Mueller Team Interviews Bannon About Stone
WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: Tonight, CNN has learned that the former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been interviewed again by the special counsel, Robert Mueller's team, this time about the long-time Trump adviser Roger Stone. Our political correspondent Sara Murray is working this story for us. Sara, why is the special counsel focusing in on associates of Roger Stone?</s>SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Wolf, as you pointed out, CNN has confirmed that Steve Bannon went in. This is his third day of interviews with the special counsel team, but this time, "The Washington Post" reported that the questions the special counsel's team were regarding Roger Stone, of course, the long-time political adviser to President Donald Trump. And what this tells you is there's still an active investigation going on within Mueller's team into Roger Stone, into whether he may have communicated with WikiLeaks. And Steve Bannon isn't the only person who has been contacted recently. We also know that there's another Roger Stone associate, this guy's name is Jason Sullivan. He was Roger Stone's social media adviser for at least part of the 2016 campaign. Now, he told "The Wall Street" that even though we know he's previously talked to the special counsel, he's previously gone before the grand jury, he told "The Wall Street Journal" that they're circling back again and has even more questions. Again, this all gets back to roger stone's claims he was in touch with WikiLeaks. Part of the stuff that Jason Sullivan has been asked about are these conference calls that Roger Stone did for his paid subscribers in 2016. I want to read one thing he said in one of these calls that Mueller now has. We know there are going to be many, many turns in the road, including the material that I assume Julian Assange or WikiLeaks, his organization, drops on the American people. And, remember, Roger kind of seemed during the 2016 campaign when you look back at it like he knew this stuff was coming from WikiLeaks before he dropped it. Of course, now he vehemently denies that he knew anything ahead of time and here he is just last week saying that at a political event in Florida.</s>ROGERS STONE, FORMER TRUMP ADVISER: Let me say yet again: I had no advance notice of the source or the content or the actual release date of the devastating material that WikiLeaks published.</s>MURRAY: Now, as of today, Wolf, Roger Stone still has not been contacted directly by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, but it's very clear they're still trying to nail down what Roger Stone received from WikiLeaks, if anything, either directly or through a back channel and what, if anything, he shared with members of the Trump campaign team.</s>BLITZER: Lots of developments unfolding behind the scenes right now, even as we get ready for the midterm elections. We'll see what Mueller does after the midterm elections. Sara, thank you very much, with that report.</s>MURRAY: Thanks.</s>BLITZER: Just ahead, what caused the new passenger jet to plunge into the sea? We have details of a deadly new aviation mystery.