(CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has informed President Donald Trump's attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting president, according to the President's lawyer. It is not about any assessment of the evidence Mueller's team has compiled. It had been an open question whether, if investigators found potentially criminal evidence against Trump, Mueller's team would try to challenge those Justice Department guidelines. In addition, the source said the Mueller team would also have to make the case they can't get the information anywhere else and Trump's legal team would argue that Mueller's team has millions of documents and enough information. Update: This story has been updated with more detail about why Trump's legal team posed the indictment question to Mueller.

Source: CNN May 16, 2018 21:28 UTC