Otherwise, they subpoena: White House lawyer Ty Cobb on why Trump is cooperating with Mueller

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https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/29/17173058/ty-cobb-trump-russia-dowd-mueller-special-counsel

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Zachary Fryer-Biggs
When you started in July 2017, you said that the White House was in “full cooperation mode” with the Mueller probe. Why should the White House cooperate with the Mueller team?

Ty Cobb
You don’t have much choice; otherwise, they subpoena. As people who pay attention have noticed, there have been no subpoenas, there have been no grand jury subpoenas. This has gone in a very smooth way. You haven’t heard any complaints from Mueller, and everything is negotiated heavily, so it’s not like we just opened up the file drawers and let them come in and pick out what they wanted.

Zachary Fryer-Biggs
Before Dowd resigned last week, he’d publicly urged the Justice Department to shut down the probe. Is the entire legal team still on board with fully cooperating with the investigation?

Ty Cobb
Dowd took multiple public stances. Jay Sekulow [the lawyer running Trump’s personal legal team] has always been a fan of cooperation. And the stuff that’s always said about [White House counsel Don] McGahn being opposed, that’s just not true. McGahn saw every document that was produced that was related to him and never peeped. And since he’s a significant participant in several of the key events, it wouldn’t have been proper for him to comment on it.