The probe by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI chief, "marks a major turning point in the almost year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin", The Washington Post had reported.
Heck was referring to the growing number of legal teams forming as a result of the special counsel investigation into whether Russian Federation meddled in the 2016 USA presidential election.
Questions about that have persisted in places since reports that former FBI Director James Comey said Trump told him to "let go" of an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
In a perplexing series of Friday-morning tweets, President Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is under investigation by the FBI and levelled a scathing attack against the officials leading the inquiry.
Although he was strongly critical of some of Comey's testimony, the president said last week that the former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief had vindicated him when he said that while he was at the agency, Trump was not the subject of the FBI's Russian Federation probe. Trump tweets. Echoing tweets from Thursday, he concludes by adding: "Witch Hunt".
The president has long vehemently denied any collusion with Moscow. She's the associate attorney general, which makes her third in command at the Justice Department behind Rosenstein and Sessions.
"Mueller is now clearly the (tip) of the deep state spear aimed at destroying or at a minimum undermining and crippling the Trump presidency", Gingrich tweeted on Thursday.
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Mr Rosenstein has previously said that "if anything that I did winds up being relevant to his investigation then, as Director Mueller and I discussed, if there's a need from me to recuse, I will".
In a sign of the newfound seriousness of Mueller's investigation, Vice President Mike Pence's office confirmed that he has hired an attorney to deal with the special counsel investigation. The White House used the memo to justify Comey's firing.
He had likened the appointment of the special counsel with the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history".
It wasn't immediately clear to whom Trump was referring to in his comment "the man who told me to fire" Comey.
Brand was sworn in as associate attorney general on May 22. "Regulations way down, jobs and enthusiasm way up!", Trump tweeted.
Since his inauguration, President Trump has issued dozens of tweets blasting reports that he or his campaign coordinated or colluded with Russian Federation, and that doesn't include all of his tweets blasting "fake news" and "leakers".
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