WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal team has submitted a proposal to special counsel Robert Mueller that would allow questions only related to whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in 2016, the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Monday night.

The legal team, Giuliani said in an interview, would not agree to questions about obstruction of justice in the investigation out of concern that Mueller and his staff might believe someone who contradicted Trump’s account, like former FBI Director James Comey. That, according to Giuliani, could leave the president vulnerable to a perjury charge.

For months, the question of whether Trump would testify in some fashion in Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election has been the subject of intense speculation.

Earlier this month, Giuliani said Trump was willing to answer “narrow” questions from Mueller, but with the assurance that the inquiry was in its final stages.

Giuliani, a former mayor of New York, said Monday that he had not received a response to the proposal from Mueller’s staff.

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