“I see no evidence that Mr. Trump wants to fire Mr. Mueller now,” Mr. Graham said. Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said Friday that the new disclosures made it urgent for Congress, which Republicans control, to act. “The most important thing Congress can do right now is to ensure that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation continues uninterrupted and unimpeded,” Mr. Schumer said then. The question is: Will our Republican colleagues muster the political fortitude to do it?”Senate Republicans moved quickly last August amid speculation that Mr. Trump might fire Mr. Mueller for investigating beyond his perceived mandate. Since then, discussions to combine the approaches into a single piece of legislation have made little progress.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2018 21:30 UTC