The White House has been directing all questions related to this to Trumps personal attorney Marc Kasowitz.
"The FBI leak of information regarding the President is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal", Corallo told CNN.
The Russia investigation expanded to include obstruction of justice shortly after former FBI Director James Comey was sacked by the Department of Justice, according to the five anonymous sources cited in the Washington Post report.
Mueller investigation's appeared to be reaching a broadening circle of current and former officials.
In a dramatic, nationally televised presentation, drawn from contemporaneous memorandums, complete with quotes from Trump, that he wrote immediately after their meetings, Comey made it clear that the president had attempted to interfere in the FBI's investigation, suggesting that his job hung in the balance if he didn't do what Trump wanted.
Donald Trump is now being investigated over whether he personally tried to obstruct justice, according to United States media. As everyone who follows Preet Bharara on the electric Twitter machine-and why don't you, by the way?-knew was coming, the news that special counsel Robert Mueller had rolled out the railroad artillery broke well after the close of business.
Examining such possible charges will allow investigators to interview key people within the administration including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Rosenstein and possibly Trump, the source told Reuters.
Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
The Justice Department announced on May 17 that it had appointed Robert Mueller, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation director, as special counsel to lead an independent Russian Federation probe.
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Onlookers have assumed that any obstruction was meant to prevent evidence of "collusion" or Russian infiltration of Trump's campaign from surfacing. Reporter Tony Mauro noted the addition of Dreeben may signal that "Mueller may be seeking advice on complex areas of criminal law, including what constitutes obstruction of justice". In other words, President Trump committed a felony if he acted with the intent of impeding the FBI investigation.
Investigators are said to also be looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates.
In the short letter Trump sent to Comey dismissing him from the FBI, he had thanked Comey for informing him that he was not under investigation.
Mueller is overseeing a host of investigations involving people who are or were in Trump's orbit, people familiar with the probe said.
Comey testified last week that he also felt pressured to drop the Flynn probe.
No one but Mueller and his team know how the Russian Federation investigations will move forward, but one thing's for sure - it's going to take time, probably years.
Now that Trump is president and Comey has emerged as a top Trump antagonist, some former Comey critics see his willingness to go after the leaders of both political parties as proof of his independence.
Accounts by Comey and other officials of their conversations with the president could become central pieces of evidence if Mueller decides to pursue an obstruction case.
"I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion I'm sure the special counsel will work towards, to try and understand what the intention was there, and whether that's an offense", Comey testified last week.
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