Trump on claim he wanted to fire Mueller

More than 20 White House employees have given interviews to the special counsel in his probe of possible obstruction of justice and Trump campaign ties to Russian election interference, according to a document released Thursday that underscores the breadth of the investigation.

"Fake news, folks. Fake news".

However, the number of voluntary interviews, including eight people from the White House counsel's office, also suggests the scope of Mueller's work so far. But he denies any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

But it's a red line they'd rather not act on - and now, with news that US President Donald Trump actually made moves to do it, they may be forced to.

"I'm surely open to considering those bills", Grassley said, adding that the two approaches should be reconciled and then he would focus on whether they raise any constitutional concerns about the separation of powers between the branches of government.

"Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn't fired, so there's no obstruction", I ask what if Donald Trump had ordered Mueller to be "roughed up a little" as he did for some protesters during his campaign?

"The timeline is critical here", Tillis spokesman Daniel Keylin said Friday, noting that Trump sought to fire Mueller in June and the bills were introduced in August. Ty Cobb, a White House lawyer working on the response to the Russian Federation probe, declined comment Thursday night. Several days later, Mr. Trump rejected Mr. Sessions's offer. Mueller also wants to interview former adviser Steve Bannon, who has called Comey's firing perhaps the biggest mistake in "modern political history". Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on one of the special counsel bills.

"This remarkable report makes scarily clear that we need this protection right away for the special counsel", Sen. However, Republicans noted that the purported order came long ago and before Mr. Trump surrounded himself with new lawyers.

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Feinstein said they also should be turned over to Mueller.

Sen. Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerDems sour on shutdown tactics Chuck Schumer's deal with the devil Senate ends debate on Powell nomination ahead of likely confirmation MORE (D-N.J.) on Friday said President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump: If there's no wall, there's no DACA fix Trump appears to call out Samsung over missing Federal Bureau of Investigation text messages Trump Commerce pick told lawmakers he would look at reversing Obama move on internet oversight: report MORE believes he does not have to operate within the bounds of the law. "The fact is - you people won't say this but I'll say it - I was a much better candidate than her", he said.

Trump's denial of the reported June incident echoes repeated statements by the president and other White House officials that Trump had never considered firing the special prosecutor. "No, I'm not dismissing anybody".

Dowd released his detailed list of cooperation by the White House and the campaign a day after the president said he was looking forward to being questioned by Mueller's team.

The three interview clips that were shown during Saturday's edition of AM Joy all took place following Trump's reported attempt to remove Mueller - Aug. 6, December 21 and December 17, respectively. The president also believed Mueller had a conflict of interest because he worked for the same law firm that was representing Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. Separately, a person familiar with the conversation said this week that Trump in a meeting past year with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe brought up McCabe's wife's political background following the revelation that she had accepted campaign contributions during a state Senate run from the political action committee of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally.

The latest evidence the president has cited was a string of text messages from a former agent on Mueller's probe, which show that agent vociferously opposing the president.

Information for this article was contributed by Michael D. Shear and Eileen Sullivan of The New York Times; by Tom LoBianco, Chad Day, Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick of The Associated Press; by John T. Bennett and Niels Lesniewski of CQ-Roll Call; by Karoun Demirjian and Rosalind Helderman of The Washington Post; and by Frank E. Lockwood of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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