Reporters Devlin Barrett, Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Sari Horwitz wrote Wednesday evening that special counsel Robert Mueller is now probing "whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice" - an investigation they say began just days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
There is no question that as long as Mueller is investigating the possibility of the Trump campaign's collusion with the Russians and obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey, a black cloud of adverse publicity will hover over the Trump administration.
Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, head of the National Security Agency, Mike Rogers and retired NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett have agreed to be interviewed by the special investigators this week.
If Trump instructs Rosenstein to dump Mueller, it would evoke memories of 1973, when the two top Justice Department officials, Elliott Richardson and Bill Ruckelshaus, resigned rather than obey President Richard Nixon's order to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor conducting the Watergate investigation. He's been building a team of investigators for a wide-ranging inquiry into Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential campaign.
Already, in recent days, reports indicated that President Trump is musing about firing Mueller as special counsel, and Trump allies in the media argued that he should do so.
Asked about the Mueller chatter, Ryan said Tuesday that he'd only heard rumors but that the best thing for the president to do is allow himself to be vindicated by the results of the investigation.
Trump believes that Mueller, a friend of Comey's, is part of a partisan "witch hunt" against him.
"Whoever leaked [news of the obstruction investigation] was obviously reading that he was thinking about giving Mueller the boot", an official told the Daily Beast.
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Ruddy told ABC News that he stands by his comments that the president is considering asking Rosenstein to terminate Mueller.
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Comey also said Trump repeatedly sought assurances that he wasn't a target of the Russian Federation investigation.
Rosenstein assured the Committee that only he had the power to fire the special counsel, and that it could only be done for "good cause".
The White House referred all questions regarding the investigation to Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, who criticised the Post's report. Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress last week he believes he was sacked by Trump to undermine the agency's Russian Federation probe.
Sessions on Tuesday declined to discuss his interactions with Trump, saying the President may one day want to invoke executive privilege for himself. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that firing Mueller "would be a disaster." Sen.
Investigators have also been looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes by Trump associates, the daily said, quoting unnamed USA officials. It had initially focused on Russia's election meddling and whether any of Trump's associates colluded with the effort.
"While the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so", Sanders said.
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