Putin Offers Mueller Options to Interrogate Russians Charged With Hacking

I don't know the full extent of the situation, but President Trump mentioned this issue and I will look into it. So far I can say the following. We have an existing agreement between the US and the RF, an existing treaty, that dates back to 1999, the mutual assistance on criminal cases. This treaty is in full effect, it works quite efficiently. On average we initiate about 100-150 criminal cases upon request from foreign states. For instance, last year, there was one extradition case upon the request sent by the United States. So this treaty has specific legal procedures. We can offer that the appropriate commision headed by special Counsel Muller. He can use this treaty as a solid foundation and send an official request to us so that we would interrogate of these individuals who he believes are privy to some crimes. And our law enforcement is perfectly able to do this questioning and send the appropriate materials to the United States. Moreover, we can meet you halfway, we can make another step. We can actually let official representatives of the United States, including the members of this very commission headed by Mr. Mueller, we can let them into the country and they would be present at this questioning. But in this case, there is another condition. This kind of effort should be a mutual one. Then we would expect that the Americans would reciprocate and they would question officials including the officers of law enforcement and intelligence services of the United States who we believe have something to do with illegal activity on Russian territory and we have to request the presence of our law enforcement.