Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino accused the media of being “accomplices” in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe during a Friday night interview.

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Bongino joined Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to discuss a judge going off on Mueller for seemingly using Paul Manafort’s financial crimes to try to eventually remove the president from office.

“The press are accomplices in this,” Bongino said. “With a fair and free press you would expect that they would do basic things like journalism and say something, Tucker, like, ‘Hey, is there actually a predicate crime that we’re investigating?'”

“Journalism has completely failed us, this is the most embarrassing moment in a series of embarrassing moments over the last few decades,” he added.

Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller, noted that journalists should be worried if the president can be targeted by an investigation with such a broad purview as Mueller’s since it can also happen to ordinary citizens.

Bongino agreed, adding, “I know we have liberal viewers…what happens when your president, someone walks in and says, ‘I want to investigate John Smith…for what…I don’t know, we’ll find something.'”

“That’s not how it works,” he concluded.

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