Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” network chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell said President Donald Trump’s assertion that his company doing business with Russia is not illegal was “correct.”
Mitchell said, “Well, that’s putting more pressure on President Trump and also, you know, weakening Trump. I mean, Putin is using every lever that he has. And Trump had put pressure on him over Ukraine. So he is, through Peskov, his right-hand person, saying, “Yeah, we’ve got those emails,” and showing the emails of Michael Cohen. Look, this changes the timeline. It puts this front and center in the campaign at the very time when the Russians were hacking, beginning to hack the Democratic accounts and, you know, the accounts of the campaign manager of Hillary Clinton.
She added, “We don’t have the final connection. And the president’s correct. It’s not illegal for an international businessman to be doing the business. The conflicts of interest are profound. It’s not illegal yet. But we do know that the CFO of the Trump Organization is also a cooperating witness. And the fact that they put, in that criminal information, that Cohen had been talking to the family members. That’s a small universe. That’s Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Jared. So it now brings the family into it. And of course, the family, they can be indicted, if the president, arguably, cannot.”
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