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‘NO DAMAGING INFO’

US president not worried about exaides’ testimonie­s at grand jury hearing, says lawyer

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The White House's South Portico is decorated with black spiders and webs in preparatio­n for Halloween on Friday night. United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania welcomed the children of military families in Washington DC on Saturday.

WASHINGTON DC

PRESIDENT Donald Trump is confident that neither his former campaign chairman nor his former national security adviser has damaging informatio­n about him to offer prosecutor­s, a White House lawyer said.

“The president has no concerns in terms of any impact, as to what happens to them, on his campaign or on the White House,” the lawyer, Ty Cobb, said onThursday for The Times’ podcast The New Washington.

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The Justice Department’s special counsel, Robert S. Mueller, is investigat­ing whether anyone close to Trump worked with Russian operatives to disrupt last year’s presidenti­al election.

He has summoned witnesses before a federal grand jury here to gather informatio­n about Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman; Michael

Flynn, the retired general and former national security adviser; and other associates of Trump.

Manafort has been warned to expect an indictment, raising the prospect that Mueller will offer him leniency in exchange for incriminat­ing informatio­n about Trump. Cobb’s remarks echo what those around Manafort

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