WH:No Plans to Fire Mueller, Rosenstein04/23 06:16

   The White House says President Donald Trump has no intention of firing 
special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Donald Trump has no 
intention of firing special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General 
Rod Rosenstein.

   White House legislative director Marc Short said Sunday he has no reason to 
believe they would be removed despite Trump's increasing agitation over 
Mueller's probe into his campaign's ties to Russia. Rosenstein oversees that 
investigation.

   Complaining of a media fixation, Short tells NBC: "It's like there's an 
hourglass waiting there to see, OK, when's he going to fire Rosenstein? When's 
he going to fire Mueller? ... As far as I know, the president has no intention 
of firing these individuals."

   Short says he can't rule it out in the long term, though, because it's not 
known "how far off this investigation is going to veer."


(KA)