By midweek, [Nunberg] told reporters he was turning over materials Mueller had requested, including emails with Stone and former Trump aides Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Keith Schiller, Corey Lewandowski and Carter Page.
Nunberg’s participation had another twist:
Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino said Tuesday that he’d spoken with Nunberg, who reportedly said
he was planning to enter substance abuse treatment after his grand jury testimony.
“There’s something,
and drinking I believe is a big part of it, and that’s what happened yesterday,” Gasparino said. “That’s where the story actually goes from here.”
Nunberg’s initial defiance prompted all manner of analysis over whether the Mueller grand jury should even be talking with a witness who was headed in for mental health or substance abuse treatment.
“The team may be debating that very question as we speak,” Melinda Haag, a former federal prosecutor who worked with Mueller when he was a U.S. attorney in San Francisco in the late 1990s, said in an interview on Wednesday.
But a defense attorney working with another senior Trump aide predicted that Mueller’s team would bring Nunberg in for the grand jury appearance and begin by peppering him with questions to determine his sobriety, credibility and fitness to answer questions.