WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump, who once said he would "be glad to" talk to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, on Wednesday demurred, suggesting no such interview need take place.
"We'll see what happens," Trump said during a joint news conference with the prime minister of Norway. "When they have no collusion, and nobody has found any collusion, at any level, it seems unlikely that you'd even have an interview."
Mueller has been investigating whether anyone from Trump's team assisted with Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, but also whether Trump tried to obstruct justice by impeding the probe.
The president's legal team has anticipated that Mueller will request an interview with Trump at some point, a possibility that the special counsel's office and Trump's lawyers have declined to comment about.
At a news conference in the summer, Trump said he was "100 percent" willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James B. Comey, whom he fired as FBI director in May.
He was responding to Comey's testimony to Congress that Trump had asked him for personal loyalty and to relax his investigation of former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, two things that Trump has denied.
Asked at that June news conference whether he'd speak to Mueller, Trump told reporters he "would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you."
