White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s lawyer revealed Wednesday that his client had been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team a second time last month, during which Kushner fielded questions about his communications with foreign nationals and the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Abbe Lowell told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that Kushner, who is President Trump’s son-in-law, answered every single question asked of him and that the interview covered “the appropriate topics that Bob Mueller and his team were looking at.”
“They’re looking to see whether there was collusion with Russia in the campaign, and whether or not anybody in the campaign was involved, and if that violated any law,” Lowell said. “And they’re looking at this broad topic that they call, or the media calls, obstruction of justice.”
He added that Mueller’s team “would have asked questions of all their witnesses, including Jared Kushner, about those topics,” but also noted that Kushner is in a “unique role” because he was part of the campaign, the transition team, and worked at the White House when “events occurred after the inauguration that is of interest to the counsel.”
Lowell did not disclose what questions were asked, but noted that Mueller’s team zeroed in on Kushner’s relationship with former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who last year pleaded guilty to misleading the FBI about his communications with Russians.
Kushner’s relationship with Flynn was also a topic of discussion at his first interview with the special counsel’s team in November.
Altogether, Kushner’s latest interview with Mueller’s team lasted “almost an entire work day,” according to Lowell.
Mueller is looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.
