4/10/2018

2016 ELECTION/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ‘believes he has the power to’ fire special counsel Robert Mueller, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday [4-10-18]… She did not suggest Trump would be moving to fire Mueller. Under the special counsel regulations, Mueller may be ‘disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general’ for misconduct or other good cause. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 presidential campaign, so only Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has the power to fire Mueller. Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, who helped draft the special counsel regulations in 1999, has said the rules don’t ‘foreclose the possibility of political interference in the investigation.'”

-Jeremy Diamond and Laura Jarrett, “Trump ‘certainly believes he has the power’ to fire Mueller, White House says,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 10, 2018 5:01 pm