Three unnamed people with knowledge of the matter allegedly told the New York Times the wide-ranging effort included scrutinizing investigators' former clients and Mueller’s ties to ex-FBI director James Comey.
The president’s lawyer Jay Sekulow admitted to the paper that "any good lawyer would raise, at the appropriate time and in the appropriate venue, conflict-of-interest issues."
President Trump told the newspaper earlier this week he had information on the Mueller team’s potential conflicts of interests and would disclose it at some point. He also said the probe must not go beyond Russia or look into his financial records.
The US president has called the probe a "witch hunt," while Russia has repeatedly refuted all the allegations, calling them absurd and intended to deflect public attention from election fraud and corruption.
