officials, including michael flynn, james comey and jeff sessions as well as then cia director and now secretary of state mike pompeo and reince priebus and fired fbi director andrew mccabe. so the questions still looms, will the president sit down for an interview with the special counsel. now you remember it was back in january when president trump said he was looking forward to to and would do it under oath but acknowledged he would have to follow the advice of his attorneys. he did most recently address that exact issue again on thursday in a wide-ranging interview on fox and friends. at that point he said he could talk to mueller, but then argued that mueller's investigators were conflicted because of their contributions to politicians in the past. however, wolf, president trump made this argument over and over again but it should be noted that some of mueller's team -- they have donated but both to democrats and republicans. >> good point. thank you very much. let's get more on all of the breaking news. senator ben cardin of maryland