White House Special Counsel Ty Cobb tells The Daily Beast the president's legal team still is negotiating a possible interview between the president and Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
“The Cohen searches, while they have taken time away from discussions with regard to an interview, certainly have not brought those discussions to a halt,” Cobb told The Daily Beast. “They continue.”
NBC News reported last week talks between the two camps had crumbled in the wake of the FBI raid on Michael Cohen's office, home, and hotel room.
“The Cohen searches have not yet changed our strategy or level of cooperation with the special counsel,” [Cobb] said, referring to recent raids on the home and workplace of Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney.
Jay Sekulow, the president’s personal lawyer, told The Daily Beast, “We continue our ongoing cooperation with the Office of the Special Counsel.”
Any sit-down would bring the risk of perjury for the president if he knowingly misstated the facts to Mueller’s investigators ...
These risks are among the reasons that John Dowd, formerly a member of the president’s personal legal team, staunchly opposed having the president sit down with Mueller.
Cobb told The Daily Beast he is not concerned with outside opinions of what the president should do, including that of former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
“I don’t worry about Bannon,” he continued. “I don’t worry about any outside criticism. This is a live-fire game and you’ve got to be able to take incoming and keep making progress on behalf of the interests of the White House.”
Cobb also said that the president’s legal strategy does not involve doling out pardons to people trying to decide whether or not to cooperate with Mueller.
“Pardons are not part of any discussions and certainly not part of any strategy,” he said.
Cobb also said that the president’s legal strategy does not involve doling out pardons to people trying to decide whether or not to cooperate with Mueller.
“Pardons are not part of any discussions and certainly not part of any strategy,” he said.
White House Attorney Ty Cobb Says Trump’s Interview Negotiations With Mueller Are Still On (Daily Beast)