'Someone Is Lying': Lindsey Graham Is Called Out For Claiming Trump Didn't Do 'One Thing' To Obstruct Mueller
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) insisted on Sunday that there is no evidence that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, despite the fact that the special counsel listed at least ten incidences that he felt rose to a level of obstruction.
"Well, [Attorney General William Barr] gave a four-page summary, does the report indicate there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians?" Graham asked. "I think the idea that this president obstructed justice is absurd. He turned over a million documents to the special counsel, almost everybody around him testified. I can’t think of one thing the President Trump did to stop Mueller from doing his job. He never claimed executive privilege. My point of view, I have heard all I need to really know and I want to look and find out all of this happened."
"But on that point of attempting to obstruct justice or not," CBS host Margaret Brennan told Graham. "The president seems to want to continue to litigate this, because he came out this week and said and denied he had ever thought or told anyone to fire Don McGahn, the White House counsel, but that directly contradicts sworn testimony that was in the Mueller report, where Don McGahn said he almost quit he was so pressured to fire the special counsel."
"I think it is all just theatrics," Graham replied, dismissing prima facie obstruction concerns. "It doesn’t matter what he said to Don McGahn, it is what he did. The president never obstructed."