Fox Business’ Trish Regan Battles Law Prof on Mueller Probe: The President Shouldn’t Be Lying to Americans
Fox Business’ Trish Regan battled it out with attorney and law professor Alex Little over special counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe — asking why the investigation is looking at Donald Trump’s campaign rather than Hillary Clinton‘s, which funded a dossier that relied on intelligence from Russians.
“Don’t forget that it was Hillary Clinton’s camp that sent a spy over to Russia to foreign soil to dig up dirt, which they paid for, and the Russians provided,” Regan said. “So it just seems in all fairness if you’re looking at the Trump campaign, you’d want to be looking at the other side too if you really want to know what Russia was up to. Why don’t they?”
“Trish, in all fairness, I think what you’ve seen the special counsel do is follow the facts where they lead,” Little replied. “Right now you already have, publicly, indictments, evidence that the Russian intelligence services tried to infiltrate the Democratic campaign to release emails to help the Trump campaign. Now, that’s what they’ve seen, that FBI agents have corroborated, they brought it to a grand jury, there’s been an indictment, so I don’t think you can criticize that piece of this investigation.”
“Alex, I just wonder why are they not looking to the Hillary side of things,” she pressed, launching into a tirade about how the left thinks the Trump Tower meeting is collusion and they weren’t even “paying for anything.”
“If I’m Vladimir Putin, I like the idea of planting little bread crumbs along the way that the media and the left will then go out to find. Yet the dossier is not being looked at?” she said.
“Look, that’s a great speech, but I trust the investigative process more than I do our ability as outsiders to connect these dots,” Little responded.
“Despite the clear bias by so many involved?” Regan asked.
“Trish, I’ve been a federal prosecutor for a number of years. I’ve worked with agents on both sides,” Little explained, clearly not buying it. “I think the better question is does the dossier have information which is true or correct.”
He then explained that the legal processes in place to ensure these investigations are impartial are practically bulletproof and that people can’t just get FISA warrants because they want them. When Regan again tried to defend Donald Trump Jr. and President Donald Trump, saying the Trump Tower meeting wasn’t all that bad, Little countered that the main problem was lying about it.
“The President of the United States shouldn’t be lying to anybody,” Little said. “As a defense counsel, as a prosecutor, I tell folks not to lie.”
Regan said: “This is what I’m worried about for our country right now. Vladimir Putin is a pretty smart guy. He operated in the KGB. He knows how to plant things right now and he knows how to use the openness of our society, the trust in our democracy against us.”
“And he knows how to use state media,” Little quipped.
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