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Chris Wallace to Sen. Coons: McCarthyism to Accuse Trump Of Russian Collusion, Where's Evidence?
Real Clear Politics ^ | March 5, 2017 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 03/05/2017 9:49:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace tells Democratic Senator Chris Coons that continued talk of collusion between Trump and Russia has a whiff of McCarthyism. He asked if the point of this continued talk, that has gone on for months, is an attempt to derail Trump's agenda.

Coons would concede to Wallace that he has "no hard evidence of collusion."

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Why would you suggest in that clip that I just played for Senator Cotton that there are FBI transcripts that show, and I want to get your words, "provide very critical insights" in the collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians?

SEN. CHRIS COONS (D-DE): What I was trying to make clear, Chris, and I appreciate a chance to restate this, is that I don't have, and I don't know of, any conclusive proof one way or the other about whether there was collusion between senior levels of the Trump campaign and Russian officials. But I believe that our intelligence community, which is the most sophisticated in the world, has intercepts, has raw intelligence, and it's important that the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting an investigation be given access to those intercepts, to transcripts of those intercepts, so that they can get to the bottom of this.

The American people, Chris, want us to move forward. They want us to work together in Washington and it's important for us to remember that the Russians are our adversaries. Republicans and Democrats, we have different political agendas, different political views, but we can and should work together to make sure that what intelligence there is, is gotten access to by the intelligence committee....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: coons; media; russia; trump
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1 posted on 03/05/2017 9:49:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

coons was being a massive weasel in that interview, even for him.

he didn’t have evidence that proof of collusion even existed, but if there is evidence, he believes that the intelligence community would have it due to their intercepts. makes you wonder where the evidence came from . . .


2 posted on 03/05/2017 9:53:51 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I saw that. He actually apologized.


3 posted on 03/05/2017 9:57:30 PM PST by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Right now it looks as though the entire “Russia Trump” allegation was merely a pretense intended to get access to Trump’s confidential campaign information.


4 posted on 03/05/2017 9:59:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The "evidence" is Trump's joke about "if the Russians are listening, maybe they can recover Hillary's 30,000 deleted e-mails."

That's it. That's what they're using as "evidence." There's nothing more than that, and that's all they've ever had.

The reason they're so reluctant to say "what the evidence really is" is because it's so silly and embarrassing.

5 posted on 03/05/2017 9:59:46 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom
Yes, and didn't Trump's joke happen AFTER the first wiretap attempt??


6 posted on 03/05/2017 10:03:24 PM PST by Voluntaryist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is no evidence and the Dems know it! The Republicans should start calling everyone of these guys out to put up or shut up. If there was a shred of evidence Obama would have exposed it before Trump took office..


7 posted on 03/05/2017 10:05:29 PM PST by martinidon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Coons has now proven himself to be a liar.

He says there is not proof but then later he says there’s proof of collusion with the Russians. The man is a liar and an idiot.


8 posted on 03/05/2017 10:08:13 PM PST by boycott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals should recuse themselves in this as they have a lot covering up through this. Why hasnt Comey recused himself?


9 posted on 03/05/2017 10:17:30 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: boycott

At what point does Valerie Jarrett hire actors to do voice recordings of Trump cutting deals with Russians? Maybe Weird Al Yankovic doing Trump and Yakov Smirnoff as the fixer?


10 posted on 03/05/2017 10:20:25 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Voluntaryist

Where did you get the information that those are the judges that approved the wire tap?


11 posted on 03/05/2017 10:21:20 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: JudgemAll
Liberals should recuse themselves in this as they have a lot covering up through this. Why hasnt Comey recused himself?

Liberals don't recuse themselves, because they believe integrity is an illusion, a concept for perpetuating a white male phallocentric colonialist paradigm for an oppressive society.

Liberals don't resign, because they can do more damage by staying inside organizations and undermining them from the inside.

12 posted on 03/05/2017 10:21:54 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

It’s troubling trying to contemplate just how low they really are. Parasites should be a sub-category of liberals.


13 posted on 03/05/2017 10:32:37 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner
It’s troubling trying to contemplate just how low they really are. Parasites should be a sub-category of liberals.

They believe that American capitalist freedom culture is the greatest evil ever visited on the face of the earth. They believe that, as a result, no action, no lie, no betrayal is off limits or immoral. They have convinced themselves that the vast "crime" of western civilization and particularly America is so evil, so grotesque, so corrosive and pernicious and inhuman, that absolutely anything that the imagination can conceive is justified in the struggle to gain enough power to defeat it.

This is their reasoning. Many of them are very damaged, unhappy, frustrated, alienated souls who feel that the world hates them, and therefore they have the right to hate the world. They displace their hatred of themselves on to the whole world, on to society at large.

In many cases they believe that the best way they can redeem themselves and imbue their lives with some meaning is to fight relentlessly against that which society calls "normality," even to the point of destroying themselves.

14 posted on 03/05/2017 10:45:34 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So the drive behind these false charges is to get into Trumps taxes. That is really the meat in the story.


15 posted on 03/05/2017 10:46:46 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: Steely Tom

Wow!, You just described 3/4ths of my nieces and nephews.


16 posted on 03/05/2017 10:49:11 PM PST by JoSixChip (Cruz <- sleaze; Clinton <- criminal; Trump <- winner)
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To: Steely Tom

The bible mentions who they are and who they work for.


17 posted on 03/05/2017 10:51:57 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Harry’s pet is loose. Call animal control.


18 posted on 03/05/2017 11:06:15 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Voluntaryist

Nice work!


19 posted on 03/05/2017 11:12:27 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: Steely Tom

It’s amazing how well your description of liberal beliefs match those of Islamic Jihadis. No wonder the left colludes with Islamic terrorists.


20 posted on 03/05/2017 11:17:42 PM PST by ransomnote
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