President Donald Trump said he "can’t imagine there’s anything on ‘em, frankly, because as we said, there’s no collusion," when speaking to reporters of emails sent by his transition team. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Trump says he is not considering firing Mueller

President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller.

"No, I’m not,” Trump told reporters, when asked if he intended to fire Mueller. The president was returning to the White House from a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat.


Washington has been abuzz with speculation about Mueller's future probing Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates were involved. Trump has maintained there was no collusion with Moscow and has called the investigation a "witch hunt."

Trump's allies complained this weekend about the way Mueller's team went about obtaining emails from the presidential transition. A lawyer for the transition team said the special counsel improperly obtained the records directly from the General Services Administration, though other legal experts have since said Mueller's actions were appropriate.

The president said the reports are “not looking good" and that "a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad." He also said he didn't think Mueller would find anything useful in the emails.

"It’s quite sad to see that," he said. "My people are very upset about it. I can’t imagine there’s anything on ‘em, frankly, because as we said, there’s no collusion."

Mueller's spokesman Peter Carr said Sunday that the office had followed appropriate steps to obtain the transition emails. Pro-Trump lawmakers and pundits also have accused the special counsel's office of bias after it was revealed that two FBI officials who previously served on Mueller's team had exchanged anti-Trump text messages.

