President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani accused special counsel Robert Mueller of allegedly leaking information about a White House counsel’s interview with the Russia probe investigators.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” the former New York City mayor said the Times’ report that Donald McGahn took part in at least three interviews over the past nine months — showed the Mueller team was “down to desperation time.”
“I believe this is a desperate special counsel who leaked this to The New York Times, illegally I might add,” he said.
“The only other one that could have done it was McGahn… McGahn would have done it a long time ago. They are down to desperation time. They have to write a report and they don't have a single bit of evidence.”
Giuliani also acknowledged the original purpose of a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between members of the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer was to gather information on Hillary Clinton.
"The meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about Clinton," he said, denying that it was attempted collusion.
“It turned out to be a meeting about another subject and it was not pursued at all. Any meeting with regard to getting information on your opponent is something any candidate's staff would take,” he added.
“All they knew is a woman with a Russian name wanted to meet with them,” Giuliani said of Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. “They didn't know she was a representative of the Russian government and she is not a representative of the Russian government. The President of the United States wasn't at that meeting, he didn't know about that meeting. He found out about it later. By the time he found out about it, it was nothing. If this is their case for collusion, good luck Mueller.”
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