Mueller Is Said to Seek Interviews With West Wing in Russia Case
According to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, Mr. Comey met with Mr. Priebus at the White House on Feb. 8 — a week before Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump cornered him in the Oval Office
and asked him to end an investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.
According to testimony Mr. Comey provided to Congress, Mr. Priebus knows
that Mr. Comey had the one-on-one encounter with Mr. Trump on Feb. 14, when Mr. Comey has said Mr. Trump asked him to end the Flynn investigation.
Mr. Trump’s Republican allies — including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan — have said
that Mr. Trump may have asked Mr. Comey to end the investigation because he was a new president who did not understand the subtleties of how the commander in chief should interact with the F. B.I.
WASHINGTON — In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current
and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
