Stephen Bannon has reportedly spent 20 hours being interviewed by Robert Mueller

Steve Bannon.
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has reportedly been interviewed several times in the last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Bannon spent "some 20 hours" with Mueller's team, NBC News reports, as part of Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion by President Trump's campaign with Russia.

Mueller's interest in interviewing Bannon was apparently piqued by Bannon's comments in Michael Wolff's tell-all book about the Trump White House, Fire and Fury. In the book, Bannon is quoted saying that Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer was "treasonous" and suggesting that prominent members of Trump's team had engaged in money laundering.

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.