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House Congressional Republicans are taking their stand with Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation of Trump-Russia investigation. According to the Donald Trump friend, Trump is considering firing Robert Mueller, and once again stopping the investigation.

Republicans are not asking the president not to entertain such thoughts as it will send a bad signal across Washington and the country.

                     

 Rep. Adam Kinzinger said "That would obviously be a bad move. I don’t think he’s really pondering it, My thought is more it’s somebody like Newt Gingrich floating it because he’s got a book coming out."

Donald Trump friend is Christopher Ruddy,  CEO of Newsmax Media while speaking to PBS on Monday and CNN on Tuesday says that Trump is considering Mueller, as he finds him “illegitimate, ” another Trump's supporter, Newt Gingrich who floated the idea, calling for Mueller's removal.

White House did not corroborate on Ruddy's statement, but instead distanced itself from the statement.

Congressional Republicans are now asking that the President allows Mueller to do this job, and some of the Republicans that have supported Mueller includes House speaker Paul Ryan.

At a press conference, Paul Ryan said;

I know Bob Mueller and I have confidence in Bob Mueller,I think the best thing to do is to let Robert Mueller do his job. I think the best vindication for the president is to let this investigation go on independently and thoroughly.

Though President Trump can't fire Mueller, he can only be fired by AG Sessions, but since Sessions already recused himself from the investigations, Trump can ask Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was also the one that asked him to come aboard, and also is behind Mueller.

Though if Rosenstein refuses to fire Mueller, Trump could asks for his resignation letter or fire him, and ask Roseintein successor to let Mueller dissolve the investigation, or it gets better, Trump could ask that the Justice Department amend the regulation that will allow him fire Mueller from the investigation.

It will also be a dramatic turn of events of Trump decides to fire Mueller, because of the outrage and bad new coverage he got when the fired former FBI director, James Comey.

 

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Powerful Manhattan Prosecutor, Preet Bharara has been fired by US attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Preet along with other US attorney were asked to step down on Friday, but he refused to turn in his own resignation, and was fired on Saturday by Sessions.

                

The prosecutor is known for always taking the fight head on as prosecutor of the southern district of New York. He had recently opened an investigation into Fox News, he was looking if the network had failed its shareholders that it settled a sexual assault claim that was made against Roger Ailes, its former CEO.

He is also looking into the Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic governor of New York, Bill de Blasio. He also prosecuted former Republican state senator Dean Skelos of a high profile insider trading.

How He Was Fired

Breaking the tradition of the White house and a breach to the Justice department, the President's secretary called Preet on Thursday, and he reported the call to the Justice department, and they told him not to speak to the President directly.

And on Friday, Jeff Sessions told all the prosecutors to resign, nearly all of the prosecutors was appointed by the Obama led government.

Preet was yet to turn in his resignation letter, and news outlet like AP, Daily Beast and Reuters cited  anonymous sources that Preet is not looking to resign from his position, and he was fired on Saturday.

Preet later went on Twitter and talk about the situation, he tweeted;

                 

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Jeff Sessions, Attorney General of the United States is in a scandal in the Trump's administration, after he was found to have met with a top Russian diplomat twice, and had failed to mention that during his confirmation hearing in the senate before his confirmation. Sessions had met the same person Michael Flynn met with that caused him his position in Donald Trump's cabinet.

Top democrats, including Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have asked that he resigned from his position.

While speaking to reporters, Chuck said;

Last night when I read the revelations ... and his decision to mislead Congress without those contacts, I felt a knot in the pit of my stomach.

The information reported last night makes it clear, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Attorney General Sessions cannot possibly lead an investigation ... with these revelations, he may very well become the subject of it.

While he would have needed all the help he could get from Republicans, several Republicans have asked him instead to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia inquiries.

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said, Sessions should further clarify his testimony. Also, another Republican and a friend of Session, Rob Portman of Ohio said; Jeff Sessions is a former colleague and a friend, but I think it would be best for him & for the country to recuse himself from the DOJ Russia probe.

Jeff Sessions had met with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, known in the US intelligence circle as a top Russian spy and spy-recruiters in Washington.

Sessions met with Kislyak in July while at the Republican convention, and also met him in September in his office when Sessions was a member of the Senate Armed Services committee.

Attorney General Sessions Recused Himself From Trump-Russia Inquiry

Jeff Sessions have now removed himself from the investigations of Trump-Russia inquiry after backlash about his senate hearing where he denied meeting with any Russia officials.

In a news conference on Thursday, Sessions said that Justice Department staff recommended that he recuses himself from further investigation related to the Trump campaign. He said;

I feel like I should not be involved in investigating a campaign I had a role in

Sessions also defended his answer to Democratic Sen. Al Franken's question to him, he said that he had "focused (his) answer on" whether he met the official in his role as a campaign surrogate, not his position as a then-senator. In retrospect, I should have slowed down and said I did meet with one official a couple of times and that was the Russian ambassador.

Sessions Get Suport From Donald Trump

The US President went on Twitter to defend his friend, Jeff Session and accused the Democrats of "overplaying their hand"

            

           

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Despite a strong stance by the house Democrats against Jeff Session nomination, he has now been confirmed the attorney-general.The senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Session.

Jeff Session was one of President Trump earliest supporter during his campaign, and after 30 hours of debate, and shutting down of Senator Elizabeth Warren by Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, accusing her of impugning Session, the vote was 52-47, with Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, supporting the Republicans in voting for their Alabama colleague.

                

Speaking to reporters at Capitol hill after his confirmation, Session said;

It was a special night. I appreciate the friendship from my colleagues -- even those who, many of them who didn't feel able to vote for me. They were cordial, and so we continue to have good relations and will continue to do the best I can.

Also on Tuesday, Betsy DeVos, was confirmed the Education secretary in the senate by 51-50, after a tie vote in the senate, and the Vice-president, Mike Pence had to vote to break the tie.

                  

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Donald Trump is preparing for office, and also picking people that will work with him to "Make America Great Again."  

 

            

Five people have now been picked by the President-elect, Donald Trump, and they are:

Stephen Bannon, chief strategist and senior counselor: Stephen was the former head of the white-supremacist website, Breitbart. He was the last man that ran Trump campaign after a series of changes in his campaign management.

Breitbart is well-known for its racist and sexist post. 

Stephen is also said to be a well-known wife beater, according to police reports.

He had beaten his wife because she did not stop their child from crying in the middle of the night while he was sleeping. 

A lot of netizen have criticized his appointment.

             

Reince Priebus, chief of staff: Reince is the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and though he criticizes Trump when he goes over the line, he also supported him in winning the election to the White house.

He also makes sure the Republican party comes together as one when Trump was announced winner of the election.

                

Gen. Mike Flynn, national security adviser: He has been one of Trump military adviser, though a registered democrat, Mike hates Hillary Clinton. He was discharged from Pentagon’s top intelligence job because of his combative style.

He believes that Islam is a "cancer" and “a political ideology" that "hides behind this notion of it being a religion.”

                 

Rep. Mike Pompeo, CIA director: Kansas representative and also House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He did not endorse Donald Trump during the primaries, he had instead supported Marco Rubio, Trump rival, but backed Trump after he emerged as the Republican nominee.

               

Sen. Jeff Sessions, attorney general: Sessions is from Alabama, and he was the first senator to endorse Donald Trump. He is a top member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and before becoming a senator, he was the attorney general of Alabama.

He was nominated to be a federal judge in the 1980s, but was not approved by the  Senate Judiciary Committee because of a racist statement he had made. 30 years ago now, people tend to have moved forward with it

             

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