Kellyanne Conway Deflects Questions On Trump's Ukraine Theory: 'If We're Doing This, We're Back To Mueller'
White House aide Kellyanne Conway went on a rant about former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation when she was told that Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election.
During an interview on CBS, Conway repeated talking points that have been used by Republicans in the past week to defend President Donald Trump against charges that he bribed Ukraine's president with an offer of a White House meeting and military aid.
"[Ambassador Gordon] Sondland, in his prepared remarks, saying he thought there was a quid pro quo for a meeting," Conway complained. "They had the meeting on Sept. 22 in New York and also the aid went to Ukraine earlier than that."
Neither the host or the guest took time to explain that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky never did get his Oval Office meeting and that the military aid was only released after a whistleblower came forward.
Brennan went on to ask Conway about Trump's Russia-backed conspiracy theory that contends Ukraine, not Russia, attacked the 2016 election.
"Why doesn't the president believe his own Justice Department and intelligence experts?" Brennan wondered.
"The president has said that he accepts that," Conway objected, "but that also there are plenty of ways to interfere in an election. And respectfully, if we're doing this, we're back to Mueller."