REPORTER: Over the weekend, a lot of complaints from Democrats about the Comey replacement process. First of all, that Jeff Sessions is leading the search. A lot of Democrats (inaudible) recused himself of the Russian investigation, he should not be in that position. Secondly, some Democrats in the Senate are saying that before they will consider the president's next nominee, they want a special prosecutor appointed to look into the Russian investigation.



Can you respond to both?



SPICER: I -- I think this is a process that's running completely as it should. It's being headed by the deputy attorney general and the attorney general. As you -- we've noted in the past, the FBI director reports to the deputy attorney general.



They continue to move through a series of highly qualified candidates and it's -- you know, obviously this is a huge priority for the president, to make sure that we have someone that has the ability to administer the proper leadership to the FBI.



Blake?



QUESTION: (inaudible) on the special prosecutor?



SPICER: I think that's -- there's -- there's, frankly, no need for a special prosecutor. We've discussed this before. You have two Senate committees that are looking into this, the FBI is conducting their own review. And -- and I think if you even look at what Acting Director McCabe said last week, he made it very clear that they have the resources that they need and that the work continues.



But the bottom line is -- again, I think part of it is there's a difference between what we've talked about and that, and it's been made very clear that there's been -- with respect to the president himself, both Senator Schumer, Senator Feinstein, Senator Manchin, everyone else who have been briefed on this have been very clear that there was no collusion with respect to the president himself and no investigation there.