(CNN) There has been much talk about whether President Donald Trump is considering firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. In the face of critics who pointed out that independent counsel investigations were very expensive, often overreaching, and unnecessarily protracted, and with little Congressional support for its continuation, the independent counsel law was allowed to expire on June 30, 1999. These regulations govern Special Counsel Mueller and can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 28 C.F.R. Trump has repeatedly expressed his displeasure with Special Counsel Mueller's investigation, calling it a witch hunt. In the first instance, the President likely would reach out directly to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and ask him to fire Mueller.

Source: CNN June 22, 2017 19:59 UTC