Interview with Chris Ruddy
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, our next guest comes at this situation two ways. |
| 0:04.4 | He calls the impeachment inquiry nothing more than a political act. |
| 0:08.8 | But he is one of the only Trump supporters to acknowledge that the president did something |
| 0:13.0 | wrong in this situation. |
| 0:14.8 | How do we reconcile the two? |
| 0:16.2 | What is the way forward here? |
| 0:17.5 | Chris Ruddy is back with us tonight. |
| 0:19.7 | Close friend of President Trump, CEO of Newsmax. |
| 0:22.8 | Good to see you as always. |
| 0:24.1 | Thank you for taking the opportunity. |
| 0:26.3 | So what is the answer to that? |
| 0:28.1 | Do you believe that what the president did on the call or with the president of Ukraine |
| 0:33.4 | was wrong, slash inappropriate? |
| 0:35.2 | Why? |
| 0:36.2 | Well, you used the word wrong. |
| 0:37.2 | I never used the word wrong. |
| 0:38.4 | But I do think that it was not the best political good thing to do. |
| 0:43.4 | I don't think he committed any crime, but I don't think he should have mentioned Biden's |
| 0:47.3 | name in the call. |
| 0:50.4 | I have defended the president because I believe he's been a victim of these investigations |
| 0:55.8 | where people think somebody committed a crime. |
| 0:58.7 | The whole Mueller thing, $50 million, 500 witnesses, they cleared him, it was all because |
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