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April 19, 2018

Trump Won't Say Whether He'll Fire Special Counsel Mueller
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President Trump demurred Wednesday when asked if he was moving to fire
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, even as he called the investigation into
alleged ties between the Trump Organization and Russian officials a
"hoax." Trump was speaking in a joint news conference with Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach,
Florida.

President Donald Trump: "This is a hoax. As far as the investigation,
nobody has ever been more transparent than I have, instructed our
lawyers-'Be totally transparent.' I believe we've given them 1.4 million
pages of documents, if you can believe this, and haven't used-that I
know of, or for the most part-presidential powers or privilege. So we
are hopefully coming to the end. It is a bad thing for a country, very,
very bad thing for a country. But there has been no collusion."

Trump's comments came as Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would "move ahead" with hearings
on bipartisan legislation that would protect Special Counsel Mueller.
The Senate's Republican Majority Leader, Mitch Mc Connell, has vowed he
will not bring the measure to a vote in the full Senate.


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