A senior Democratic senator says “it would create an extremely dangerous situation” if President Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, calling on Congress to pass legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller.
“We’ve already passed the point where the president is trying to interfere with the Mueller investigation. He’s already said things, done things that’s inappropriate for the president of the United States,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said in an interview with Hill.TV. “If he were to fire Rod Rosenstein, he’s upped the ante dramatically, and it would create an extremely dangerous situation.
Rosenstein, whom Trump has repeatedly attacked in public, is overseeing Mueller’s Russia probe following the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Trump is set to meet with Rosenstein on Thursday — their first in-person, one-on-one since The New York Times reported that the deputy attorney general threatened to wear a wire while talking to the president in a discussion of invoking the 25th Amendment.
“Congress needs to act now to protect the Mueller investigation — we have bipartisan legislation that was approved by the Judiciary Committee. We need to take that up to protect the Mueller investigation,” Cardin said.
— Molly K. Hooper
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