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Ron DeSantis: “Rosenstein put Mueller in to do the Mueller investigation.”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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Gov. Ron DeSantis: Trump, controversy, loss and what comes next

Published | Video Starts at 1:27:16

Now, like every Republican's, like, oh, collusion, all this other stuff. But at the time, those investigations were actually launched by Republicans. House investigation, Senate investigation. And then Rosenstein put Mueller in to do the Mueller investigation. So I developed a relationship from him with that. And so, you know, he was asking me, what do you want to do all this? And I said, well, I may run. (1:27:16–1:27:21)

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Asserts that Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to lead the investigation.

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