CNN’s Tapper: Papadopolous’ Attorney Was Defending the Federal Gov’t and Was Critical of Trump

RUSH EXCERPT:

BLITZER: "That’s Thomas Breen, the attorney for George Papadopoulos sentenced to two weeks in prison for lying to federal prosecutors. Bringing in Jake Tapper who’s done a lot of reporting on this George Papadopoulos case and had a chance to sit down with him. Let’s get your reaction to what we just heard from his attorney who was basically defending the way the federal government behaved and he was critical of trump."

TAPPER: "Critical of President Trump saying President Trump has done more to impede the Russia investigation than his client George Papadopoulos had. Robert Miller saying asking for up to six months in prison for Papadopoulos and didn’t get today. Only two weeks. He was saying because Papadopoulos lied to the FBI about when it was that he first had that contact with Joseph Mifsud who told him he had Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and lied about this and impeded the investigation and the attorney argued in court that trump is much more of a hindrance than Papadopoulos and seemed to side with Mueller coming the fact that, a, the Russians did interfere in the election. But his argument is it had very, very little to do with his client George Papadopoulos."