Sentences with phrase «firing special counsel»

* President Donald Trump rejects reports that he's considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller, while offering a less - than - ringing endorsement of his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Sessions: «It is what it is.»

Firing the special counsel could lead to an increase of Political Capital by those who oppose the President which will increase the chances that Impeachment can be successful

President Trump said he's not planning on firing special counsel Robert Mueller, whose been investigating whether Russian officials had colluded with the commander - in - chief's campaign during the 2016 election.

Republican and Democratic senators introduced two pieces of legislation seeking to block Trump from firing the special counsel probing his ties to Russia, as Congress increasingly seeks to assert its authority on policy.

Despite the president's tweet storm, a top White House lawyer says the president is not considering firing the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

Sanders said, «As we've said many times before, we have no intention of firing the special counsel.

Two other senators, Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Cory Booker, offered a bill that would require the attorney general or acting attorney general to get approval from a three - judge panel before firing a special counsel.

Trump has mused about firing special counsel Mueller on the heels of an FBI raid of the offices of Michael Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer.

The reason for the fear, this strategist said, comes from uncertainty about how the president may react, including possibly firing special counsel Robert Mueller, who reportedly made the referral leading to the Cohen raid, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who reportedly signed off on the raids.

President Donald Trump says he doesn't intend to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign that has spilled over to Trump's associates and perhaps to the president himself.

Trump reportedly ordered McGahn to fire the special counsel, but McGahn threatened to resign instead.

The recent news that Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller sometime in June is but the latest in a steady stream of revelations since January of last year that suggest that the president sought to control — and often curtail — the scope and direction of the investigation.

Mueller also wants to know about the two publicly known occasions in which Trump moved to fire the special counsel, the questions show, according to The Times.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has no intention to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and alleged collusion by the Trump campaign.

President Donald Trump's fury over the raid of his lawyer Michael Cohen's office has initiated a new round of discussion about whether the president will finally fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in an effort to halt investigations into himself and his associates.

Trump then said he would have chosen a different attorney general if he'd known Jeff Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation and said that «many people» have said he should fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

Hours later, Trump called the raid an «attack on our country» and speculated that «we'll see what happens» when asked if he planned to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said this week that President Donald Trump believes he has the «power» to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Republican lawmakers warned Trump on not to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, but showed little sense of urgency to advance long - stalled legislation to protect the special counsel despite a report that the president had tried to remove him last June.

A coalition of groups opposed to Trump and his agenda has assembled more than 100,000 individuals pledging to protest should the president fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

President Donald Trump wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russian officials in the election, last June, but didn't after the White House counsel threatened to quit.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the FBI's raid of President Trump's lawyer's office and the possibility that the president will fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

There have been unconfirmed speculations that Trump might fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller who was appointed to investigate «any links and / or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.»

Historically, President Nixon fired the special counsel who was discovering things about him.

According to those regulations, only the Attorney General or Acting Attorney General can fire the special counsel (§ 600.7 (d)-RRB-, emphasis mine:

Clearly, Rosenstein is the one person who could fire the special counsel, Robert Mueller.

Although the email's body did clarify that President Donald Trump had not fired the special counsel, the implication of the subject line was enough to stir backlash.

mentioned a rumor on Capitol Hill that the president may fire the special counsel before the Christmas holiday.

In the PolitiFact article Can Donald Trump fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller?

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In particular, Mueller is examining whether Trump sought to obstruct justice when he fired Comey last May, and Wednesday's report will likely contribute another piece of evidence to the special counsel's case against the president.

And if he was still harboring dreams of firing U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, something many Republicans already have warned against, such a move may be politically impossible.

Last May, following Trump's surprise firing of James Comey as FBI director, the two were among 180 former prosecutors from the district who signed a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein calling for the appointment of a special counsel.

Former FBI Director James Comey, whose firing in May precipitated the appointment of Mueller as special counsel, has said Trump had asked him in a private Oval Office meeting to consider ending the investigation into Flynn.

On Thursday, the GOP - led Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure that would safeguard special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired.

After Trump fired Comey, Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel.

He follows other current and former senior White House officials who have already met with the special counsel's office as he examines the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and misleading statements about the Trump Tower meeting.

After Comey's firing, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as the special counsel in charge of the Russia investigation.

Under yet another scenario, offered by the author of the special - counsel regulations, Trump could order their repeal, then fire Mueller by himself.

But he could not fire him directly unless he ordered the repeal of the special - counsel regulations adopted in 1999, according to Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general who helped draft them.

The questioning about whether the White House was seeking to oust Mueller came as top conservative boosters of Trump sought to delegitimize Mueller, a former FBI director who took the special counsel job after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in mid-May as special counsel overseeing the the investigation into whether the President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russian officials during the 2016 election, noted that under the special counsel regulations, only the attorney general has the authority to fire such an appointee.

Days after Comey's firing, the Justice Department appointed a special counsel, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, to oversee the federal investigation.

When President Donald Trump reportedly ordered the firing of the special counsel Robert Mueller, White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit.

Trump's criticism was seen by some as a move to eventually put someone in charge at the Justice Department who would fire Robert Mueller from his post as special counsel leading the Russia investigation.

Political consultant Rick Gates, who served as a deputy to his longtime business partner Paul Manafort while Manafort was President Donald Trump's campaign manager, has fired his lawyer who was reportedly working to get him a plea deal in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, the Daily Beast reports.

He was questioned by Robert Mueller's special counsel in January, likely about his knowledge of Trump's decision to fire FBI director James Comey.

The fallout from Comey's firing precipitated the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's new attorney, said in an interview on Fox News that Trump fired Comey last year because Comey would not state «that he wasn't a target» of the special counsel's Russia investigation.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's new attorney, says Trump fired Comey last year «because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn't a target» of the special counsel's Russia investigation.

Consider the Fed's hike in interest rates on March 21, the passing of a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill on March 23 that dramatically widened the federal deficit, the resignation of former director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn on March 6, the firing of former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, the tariff tantrum between the U.S. and China on March 1 and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.