Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian collusion is likely coming to an end, and President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is prepared to submit the president's answers to Mueller's team to bring it all to a conclusion, Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday.
"As you know, the president made virtually his entire staff available, waived many of the privileges, including attorney/client privilege to allow them to testify and provided more than a million documents," the California Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
When an investigation is ending, he continued, if there are unanswered issues or something that is needed on the record, questions are warranted, but only in "extreme cases" would a prosecutor depose high-ranking public officials.
"The president, with rare exception, would be the hardest to even consider, especially when Mueller doesn't have even one person that has been charged with any crime related to collusion with the Russians during the campaign," said Issa.
Meanwhile, there is the matter of Trump's dissatisfaction with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, noted Issa.
"He hasn't been particularly aggressive in getting the system working the way he would like it to," said Issa. "It could just be he doesn't have the managerial skills and obviously Rod Rosenstein is too busy, quite frankly, running this investigation and doing other things to do what the normal number two does, which is be the operation manager."
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