In an amazing exchange, Peter King calls out Katy Tur for her excitement over a new investigation into Trump’s inaugural committee.
First, watch the exchange:
Here’s more via Free Beacon:
Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) told MSNBC host Katy Tur on Tuesday to control her "excitement" over the numerous investigations into President Donald Trump."Come on, hey, come on Katy, you’re so excited over this. You’re talking about all the potential, all that could be there, and so far nothing’s come out. And maybe it will, who knows?" King said.
At the beginning of her show, Tur talked about a report from Monday that federal investigators subpoenaed Trump’s inaugural committee to turn over all documents about donors, finances and activities. She then went to talk about the numerous of investigations that are looking into Trump's affairs.
"It's another investigation, add to the many investigations into the president, and he's the president of the United States, which warrants— I'm not going to argue about our news coverage, because it warrants news coverage," Tur said.
"I'm not saying don't cover it. I'm saying try to control your excitement. Try to control your excitement a bit," King said.
"I'm perfectly in control, congressman," Tur said.
"I don't know," King said before Tur changed the subject.
Tur actually accused King of prejudging the investigation so much that he won’t believe whatever comes from the investigation if it’s bad for Trump.
"It sounds like you've decided you're not going to believe anything that comes out of this investigation," Tur said. "You just implied that Cohen and Gates are liars and trying to cooperate."
But that’s not what he was saying at all. King merely suggested skepticism over the fact that both Robert Gates and Michael Cohen have pled guilty for lying and are trying to make deals for themselves.
He also added:
"I sat through, on the intelligence committee, almost all of the key witnesses, hours and hours and hours of sworn testimony. I've seen nothing at all that leads at all in any way to President Trump, or candidate Trump at that time... Again, anything can happen. I don't want to prejudge."
Clearly he says anything could happen, but his expectation is that nothing will come back on Trump because there’s no evidence of that now based on all he’s seen.
King also called Tur out on the fact that when there’s an investigation into someone on the Democratic side of the aisle, they have to talk about due process and all of that. But when it’s Trump, there is no room for skepticism at all because they are so excited about it.
Seriously, watch the entire exchange if you haven’t yet. It’s worth 2 and a half minutes of your time.