a 22-month investigation, a 448-page legal report and then you ve got one man at the strcer of it all, special counsel robert mueller. with his testimony just days away they hope hearing from mueller will give a better understanding of his mindsings. the report supports very substantial evidence the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and we have to let mueller present those facts to the american people and see where we go from there because the administration must be held accountable and no president can be above the law. we want bob mueller to bring it to life to talk about what s in that report. it s a pretty damning set of facts that involve a presidential cadge pain and a close race welcoming help from a hostile foreign power, not reporting it but eagerly embracing it and lying about it to cover up, and then
administration. do you hear that? that s the silence from mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. time and time again this president would say provocative things and they would say nothing. ryan would never take an invitation to defend any of his standing by, despite always casting himself as different, as putting principle before party, but when he took the speakership, insisting he would do it his way, his spine softened. now that he s retired, he seems to be trying to recast his reticence to speak truth to power with this. we ve gotten so numbed by it all, not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. don t call a woman a horse face. don t cheat on your wife. don t cheat on anything. be a good person. set a good example. he never said anything like that about this president when he had the power to make a stand.
to be trying to recast his reticence to speak truth to power with this. we ve gotten so numbed by it all, not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. don t call a woman a horse face. don t cheat on your wife. don t cheat on anything. be a good person. set a good example. he never said anything like that about this president when he had the power to make a stand. despite him saying he would never defend this personal perfidy of this president, and i say forget about his remounting the moral high horse about this president s personal life. i don t care about his personal life. let s stick to serious politics and policy and remember where ryan stood while in office. here he is on trump s arguably inappropriate interactions with jim comey. he s new at government, and so therefore i think that he he s learning as he goes. on trump s charlottesville both sides comment.
the time he was with me because we got taxes cut, i got regulation cuts. i did that mostly without him. but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. i remember a day in wisconsin, a state that i won, where i stood up and made a speech, and then i introduced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people. the president s attack follows recently published comments ryan made to politico s tim alberta for his upcoming book. ryan speaks frankly about his governing record saying, quote, we ve gotten so numbed by it all, not in government but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try to rebuild. don t call a woman a horse face, don t cheat on your wife. don t cheat on anything. be a good person. set a good example. back with me now former chief communications adviser for paul ryan brendan buck. thanks so much for being here for this conversation. a lot of people i think are wondering why the former house speaker is speaking out e was a?
rallying cry. fake news and the russian witch hunt. since may of 2017. mueller has been investigating possible conspiracy between russia and the trump presidential campaign. no collusion. to say it one time again and i saw it all the time. there was no collusion. i didn t know the president. there was nobody to collude with. president trump supporters in congress voiced impatience. whatever you got. finish it the hell up. voters spoke loudly in a 2018 midterm. sweeping democrats into office. through it all, one man remained characteristically silent. robert mueller. the former head of the fbi. a platoon leader in vietnam. he s a rarity in washington. and independent mind respected on both sides of the aisle.