On Saturday morning, Trump's personal defense attorney, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast the Russia investigation should be shut down.
The exact content of Mueller's questions to Trump is unclear. But public reporting and updates from Congress indicate there are a few broad topics that Mueller has inquired about.
Carl Bernstein says tape of Trump asking officials for votes is ‘far worse than Watergate’. Carl Bernstein , whose work as an investigative journalist on the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of president Richard Nixon, appeared on “CNN Newsroom with Fredericka Whitfield” Sunday.
President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" votes to overturn the election results after, according to an audio recording of a phone call obtained first reported by the Washington Post.
With ballots counted three times, including once by hand, Georgia’s certified totals show Trump lost to Biden by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million cast.
Trump’s former attorney general, William Barr, found no evidence of widespread election fraud. Trump’s allegations of massive voting fraud have been dismissed by a succession of judges and refuted by state election officials and an arm of his own administration’s Homeland Security Department.
Two House Democrats wrote last week to the New York State Bar Association requesting an investigation of Giuliani citing his call for “trial by combat”. Noting Giuliani’s role in the “violent uprising”, the bar group has begun an inquiry that could lead to his ouster.
Further, Democratic New York state lawmaker Brad Hoylman has filed a complaint with a state appellate court seeking Giuliani’s disbarment over his “complicity” in the Capitol riot and “flagrant” violations of ethical standards of conduct.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, could be included in a federal investigation and is facing a disbarment complaint. Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to Donald Trump, speaks at a rally on 6 January before the march on the Capitol.