--- title: White House Counsel Reportedly Cooperated With Mueller Probe description: White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn has cooperated “extensively” in the ongoing Mueller probe, according to the New York Times. canonical: https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-18T21:03:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T21:11:10.131Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Counsel Reportedly Cooperated Extensively With Mueller Probe og:description: McGahn gave at least three voluntary interviews, totaling 30 hours og:url: https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte72b1b12e717d197/6989380e22fb85129de2674d/mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: McGahn-cooperated-Mueller-probe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Counsel Reportedly Cooperated Extensively With Mueller Probe twitter:description: McGahn gave at least three voluntary interviews, totaling 30 hours twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte72b1b12e717d197/6989380e22fb85129de2674d/mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Says He 'Allowed' White House to Cooperate Extensively With Mueller Probe by [Clementine Fletcher / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Clementine Fletcher / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 18, 2018 9:03 PM UTC  White House counsel Don McGahn (L) is seen prior to a meeting between U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 18, 2018. White House counsel Don McGahn (L) is seen prior to a meeting between U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 18, 2018.Alex Wong/Getty Images by [Clementine Fletcher / Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Clementine Fletcher / Bloomberg Contributor Aug 18, 2018 9:03 PM UTC Donald Trump said he “allowed” the White House counsel and other personnel to fully cooperate with Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president’s tweet came hours after a New York Times story that attorney Donald McGahn has had at least three voluntary interviews with investigators on the special counsel’s team, totaling some 30 hours, over the past nine months. “I allowed White House Counsel Don McGahn, and all other requested members of the White House staff to fully cooperate with the Special Councel,” Trump said, misspelling “counsel” in the second instance before reissuing the tweet. “We readily gave over one million pages of documents. Most transparent in history.” The president is spending the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course. Earlier on Saturday he lashed out at John Brennan in the latest effort to counter criticism of his decision to revoke the former U.S. spy-in-chief’s security clearance, as well as reports that other officials and former officials, including some involved in Mueller’s probe, may be next in line to lose their clearances. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/"},"headline":"President Trump Says He 'Allowed' White House to Cooperate Extensively With Mueller Probe","datePublished":"2018-08-18T21:03:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T21:11:10.131Z","description":"McGahn gave at least three voluntary interviews, totaling 30 hours","url":"https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte72b1b12e717d197/6989380e22fb85129de2674d/mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Clementine Fletcher / Bloomberg"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte72b1b12e717d197/6989380e22fb85129de2674d/mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"McGahn-cooperated-Mueller-probe","caption":"Don McGahn","creditText":"Alex Wong/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5371172/white-house-counsel-mcgahn-cooperated-mueller-probe/","name":"President Trump Says He 'Allowed' White House to Cooperate Extensively With Mueller Probe"}}]}] ```