{"id":396185,"date":"2019-02-18T00:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sarah-sanders-gave-mueller-one-of-the-last-interviews-in-winding-down-russiagate-probe-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T00:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:29:39","slug":"sarah-sanders-gave-mueller-one-of-the-last-interviews-in-winding-down-russiagate-probe-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sarah-sanders-gave-mueller-one-of-the-last-interviews-in-winding-down-russiagate-probe-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Sanders gave Mueller \u2018one of the last\u2019 interviews in winding-down Russiagate probe \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c674d7afc7e9357378b45d4.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s office \u2013 reportedly one of the last interviews of the two-year probe seeking evidence of Russian collusion with US President Trump.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201c<em>The President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel<\/em>,\u201d Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/15\/politics\/sarah-sanders-robert-mueller\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> CNN. \u201c<em>I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous sources claimed the White House did not initially want Sanders speaking to Mueller\u2019s office, and it\u2019s unclear what she was asked. Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/451502-republicans-believe-god-wanted-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Deus vult? Almost half Republican voters think GOD WANTED Trump to be president \u2013 poll<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxs\/5c65acc9dda4c89d3f8b4603.JPG 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xs\/5c65acc9dda4c89d3f8b4604.JPG 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c65acc9dda4c89d3f8b4602.JPG 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/m\/5c65accadda4c89d3f8b4605.JPG 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/l\/5c65accadda4c89d3f8b4606.JPG 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/article\/5c65acc9dda4c89d3f8b4601.JPG 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/xxl\/5c65accadda4c89d3f8b4607.JPG 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another source told the Washington Post that Sanders was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sarah-sanders-mueller-donald-trump-interview-1333469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed<\/a> by Mueller seven months ago. She was reportedly interviewed at around the same time as former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who left the Trump team in December.<\/p>\n<p>With the Mueller investigation winding down in the coming months and no evidence of collusion in sight, investigators are reportedly focusing on discrepancies between President Donald Trump\u2019s public statements and those of his team, according to sources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/10\/politics\/robert-mueller-trump-obstruction-battle\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited<\/a> by CNN, who believe the special prosecutor may attempt to frame any misleading statements to the press or public as obstruction of justice \u2013 even though the statements weren\u2019t made under oath or directly to investigators.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/451593-sanders-questioned-mueller-probe\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s office \u2013 reportedly one of the last interviews of the two-year probe seeking evidence of Russian collusion with US President Trump. \u201cThe President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel,\u201d Sanders told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396185","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=396185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}