Trump: impeachment talk 'totally ridiculous'

>>> DID YOU AT ANY TIME URGE
FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY
IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM TO
CLOSE OR BACK DOWN THE
INVESTIGATION INTO MICHAEL
FLYNN.
>> NO.
NO.
NEXT QUESTION.
>> THAT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP
DISPUTING A REPORT THIS WEEK
THAT HE FIRED FBI DIRECTOR COMEY
PRECISELY BECAUSE HE DID NOT
LIKE THE INVESTIGATION INTO
WHETHER TRUMP'S ASSOCIATES
COLLUDED WITH RUSSIA IN ANY WAY.
IT WAS A HEAD SPINNING WEEK.
CONGRESSMAN KINSINGER, LET ME
START WITH YOU, YOU HEARD OUR
CONVERSATION WITH MARCO RUBIO,
BUT HE SAYS THERE'S A GROWING
BODY OF ED THAT THE REASON
PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRED COMEY, AS
THE PRESIDENT STATED IN THAT
INTERVIEW WITH LESTER HOLT AND
IN THE "NEW YORK TIMES" STATED
THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS TRYING TO
GET HIM TO BACK OFF THE FLYNN
INVESTIGATION.
>> AS A CURRENT MEMBER OF
CONGRESS, I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL
BECAUSE TO MAKE ACCUSATIONS AND
TO ASSUME BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE
HEARD IN THE MEDIA, BASED ON A
REPORT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN, WE NEED
ALL THIS INVESTIGATION TO MAKE
THAT CASE.
THAT'S WHY I ACTUALLY CALLED FOR
THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR, THE MORNING BEFORE
IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
BECAUSE THIS HAS BECOME SO
POLITICAL.
I HAVE FRIENDS ON THE LEFT WHO
ARE SAYING IMPEACHMENT.
IS THAT'S NOT HELPFUL.
WE NEED HONEST ANSWERS, IT'S NOT
GOING TO NECESSARILY CHANGE WHAT
PEOPLE THINK.
BUT ONE OF MY BIGGEST CONCERNS
RIGHT NOW IS NOT 2018, OR 2020,
IT'S THE INSTITUTION OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT AND THE FAITH IN
GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN SO UNDER
MINED THAT I ACTUALLY WORRY
ABOUT STABILITY IN THE
LONG-TERM.
SO FOR ME, THIS SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR, SPECIAL COUNSEL IS
THE BEST WAY TO TRY TO GET TO AN
ANSWER THAT MOST PEOPLE CAN LOOK
AT AND SAY, I AGREE, DISAGREE,
WHATEVER THAT TURNS OUT TO BE.
>> HERE'S PRESIDENT TRUMP BEING
ASKED AT THAT PRESS CONFERENCE
ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.
TAKE A LISTEN.
>> AS YOU LOOK BACK OVER THE
PAST SIX MONTHS OR YEAR, HAVE
YOU HAD ANY RECOLLECTION WHERE
YOU HAVE WONDERED IF ANYTHING
YOU HAVE DONE HAS BEEN SOMETHING
THAT MIGHT BE WORTHY OF CRIMINAL
CHARGES IN THIS INVESTIGATION OR
IMPEACHMENT AS SOME ON THE LEFT
ARE SAYING.
>> DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN FROM
TEXAS DID SO A FEW DAYS AGO WHEN
THE ED, THE FACTUAL EVIDENCE,
NOT JUST THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE OR MEDIA REPORTS IS NOT
THERE YET.
>> I DO THINK YOU HAVE TO BE
CAUTIOUS AND YOU HAVE TO APPLAUD
THE PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT LIKE THE
CONGRESSMAN WHO CAME OUT AND
SAID WE NEED A SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR, BUT I ALSO THINK
THAT YOU HAVE THINGS LIKE
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, AND IN
MY CRIMINAL LAW BACKGROUND, I
CAN TELL YOU WHAT OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE IS.
YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT THE
PRESIDENT'S OWN WORDS AND YOU
CAN BUILD A LEGITIMATE CASE THAT
IS OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE AND
MOVING FORWARD, THE FIRST
ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT FOR BOTH
CLINTON AND NIXON WERE
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
AND WE HAVE A LOT OF SMOKE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE, AND USUALLY
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S
FIRE.
>> WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO ADAM,
I WAS AGAINST A PRESPECIAL
PROSECUTOR, SPECIAL PROSECUTORS
HAVE A HISTORY OF PROSECUTING.
WHY?
BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO JUSTIFY
THEIR EXISTENCE.
LOOK AT FITZGERALD, THEY GOT
SC
SCOOTER LIBBY, WHEN YOU TURN
THIS FROM A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION, TO NOW A KRM,
ACCORDING TO WHAT WE'RE HEARING,
POTENTIALLY CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION, BOB MUELLER HAS
TO JUSTIFY HIS EXISTENCE, WHICH
MEANS HE'S GOT TO FIND SOMEONE
WHO DID SOMETHING WRONG AT SOME
POINT IN TIME.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S REALLY AN
ISSUE HERE.
WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN
ANSWER THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, WHAT
WAS THE ROLE OF RUSSIANS IN THIS
COUNTRY AND THIS ELECTION.
WE HAVE NOW CHANGED THAT TO
REALLY THE FOCUS, I THINK, IS
GOING TO BE MORE ON IS THERE A
COVER-UP.
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK, AT LEAST
FROM EVERYTHING WE'RE HEARING,
THERE'S ANY EVIDENCE OF
COLLUSION, ANY EVIDENCE FROM MY
PERSPECTIVE HAVING WORK WITH THE
THE CAMPAIGN, I WAS STUNNED THAT
THEY WERE ORGANIZED ENOUGH TO
COLLUDE WITH ANYBODY.
SO THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE SHIFTED
THE FOCUS FROM IT'S ABOUT THE
RUSSIANS, TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
AND WHO CAN WE NAIL, THAT IS NOT
GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY.
>> WHAT IS THE REACTION TO WORLD
LEADERS TO WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
>> I THINK THEY LIKED WHAT THEY
HEARD, GIVING THE OWNERSHIP OF
TALKING ABOUT MUSLIMS TO
MUSLIMS.
AND THE PRESIDENT WAS RIGHT IN
SEEING THAT MUSLIMS NEED TO TAKE
THE LEAD IN PUSHING BACK AGAINST
THE VIOLENT EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY.
WHAT YOU DIDN'T HEAR FROM THE
PRESIDENT ARE THE CULTURAL
SIGNALS, YOU DIDN'T HEAR FOR
EXAMPLE ANY APPLAUSE TO THAT
SPEECH.
THE LEADERS WERE LISTENING VERY
INTENTLY, SOME OF THAT IS
CULTURAL, BUT YOU DIDN'T SEE THE
KIND OF RECOGNITION WHEN
PRESIDENT BUSH OR PRESIDENT
OBAMA SAID SOME VERY SIMILAR
THINGS.
THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T DO SOME
THINGS YOU WOULD EXPECTED
CULTURELY, HE DIDN'T OPEN UP A
GREETING WITH AN ARABIC HELLO TO
THE GROUP.
I WANT TO SEE THIS PRESIDENT
COME BACK TO AMERICA AND PUT
ACTIONS INTO WORDS, AND FOR
EXAMPLE, IT IS RAMADAN AND IS
THE PRESIDENT GOING TO BREAK
WITH TRADITION?
OR IS HE GOING TO KEEP TRADITION
IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
IF HE KEEPS ON HIS DIRECTION AND
SAYS ONE THING BUT DOESN'T
FOLLOW UP WITH MEANING, HE'S
GOING TO TOTALLY PUNCTURE
ANYTHING HE HAS SAID THAT WERE
GOOD AND STRONG DURING THIS
SPEECH.
>> NOT TO THE MUSLIM WORLD, BUT
TO JUDGES IN THIS COUNTRY WHO
WILL LOOKING AT AN ISLAMIC BAN,
IT IS GOING TO BE HARD NOW TO
SAY THIS PRESIDENT HATES

Trump: impeachment talk 'totally ridiculous'

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