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>> he abdicated his oath of office. he did it the other day on stephanopoulos's 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. we've documented that show after show. but none of that matters when the reporter asking the questions has an agenda, even if he is a...

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 didn't look at it. >> president trump: the report said no collusion. >> did you read the report? >> president trump: yes, i do. you should read it, too. >> laura: focusing on the...

Very simple, it's 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 didn't 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 collusion. george stephanopolous, i think, might be correct although we haven't seen it all that presi...

Over. he is coughing in the middle of my answer. i don't like that, you know? if you're 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 they're honest that that was lousy form for stephanopoulos not to stop the cameras from rolling and air that entire exchange but hey, anything to advance the trump's mean narrative. the last part is telling where he does the -- and so he is just w...

>> he abdicated his oath of office. he did it the other day on stephanopoulos's 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. we've documented that show after show. but none of that matters when the reporter asking the questions has an agenda, even if he is a...