'Lock up Hillary Clinton': Fox News contributor defends Trump-Ukraine call as 'asking for help' with investigating Mueller probe

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'Lock up Hillary Clinton': Fox News contributor defends Trump-Ukraine call as 'asking for help' with investigating Mueller probe
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Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen and 'Fox & Friends' co-host Steve Doocy argued that Democrats are 'conflating' two components of President Donald Trump's July phone call with the leader of Ukraine.

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"The Democrats' defense of the Steele dossier was 'that's opposition research, everybody does it.' If that's a campaign violation, then let's lock up Hillary Clinton because she did the exact same thing," Thiessen added. He continued,"There's nothing wrong with the president of the United States or the attorney general talking to foreign leaders and saying, 'I want you to cooperate with an official Justice Department investigation.... There's nothing the matter with Donald Trump asking a foreign government for help because it's a Department of Justice investigation."co-host Steve Doocy agreed.

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