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But were reliably told that the president has a second and more veenal agenda. hes attempting to force ukrainian president saturday linski to intervene in the 2020 u.s. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic capped date joe biden. mr. trump is not just soliciting ukraines help with his presidential campaign, hes using u.s. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. ive heard this a number of times, joe, that there is pressure bei...

Strangle the state of israel. which makes me angry. >> laura: all the sunday showsth they were asking the republicans, would you denounce trumps racism why doesnt chuck todd and stephanopoulos come down, when i say do you condemn -- >> they are hiding millions of d dollars that biden made in ukraine and in china and they are hiding it and they wont cover it for three months because they suck up to the democrats and they unfairly attack republicans. >> laura: i have to ask you -- >> it is a trage...

They are maddening "the squad." >> how about defending the state of israel? they want to economically strangle. the state of israel. which makes me angry. >> laura: all the sunday shows they were asking the republica republicans, would you denounce trumps racism why doesnt chuck todd and stephanopoulos come down, when i say do you condemn, -- >> they are hiding millions of dollars that biden n ukraine and in china and they are hiding it and they wont cover it for three months because they suck u...

Constitutional clash. >> laura: i think the president was right in how he answered this question. >> president trump: he found no collusion and nothing to do with obstruction because they made a ruling based on his findings and said no obstructions. >> he laid out evidence -- >> president trump: are you trying to say now there was collusion even though he said there is no collusion. he said no collusion. >> he said he didnt look at it. >> president trump: the report said no collusion. >> did you...

>> laura: basically used as a synonym there, correct? >> the mueller report doesnt say there is no conspiracy but other stuff. he said there is no evidence. not insufficient evidence. no evidence. thats a major clear statement. no evidence and conspiracy between the trump campaign and the russians. i dont know where stephanopoulos is thinking that mueller kind of made some kind of wishy-washy finding that leaves some -- >> laura: nobody was thinking that on collusion, correct? on this issue goin...

>> he abdicated his oath of office. he did it the other day on stephanopouloss interview. he is not protecting the national security interests of the united states. he is not committed to protecting our election integrity and security. >> laura: yes, he is. as we explained last week in the angle that argument is absurd. now, in fact, in many critical areas the trump administration has taken a tougher stance against russia than the obama administration has done. weve documented that show after sh...

Constitutional clash. >> laura: i think the president was right in how he answered this question. >> president trump: he found no collusion and nothing to do with obstruction because they made a ruling based on his findings and said no obstructions. >> he laid out evidence -- >> president trump: are you trying to say now there was collusion even though he said there is no collusion. he said no collusion. >> he said he didnt look at it. >> president trump: the report said no collusion. >> did you...

Very simple, its very simple. there was no crime. >> laura: joining me now is a former deputy assistant attorney general. who has it right here? i love that part of the interview. i thought the president was great there. but george stephanopolous -- you didnt answer questions of the special counsel in person basically on obstruction. >> so they are both kind of right. president trump is clearly right that he answered questions in writing. and that he -- that mueller did not find any kind of coll...

Over. he is coughing in the middle of my answer. i dont like that, you know? if youre going to cough, please leave the room. you want to do that a little differently there? >> we changed the angle. >> at some point -- at some point i look forward to frankly i would like to have people see my financial statement. >> laura: everyone who does tv knows theyre honest that that was lousy form for stephanopoulos not to stop the cameras from rolling and air that entire exchange but hey, anything to adva...

>> he abdicated his oath of office. he did it the other day on stephanopouloss interview. he is not protecting the national security interests of the united states. he is not committed to protecting our election integrity and security. >> laura: yes, he is. as we explained last week in the angle that argument is absurd. now, in fact, in many critical areas the trump administration has taken a tougher stance against russia than the obama administration has done. weve documented that show after sh...