CNN’s Chris Cuomo got into it with Republican New York Congressman Sean Duffy over the as-yet-unreleased Mueller report, telling Duffy that it’s “not true” that the report concluded that “collusion with the Russians didn’t exist.”
On Tuesday night’s edition of Cuomo Prime Time, Duffy bashed the news media over its reporting on the Mueller investigation, telling Cuomo, “You’re the reporters. You have a job to make sure you’re putting out the right facts, and for two years, you put out the wrong facts.”
“What wrong facts did we put out?” Cuomo asked.
“That there’s Russia collusion,” Duffy said. “You’re telling me I have to present the bottom line, that there’s no collusion…”
“There’s 100% behavior by people around the president that qualifies as collusion,” Cuomo interrupted, adding “Collusion is not a crime. It’s a behavior.”
“But collusion with Russia didn’t exist,” Duffy saids
“That’s not true,” Cuomo said. “Mueller says he couldn’t make a criminal case that any of those people helped the Russians interfere. It’s one issue.”
Duffy then changed the subject several times, including a tangent on the discredited lie that President Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower, and Cuomo continued to call
But then, Cuomo reiterated his point about collusion, telling Duffy that “collusion is when you’re doing sneaky things with people that you know you’re not supposed to do it with. Might it be a crime? Maybe, maybe not. That’s what was going on with the Trump people, and we don’t know whether or not he knew about it.”
Cuomo is factually correct that Attorney General William Barr‘s memo makes no mention of the word “collusion,” but rather states that Mueller did not determine that criminal conspiracy between Trump or his campaign and the Russian government could be proven.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.