Jeffrey Toobin: ‘This Whole Uranium One Thing Comes From Fox News’

The book came out in 2015. Exactly, The book came out in 2015. It was one of the accusations—it has been discredited. Two years later, Fox News and Republicans in Congress and Republicans in the White House start raising it simply as a way to wave Russia back at the Democrats. There’s nothing new, no new information here. You have the president of the United States, apparently, according to CNN reporting intervening with the justice Department saying get us more witnesses on this. This is precisely why in the post-Nixon era, there were rules in place to get the White House out of criminal investigations. They are not supposed to be involved in making those sorts of decisions. This White House is changing the rules.