, damning piece of business.

Before proclaiming there was collusion all over the place and insulting peoples’ intelligence, Bernstein assailed Attorney General William Barr’s reputation by proclaiming the AG was taking part in a “cover-up” (click “expand”):

Well, I think obviously, the Attorney General of the United States has thrown his lot in with those who believe there is a vast conspiracy against the President of the United States. And that he is echoing the line of the White House. I think what is so significant is how different Mueller's report is from how it was characterized in a rather astonishing press conference by the Attorney General. This is a vast narrative of a presidential cover-up. That is really what most of these 400 pages are about, including things having to do with Russia. It explains, I think, why there was so much lying by the President and those around him. And also, I think we're now able to understand from this report how judgments are possible about, one, the conduct of the President of the United States. Two, about the conduct of the Attorney General of the United States, these past days. Three, about the conduct of the investigation that Mr. Mueller conducted. We can make real judgments about it’s ethicacy and what he found. And fourth, I think we could make some real judgments about the conducts of the press over the past four years.

Bernstein was sharing all this supposed insight and delivering it with authority, but he admitted that he was “still halfway through the report.” This is CNN.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: