--- title: Robert Mueller Just Interviewed Reince Priebus description: Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus answered questions from Robert Mueller's team canonical: https://time.com/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-13T22:41:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:51:45.338Z article:section: Politics og:title: Robert Mueller's Team Just Interviewed Reince Priebus og:description: He answered questions from Mueller's team og:url: https://time.com/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fd8d72123fb8bf/6988e1f4096a94564a6a001e/reince-priebus-robert-mueller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Trump Hosts Ceremony Recognizing First Responders In The June 14 Congressional Baseball Shooting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Robert Mueller's Team Just Interviewed Reince Priebus twitter:description: He answered questions from Mueller's team twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fd8d72123fb8bf/6988e1f4096a94564a6a001e/reince-priebus-robert-mueller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Robert Mueller's Team Just Interviewed Trump's Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 13, 2017 10:41 PM UTC  Reince Priebus attends an event in the East Room of the White House recognizing the first responders to the June 14 shooting involving Congressman Steve Scalise July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Reince Priebus attends an event in the East Room of the White House recognizing the first responders to the June 14 shooting involving Congressman Steve Scalise July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 13, 2017 10:41 PM UTC Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team interviewed former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on Friday, Priebus’ lawyer said. “Mr. Priebus was voluntarily interviewed by Special Counsel Mueller’s team today,” his attorney William Burck told Politico. “He was happy to answer all of their questions.” Mueller, a former director of the FBI, is investigating Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election and whether members of President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia. His team in September sought a large [collection of documents](http://time.com/4950994/robert-mueller-investigation-documents-white-house/) from the White House. Mueller has appeared to [accelerate the investigation](http://time.com/4953215/robert-mueller-investigation-what-we-know/) in recent weeks, according to experts. Priebus is among at least half a dozen current and former aides to Trump who are expected to be interviewed by Mueller’s team. The former Chief of Staff was replaced by John Kelly in July. Other [aides expected to be interviewed](http://time.com/4950994/robert-mueller-investigation-documents-white-house/) are former press secretary Sean Spicer and White House counsel Don McGahn, according to the Associated Press. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Robert Mueller's Team Just Interviewed Trump's Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus","datePublished":"2017-10-13T22:41:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:51:45.338Z","description":"As part of the ongoing Russia probe","url":"https://time.com/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/","keywords":["White House","justice","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fd8d72123fb8bf/6988e1f4096a94564a6a001e/reince-priebus-robert-mueller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55fd8d72123fb8bf/6988e1f4096a94564a6a001e/reince-priebus-robert-mueller.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Hosts Ceremony Recognizing First Responders In The June 14 Congressional Baseball Shooting","caption":"President Trump Hosts Ceremony Recognizing First Responders In The June 14 Congressional Baseball Shooting","creditText":"Win McNamee—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/4982593/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-reince-priebus-donald-trump/","name":"Robert Mueller's Team Just Interviewed Trump's Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus"}}]}] ```