House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy Harold (Trey) Watson GowdySunday shows preview: Election integrity dominates as Nov. 3 nears Tim Scott invokes Breonna Taylor, George Floyd in Trump convention speech Sunday shows preview: Republicans gear up for national convention, USPS debate continues in Washington MORE (R-S.C.) said in an interview broadcast Sunday that President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE should not fire Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE, saying the deputy attorney general has had a “stellar career.”

"If the president makes any move to dismiss him — he failed to express confidence in him the other day — would that concern you?” Margaret Brennan asked Gowdy on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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“It would,” said Gowdy, who announced his retirement last week. “Again, I'm not in the Senate. I don't have advice and consent. And the president has not sought my counsel on this.”

“But you don't think he should be fired based on what you've seen?” Brennan asked.

“I don’t,” Gowdy, a former prosecutor, said.

"I think it is fair to ask the deputy attorney general what did you know at the time you signed one of the applications. I think it is fair to ask what [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] reforms are you going to implement to make sure we don't have this fact pattern come up again," he added.

"I don't judge people based on a single decision that they make throughout the course of an otherwise really stellar career.”

Trump on Friday declined to say whether he would fire Rosenstein after the release of a controversial memo alleging surveillance abuses by FBI and Justice Department officials.

"You figure that one out," Trump said when asked by a reporter whether he planned to fire Rosenstein.

The memo, released Friday, accuses FBI and Department of Justice officials of misusing their authority to obtain a secret surveillance warrant on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.

Rosenstein, according to the memo, signed off on at least one application to renew the surveillance warrant.

Rosenstein became the deputy attorney general last April. He took over responsibility for overseeing the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow after Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE recused himself from the matter.