Senator Susan Collins of Maine, in response to “this week” on Sunday to the question of the chief ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, “and Robert Muller need protection?”
“It won’t hurt if we passed a law to send a message to the White House that we want to continue the investigation,” said Collins. “But the fact is that the President is not going to sign that legislation, and there are some legitimate constitutional questions.”
J. Scott Applewhite/AP ImagesSen. Susan Collins, joined by, from left, Senator Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Rep. and Greg Walden, is pushing for inclusion in the bill for consideration of government spending from provisions to reduce the insurance premiums on the market the affordable care Act.
She added that even “having the discussion in Congress helps to send a very strong signal that we do not want the investigation to Mr. Mueller interfered with in any way.”
Trump has considered in the past taking action to remove Muller and then like last week he was thinking about it.
After the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room personal trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, the President said during the meeting with the military leadership on Syria, “why can’t I just fire Mueller? Well, I think it’s a disgrace what’s going on. We’ll see what happens … and a lot of people said, you should fire him.”
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Two days later, on Wednesday, a bipartisan group of four senators on the judicial Committee had proposed a law that would give any special adviser 10 days to seek an expedited court order trying to dismiss them. Senator Tom Tillis, R-N. C., Lindsey Graham, R-S. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Cory Booker, D-N. Yu, who introduced a bill.
The judiciary Committee Chairman, Senator Chuck grassli Iowa, said that the group would vote on the bill on April 26. But Grassley, like Collins, have expressed concerns regarding the constitutionality of the bill.
Stephanopoulos asked Collins if in addition to the adoption of laws is “the steps the Senate could take to protect the integrity of the investigation”.
Michael Reynolds/EPA via ShuttestockDeputy General Prosecutor rod Rosenstein, took part in a press conference at the Ministry of justice in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2018.
Collins said only the Deputy attorney-General, rod Rosenstein, has the right to dismiss Muller, because the attorney General Jeff sessions took on supervision of investigation in connection with his participation in an election campaign trump 2016.
“Even if somehow Mr. Muller was fired… the investigation is still going, so it will not mean the end of the investigation,” said Collins. “If the new Deputy Prosecutor General are appointed by the President, I can’t imagine the Senate confirming that a person without a clear commitment to appoint a new independent counsel”.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
