White House press secretary Sarah Sanders underwent an interview with the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reports.
“The president urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel,” Sanders told the network. “I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them.”
Mueller, a former FBI director, was appointed special counsel in May 2017 to probe potential collusion and related matters between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian elements. Trump is a fierce critic of the Mueller probe, frequently labeling it a “witch hunt,” among other epithets.
Mueller’s team of prosecutors appears to be looking at Trump’s public statements and any potential witness intimidation. Potential targets include Trump’s role in crafting a misleading Air Force One statement in summer 2017 about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians attended by Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Mueller’s probe to date has included several indictments, guilty pleas, and convictions, including Manafort.
