President Donald Trump says he fears any statements he would give to special counsel Robert Mueller could be used to charge him with perjury.
Mueller is investigating alleged collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian meddling in the presidential election. He is also looking
into whether Trump obstructed justice by trying to derail the probe.
Trump declined to say whether he would agree to sit down with Mueller, or if he would strip Mueller of his security clearance. He also said he has the power to step in and run the special investigation himself.
Earlier Monday, Trump called the Mueller investigation "a national disgrace" and tweeting that Mueller "is just someone looking for trouble."
Mueller's investigators have uncovered several instances of Trump campaign contacts with Russia, including a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in New
York where Donald Trump Jr. met with a woman said to be a Russian government attorney who promised incriminating information on Trump's
challenger, Democrat Hillary Clinton. No such anti-Clinton information came out of the meeting.
When news of the meeting surfaced after Trump became president, he dictated a misleading statement about the talks, claiming they were about
adoption of Russian children.
He then said the meeting was a routine political meeting and he did not know about it in advance.