Article snippet: MORE. Giuliani, who joined the president’s legal team roughly two weeks ago, said the decision would be determined in large part by how “objective” he and his colleagues perceive Mueller to be. “The more objective [Mueller] is, the more likely we would be willing to cooperate. The less objective, then we would be foolish to do that,” he said. Since joining the president’s team, Giuliani has suggested that Trump would be more likely to sit for an interview if he were persuaded that Mueller and his team had not already concluded that former FBI Director MORE is telling the truth about his interactions with Trump, which are detailed in contemporaneous memos he wrote. Comey’s version of events is deeply critical of the president, who fired him. Trump, in turn, says Comey is lying. Skeptics argue that the president’s lawyers are seeking simply to lay a predicate for refusing an interview. Giuliani and others in and around the president’s legal team insist they are negotiating in good faith, however. The former New York City mayor spoke to The Hill only hours after it emerged that Ty Cobb would leave his role as the primary White House counsel on the Russia investigation. Cobb is seen as having favored a more conciliatory approach toward Mueller, believing that this represented the best strategy for bringing the probe to an expeditious conclusion. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Cobb would leave at the end of the month, to be replace... Link to the full article to read more