WASHINGTON _ Special Counsel Robert Mueller met with the two top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday to discuss preventing conflicts in their separate investigations into Russian election interference and he is set to meet with House intelligence panel leaders in the coming days.
Mueller has been building a team of investigators for a wide-ranging inquiry into Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and whether any associates of President Donald Trump colluded in that effort. The two congressional committees are engaged in their own probes.
Lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol have been wanting Mueller to provide details on what areas his Russia investigation is covering, amid concerns his inquiry might overlap or conflict with their own probes.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and the panel's vice chairman, Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a joint statement that the meeting was "constructive," but they gave no details. Mueller's spokesman, Peter Carr, declined to comment.
A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House committee, said Mueller will meet with members of the panel this week or next.
Burr and Warner had been seeking the meeting since Mueller's appointment as special counsel a month ago, according to a person familiar with the probe.
The Senate committee has already begun taking testimony in both closed and open sessions from the nation's intelligence chiefs. Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by Trump, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recommended Comey's dismissal and has recused himself from the Russia investigation, both have testified.
Mueller had cleared Comey to testify last week.
The Senate panel also plans to hear at some point from Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest White House aides. Longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Tuesday he's been subpoenaed to testify before the House Intelligence Committee in September.
In addition, the House Intelligence Committee has written to Comey to request any notes or memoranda in his possession regarding conversations with Trump be turned over by June 23. The committee knows Mueller has already been briefed on Comey's memos.
