WASHINGTON ¨C President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday he would not intervene if Matthew Whitaker, his acting U.S. attorney general, moved to curtail special counsel Robert Mueller¡¯s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
In an interview with the ¡°Fox News Sunday¡± program taped on Friday, Trump also said he probably would not agree to a sit-down interview with Mueller, who also is investigating whether the Republican president¡¯s campaign conspired with Moscow and whether Trump has unlawfully sought to obstruct the probe.
Whitaker took over supervision of Mueller¡¯s investigation on Nov. 7 after Trump appointed him as the chief U.S. law enforcement official to replace Jeff Sessions, who the president ousted. Whitaker, who Democrats have called a Trump ¡°political lackey,¡± in the past criticized the scope of the Mueller probe and brought up the possibility of undermining it by slashing Mueller¡¯s funding.
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