Santorum: Mueller could avoid charges of McCarthyism by investigating DOJ, FBI [View all]

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BY MICHAEL BURKE - 08/19/18 01:51 PM EDT

Former GOP Senator Rick Santorum said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller could avoid comparisons to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by investigating the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI.

Santorum said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Mueller should investigate the DOJ and FBI “with respect to Hillary Clinton and all these other things.”

The former senator was responding to a string of tweets from President Trump early Sunday morning claiming that Mueller makes McCarthy, who searched for communists in the U.S. government in the 1950s, “look like a baby.”

“It’s his job to do a thorough investigation,” Santorum said of Mueller. “… There’s certainly no evidence that he’s looking into any of this.”

Other panelists on “State of the Union” pushed back against Trump’s comparison of McCarthy to Mueller's probe into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm said Mueller “is the total hero.”

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