MSNBC’s Tur on Mueller Report: ‘This Vindicates the President on Collusion’

RUSH EXCERPT:

TUR: "Reading directly from the summary that was sent to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Jerry Nadler called it a brief summary and that it was, and he laid out the headlines. Julia Ainsley is with us. One thing I still have a question on, Julia. We joined Pete slightly late. Whether Mueller found any evidence of conspiracy."
AINSLEY: "Glad you asked that, Katy. I just got to a footnote. What he decided to investigate was coordinated, this would be conspiracy charges. Wanted to be able to define coordinated. Whether or not the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian efforts. I’ll read, it’s key. It says in assessing conspiracy charges special counsel considered whether members of the campaign coordinated with Russian election interference activities. Special counsel, this is key, defined coordination as an agreement, tacit or expressed between the Trump campaigned the Russian government on election interference. In that case they did not find that coordination. Said there were several attempts by the Russian government to reach out to the Trump campaign but it says despite multiple offers from Russian affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign, the special counsel did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts. He’s spelling out exactly what he is clearing them from and says tacitly or expressly they did not answering a big question. A lot of people thought there were signals. It wasn’t expressed. The president said as a candidate, if you’re listening, could that have been tacit? Robert Mueller said that was not no coordination or conspiracy."
TUR: "This vindicates the president on collusion.
AINSLEY: "It does. Vindicate him on collusion. Remember, collusion is a term that was laid out in the charge given to special counsel Robert Mueller when he got this assignment but not a criminal charge. There’s a statute on collusion. What you would have would be conspiracy or coordination. That is what Robert Mueller is answering here because he’s sticking to the criminal statute and been cleared, cleared the president and his campaign and anyone associated with it on both of those things."

(Via NewsBusters)