Not to be outdone, Paul Ryan stated that the House has interviewed 21 White House employees.
4 Lawn attendees
5 kitchen workers
2 valets
1 calligrapher
3 pastry chefs
4 ushers
1 portrait artist
2 barbers
and 1 chimney sweep
The “Ethics Adviser” asked for an interview, but was refused
Hard to keep the lies straight, with so many witnesses, eh Donnie?
Have there been real interviews, or just drive-bys to extend the coverup by the GOP-run Congressional Committees?
The White House and the GOP are clearly taking marching orders from Putin, whether they realize it or not. Trump’s Congressional goons are threatening his own Justice Department with exposing classified intelligence in the most cavalier way, and there’s nary a peep from the “Patriot Party”! Unbelievable.
WHY won’t Trump stop criticizing every institution except the Kremlin? I know I’m sounding like a loony right-wing fringe type, but this seems now evident!
Yup. 
Mueller should get one of his people to kinda hang out on the couch in the West Wing.
Actually nah. That’s a good methodology for getting across to the public what a s*show is going on, but interviews backed by the power of grand jury subpoena will do just fine, I think.
Mueller: So, have you ever been in the same room as the President?
Staffer: No.
Mueller: Have you ever overheard other people conversing about the President?
Staffer: No, not really. I hardly see anyone from upstairs during the day.
Mueller: So you haven’t seen or heard anything connected to the President and his work other than the laundry.
Staffer: That’s right. The laundry comes in a trolley, I stuff it in the washer, dry it and iron it all day. It’s just Maggie and me.
Mueller: Have you ever found bundles of banknotes mixed in with the laundry?
Staffer: Nope. Just greasy McDonald’s wrappers and wads of crusty Kleenex.
Mueller: That’s it?
Staffer: Well, that’s it for paper. Every once and a while we find The Phone, but we just set it down real quick and buzz the Secret Service. They send someone to fetch it. Those guys never say a thing. They’re kinda spooky with the shades and curly ear wire, ya know?
Mueller: OK. Sorry, we had to ask. No worries. Have some coffee and danish. For your safety, we’re going to keep you here for another hour to keep them guessing what you know and how much you’ve told us. Thank you for your cooperation.
Hey, they missed the guy that picks up from McDs!
Wait til Mueller sends them an auditor for SOX compliance. Then it gets mean.
An additional 28 people affiliated with the Trump campaign have also been interviewed by either the special counsel or congressional committees probing Russian election meddling, the document notes. It does not name the people nor provide a breakdown of how many were interviewed by Mueller’s team.
They’ve had KellyAnne in a locked room for over a week now unable to move beyond her lying each time they ask her her name.
And rather than interview Sarah they’ve chosen to just question a brown sack dress.
One thing I can’t figure out is the strategic relationship, from Mueller’s POV, between (1) the Trump/GOP-Russia stuff, and (2) the obstruction of justice stuff. It’s obviously easier to make obstruction stick if you can point to the crime and the obstructor’s connection to it, and the two in fact become mutually reinforcing at some point.
My perhaps optimistic thinking is that Mueller finally has the detailed goods on Trump and some as yet undisclosed qui pro quo with Russian interests–largely because, if he doesn’t have the goods, if he doesn’t have the facts of the crime settled, then a cover-up (ie obstruction) prosecution becomes politically untenable. To put it another way: it seems unlikely that Mueller’s case is that (1) there wasn’t a Trump-Russia crime; but (2) he’s going to nail Trump anyway for fucking with the FBI. It seems unlikely, in other words, that Mueller would prosecute an obstruction of justice case about what is merely a severe case of Trumpian obstreperousness. Mueller must have something highly substantive, and prima facie incriminating, on Trump-Russia to be going after Trump so hard on obstruction.
But Obama had his picture taken with Louis Farrakhan!!1! This crew is as dirty as a bunch of Mafiosi…let’s hope they all get nailed and incarcerated.
or congressional committees probing Russian election meddling
Leaking to Nunes doesn’t really count now does it?
“…but Trump said Wednesday it could occur in two or three weeks.”
(re: Mueller interviewing him)
How is it that anything he says is taken to mean anything at this point?
“Let’s get them out there for everyone to see,” Grassley said.
(re: Trump Jr. testimony)
Was that testimony under oath? I thought it wasn’t.
And isn’t Grassley planning to edit the heck out of what gets released?