President Donald Trump has "no intention" of firing special counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating the alleged Russian meddling in last year's USA presidential polls, the White House has said.
The Washington Post, citing unidentified officials, on Wednesday reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice.
"I think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel", Ruddy said in an interview with Judy Woodruff of "PBS NewsHour".
"I'm going to acknowledge we had a meeting with the special counsel Mueller, but I'm not going to get into the contests", Mr Warner said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters Tuesday any talk about Trump wanting to rid himself of the special investigator amounts to "rumor".
Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mr Mueller last month, testified on Tuesday that he had seen no evidence of good cause to sack him.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mr. Mueller, declined to comment.
Now that Sessions recused himself from the Russian Federation investigation, then the authority to sack Mueller rests with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
"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.
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Mueller has scheduled interviews with key national security officials about the matter.
Whether Trump had been made aware that he was, in fact, now under investigation by Mueller - and had been under investigation for more than a month - at the time that he reportedly considered firing the special counsel remains unclear.
Significantly, Preet Bharara, the India-born former top USA federal prosecutor, earlier this week had said that there was enough evidence to begin an obstruction of justice case against Trump over his alleged interference in the Russian Federation probe. "I think he's weighing that option".
Some of Mr Trump's allies have begun questioning Mr Mueller's credibility as the investigation intensifies. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
"There's some real conflicts", Ruddy said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate judiciary committee, wrote a letter to Chairman Chuck Grassley calling for the judiciary committee to establish its own investigation into obstruction of justice. He and his team are investigating whether the President tried to pressure them to shut down the Russian Federation investigation.
The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Democrat Adam Schiff, responded forcefully by saying Mueller would be brought back "immediately".
Asked what he would do if Trump ordered him to fire Mueller, Rosenstein said, "I'm not going to follow any order unless I believe they are lawful and appropriate orders".
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