Who we know has spoken with the Mueller investigation
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By Philip Bump February 1 Email the author
President Trump speaks during a lunch at the 2018 House & Senate Republican Member Conference on Feb. 1. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Shortly before President Trump’s first State of the Union address, news broke on another front. According to CNN .. http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/donald-trump-attorneys/index.html , lawyers for Trump were telling special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that his team had not met the threshold for necessitating an in-person interview with the president. Despite Trump’s insistence that he was happy to sit down and talk to Mueller about the 2016 election and its aftermath, his attorneys are apparently disinclined to be so generous.
Jeff Sessions.Attorney general. Spoke with team in January .. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/politics/jeff-sessions-robert-mueller-interview/index.html . Sessions was an early Trump supporter whose meetings with the Russian ambassador in 2016 weren’t reported to the Senate during his confirmation hearings. On the campaign, he helped lead the foreign policy advisory team, which included George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
Stephen K. Bannon.Former campaign CEO and senior adviser. Due to speak with team soon. Bannon helped lead the campaign over its last few months and was in the West Wing during the period that Comey was fired.
Several senior intelligence officials — CIA Director Mike Pompeo, National Security Council head Keith Kellogg, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and NSA Director Mike Rogers — spoke with Mueller’s team at some point last year. Coats and Rogers were identified in reporting as having been asked by Trump to put pressure on Comey to end the investigation into Flynn.
No longer serves in the administration
Mark Corallo.Former legal team spokesman. Due to speak with team soon. Corallo had the conversation with Hicks about the June 2016 emails. He left his position in July 2017 after details of the Trump Tower meeting were revealed. (Corallo technically worked for Trump’s private legal team and not the administration, but we’re slotting him in here.)
- “Nader visited the White House frequently during the early months of the Trump administration. He became friendly with former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, visiting his office regularly. A source familiar with the White House meetings said Jared Kushner also met Nader. After asking around about Nader, Kushner decided not to continue meeting with him, according to the same source.” -