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"Some people have talked about a possible 12-hour interview. If
it happens, that's not going to happen, I'll tell you that. It'd
be, max, two to three hours around a narrow set of questions,"
Giuliani, a former New York mayor who backed Trump in his
presidential campaign said, according to the reporter's Twitter
post.
Separately, Giuliani told Bloomberg News that Trump's legal team
"would be inclined" to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to
interview the president. "We would be inclined to do it,"
Giuliani said, according to Bloomberg.
However, he said if Mueller had already decided to believe
former FBI Director James Comey's account of events, "then we
would just be leading him into the lion's den," Bloomberg
reported. A year ago Trump fired Comey, who has since written a
book critical of the president's conduct.
Trump has publicly wavered on whether he would sit down with
Mueller's investigators, who are looking into whether the Trump
campaign colluded with Moscow.
Both Trump and Moscow deny any wrongdoing, and the president has
called the investigation a political witch hunt.
A spokeswoman for the White House did not immediately respond to
an emailed request for comment, and a spokesman for the special
counsel's office declined to comment.
Mueller has charged 22 people and entities to date, including
Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate
Rick Gates. [nL1N1S8027]
(Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and
Grant McCool)
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