In addition, Feinstein has asked Grassley to call Attorney General Jeff Sessions and several other Trump administration officials to testify.
The Senate judiciary committee does plan to investigate whether there was any interference with the FBI investigations, and the panel's chairman, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, has not ruled out investigating obstruction of justice as part of the probe.
"It would be a catastrophic mistake, but he doesn't have the authority to do it", Republican Sen. He also discussed his agency's budget.
He also questioned why she was not investigated for obstruction a year ago.
The story broke hours after Mueller met with top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Putin added on a sarcastic note that Russian Federation could grant Comey political asylum.
But days later, Trump said in an NBC interview that he had chose to fire Comey before getting their input and he was thinking of "this Russian Federation thing" when he did it.
According to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, Ledgett compiled a memo in which he retold the contents of Trump's telephone conversation with Coates, in which the president asked publicly state that his campaign headquarters was not colluding with Russian Federation. "Nice", Trump wrote in his first tweet.
Officials announced that President Donald Trump is under investigation for possible obstruction of justice.
Shortly thereafter, he followed that up with another tweet, in which he returned to one of his main themes regarding the ongoing probe: "You are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people". "#MAGA" - the acronym referring to his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again.
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Mr Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on 8 June he believed Mr Trump had directed him in February to drop an FBI probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn that was part of the broader Russian Federation investigation.
Trump, Fortune reported, responded to the investigation on Twitter.
The Post noted that Mueller's probe into Russia's attempts to meddle in the election and potential ties between Trump campaign staff and the Kremlin is still in its early stages.
A spokesman for Mueller's team declined to comment on Wednesday.
Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Mr Trump sacked Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey. Mr. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee last week that he considered Mr. Mueller the flawless choice for special prosecutor.
But at the White House today, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged to reporters that Mueller had been at the White House - just the day before he was appointed as Special Counsel, as she said it was a job interview. Given the average length of such investigations and Trump's impulsiveness, it likely won't be the last.
Recent reports have said Trump also requested help from Coats and Rogers to pressure Comey to end the investigation into Flynn's activities.
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, National Security Agency's head Mike Rogers, and Rogers's recently departed deputy Richard Ledgett agreed to be interviewed by Mueller's investigators as early as this week, the Post reported.
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