LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani isn’t wasting time as Donald Trump’s newest lawyer. Hired late last week as the president’s top personal attorney, Giuliani held his first meeting on Tuesday 4-24-18] with special counsel Robert Mueller in a bid to jump-start talks on whether Trump will even be called in for an interview as part of the Russia investigation. Giuliani’s sit-down with Mueller, first reported by The Washington Post and confirmed to POLITICO by a senior administration official, came after a series of other meetings the former New York mayor has held as he tries to quickly get up to speed on the nearly yearlong investigation, which has overwhelmed the White House. Since his hiring, Giuliani had dinner in Washington with Jay Sekulow, another member of Trump’s outside legal team, who had been filling in as the lead attorney in the wake of John Dowd’s resignation last month. Giuliani also met in South Florida with Marty and Jane Raskin, Miami-based former federal prosecutors whose hiring was announced last Thursday in tandem with his own.”
–Darren Samuelsohn, “In meeting Mueller, Giuliani quickly gets to core of representing Trump,” Politico, April 25, 2018 7:54 pm