Washington (CNN) Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said Sunday the forthcoming report on Russian interference in the 2016 election from special counsel Robert Mueller will be "devastating" politically to the President. "I think the report is going to be devastating to the President," Dershowitz, a fomer Harvard law professor, said on " ABC This Week. " "And I know that the President's team is already working on a response to the report." Mueller was appointed to lead the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election after Trump fired then FBI Director James Comey in May 2017 while he was leading the initial investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump has repeatedly derided Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt" and insisted there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia.

Source: CNN November 25, 2018 18:45 UTC