Trump slams Russian Federation 'witch hunt,' touts himself, agenda on Twitter

"If President Trump were to try to replicate [former President Richard] Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in addition to Mueller, Congress must unite to stop him - without respect to party, and for the sake of the nation", he said.

But Jay Sekulow, part of Trump's legal team, said the president was writing about reports of an investigation, not an actual probe.

President Donald Trump has acknowledged that he is under investigation in a probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential race and possible collusion by his campaign - and appeared to assail the Justice Department official overseeing the inquiry.

Comey also suggested another factor in his termination was his declining to lift what Trump, during private phone conversations, described as the "cloud" of the Russian Federation probe hanging over his presidency that was making it hard for him to govern. Recent news reports have suggested Trump sought all three officials' help in pressuring FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation into former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.

Sekulow said it was a response to an article in the Washington Post alleging Trump was under investigation for obstruction of justice.

But Rosenstein could end up recusing himself, too, Justice officials say, in part because he played a role in President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.

Trump's fledgling presidency has been battered by allegations - being dissected both by Congress and the Federal Bureau of Investigation - that Russian Federation interfered to sway the 2016 election in his favor, in possible collusion with the former real estate magnate's campaign team. Trump fired Comey in early May.

At the December meeting with Kislyak, Kushner suggested establishing a secure communications line between Trump officials and the Kremlin at a Russian diplomatic facility, according to US officials who reviewed intelligence reports describing Kislyak's account. "Sad!", Trump tweeted Friday morning.

Recently, a Washington Post article caused another stir.

And now his lawyer, Jay Sekulow, has made the weird claim that is is not Trump's actions which were potentially unconstitutional, but rather the investigation into those actions itself.

Comey made the existence of this investigation public in a March hearing before the House intelligence committee. These reports point to an important twist: Trump is now the subject of a criminal investigation because of actions he took as president.

Schiff said if the panel can't get an answer then he believes a subpoena will be needed.

Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment for this story, but said "that the special counsel's office has undertaken stringent controls to prohibit unauthorized disclosures and will deal severely with any member who engages in this conduct".

The letter to campaign officials was signed by Michael Glassner, the Trump campaign's executive director, and sent in an envelope from the Jones Day law firm, which the campaign retained to field inquiries from investigators, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN.

Trump writes, "You are witnessing the single greatest WITCH HUNT in American political history - led by some very bad and conflicted people!" Trump tweeted on June 16.

If he does the unthinkable and fires the key players in the investigation into Russian Federation and potential obstruction of justice, then impeachment proceedings will soon follow.