Putin terms Mueller probe in US political games
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday described the probe by United Sates' Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Moscow's alleged election meddling in the US as "political games" that should not be permitted to interfere with relations between the two countries.
Asked in a Fox News interview about Mueller's indictment on Friday of 12 Russian intelligence agents for hacking Democratic Party computers in 2016, just three days before his summit with President Donald Trump, Putin said it was not his concern, but rather part of an "internal political struggle."
"I'm not interested in this issue a single bit," he said, speaking through a translator. "It's the internal political games of the United States." He said, "Don't make the relationship between Russia and the United States, and don't hold it hostage of this internal political struggle."
