Hurt: Russia Investigation Is ‘Highly Tainted with Politics,’ ‘Highly Problematic’
KILMEADE: "So Charles for the “New York Times” is on the radio with me today and Fox News contributor. We didn’t know this was happening. Charles."
HURT: "Yeah."
KILMEADE: "We get this command now. I have never seen a probe gradually let out information. Before we get into what is in it, have you seen an approach like this?"
HURT: "This is very strange. This does a lot to undermine people’s confidence in both the F.B.I. And the D.O.J. As well and on the other side it has a lot of people accusing the Republicans of trying to play politics with this stuff. You can almost never be too cynical when it comes to Washington but I would like to see that this is exactly what it is. It’s an indictment of 12 Russians for — which is a good development. It means they are making progress on the real Russia investigation. It has nothing to do with collusion. Nothing politicized about it. Finding people who did try to interfere with our election. And hopefully go after them."
KILMEADE: "President is about to meet with Vladimir Putin. We also know the Mueller probe getting more and more unpopular. You know Washington. Does it have anything to do with the fact we got this press conference today?"
HURT: "I don’t know. That is where Charles Krauthammer used to say you can almost never be too cynical when it comes to things happening in Washington. But I hope no because like I said, these are important — this is important stuff. The indictment, what rod Rosenstein laid out today reveals that they did very good work. The f.b.I./d.o.j. Did very good work in terms of uncovering what these people did, where they did it. How they did it. And it reveals I think the degree to which the previous administration was asleep when this was going on. Then also, the D.N.C., you know, their response to this when it happened, of course, was to cover their tails more than it was to hand over everything to the F.B.I. This investigation should have begun long before it did."
KILMEADE: "ABC is reporting they are looking at the seven people surrounding President Trump’s friend Roger stone. And they are heavily investigating into that area. Does your reporting reveal the same thing?"
HURT: "Well, you know, that is the other part of the Russia investigation. Which I think is highly tainted with politics. And is highly problematic. I think also it does a lot to undermine the legitimate part of the investigation which is what they were talking about today.
KILMEADE: "Devin Nunes tweeting something out else. Chairman of oversight on the investigative committee in the house. He says we have this already. It’s on page four. He tweeted out why didn’t people read our report? We had this."
HURT: "Well, you know, a lot of it has to do with the incredible stonewalling that we have seen from the department of justice. And the F.B.I. Again, they are trying to cover their own tails there as well. All of that kind of, you know, unwilling to sort of work together. Lay it all out. Americans are grown-ups. They can handle the truth."
