WASHINGTON ― White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short joined the list of administration officials disputing reports that President Donald Trump wanted to fire the man leading the Russia investigation. But the president backed off once the White House Counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign, the Times reported. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) noted on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Trump cannot directly fire Mueller. She said that at a Senate hearing last year, she questioned Rosenstein “at length on this issue, and he was adamant that he would never give in to any White House pressure to remove” Mueller. The White House, he added, “continues to cooperate in every manner providing any document the special counsel has asked for.

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2018 15:45 UTC