ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [4-18-18] downplayed speculation he’s moving to fire special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. ‘They’ve been saying I’m going to get rid of them for the last three months, four months, five months, and they’re still here,’ the President told reporters, standing alongside his Japanese counterpart at Trump’s oceanfront Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He maintained the special counsel’s look into whether his campaign colluded with Russia was a ‘hoax,’ and insisted he’d been fully cooperative with investigators.”
-Kevin Liptak, “Trump on firing Mueller or Rosenstein: ‘They’re still here’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 18, 2018 7:35 pm