Mueller knows what he's doing Nathalie. It's not "instead of" it's only for some questions. His team likely has all they need on Trump, they just need to reconcile a few facts and Trump's intent at the time. I suspect that for some things, bringing Trump in to babble about it wouldn't be useful so written responses (still under oath) will suffice.

@2:

Not that oral testimony is any less iron-clad, but with Space Cadet Bone-Spurs answers in writing, it'll be all that much more difficult for him to attempt to weasel out of them later; which is a thing he tends to do when he says something he thinks the rest of us will either instantly forget, or that he can backpedal on and claim the thing everyone heard him say was not in fact what he actually said - or meant to say - or was thinking he said.

why bring up the Sonics? they've been dead 10 years.

Yes, school is Open! So, sharpen your Ticonderogas,
bring out your Jansports – and, don’t forget those
Bullet-proof backpacks*!

*but remember – nothing IS bullet-proof.
Except, of course, obviously, duh,
the Nationalists Rifle Ass’n.

And soon-to-be associate Justice Kavanaught's conviction
that ALL sitting Presidents* are above the Law.
(As is the NRA!)

*REPUBLICAN Presidents.
Them Dems, they can go suck eggs.

How about Sue Bird? Wow!

baller?