Washington, Jan 24: Special counsel Robert Mueller wants to question US President Donald Trump on his decisions to fire his national security adviser and the FBI chief, a media report said Wednesday, days after he interviewed the Attorney General in a probe into whether Russia colluded with the Trump campaign in the 2016 election.
Mueller, a former FBI director, has already interviewed several close aides and family members of Trump. He is also investigating whether Trump’s actions in office, including the ouster of national security adviser Michael Flynn and firing of James Comey, constituted obstruction of justice. Flynn resigned last February following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other Trump administration officials about his communications with the then Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. Trump fired Comey in last May, days after he told Congress that he could not comment on whether there was evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. At the time, Comey was overseeing the Russia probe.
Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed for several hours by special counsel investigators, according to US Justice Department officials. Sessions is the first member of Trump’s Cabinet to be questioned in the probe. Citing two people familiar with Mueller’s plans, the Washington Post said Trump’s attorneys have worked out terms for the president’s interview with the Special counsel’s team which could be presented to him “as soon as next week”. “The president’s legal team hopes to provide Trump’s testimony in a hybrid form — answering some questions in a face-to-face interview and others in a written statement,” the report said.
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