Rand Paul on Cohen Raid: Trump’s Right, the Mueller Probe Is a ‘Witch Hunt’

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PAUL: "We shouldn’t have these special prosecutors. It is actually hard politically to fire Mueller. But the thing is we never should have had Mueller in the first place because we’ve given too much power to a prosecutor who is no longer looking at Russia. He is looking at some kind of personal dealings with the President’s lawyer. And imagine, once they get this, they have all of the information that the President has ever discussed with the attorney and they say, 'Oh, we’re not going to use the stuff that’s attorney/client privilege.' But they’ll read it. And you think once they read it it might give them ideas of other places the look. There's this concept called parallel construction. They don’t actually use the information they read but they now have that information and can use it to go snooping in other areas. Really, this is a wide open — the President is right, it is a witch hunt but it's a wide open thing and a mistake to ever have these special prosecutors. That's why I’ve opposed it even for Andy McCabe and Peter Strzok and all these other people who abused their office. Let’s prosecute them in a normal fashion. Let’s don’t appoint the prosecutor that can go everywhere."