Donald Trump Jr. claims prosecutors are 'not investigating actual crimes'

In an appearance on Fox & Friends on Monday, Donald Trump Jr. confidently dismissed both Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether President Trump's campaign was involved with Russian election interference and the investigation in the Southern District of New York.

After Fox & Friends played a clip of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie arguing that New York prosecutors posed a greater threat to the Trump administration than Mueller, the younger Trump played it cool, saying he wasn't worried.

"They're not investigating actual crimes anymore," Trump said. "They're literally just trying to find something that they can make a big deal of."

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Despite the fact that the Mueller investigation has indicted or entered plea deals with 34 people, Trump claimed the probe has found no "actual crimes." Rather, he said it only unearthed "things people did in past lives, in 2006" which the investigators unraveled by pressuring "regular guys who couldn't afford millions of dollars in legal fees" into saying things "incorrectly."

He compared the process to Stalinists tactics, in the sense that prosecutors invented crimes and then found someone to pin them on. Watch the clip below. Tim O'Donnell