TAPPER: Do you think the president is going to fire Mueller?
CAPUTO: I don’t think he’s going to fire Mueller. I think Mueller has to get his investigation in hand.
We have Weissmann who congratulated the deputy attorney general on insubordination against Trump. He then showed up at Hillary Clinton’s victory party. We’ve got Strzok and his lover both who were entwined in this investigation, you know, 10,000 texts between them.
And it goes on and on and on. This is no different. The Republican criticism of this investigation is no different than what we were seeing of the Ken Starr investigation.
This is not a highly partisan event. This is a typical event.
NAVARRO: No that’s —
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NAVARRO: What you just said isn’t actually true, it’s the same criticism about political witch hunt that we heard during Benghazi, it’s the same criticism that we heard during Ken Starr. It is a politicized —
CAPUTO: It’s politics as usual.
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JEN PSAKI, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: But what this is about is whether the sitting president of the United States worked for the foreign adversary to rig the election and then covered it up.
CAPUTO: Zero proof. Zero indictments, zero guilty pleas —
PSAKI: Zero indictment —
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CAPUTO: — zero on Russia. There is nothing on Russia. Everything is a process.
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PSAKI: Let me just — let me just finish and make one more point.
I worked on a presidential transition. Your e-mails are government property.
NAVARRO: Yes.
PSAKI: This is totally fake, made-up, conspiracy-driven thing.
CAPUTO: But this is —
PSAKI: This is not real.
Also a content of these e-mails are about gossip about Senate nominees. I don’t think Mueller cares about that. Mueller does not care about that.
Let’s get back to the focus of whether the sitting president of the United States worked with Russia to rig the election and then covered it up.
That’s the big question. Who cares about all this other stuff?