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U.S. NEWS Monday 28 May 2018

Giuliani advises no interview without informant info

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- Thursday, were requested over with another way.”
dent Donald Trump’s legal by Trump’s GOP allies in The new wrinkle, he said,
team would advise that he Congress and arranged if the disclosure about the
refuse to submit to an inter- by the White House. The informant.
view with special counsel president has tried to sow “We are more convinced,
Robert Mueller unless the suspicions about the legiti- as we see it, that this is a
team can review classified macy of the FBI investiga- rigged investigation. Now
information shared with se- tion, and he and his allies we have this whole new
lect lawmakers about the have focused on the use ‘Spygate’ thing thrown on
origins of the FBI investiga- of the informant. After the top of it, on top of already
tion into Russia’s election meetings, which included very legitimate questions,”
meddling, Trump’s person- Justice Department, FBI of- he told CNN’s “State of the
al lawyer said Sunday. ficials, congressional lead- Union.”
Rudy Giuliani said that ers from both parties and Giuliani also raised the
should Mueller’s investi- Democratic and Republi- specter of a protracted
gators seek a court order can leaders of the intelli- legal fight over the ques-
to compel the president gence committees, Demo- tion of a Trump interview if In this May 5, 2018, file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for
President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention
to testify, Trump’s lawyers crats said they saw no evi- Mueller decided to seek a for Human Rights and democracy in Washington.
would fight such a subpoe- dence to support Republi- subpoena.q Associated Press
na all the way to the U.S. can allegations that the FBI
Supreme Court, if neces- acted inappropriately.
sary. Nonetheless, Giuliani said
“I think we win it,” Giuliani the Trump camp wants ac-
said. cess to the material pre-
Giuliani downplayed the sented at those briefings to
chances that Trump would help prepare the president
fire Mueller, a Republican for a possible interview with
who once was FBI director Mueller.
and has served under GOP “If they don’t show us these
presidents. Asked if Trump documents, well, we are
would dismiss anyone if the just going to have to say
investigation kept going, no,” Giuliani said. It’s un-
Giuliani told “Fox News Sun- clear, however, if Trump
day” that firings would play would heed his lawyers’
“into the hands of playing advice.
the victim, Watergate.” Justice Department of-
Giuliani’s public negotia- ficials didn’t immediately
tion over terms of an inter- return a message seeking
view focuses on the use of comment on whether the
a government informant president had requested a
who approached mem- briefing similar to what was
bers of Trump’s 2016 cam- provided to members of
paign in a possible bid to Congress last week.
glean intelligence on Rus- In a separate television
sian efforts to sway his race appearance, Giuliani said
against Democrat Hillary Trump was “adamant”
Clinton. Trump has made about wanting to agree
unproven claims of FBI mis- to an interview, saying, “If
conduct and political bias he wasn’t thinking about
and has denounced the in- it and it wasn’t an active
formant, without evidence, possibility, we would be fin-
as “a spy.” ished with that by now and
The two meetings with se- we would have moved on
lect lawmakers, held last to getting the investigation