By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:52 GMT, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 15 February 2019
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has interviewed White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders as part of his sprawling Russia probe, she confirmed on Friday.
Sanders said in a statement Friday that she was 'happy to voluntarily sit down with them.'
'The President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel,' she said.
Neither the White House nor the Trump legal team has said when that interview took place. CNN was first to report about it on Friday.
Mueller is believed to be close to wrapping up his investigation into so-far undocumented claims that President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign organization colluded with agents of Russia in order to tilt the presidential election toward him.
Trump has repeatedly denied that his campaign did anything improper, denouncing the investigation as a political 'hoax' or 'witch hunt' at least 10 times this year already.
Sanders has also called the Mueller probe a 'witch hunt.'
The president has said that he believes a trope about a Kremlin link to his campaign began when the Democratic national Committee and its presidentiaal nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign funded opposition research through a firm called Fusion GPS.
That company paid a former British spy named Christopher Steele to amass a dossier of possible connections between
