“We should wait for Mr. Mueller to do his work and protect him when he does,” Mr. Clinton said of impeachment talk, urging Democrats to focus instead on the midterm elections. Mr. Clinton did say that Mr. Mueller was “getting killed in the media in the fight over whether the F.B.I. put spies in the Trump campaign, which is absurd.” Mr. Trump has made repeated unconfirmed accusations that federal investigators put a spy inside his campaign. Mr. Clinton also spoke in some depth about the role of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign against his wife, Hillary Clinton. That doesn’t mean the Russians did it, but it’s — it makes you scratch your head.”The race was close enough that “Comey’s late announcement could swing it,” Mr. Clinton said of the announcement in October by James Comey, the F.B.I.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2018 03:00 UTC