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President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani told Fox News's Sean Hannity during a series of controversial media appearances Monday that it's unlikely the president's team would cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators.
"Given the revelations of the last three or four weeks, we've gone further away from the idea of answering any questions from them," Giuliani told Hannity. "We don't think they have a legitimate investigation."
He said that Trump's former attorney, John Dowd, had already cooperated with the investigation, with Dowd having handed over thousands of documents to prosecutors last year.
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"I thank John Dowd for all the cooperation he gave them because that puts us in a position where we don't have to cooperate," remarked Giuliani.
He dismissed a report in The New York Times that prosecutors probing possible obstruction of justice were looking at the president's tweets.
"I believe we're coming towards the end," Giuliani said of the Mueller probe. "And now they're looking at his tweets. Obstruction of justice by tweet. I prosecuted obstruction of justice—if they're going to do obstruction of justice by tweet, to impeach a president, God bless us."
Giuliani said he would challenge Mueller if the special counsel issued a grand jury subpoena compelling the president to testify.
"Well, then there will be a constitutional fight," Giuliani said. "I think we'll win it…. I have one of the best Supreme Court lawyers in the United States with me, Jay Sekulow."
Legal experts are divided on whether the president could successfully challenge a subpoena issued by a grand jury.
Giuliani launched a media blitz Monday ahead of former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial Tuesday. The Mueller investigation indicted Manafort last year on charges that included bank fraud and tax evasion.
Former New York mayor Giuliani began the day on Fox & Friends, where he claimed that "collusion [with Russian] is not a crime," drawing criticism from legal experts.
In an appearance on CNN, he revealed previously unreported claims that Trump officials had participated in a planning session for a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 that is being investigated by Mueller, but in a later interview with Fox News said the planning meeting never took place and was a fabrication by Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen.
Giuliani said he put out the information proactively to counteract media reports that have not yet appeared and which are based on Cohen's version of events.
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