Rudy Giuliani thinks that the ongoing probe into Russian interference with the 2016 U. S. elections should itself be investigated.<\/b>
\nFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani thinks that the ongoing probe into Russian interference with the 2016 U. S. elections and potential links between Donald Trump\u2019s campaign and Moscow should itself be investigated.
Giuliani, who joined President Trump\u2019s legal team in April, told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d that former FBI Director Robert Mueller did not necessarily do anything wrong but that the probe he leads has become unethical and possibly illegal \u2014 calling for an investigation into its origins.
\u201cI believe that the Mueller investigation should be investigated, not because necessarily of Mueller, but because of its genesis in this very, very now completely almost illegal and unethical probe, this Russian probe, that began with Peter Strzok in charge. And he didn\u2019t leave it until July of last year,\u201d Giuliani said in an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday.
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Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who oversaw the investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state, worked on the Russia probe but was taken off the investigation after his personal criticisms of Trump in text messages to a colleague were published.
Tapper asked Giuliani to clarify whether he was in fact calling for a special counsel to investigate the special counsel \u2014 eliciting laughter from the Republican New Yorker.
\u201cIt\u2019s not so unorthodox. I mean, it\u2019s happened,\u201d Giuliani replied. \u201cNo, I\u2019m saying the Justice Department should do it. And I\u2019m not really saying the special counsel. I\u2019m saying what led up to the special counsel. I don\u2019t think Mueller and his people need to be investigated \u2014 unless something comes out of that.\u201d
So, what should be investigated? According to Giuliani, there was a series of odd, unethical and illegal actions as the Justice Department shifted its focus from Clinton\u2019s emails to Russian interference. Giuliani offered his opinion, citing Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s report, that the people handling the Clinton investigation had done \u201calmost everything\u201d incorrectly and are now focused on the Russia probe.
Echoing Trump, Giuliani said that the Russia probe was based on documents that former FBI Director James Comey had \u201cillegally leaked.\u201d Tapper countered that Horowitz concluded Comey did not break the law \u2014 a point Giuliani acknowledged without argument. Nevertheless, Giuliani supports the idea of having Horowitz investigate the origins of the Russia probe to determine whether it\u2019s trustworthy.
\u201cI just said a bunch of illegal things,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cThat usually leads a court to say, \u2018The thing is tainted.\u2019 They may come out with a lot of problems if they don\u2019t get this resolved right now.\u201d
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