'A president can't obstruct justice?' Stephanopoulos asked. 'A president can run the country,' Trump responded. 'And that's what happened, George. I run the country.'
Reflecting the famous 1977 interviews between David Frost and former President Richard Nixon, Stephanopoulos asked the president "When the president does it, it's not illegal?"Stephanopoulos also asked about the Trump team's decision not to testify in person to the special counsel, opting instead to submit written responses. Stephanopoulos noted that the president was answering questions covering similar topics as the investigation on national TV.
"Because they were looking to get us for lies, for slight misstatements," Trump said of the Mueller investigation. "I looked at what happened to people, and it was very unfair. Very, very unfair. Very unfair." Segments of the interviews have already been released ahead of its full broadcast Sunday evening. In a segmentWednesday, Trump shook Washington by saying he would likely take foreign assistance if offered ahead of the 2020 elections and that he may not report it to the FBI. Those remarks were widely condemned across the political spectrum for opening up to foreign interference in a U.S. election.
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