"He Wants His Cake And Eat It Too"
The Investigation
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3.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Investigation. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm senior executive producer Chris Vlasto, and I'm joined here by John Santucci, the senior investigative reporter covering Trump. |
| 0:15.6 | And our special guest, Mary Bruce, senior congressional correspondent. |
| 0:19.9 | ABC News had a big interview over the last week with Donald Trump and George Stephanopoulos, |
| 0:25.4 | and it was a big special on Sunday night for the network. |
| 0:28.7 | And we're going to talk more and listen to some of the bites from the interview with our team. |
| 0:33.0 | You know what? Nobody even brings Russia up anymore. |
| 0:35.0 | What bothers me is when you did nothing wrong and they |
| 0:38.9 | have a phony witch hunt. That bothers me. Then Mueller, who hates Trump, he's a never-trumper, |
| 0:44.8 | and then he puts 18 people who have that he hates you. George. Well, no, he hates me. And then |
| 0:49.5 | he puts 18 people on who are Democrats. Not all Democrats. Well, they're very close, and they were contributed to Hillary, and some of them even worked |
| 0:57.8 | for Hillary Clinton. |
| 0:58.8 | He was screaming. |
| 1:00.0 | He was calling Robert Mueller honorable. |
| 1:01.3 | Why the switch? |
| 1:03.1 | I'm not switching or anything. |
| 1:04.8 | I would hope he's honorable, but you know what? |
| 1:08.5 | He gave us no collusion. |
| 1:10.0 | That was a very big thing. |
| 1:11.1 | He did not say that. Frankly, he did say that. He explicitly didn't look at collusion. |
| 1:15.3 | He said there was no, I did. He said there was insufficient evidence to say there was a conspiracy. |
| 1:20.2 | Read the conclusion of the report. |
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