Dem Strategist Mark Penn: Mueller Investigation Is a ‘National Waste of Time’ and a ‘Threat to American Civil Liberties’

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ASMAN: "Is so is Donald Trump right that it is time to wrap up the Mueller probe? To former Hillary Clinton strategist mark Penn who a lot of people would be surprised to find out agrees with the president on this. Why, mark?"
PENN: "Well, look, I spent a year of my life fighting the Ken Starr dependent counsel on behalf of president Clinton, and really that was a waste of a year for the country. I think now that we have achieved a level of peace and prosperity, frankly we haven’t had since the late ‘90s, once again we’re about to be consumed possibly by an investigation and impeachment, and it’s wrong. It affects our foreign policy. Every day this investigation seems to undermine itself. The Carter Page warrant really was not based on anything much more than the dossier and a Yahoo! Article. Look at this trial of Paul Paul Manafort. Where is Russia."
ASMAN: "Well, and the judge clearly, mark, as you well know, the judge in the trial has said this has nothing to do with what you, Mr. Mueller and your team the, were empowered to do which was to check into Russia collusion. Has nothing to do with that at all, so you’re right. But like Ken Starr’s, as you mentioned, it has spun into different things. I’m just wondering if Mr. Mueller is less interested in why he was empowered in the fist place — to investigate Russia collusion with the trump campaign — than he is in getting rid of Donald Trump.
PENN: "Well, I think there’s no question that he’s going to have a report here that tries to say, well, maybe he didn’t find collusion, but maybe it was close and there was obstruction of justice and all of these facts. And I think that he’s going to try the Ken Starr route. If he does it before this congressional election, I suspect like in ‘98 it will boomerang, and if he does it after, he’ll see which way Congress goes to see if he can get impeachment, although it’s a fruitless exercise in the absence of any evidence that the public doesn’t know. Everybody saw the firing of James Comey, everybody knows his story in the terms of what he did in these investigations. You know, the whole thing now has become a national waste of time and preoccupation when we should be debating the issues."