"Witch Hunt", the president said on Twitter.
'I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!
"Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials, ' particularly when they do not identify the country..." where the source originates. 'The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations'.
Mueller continues to hire a team of lawyers, and with FBI investigators is gathering information that is widely expected to lead to a formal investigation into whether President Trump attempted to interfere in the investigation.
After Boente, the responsibility would fall to the US attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and then the USA attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Although the White House initially said Rosenstein's memo led Trump to fire Comey, the president later said he did so because of the Russian Federation investigation. Part of the revelations regarding the Russian Federation investigation and the firing of Comey has been that Trump repeatedly pushed top intelligence officials to say in public that Trump was not personally under investigation and that there was no evidence of collusion between his campaign and Russian Federation in its supposed interference in the 2016 election.
Ian Prior, a Justice Department spokesman, said in an email Friday that Rosenstein "has said numerous times, if there comes a point when he needs to recuse, he will".
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Friday that she is "increasingly concerned" that Trump will try to fire Rosenstein and Mueller.
And attacked his own deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein (who now might resign or recuse himself).
Rosenstein wrote a three-page memo on May 9 criticizing Comey for his handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private server while in office.
Democrats and Republicans alike decried President Trump's tweet about the Russian Federation investigation on Capitol Hill Friday.
Theresa May orders full public inquiry into London fire
Officials cited security concerns and suggested she didn't want to distract police and others from their work. At least 30 people have been confirmed dead and about 70 in total are understood to be missing.
If Trump ordered Brand to fire Mueller and she refused, the responsibility to oversee the special counsel would fall to Dana Boente, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a presidential executive order.
Sessions had already recused himself from the investigation, testifying earlier this week that he did so because he had worked on the Trump campaign.
Brand is "a horse of a different color from career prosecutors such as Rosenstein, Comey and Mueller", Feldman says.
"It's becoming clear to me that the president has embarked on an effort to undermine anyone with the ability to bring any misdeeds to light, be that Congress, the media or the Justice Department". "However, nothing has changed".
The tweets came shortly after Rosenstein issued his unusual statement that appeared to be warning about the accuracy of such reports.
A day later, Mr Rosenstein appointed Mr Mueller - who was at the helm of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the September 11 attacks - as special counsel. Should he become a witness, he would certainly have to recuse, which means that he'd be replaced with the DOJ's third in command, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand.
A source close to Trump's legal team tells CGTN "no".
Among its other points, the memo also orders that any records be preserved about foreign travel by transition officials or personnel of Trump's presidential campaign. At a previously scheduled off-camera briefing for reporters, principal deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was peppered with more than a dozen questions about ongoing investigations for about 20 minutes.
Dowd, 76, joins longtime Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz; Jay Sekulow, the TV face of the team, who's doing a "full Ginsburg" blitz oftomorrow's Sunday shows; and Mark Corallo, a Justice Department alumnus who was Rep.
They are looking at whether Trump campaign associates may have been unwitting agents on Russia's behalf, as well as Russia's actions absent any assistance from American political actors.
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