"There's Nothin' Here"
The Investigation
ABC News
3.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the investigation. I'm Kira Phillips, and this is our first episode, and we are so glad that you are here with us. |
| 0:14.5 | Now, our goal here is to take you inside our task force here at ABC News, as we're looking at those allegations of intrusion, collusion, |
| 0:22.1 | obstruction, all the things that special counsel is looking into as we wait for the Mueller |
| 0:26.8 | report to drop. By my side, the head of our task force, Chris Vlasto. You know, it was 20 years ago, Chris, |
| 0:33.3 | you were the guy behind ABC News and one of the biggest stories. We were the first to broadcast |
| 0:40.3 | the allegations involving President Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Do you see |
| 0:45.0 | differences, similarities here? Listen, it's amazing to me to think that we're in this situation |
| 0:51.1 | right now because 20 years ago, I thought the Lewinsky story was the |
| 0:54.8 | biggest story of my lifetime. And actually, I have to say, there's nothing bigger than this |
| 0:59.1 | Donald Trump story. Everything is on steroids. I mean, every investigation, every lead, I don't know |
| 1:06.4 | what's going to come of this Mueller report. I don't know if there's going to be another impeachment, |
| 1:11.3 | but I know that the world is watching and listening. All the stories are going to come of this Mueller report. I don't know if there's going to be another impeachment, but I know that the world is watching and listening. All the stories we've done over the last |
| 1:16.1 | year and a half have been eaten up by the readers and the listeners and the viewers of ABC News. |
| 1:22.7 | I mean, no one was paying this much attention to the Monica Lewinsky story. But the one other big difference that everyone always asked me about the difference between |
| 1:31.1 | Bill Clinton and Donald Trump is the fact that, you know, Bill Clinton and the Clinton people |
| 1:36.8 | were attacked, Ken Starr constantly every day, tried to destroy the man. |
| 1:43.8 | But the difference was Bill Clinton had other people do it. |
| 1:46.8 | Donald Trump does it himself. |
| 1:48.9 | I've never seen anything quite like it. |
| 1:50.5 | So it's going to be an amazing thing to see what happens when Mueller's report comes out. |
| 1:55.7 | But it's not just you and me. |
| 1:57.2 | We've got some help here. |
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