Jeff Sessions questioned in Robert Mueller’s Russian Federation probe

Dowd released the list a day after Trump said he was looking forward to being questioned by Mueller’s team.

Asked whether he was concerned that Sessions had talked to Mueller’s team, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “I’m not at all concerned”.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would “love” to be questioned under oath by Russian Federation collusion prosecutor Robert Mueller, saying it could happen in the coming weeks.

Mr Trump has criticised Mr McCabe for the FBI investigation into Mrs Clinton’s use of a private email server, pointing out that his wife ran for Virginia state office as a Democrat during the inquiry.

The special counsel is also thought to be probing whether Trump sought to interfere with the Justice Department’s Russian Federation investigation.

Sessions’ attorney, Chuck Cooper, declined to comment. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts and is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. “She didn’t do it under oath, but I would do it under oath”.

Flynn was sacked in February, with Trump explaining the sacking by citing Flynn misleading vice-president Mike Pence about communicating with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak over sanctions imposed on Russia by the Obama administration.

Flynn is the latest official to be charged in the FBI’s ongoing investigation into whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russian Federation to swing the 2016 election. Comey himself has spoken with Mueller’s team and turned over memos that documented the unusual contacts – but Mueller will likely want to hear the president’s side of the story. Investigators also interviewed Comey last week about his time with the president.

McCabe found the conversation “disturbing”, the paper reported, citing unnamed officials.

Separately, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked its Republican chairman, Chuck Grassley, to share with Mueller transcripts of its interviews in the Russian Federation investigation.

As revelations that federal investigators questioned Sessions, Comey and plan to talk to Trump, two top Democrat lawmakers warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that Russian-linked social media accounts are actively working to undermine the ongoing investigation into the country’s alleged interference in the 2016 USA presidential election. Lying to an FBI agent – regardless of whether or not the testimony is under oath – is still a federal crime, one to which both former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos have already pleaded guilty as part of the Mueller investigation. Trump was apparently so mad at Sessions for allowing Mueller’s appointment that the Attorney General almost resigned, but eventually was convinced to stay in the administration.

Last summer, it appeared that Trump was moving to dismiss Sessions when the president publicly assailed his attorney general in a series of tweets as “weak”.