Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for Donald Trump, said the president may reach an agreement regarding a meeting with special counsel Robert Mueller this week or next week.
“We have negotiations going on with them, we have an outstanding offer to them,” Giuliani said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” declining to describe what that offer entails.
However, he said there “is an area of questioning and a group of restrictions on it that we could live with.”
Giuliani said it relates “basically to the Russia collusion thing, which we think there’s no evidence and the president didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Maybe this week, maybe next week,” Giuliani said when asked when an interview would be set.
Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, told CBS earlier this year that he expected to have a decision on July 4 whether Trump would interview with Mueller’s team.
“We would like to see it limited to some specific questions about the heart of the probe — the Russian alleged collusion. We think that those questions could be answered quickly. We think two hours. They probably think four. So let’s settle at three. That’s the way you do a negotiation in good faith in this area. They have been in good faith,” he said at the time.
Mueller has been reviewing Trump’s Twitter feed as part of his probe into obstruction of justice, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The Times said Mueller was also reviewing through negative statements from Trump toward Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI Director James Comey, whom he fired May 2017.
The president has continually said he would sit with Mueller’s team amid his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and connections with the Trump campaign.
