>> There were other discussions that were had during this interview, particularly about
the Mueller report.
I really enjoyed this exchange so lets take a quick look.
>> I have a phony witch hunt which is just a phony pile of stuff.
Mueller comes out, there's no collusion, and essentially ruling that no obstruction.
And they keep going with it, you know what?
People are angry about it.
>> I don't think that's what he found, but we don't have time for that now.
We'll talk about it later.
>> That is what he found, excuse me.
He found no collusion and he didn't find anything having to do with obstruction, because they
made a ruling based on his findings and they said no obstruction.
>> He didn't examine collusion.
He laid out evidence in obstruction.
>> Are you trying to say now that there was collusion even though he said there is no
collusion.
>> He didn't say there's no collusion.
>> You said no collusion.
>> He said he didn't look at- >> George, the report said, no collusion.
>> Did you read the report?
>> Yes, I did.
And you should read it too, come on let's go.
>> Let's go.
>> You should read it too George.
>> I love how he just walked out of the car because he got uncomfortable.
The Mueller report, which Trump obviously didn't read, because he doesn't like to read.
Did not clear him of collusion.
The Mueller report focused on conspiracy and indicated there was not enough evidence to
find Trump guilty of conspiracy, right?
So, collusion is not what Mueller was specifically referencing.
And the report does find instances of obstruction of justice.
But Trump doesn't like that fact, so he walks out of the car once he's called out on it.
>> Yeah, look, I think there is reclusion a conspiracy splitting hairs a little bit.
But Stephanopoulos is definitely technically correct, and he's trying to explain that,
he's not trying to split hairs.
He's just saying, look, they didn't talk about collusion, it's that's a broader topic.
So for example, I think that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians in terms of money
laundering well before his elections, and I'm worried that he colluded with them afterwards.
That doesn't mean he colluded during the election to get him to victory in the first place.
So that's why it's a broader term, and Stephanopoulos is right to parse out what happened there.
But I'm not like too overly worried about Trump saying no collusion, that's his code
word for no conspiracy during the election.
That's fine, that's not a big deal.
But when he says, you will do report summarizing it said no obstruction.
Yeah, your Attorney General, who is a lackey, and who you picked because he said that he
doesn't believe in the report, and doesn't believe that you should be investigated.
Came out and mischaracterized the report and Mueller came out and said, that's clearly
not what we said.
Everyone in the country now knows or a lot of people know.
And now everybody in the political world knows that in fact Mueller did think it was obstruction,
that's why he laid out over ten cases of obstruction.
And then went on TV and said, if we thought he didn't do it, we would have told you, and
we didn't tell you.
In other words, of course, he did it, he did the obstruction, there's no question about
it.
>> Exactly.
>> The only people who believe there is not enough evidence for obstruction right now
are Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi.
>> Burn, okay, so other notable parts of the interview that I wanted to mention.
The issue with North Korea and the deal/non-deal that Trump made with Kim Jong-un. Trump said
during the interview that he hopes North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un isn't building nuclear
weapons because, quote, he likes me a lot.
So that is his foreign policy strategy when it comes to North Korea, which is a disaster.
Also he falsely claimed that he did not campaign for the House during the 2018 midterms.
Trump claimed that he only focused on the Senate, which is why the Republicans have
maintained dominance in the Senate.
But that is not the case, in fact, the Brookings Institution found that the president endorsed
75 House and Senate candidates during the 2018 election, of whom 55% won their races.
Of the nearly 40 candidates Trump hit the campaign trail for, who were largely in safe
Republican districts, 64% of them won.
>> That's not a good record when in safe Republican districts, but he didn't do the host, except
you get 40 of them.
>> That's right.
>> So, and by the way, they lost by 40.
So now, I wanna go back to North Korea for a second cuz, there's a hilarious part that
they didn't put into the main interview, but that exists on tape, and they also released
later.
When talking about the love letters that he's writing back and forth with Kim Jong-un, he
talked about how Kim Jong-un wrote a nice letter about him, and he said, I'll actually
show you the letter.
But I'd show it to you a little bit off the record, but it was a very nice letter.
First of all, there is no such thing as a little bit off the record, right?
And, if it's classified no, don't show it to him, don't do that.
>> This is- >> But he's like, what it was a nice letter.
He said nice things about me, I want to show it to you.
I want to show it to you, even though it's classified.
I send people to prison for that, but I'd like to show it to you a little bit off the
record.
All right, and then he goes on, but I've received that many very nice letters.
Who cares that he sents you nice letters, okay.
He continues, and he's a very tough guy, he's a very smart person.
He doesn't treat a lot of people very well, but he's been treating me well.
>> My God.
>> Jesus Christ, that's like saying, Hitler has concentration camps but that makes him
a tough guy.
And a very smart guy, he's got a lot of camps, he doesn't treat people very well, but he
treats me well.
He wrote me a nice letter, I'd like to show you the letter.
And by the way that's not that far off as an analogy, because Kim Jong-un also has concentration
camps.
And the way that he's treated his own people is historic.
It's one of the most brutal regimes of our lifetimes.
But this man-child is like, but he wrote me a nice letter.
This is the same guy who earlier had said That he had quote, falling in love with Kim
Jong-un.
My God, if a Democratic said that.
If Nancy Pelosi had said she'd fallen in love with Kim Jong-un, would the republicans ever
stop talking about it?
I'm not even done, he goes on to say, right now we have a very good relationship, we have
a really very strong relationship.
>> Hasn't North Korea already stock filed nuclear weapons?
>> Yes, and Stephanopoulos said you know they have 30 nukes already.
He said, well look, first of all I didn't, in terms of trusting him, even though he has
30 nukes.
He said, but it would be very insulting to him.
Like if he said, I don't trust you cuz behind my back you built 30 nukes.
I mean, you don't wanna insult them cuz he's sending me such nice letters!
Last one he says, I think I understand him and I think he understands me.
And he promised me he wouldn't be doing testing.
>> My god, I can't, this is- >> Okay.
>> He is banking on letters from a dictator, in order to make decisions about US foreign
policy toward an advisary >> Right now, Neville Chamberlain somewhere
going, yes, this guy's making me look strong in comparison.
Whatever is the opposite of rolling over in your grave.
He promised me he wouldn't be doing testing.
He did the testing in May Two different sets of missile tests in May, we already know he
did it, and we already know he has the nukes.
Trump turns around and says, Iran, we are never going to let them enrich their uranium,
okay.
So we can't do any kind of deal with Iran, because my god they might get nukes.
Your buddy, your lover, already has 30 nukes, and you're letting him get away with it because
he wrote a nice letter.
Hey, Rouhani in Iran and Maduro in Venezuela.
What the good news is you might solve your problems all you have to do is write him a
nice letter and say Mr. Trump you are an incredible leader and I love you my.
Well that's fine, we're fine with Iran, we're fine with Venezuela, did they like me, they
liked me.
This man shot 25th amendment, do it right now except there's no one with any courage
or bravery in Washington, Republican or Democrat.
They're gonna let this madman continue to be our president.