And two doj insiders telling me today that the president s account about his status in the Mueller Probe would represent a departure from the normal flow of information about the special counsel investigation. One Senior Justice Department official tells me that any information about the president s legal status would have been delivered to the president s legal team from the special counsels office directly, not from the Deputy Attorney general. This official adds that the president s scenario most closely resembles the dramatized scene from the showtime series billions than anything that would have been conveyed by rosenstein. A former senior justice official puts a finer point on the president s comments adding, quote, of course donald trump is a subject in the mueller investigation. Mueller knows it and Donald Trumps lawyers know it too. There no way Robert Mueller would have pursued responses to questions, the source adds, for as many months as he did if the president were not a s
interesting insights they got out of the president with that interview. so the white house reached out to the new york times publisher andy sulzberger and invited him for an off-the-record conversation as the times does. mr. sulzberger pushed back and said i would love to meet but let s do this, i would like to bring two of our white house reporters, want to do this in an on-the-record way and to the president s credit, white house s credit, they said sure. for the new york times as an institution for our publisher, it was obviously very important that he, once again, bring up this issue of when you say fake news, that emboldens totalitarianism regimes and dictators around the world to really crack down on free press and in many countries endangers the lives of reporters. that s what our publisher was really pushing. you saw that in both meetings they ve had. and then obviously, maggie and