Mueller Is Said to Seek Interviews With West Wing in Russia Case<br />According to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation, Mr. Comey met with Mr. Priebus at the White House on Feb. 8 — a week before Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump cornered him in the Oval Office<br />and asked him to end an investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.<br />According to testimony Mr. Comey provided to Congress, Mr. Priebus knows<br />that Mr. Comey had the one-on-one encounter with Mr. Trump on Feb. 14, when Mr. Comey has said Mr. Trump asked him to end the Flynn investigation.<br />Mr. Trump’s Republican allies — including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan — have said<br />that Mr. Trump may have asked Mr. Comey to end the investigation because he was a new president who did not understand the subtleties of how the commander in chief should interact with the F. B.I.<br />WASHINGTON — In a sign that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will remain a continuing distraction for the White House, the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is in talks with the West Wing about interviewing current<br />and former senior administration officials, including the recently ousted White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
