Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee CNN's Toobin: Democrats are 'wimps' who won't 'have the guts' to add Supreme Court seats Republican senator says plans to confirm justice before election 'completely consistent with the precedent' MORE (N.Y.) on Tuesday defended 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 from criticism by President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE after the FBI raided the New York City office of Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Schumer warned Trump not to use the raid as an excuse to fire Mueller, an action that has been anticipated by Democrats for months.

“If the president is thinking of using this raid to fire special counsel Mueller or otherwise interfere with the chain of command in the Russia probe, we have one simple message for him: Don’t even think about it,” Schumer said.

Schumer also defended the law enforcement raid as legitimate and said it received a green light from Republican officials.

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“Law enforcement officers believe there’s a good chance that the attorney for [the] president committed [a] crime or was involved in fraud where they couldn’t have gotten the okay from the magistrate to make these seizures,” Schumer said.

He noted that the legal referral for Monday’s raid came from Mueller, a lifelong Republican, and that 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, who is also a lifelong Republican, signed off on the referral.

He pointed out that the FBI agents who conducted the raid are under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray, another Republican, who was appointed to his post by Trump himself.

Trump blasted the Department of Justice Tuesday morning after FBI agents used a search warrant to seize documents from Cohen’s office on Monday afternoon.

“Attorney–client privilege is dead!” Trump tweeted. “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!”

Trump did not rule out the possibility of firing Mueller while speaking to reporters before a White House meeting on Monday.

Calling the investigation a “disgrace,” Trump said, “Many people have said, ‘You should fire him.’ ”

Schumer defended the raid as something that was approved by lifelong public officials and had a good chance of revealing a crime.

He also warned that Trump should not have any contact with the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who had responsibility over the raid.

“President Trump should not have any contact, any contact, with the new U.S. attorney in the Southern District, with his office, or the Department of Justice officials overseeing an investigation of Mr. Cohen,” Schumer said.

“Any attempted contact by the president or the White House should be reported to the Department of Justice immediately,” he added.

Updated at 11:20 a.m.