Washington (CNN) Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York who President Donald Trump fired just three months into his presidency, says he believes that if he had stayed Trump would have asked him "to do something inappropriate." The interactions Bharara said he had with Trump started with a call from Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, his old boss, who called Bharara shortly after the election to tell him Trump wanted to keep him around. "It was odd, because as a general matter, Presidents don't speak directly to United States attorneys. And the most notable critic of that meeting was Donald Trump himself," Bharara said. "I have reason to believe later that nobody knew that Donald Trump was calling me from the Oval Office," Bharara said.

Source: CNN September 20, 2017 19:50 UTC