witch-hunt will be meddling with the midterm elections especially now that republicans, stay tough, are taking the lead in the polls there was no collusion, except by the democrats. one of those democrats pursuing the president adam schiff. he keeps say there is no evidence to support the allegation that the fbi placed a spy inside the trump camp. that phrasing leaves the door open to one or more informants conducting surveillance of the trump camp. listen. there is no evidence to support that spy theory. you know, this is just a piece of propaganda the president wants tout o and repeat. giuliani said again he wants to see the intel on this spy issue before agreeing to a presidential interview with mueller. doesn t have time until the on again and off again summit with kim jong un. the president announced sorry he can t spend more time on the russia probe because he has to deal with north korea and other issues like the economy, except when he tweets more than a dozen times about t
rudy guliani said he came on board hoping mueller would operate in good faith. he said learning that the fbi had an informant talked to trump campaign staffers suspected of having ties to russian taints the investigation. just further reiterates what i ve come to conclude after two months of being in this and the president knew from very early on, which this is rigged. you have 13 democrats, you ve got a focus on things that didn t happen. no russia collusion. no obstruction. just defending yourself. now we re into the basis of it being illegitimate. the president and his lawyer claim the informant was spying on the campaign. the top democrat on the house intelligence committee pushing back on that. there s no evidence to support that spy theory. this is just a piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat, this is part of the propaganda machine.
decision to appoint mueller. either it s evidence or not. reporter: and on the topic of this conspiracy theory, a number of lawmakers were briefed by intelligence officials and they were briefed about that fbi informant, many of them have not really come out in support of the president s claim that there was a spy, including a number of republicans. watch this. were you surprised with what you learned? nothing particularly surprising. there is no evidence to sup back and forth that spy theory. as far as what i have seen to date, it appears that there was an investigation not of the campaign, but of certain individuals who have a history that we should be suspicious of, that predate the presidential campaign of 2015, 2016. should the president use the term spygate? i don t know, probably not, but i don t know.
conclusions and then if you actually did have someone trying to find out from the campaign what was going on in the campaign and who they were talking to, as opposed to legitimately having reasons to believe that they should be there, we ll see. there is no evidence to support that spy theory. this is just a piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat and certainly, we ve seen this pattern before. joining me now, aaron, partner of swan street strategies and ally, political reporter. good day to you both. ally, it appears so far there is zero evidence of a spying operation. so why does the president insist it happened? does he know something others don t? yeah, i think that s really a question only he can answer but this is a made for trump new level of branding that he s bringing to this inform paant talking to several members of his campaign. it s helpful to put this out to
conflated it with what he had been saying was a politically motivated effort to tarnish him and republicans, particularly him. and the important point is, this is the sort of thing he did when you were in the campaign. when you re the president, it has impact, and that s what comey s tweet was referring to, when you say this about the fbi and an ongoing federal investigation, it has consequences, and it has implications. the president doesn t seem as focused on that, as he does on protecting himself and his own reputation. you heard him say this was about doing a service to the country. this is a self-interested action that he s taken in consultation with his private attorney to try to undercut the investigation that s going on. the top democrat on the intelligence house intelligence committee he said what the president is doing, the president s spy theory, in adam schiff s words, is making a major threat to the rule of law