The Times interview was full of remarkable statements on a half-dozen topics, but Trump’s attacks on Justice Department leadership and the Russia investigation are the most chilling. He lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe: “If he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else.” He implied that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein may be partisan because he “is from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any.” He threatened special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, saying that Mueller has “many other conflicts [of interest] that I haven’t said, but I will at some point” and that any look into his family’s finances unrelated to Russia would be a “violation.”

While the president delivered his broadsides, the deluge of stories about him, his finances and Russia continued. Here is a partial list of stories in the past 24 hours about investigations into the Trump White House:

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Again, that’s just in the past day.

Trump’s fury over Sessions’s recusal and Rosenstein carries a clear message: He wants a partisan calling the shots on the Russia investigation. Trump assumed that the former Alabama senator, one of the first members of Congress to endorse him, would have his back. He complained about Rosenstein, whom he appointed, not because he doubts Rosenstein’s competence, but because he might be a Democrat. There are good reasons to dismiss Sessions — most recently, his constitutionally questionable expansion of civil asset forfeiture. But canning him for a Trump loyalist to oversee the investigation would send a dangerous message about the investigation’s independence.

The threats against Mueller take Trump’s attack on that independence even further. Not only does the president want a partisan overseeing the investigation, but he believes he still controls where it goes. It’s one thing for a independent observer to comment on what Mueller should or shouldn’t be investigating. It’s another thing entirely for the president himself to say it, while musing that he could get Mueller dismissed due to “conflicts” at any time. Beyond that, the president also stated that he could have ended the Michael Flynn investigation at any point — and if he thinks that, he almost certainly believes he has the same power to unilaterally end Mueller’s probe.

Yet despite the Times interview and the other recent developments, Republicans are not going to expand oversight of the Trump White House. There are many steps that could be taken: demanding to see the president’s tax returns, stripping Kushner of his security clearance as a shot across the bow or holding up nominees until the administration answers specific questions, to name a few. None of those actions are likely. In fact, The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins reports, while Capitol Hill Republicans are split on just how serious the Russia investigation is, “all of them believe they’re already doing everything they can within reason to hold the president accountable.”