Article snippet: Special counsel MORE last week in connection with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and now wants to question the president. The Sessions interview came on the heels of the special counsel’s reported questioning of fired FBI Director MORE on his decision to fire Comey and Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser. The logistics of that interview remain unclear, as they will likely be negotiated between the special counsel and the president’s legal team. “Sessions may be in the single best position to either corroborate or impeach the credibility of folks that the special counsel might be looking at much more carefully,” said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas law professor. “The president, MORE, Comey himself, who used to be Sessions’s subordinate.” The White House said that Comey’s firing was driven by a recommendation from the Justice Department related to the FBI’s handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State MORE’s use of a private email server. But Trump subsequently told NBC News’s Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey “regardless of recommendation,” signaling that the Russia investigation figured into his decision-making. The controversy surrounding Comey’s ouster reached a peak last June, when the former FBI director testified publicly before senators on Capitol Hill that Trump had pressed him to stop the investigation into Flynn. Flynn resigned in February after it was reve... Link to the full article to read more