Minor Manipulations to show the connection between Conditional Expectation and Covariance - Can someone help?

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Let $X$ and $Y$ be two random variables; I want to show now two things that should actually be not too hard to prove:

  1. If $\mathbb{E}(X\mid Y)=\mathbb{E}(X)$, then Cov$(X,Y)=0$

  2. If $\mathbb{E}(X\mid Y)=a+bY$, then b=Cov$(X,Y)/\sigma_X^2$, where $\sigma_X^2$ is the variance of $X$ and we assume that it exists and is non-zero.

Now for both things I should use the law of iterated expectations:

$$\mathbb{E}(\mathbb{E}(A\mid B))=\mathbb E (A)$$However I don't really see how to do it - can someone give me a hint?

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Hints:

For each question, use the fact that:

$\mathsf {Cov}(X,Y)~{=\mathsf E(XY)-\mathsf E(X)\,\mathsf E(Y)\\=\mathsf E(\mathsf E(X\mid Y)Y)-\mathsf E(X)\,\mathsf E(Y)}$

For (b) also use that: $\mathsf E(X)=\mathsf E(\mathsf E(X\mid Y))$ and $\sigma_X^2= \mathsf E(\mathsf E(X^2\mid Y))-\mathsf E(\mathsf E(X\mid Y))^2$