“I have no special knowledge” about the Trump Tower meeting

It started with the Washington Post, which posted a story by Josh Dawsey at 2:29 p.m. ET reporting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had subpoenaed Nunberg to appear before a federal grand jury, but that he will not go.

Nunberg then called into network MSNBC, telling host Katy Tur “I think it would be amusing if they arrested me” over his apparent defiance of Mueller’s subpoena. Should I spend 50 hours going over all my emails with Roger [Stone] and Steve Bannon?

The grand jury subpoena requires Nunberg, who has already been interviewed by investigators, to appear before a grand jury Friday and to turn over any emails, correspondence, telephone logs or other records he had involving the president and nine others, including former strategist Stephen K. Bannon, outgoing White House communications director Hope Hicks, and longtime adviser Roger Stone.

“Let (Mueller) arrest me”, he told The Washington Post.

“I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week, and we’re going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons”, then-candidate Trump said.

In a statement given to CNN, Stone denied wrongdoing and said he has been a friend and adviser to Trump for decades. Stone said in a statement to HuffPost later that day that he has “no knowledge or involvement” related to any collusion with Russian Federation.

Nunberg seemed particularly concerned with the content of his emails with former Trump campaign officials-not because they would reveal collusion, he told Tur, but because they would reveal his and Stone’s mean-spirited gossip.

Mr Nunberg reportedly worked for the Trump Organisation – the U.S. president’s business conglomerate – beginning in 2011 before becoming a paid aide on the NY real estate mogul’s presidential campaign.

Nunberg also said that it was the “biggest joke” that Trump himself had colluded with Russian Federation, a point he echoed to the Post.

Nunberg rejected any notion that Trump had colluded with Russians. “I don’t think he should have been involved in that campaign”.

But Mr Nunberg also told CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians!“.

Nunberg’s decision to air his views publicly was not based on legal advice. When he (or better yet, his lawyer), negotiates to narrow the document subpoena, they can also try to narrow the scope of the grand jury testimony.

“I’m not going to build the case that they are trying to build”.

“This person told me, …” He called him a “scumbag” and a “weird dude”.

Page called Nunberg’s accusations “laughable” in a comment to The Associated Press.

Nunberg said Trump’s longtime aide Keith Schiller told him that Trump declined an offer from Emin Agalarov to send women to Trump’s hotel room at the Moscow event. “He’s too smart for that”.

His defiance risked landing him in jail on contempt charges and threatened to create a sideshow for the straight-laced special counsel while his outbursts were sure to trigger days of news coverage and will therefore likely infuriate Trump.