"I think he is considering perhaps terminating the special counsel", Ruddy said. "I think there's a conflict there".
White House officials said late Monday that Ruddy was at the White House that day, but said he hadn't meet with the president and never spoke with him about the issue.
The public testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence committee should yield Sessions' most extensive comments to date on questions that have dogged his tenure as attorney general and that led him three months ago to recuse himself from the Russian Federation probe.
Ryan said the smartest thing for the president to do would be to let the investigation continue and be vindicated.
"When I ran, it was make America great again and that is we're doing it", said Trump during a cabinet meeting on Monday.
Several Trump-supporting media figures called for Robert Mueller to be fired; a Trump friend said the president was actually considering it; a Trump lawyer wouldn't rule it out; a conservative newspaper suggested Mueller faces a conflict of interest; and a top Trump surrogate accused him of partisan bias.
"If President fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller", the California lawmaker tweeted.
The White House downplayed Ruddy's comments.
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He told BBC's This Week: "She should have been there with the residents, which is what Jeremy Corbyn was". The refurbishment, carried between 2015 and 2016, saw new external cladding installed on the building.
"The chain of command for the special counsel is only directly to the attorney general - and in this case, the acting attorney general", he said. "But what he did see and what he heard - he thought that Attorney General Sessions did a very good job, and, in particular, was very strong on the point that there was no collusion between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign".
Democratic senators repeatedly criticized Sessions for dispatching Rosenstein to testify Tuesday in his place about the Justice Department's budget to an Appropriations subcommittee.
The attorney general is also expected to push back on the notion that he committed perjury when he denied having had any communications with Russians during the presidential campaign previous year, the source said.
Gagliano's comments came just days after Comey admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked to "a close friend" memos of his conversations with the president shortly after being fired as Federal Bureau of Investigation director.
Both Fleischer and Gingrich had previously vouched for the character and integrity of Mueller, who was appointed Federal Bureau of Investigation director by Bush and whose term was extended an extra two years by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Comey, however, specifically said at congressional hearing that Mueller had not reviewed or edited his testimony. Still, Gingrich said any special counsel with an agenda can "all of the sudden find something procedural and technical to latch onto".
"That's a decision that the president will make in consultation with his chief lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, and that the president said he'll address next week", he said.
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