Fox News Sunday interviews during 2019: on Principles & Values

Evan Bayh: Compromise between Trump & Dems avoids political food fight

Former Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who served during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, suggested that a compromise between House Democrats and President Trump could be a satisfactory solution to avoid the "political food fight" of impeachment, but said realistically he doubts it will become a reality.

Bayh claimed that the American people may best be served by the House continuing its investigation with Trump's participation, and then leaving the ultimate decision to voters instead of the Senate. "It probably is in the president's best interest to say 'Look, I'll participate, I'll make all my witnesses available if you'll agree to just let the voters decide next fall; issue a report, don't impeach me.' I think there's the middle ground," Bayh said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Ultimately, however, he was pessimistic about the possibility. "Will they seize that middle ground? Probably not," the former senator said.

Source: Fox News Sunday 2019 on impeaching Trump Dec 1, 2019

Doug Collins: No collusion; no obstruction

[Rep. Collins commented on Trump's behavior regarding various aspects of the Mueller Report]: It's interesting for Robert Mueller that he starts from the premise that's so interestingly the wrong narrative for America. He's trying to take and say, "we're proving innocence here and that you're guilty until we prove you innocent." It's really an interesting correlation here.

We see the report -- this was the call for the Democrats to start impeachment. They've been wanting to impeach this president since November of 2016. They've never liked him. They use any excuse to begin the impeachment process. But what we found was is no collusion. There was no charge of obstruction.

Source: Fox News Sunday on 2019 Mueller Report Jun 2, 2019

Adam Schiff: Investigation necessary to expose Russian interference

[Rep. Schiff commented on Trump's behavior regarding various aspects of the Mueller Report]: Do we nonetheless go through an impeachment because to do otherwise would signal that somehow this president's conduct is OK, that future presidents can engage in this kind of corruption without consequence, or do we decide that we are better off doing oversight through the context of oversight hearings by the various committees rather than a formal impeachment?

The Mueller report makes it absolutely crystal clear that this investigation was absolutely necessary because it revealed a widespread, systemic effort by the Russians to help the Trump campaign. And that is the overriding conclusion of this report. We need to put our emphasis on making sure that kind of intervention never happens again.

Source: Fox News Sunday on 2019 Mueller Report Apr 21, 2019

Rudy Giuliani: No obstruction; Trump didn't testify to avoid perjury trap

[Giuliani commented on Trump's behavior regarding various aspects of the Mueller Report]: Had he done it, it would not have been obstruction of justice because there were very good reasons to fire Mueller. Mueller hired a staff in which he had people that I would find very questionable as people that would be investigating Donald Trump.

He demonstrated in the case of [former FBI Director James] Comey that he could fire someone and not interfere in the investigation because immediately it was taken up by someone else.

It's kind of ridiculous to go after a man for obstruction when he was falsely accused; he was defending himself. His intent in each one of these situations is easily explained as an intent to not get framed.

You know why he didn't testify before them? Because they were going to trap him into perjury like they did with Flynn. If you think I'm a fool? I would have been disbarred if I let him testify.

Source: Fox News Sunday on 2019 Mueller Report Apr 21, 2019

Pete Buttigieg: Progressive, but not concerned with labels

I think more and more people just want to know what your ideas are and whether they make any sense. And part of how we were able to succeed in South Bend, governing, I believe in accordance with progressive values, but also earning a lot of support from Republicans and independents wasn't by trying to manage exactly where I was on this kind of left/right spectrum, it was by trying to do the right thing. I view myself as a progressive, but these labels are becoming less and less useful. Source: Fox News Sunday 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary Mar 19, 2019

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