Mueller asks House committee for Roger Stone transcript, official says

Special counsel Robert Mueller asked the House Intelligence Committee to turn over a transcript of its closed-door 2017 interview of Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump.

This is the first time the Intelligence panel has been asked to turn over testimony to Mueller’s team from its now-shuttered investigation of Russian election meddling.

The focus of Mueller’s interest in Stone’s September 2017 House testimony isn’t clear. Earlier this month, the panel’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff of California, said Stone’s testimony should be provided to Mueller“for consideration of whether perjury charges are warranted.”

Schiff made the comments days after President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, raising questions about whether the special counsel would pursue similar cases against others eyed in the Russia probe.

Stone responded to the news of Mueller’s request for his testimony in a text message, asking,“Where is the Russian Collusion? Where is the Wikileaks collaboration? Where is the proof or evidence that I received allegedly hacked or allegedly stolen emails from Wikileaks or Julian Assange or anyone else and passed them on to Donald Trump or the Trump campaign or anyone else?

“Oh they don’t have them?”Stone continued.“So this is devolved into semantical word games, partisan hair splitting and non material perjury traps.”

The No. 2 Democrat on the panel, Jim Himes of Connecticut, wouldn’t confirm the request, but said he thinks Stone’s testimony “should be turned over” to Mueller.

“He is one of many people,” said Himes.

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