CNN: Mueller Outlines Interview Scope for Trump's Lawyers

Russia special counsel Robert Mueller has outlined four areas his investigators would want to discuss with President Donald Trump in a sit-down interview, CNN reported Wednesday.

The cable network cited "two sources" in its report, saying Mueller's team has provided questions concerning these topics to the president's lawyers:

• President Trump's role in crafting a statement aboard Air Force One last July regarding Donald Trump Jr.'s campaign June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower.
• The specifics surrounding the Trump Tower meeting, which included lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and other Russians.
• Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey last May, which eventually led to Mueller's appointment.
• The president's dismissal of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in February 2016, which Trump said was over disclosures to Vice President Mike Pence about his Russia contacts.

Most of the Mueller team's questions, CNN reported "surround the president's actions with the Comey and Flynn firings."

In addition, "the topics are not the extent of Mueller's interest," according to the report, but "they represent significant areas of focus so far for a Trump interview."

President Trump has repeatedly slammed the Russia probe as a "witch hunt" and tweeted comments by Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz attacking Mueller's appointment:

According to CNN, Trump's lawyers have met with Mueller's investigations over the possibility of an interview — and Trump's team has "created dozens of potential questions Mueller's team could ask in an interview based off the topics that have been conveyed verbally."

"Both sides could come to terms on whether there will be a sit-down interview in the coming weeks," CNN disclosed.

Trump shook up his legal team this week by hiring former U.S. Attorney for Washington Joe diGenova, though CNN reported "the legal team could add more lawyers as they enter 'the next phase' of deciding" on a possible interview between President Trump and Mueller's team.

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