On Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” the host discusses the release of the Mueller report and the lack of evidence regarding the accusations of Russia collusion and obstruction of justice. Transcript and video below.
We have from A.G. Bill Barr, from the attorney general, we have this kind of summary of the Mueller report handed in late Friday. The one time I felt there was an actual excuse for a late Friday dump that was the end of the work week. The special counsel investigation was exhaustive. The question of Russia’s role during the elections has been examined by two congressional committees and U.S. intelligence agencies. Mueller’s findings were based on material gathered using twenty-eight hundred subpoenas nearly 500 search warrants and about 500 witness interviews, making it the most exhaustive probe yet. There was no finding of Trump collusion.
Mr. Mueller’s investigation didn’t establish that president Trump or any of his associates participated in the Russian conspiracies to affect the 2016 campaign, which did exist. Mr. Mueller said that coordination would be a crime but didn’t find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. No decision on obstruction. The Barr letter quoted Mueller as saying that Trump had not been exonerated on obstruction. But both Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said that they were making the determination not to prosecute on this. I’ll explain why in just a moment that this is a complete, complete exoneration. Anything else is a lie. It’s an indictment of our press. It’s an indictment of the Democrats.
You’re going to hear obviously oh this quote from Mueller that he was not exonerated for obstruction of justice but if indeed there was no proof of collusion after this massive investigation by, “no collusion no collusion no collusion”. Even Maxine Waters agrees there was no collusion from this investigation. Right. How could anything he did have been obstruction of justice? The whole thing was keyed around James Comey’s firing which he had the complete right to do in order to obstruct justice you have to break the law. Right. You have to break the law and do something dishonest to obstruct justice. The entire thing is a complete nonsense. And here’s Trump’s actual reaction which I thought was completely fair.
This was an illegal takedown, that failed. And hopefully, somebody is going to be looking at the other side so it’s complete exoneration. No collusion. No obstruction.
I’m sorry but it’s so absurd. If you were a reporter, I mean an actual reporter, not a Democrat agent, the question you would be asking now, the entire question, you would blink once with a big blink and say “whoa whoa wait a minute how did this get started”. You investigated the campaign, a campaign for president of the opposition party the party in opposition to the party in power the FBI started an investigation over what exactly? Some minor guy, Papadopoulos, or whoever making a comment about something. The Steele dossier that was oppo research paid for by Hillary Clinton. Just think for a minute of what the press would be saying if George W. Bush had done that to Barack Obama. This entire investigation started on that and the New York Times. Instead, Maggie Haberman, they’re compiling charts and calendars of how many times Trump criticized the investigation. Why wouldn’t he criticize the investigation? Why wouldn’t he be angry? I mean if you were investigated for something you knew you didn’t do and all this money, on the instigation of nothing.