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In an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, CBS Justice correspondent Paula Reid surprised viewers by taking a firm stance against House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) allegations of collusion.
In the latter part of the show, moderator Margaret Brennan pointed out the dubious nature of Schiff’s latest allegations. “[T]his allegation of money laundering on behalf of Russia through the Trump organization but he admitted he had no proof of that thus far.”
“That's a pretty big bomb to lob without any corroboration, I also take issue with his claim that he has evidence of collusion,” Reid declared, suggesting “he seemed to be conflated contact with collusion.”
Reid didn’t stop at that. She proceeded to dismantle Schiff’s line of argument altogether:
He says what happened at Trump Tower was collusion. He’s pointing to e-mails. Nothing was exchanged there. The same with the meeting Paul Manafort had with Konstantin Kilimnik exchanging polling data. We know there was contact, we know that but we don't know what they did with that polling data.
Concluding, “So we certainly have evidence of contact, but a criminal conspiracy so far, there has not been sufficient proof for anyone to be charged in that.”
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