“If you really do want the truth,” he says, “you need to put people under oath.”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller made “a mistake” by not interviewing President Donald Trump as part of his investigation into Russia's election interference.
“I’ve said this all along: It was a mistake to rely on written responses by the president,” Schiff told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” as those premeditated answers to prosecutors’ queries are “generally more what the lawyer has to say than what the individual has to say.
“But, nonetheless, if you really do want the truth, you need to put people under oath, and that should have been done,” he said. Schiff speculated that Mueller’s decision not to interview Trump may have been related to a longstanding Justice Department policy against indicting sitting presidents and any further negotiation between Mueller's prosecutors and Trump’s legal team would have unnecessarily prolonged the probe.We’re hosting a live chat on Reddit with former federal investigators who worked on some of the biggest cases since Watergate and our senior reporter, Darren Samuelsohn.
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