GOP strategist bewildered by Republicans' 'terrible' move to haul in Clintons to testify

A former Trump strategist expressed confusion Friday over House Republicans’ decision to subpoena former President Bill Clinton, questioning what lawmakers hoped to accomplish.

Appearing on Anderson Cooper 360, GOP strategist David Urban suggested the effort produced few results.

“If you looked at the questions that the Republicans went in to ask former President Clinton, they were pretty narrow in scope,” Urban said Friday. “And if you think that if they're going to go in, you know, the Clintons had obviously negotiated what they'd talk about, what they wouldn't talk about.”

Urban added, “I'm not quite sure what they thought they were going to achieve by dragging them both in. But it doesn't look like they got much out of it.”

The Republican strategist, a senior political commentator for CNN, also noted that President Donald Trump struck a surprisingly sympathetic tone while speaking to reporters earlier in the day about Clinton.

“Even President Trump going to go to the helicopter today, said, ‘Look, I like Bill Clinton. It was terrible. I don't think he should have gotten dragged up there,’” Urban said. “Kind of an interesting point.”