Rep. Adam Schiff, who is the ranking member on the House intelligence committee, said not long after the report was made public that, should Mueller be dismissed, Congress would appoint Mueller to lead an independent probe.
Appearing before the senate appropriations sub-committee in Washington on Tuesday, Mr Rosenstein said that Mr Mueller would be given the independence needed to do his job.
Ruddy also said he thought "Mueller should not have taken the position [of special counsel] if he was under consideration and had a private meeting with the president and was privy, maybe, to some of his thoughts about the investigation or other matters before the bureau".
In 1973, amid the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr Ruddy said Mr Mueller has some "conflicts" because his former law firm, Wilmer Hale, also representing Ms Ivanka Trump, the President's daughter, and her husband, Mr Jared Kushner.
"When the day comes that our country can not rely on people to deliver the truth about whatever the subject is from positions of great authority and great reputations, like Mueller, and if we just dismiss those as not being able to deliver us the truth about an issue, we've got more problems than we think we have", Womack said. "I think there's a conflict there".
Conservative commentator David Frum, the author of a history of the 1970s, said on MSNBC that Trump shouldn't read too much into the muted response from the legislators who have the power to impeach and remove him from office.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, however, did say he would be "surprised" if Trump fired Mueller. "I spoke to him last week. I think the best vindication for the president is to let this investigation go on independently and thoroughly".
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The White House has directed questions for details to outside legal counsel, which has not responded. "Chris speaks for himself", Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
The Justice Department declined CBS News' request for comment. "They have had a lot of fumbles".
Because any "obstruction" investigation, and decision whether to prosecute, is so "Comey-centric", it seems to me that the investigation, and decision whether to prosecute, shouldn't be in hands of a friend of Comey. Mnuchin: "At times there could be a good shutdown" OPINION: Why Ryan's "ignorance" excuse for Trump won't wash Congress has a pathological spending problem MORE (R-Wis.) on Monday accused the media of ginning up a fake storyline about Trump considering firing Mueller. Trump surrogates like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich don't believe Trump would take such an explosive step.
President Trump was considering firing Robert Mueller as special counsel leading the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election but was talked down by top aides, according to a new report.
Jeannie Rhee, a former deputy attorney general, and Aaron Zebley, Mr Mueller's chief of staff when he was Federal Bureau of Investigation director, help round out the special counsel team that has taken up residence in a Justice Department office building in downtown Washington.
Just weeks ago, Gingrich had heaped praise on Mueller, hailing him as a "superb choice" for special counsel whose reputation was "impeccable for honesty and integrity".
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