Sen. Richard Burr declined to comment further on the substance of the meeting. | Getty Burr says Mueller met with Senate intelligence panel to deconflict probes

Special counsel Robert Mueller met with Senate Intelligence Committee leaders on Wednesday to deconflict their investigations, Chairman Richard Burr said in an interview.

The meeting included Burr, Mueller and Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, Burr said. The goal is to separate Mueller's investigation from the panel's probe of Russia's influence on the 2016 elections.


"I'm going to acknowledge that we had a meeting with special counsel Mueller. But I'm not going to get into the content," Warner told reporters.

Burr separately told reporters he now has "clarity" on whether or not he will receive the memos written by James Comey that detail the former FBI director's conversations with President Donald Trump. Comey has alleged Trump told him it was his "hope" that Comey would let go of an investigation into ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Both Burr and Warner would not say whether the committee has the memos.

The chairman said he's "always felt" that the two investigations would continue to run without conflicting with each other and that he'll stay in touch with Mueller to make sure it stays that way.

"We'll be in communication on any aspects that might bleed over," Burr said.