President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday downplayed the possibility Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE will be fired before the conclusion of the Russia investigation.

"There's no doubt he has some grievances,” Giuliani said of Trump while speaking to reporters at the White House. “He’s not going to fire him before this is over.”

Seconds later, Giuliani refused to guarantee that Trump will not fire Sessions, conceding the president “goes back and forth on Jeff.” But the former New York City mayor said he is urging the president not to fire his attorney general.

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“Well, I don’t think anybody in the Cabinet in any administration is ever secure. Something totally different can go wrong. But I don’t think the president is going to touch him, Mueller, or Rosenstein,” Giuliani said, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE and his supervisor, Deputy Attorney General 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.

Giuliani was at the White House for a Sports and Fitness Day event.

Trump revived speculation about Sessions’s job security earlier Wednesday when he publicly wished he picked somebody else as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.

Asked if the president plans to fire Sessions, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded that “the president has made his viewpoint very clearly known and I don't have any personnel announcements at this point.”

The comments underscored Trump’s deep-seated anger at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation due to his role as a top campaign surrogate in 2016.

Sessions’s recusal helped pave the way for the appointment of Mueller as special counsel leading the Russia probe, which has moved closer to Trump’s inner circle.

Giuliani said Mueller should conclude the portion of the investigation into the president’s conduct in Russia-related matters before the end of the summer.

“You have a big election coming up,” he said. “Even if they put together whatever the heck they have, interview or no interview, by Sept. 1 the public should have an explanation of what Mueller has. I would really like that because I don’t think they have much.”

Giuliani said if Mueller does not “file his report by Sept. 1, mid-September, he’s clearly doing a Comey.”

The lawyer explained he was referring to former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE’s handling of the Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE email probe, which many Democrats blame for her loss to Trump.

With regard to Sessions, Giuliani admitted the president has mixed feelings about the attorney general in part because while Sessions has executed Trump's agenda on immigration, the president has never gotten over his recusal.

“I think in the long run, it will be worked out. It will be — I don’t think they’ll fire him,” Giuliani said of the two men. “They’re two good friends.”