President Donald Trump on Friday said to the press that he would be open to sitting down with special counsel Robert Mueller under specific circumstances, but is wary of landing in a perjury trap, CNBC reported.
“I’d do it, but under certain circumstances,” he said on Air Force One.
“It’s a big waste of time. There was no collusion,” Trump added.
Trump’s comments come shortly after Rudy Giuliani walked back on his comments saying Trump wouldn’t answer questions from Mueller regarding obstruction of justice.
“That is not going happen. There will be no questions at all on obstruction,” Giuliani said.
Later he changed his mind saying those questions are “not ruled in or out,” adding, “we’re very opposed to that, [but] we’re not closing it off 100 percent.”
Although Trump has on several occasions stated that he’s eager to sit down with Mueller, his lawyers reportedly fear their client would perjure himself.
Giuliani didn’t completely close the door on the possibility of a sit-down interview between Mueller and the President.
“I think we’re pretty close to an agreement, maybe this weekend,” he said.
“We have said we would agree to written questions on Russia after we review questions but no further commitment on interviews. After we finish this we will assess it with no agreement to any post-presidential questions,” Giuliani said.
Earlier this week there were reports that Mueller has agreed to accept some written answers from Trump regarding the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.
However, Trump continued his assault on the probe on Air Force One on Friday.
“It’s such a sad thing for our country to be going through a witch hunt like that. It’s so hard for us to deal with other countries including Russia because of that witch hunt…It endangers our country. It puts us at a big disadvantage all because of the rigged phony witch hunt,” he said.
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