Laura Ingraham says Mick Mulvaney admitted to a quid pro quo because he’s not a lawyer

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Citation From the October 17 edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I got to say, though, because we're all lawyers here. There's a reason Bill Barr doesn't do a lot of press conferences, but he -- he would know how to answer those questions, and I'm not piling on Mulvaney, I don't want to do that. I don't think it's helpful.

But on a -- when you have a legal issue before a lot of people who aren't lawyers, the last thing you want to do is try to get out there and say a whole bunch of things really fast and then say, "well, the context was -- and going back --- and the reach back was" -- and then there's not enough of a pause between one thought and another, and then they could say, aha, see, you did -- and then have to go back and clean it up afterward.