Article snippet: Allies and aides for MORE said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Conway and national security adviser John Bolton argued in separate Sunday show appearances that the president has a more narrow focus in mind when he repeatedly calls the Mueller investigation a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.” "The hoax is the idea that the Trump campaign was a beneficiary of a concerted effort together with the Russians to affect the 2016 election," Bolton said on "Fox News Sunday." Both aides credited Trump with directly asking five of his top intelligence officials to attend a White House press briefing last week to detail their efforts to blunt foreign influence campaigns ahead of this year’s midterm elections. While White House proxies were consistent in their messaging on Sunday, there continues to be a rhetorical disparity between what the president says and what his advisers and aides say he means. The president has tweeted about the Mueller probe or collusion roughly a dozen times in the last week alone, most notably escalating his attacks when he called on Attorney General to end the special counsel’s investigation. The New York Times reported that Mueller is examining Trump's tweets as part of an investigation into whether the president obstructed justice. Investigators are reportedly interested in the president's tweets as part of a larger pattern of behavior. Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's attorneys in the Russia investigation, dismissed the concept of obstruction of justice by tw... Link to the full article to read more