Andrew McCabe: No Equivalence on How Hillary and Trump Acquire Opposition Info from Foreigners

RUSH EXCERPT:

CUOMO: “You shouldn’t have Russians giving you anything and shouldn’t have been there the way Clinton did. Do you see these as analogs?”

MCCABE: “There’s no equivalence between the two examples. To openly invite foreign intelligence officers representatives from a hostile foreign government to steal information, to acquire opposition research in anyway, any illegal way they might do that is one thing. For a campaign to hire a law firm, an American law firm that then turns around and hires an American research company that then contracts out with a foreign individual, that is not illegal. Campaigns are allowed to hire individuals, foreign individuals and to pay those individuals for the services that they provide and it would add too Chris that the example of the Clinton campaign it is that very foreign individual that stepped forward and provided the information he had collected to the FBI because he was so troubled by what he was seeing. It’s odd that a foreign individual involved in the campaign process was familiar enough with the threat and with the concerns that that information posed that he stepped forward and provide it to the FBI and not something obviously that the president and his staff would be willing to do.”