{"id":342930,"date":"2018-01-08T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mueller-to-interview-trump-sources\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:08:51","slug":"presstv-mueller-to-interview-trump-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mueller-to-interview-trump-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Mueller to interview Trump: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US special counsel Robert S. Mueller is seeking an interview with President Donald Trump, under investigation over possible collusion with Russia, within the next several weeks, sources say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is moving faster than anyone really realizes,\u201d said one of the two people familiar with the talks, <em>The<\/em> <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2016, Mueller brought up the issue of interviewing the president during a meeting with his lawyers, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s legal team is allegedly attempting to prevent a face-to-face questioning of Trump and is instead focusing on a possible written response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo lawyer just volunteers their client without thinking this through,\u201d said one of the people familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"290\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/2e21926e-9cac-11e7-b2a7-bc70b6f98089\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The White House lawyer overseeing the administration\u2019s response to the so-called Russia probe said in a statement that correspondence with the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) does not need to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/01\/08\/548289\/Mueller-to-interview-Trump-in-Russia-probe-Sources\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US special counsel Robert S. Mueller is seeking an interview with President Donald Trump, under investigation over possible collusion with Russia, within the next several weeks, sources say. \u201cThis is moving faster than anyone really realizes,\u201d said one of the two people familiar with the talks, The Washington Post reported Monday. In December 2016, Mueller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}