When asked by CNN’s Dana Bash, “So you think the Mueller probe is legitimate?” Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani (shown) responded, “Not anymore.”

Giuliani made his blunt remarks on CNN’s State of the Union program on Sunday, arguing that several things have led him to believe that the probe conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is an illegitimate investigation.

“You get the [former FBI Director James] Comey thing, which is a leak of a confidential memo, which is illegal for an FBI official to do, and that becomes the basis for appointing Mueller,” Giuliani told Bash. “I’m not saying Mueller is illegitimate, I’m saying the basis on which he was appointed was illegitimate.”

Giuliani told Bash that before he joined the Trump legal team he assumed that the investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the Trump presidential campaign of 2016 was a legitimate probe. “I don’t [think the probe is legitimate]. I did when I came in but now I see Spygate.”

At this point, Bash interrupted Giuliani, arguing that Spygate — in which the Obama administration had an informant (spy) inside the Trump presidential campaign — occurred before Mueller was named. Giuliani, however, retorted, “but it has to inform the decision to appoint Mueller — either it’s evidence or not.”

“I know 50 years of investigatory experience tells me they don’t have a darn thing because they would’ve used it already and they wouldn’t be off on collusion, they wouldn’t be off on [Paul] Manafort, they wouldn’t be off on [Michael] Cohen,” said Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor under President Reagan, former mayor of New York City, and unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008.

In other words, Giuliani said, “You’ve got a good case, man, you go right to it.”

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