Michael Schmidt: ‘Collusion Is Not Illegal’
EXCERPT:
SCHMIDT: "Well, we started the discussion earlier this year when they were taking office about how there was no collusion, no coordination at all with the Russians, with Wikileaks, with anyone. Now that argument has moved into, 'Well, collusion is not illegal.' And that is true, there is nothing illegal about colluding. It may look unsavory, politically people may not like it. But the question would be where would Mueller come in on this and say, 'Okay, you were doing something illegal?' Would they say Don Jr. was a part of the scheme with the Russians to do this? Would people think that would be a bank shot legally? So, while this may look really bad, it may not change a lot for the underlying investigation and the legality and the question of what those consequences could mean for the Trump folks."