Wednesday on NBC’s “Today,” moderator of “Meet the Press” Chuck Todd said the Russia probe has caused “a crisis” in our country with our institutions.
“I think it’s pretty clear the Russia investigation has consumed the President on every level,” Todd said. “All of the circumstantial evidence here says the president is trying to do everything he could to stop this investigation, for one reason or the other. We don’t have the motivation behind it just yet. But for one — and he’s asked people to step in multiple times. Yes, James Comey will have to explain why, if he was so concerned to write a memo, he didn’t take it to his superior, in this case, either the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. I’m sorry. We’re in a crisis here as a country with our institutions.”
“If the reasoning is, what the FBI director is supposedly going say, he didn’t know who to trust at the Justice Department —if we’re in a situation where the director of the FBI can’t trust his superiors, that superior offering his resignation to the president, where are we here?” He continued. “We’re not in a very good place. And big picture-wise, folks on Capitol Hill, this is another gut-check moment for them.”
He added, “And the executive branch is not functioning right now.”
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