ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/SALLY YATES: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about her meetings with White House officials, and she recounted concerns she had shared with the Trump administration about former national security adviser Mike Flynn, according to people familiar with the matter.
The interview in July suggests that Mr. Mueller and his team are interested in uncovering what White House officials knew about the Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Mr. Flynn that preceded the appointment of the special counsel. They have also signaled their interest in whether that knowledge among White House officials influenced President Donald Trump in his interactions with the bureau’s former director, James Comey, information that could be relevant to an obstruction-of-justice case, the people said.
A spokesman for the special counsel’s office declined to comment. Ms. Yates, a former deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, also declined to comment, saying in an email she was ‘going to let my Senate testimony do the talking for now.’ She appeared in May before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating alleged Russian election interference.”
-Del Quentin Wilber and Aruna Viswanatha, “Investigators Interview Sally Yates About White House Meetings,” The Wall Street Journal online, Dec. 11, 2017 06:19pm