Mueller’s Questions for Trump

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🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The New York Times has obtained the list of questions that Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel looking into Russia’s election interference, wants to ask President Trump. The wide-ranging queries offer a rare view into an investigation that has been shrouded in secrecy. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the Russia investigation for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is The Daily.
0:09.2	Today, 49 questions.
0:12.4	The Times obtains the list of what the Special Counsel wants to ask the President of the United States
0:20.1	about what happened and why.
0:23.2	It's Tuesday, May 1.
0:34.8	Number 1. What is your knowledge of calls that General Flynn made with Kissley Act in late
0:40.8	December of 2016? Number 2. What is your reaction to press accounts on January 12th?
0:48.8	What did you think and what did you know regarding Sally Dietz's number 4?
0:53.6	How was the decision made to request the resignation of General Flynn on purpose of the meeting
0:58.4	with James Comey on February 14th? What did you think and what did you do about the
1:02.8	call to the President and do after General Flynn resigned with what calls or efforts were made
1:08.7	by the intelligence community assessment?
1:10.8	Number 11. Number 16. Number 725. What was the purpose of the January 27th
1:19.8	dinner meeting you had?
1:25.2	Mike Schmidt, tell me about these questions that you got your hands on.
1:29.5	What we have is a list of 49 questions that Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel,
1:37.1	wants to ask Donald Trump about. Where do these questions come from if you can say?
1:43.4	These questions were written down by Trump's lawyers in a meeting with Mueller's investigators
1:50.8	in March. Mueller really wants to sit down and interview Trump. Trump actually wants to do the
1:58.1	interview as well. But the President's lawyers at the time, led by John Dowd, thought it was a very,
2:05.2	very bad idea. And what was going on was that Mueller's folks were trying to get Dowd to come
2:12.7	along and agree to let Trump do the interview. So what happened was as they brought down over to
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