ATTORNEY GENERAL/DOJ/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Tuesday [6-13-17] that even if President Trump told him to fire Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the Department of Justice investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, he would not follow the order unless he thought there was good cause.
The statement came after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked Rosenstein during an open Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing what he would do if Trump asked him to fire Mueller.
‘Senator, I’m not going to follow any order unless I believe those are lawful and appropriate orders,’ Rosenstein said. ‘Special counsel Mueller may be fired only for good cause, and I am required to put that cause in writing. That’s what I would do. If there were good cause, I would consider it.
‘If there were not good cause, it wouldn’t matter to me what anybody says.’ “
-Miles Parks, “Rosenstein Says He Wouldn’t Fire Special Counsel Without Good Cause,” NPR, June 13, 2017 11:35am