“I think that all these questions need to be answered so that the administration can get back to work," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says. | Getty Nikki Haley: 'We absolutely need' Mueller's Russia investigation

The independent investigation into possible ties between Russian efforts to interfere in last year’s election and associates of President Donald Trump is necessary, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that aired Monday morning, so that the issue can be put to rest.

The Department of Justice announced last week that former FBI Director Robert Mueller had been appointed as a special prosecutor to oversee the Russia investigation, a move that the president took little time to characterize as “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.” But Haley, visiting Jordan on her first foreign trip as Trump’s representative at the U.N., voiced support for Mueller’s appointment.


“I think we absolutely need the investigation,” she told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think that all these questions need to be answered so that the administration can get back to work.”

Haley also responded to a report last week that Trump had shared highly sensitive intelligence with two top Russian diplomats during an Oval Office meeting earlier this month, information that had been provided by a U.S. partner that was considered so secret that even American allies were purportedly not told of it. Haley said she would work to reassure U.S. partners in the Middle East that their secrets remain safe with the Trump administration.

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“So much of what I do at the United Nations is based on sensitive information, so much of what a lot of the Cabinet members, what they do is based on sensitive information,” she said. “So we're trying to reassure all of our counterparts that what they tell us is kept, trusted, and valued and we will return the favor.”

