Graham: "I'm not sure" if Trump tells McGahn to fire Mueller

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"I do not care what they talked about.He did not do anything.The problem is that the president did not stop Mueller from conducting his investigation," Graham said Sunday, in the show "Face the Nation" of CBS, when host Margaret Brennan pointed out that, According to the report of the special advocate, Trump ordered McGahn to return Mueller in 2017.

"I do not care what happened between him and Don McGahn," Graham continued. "This is my concern: was Mueller allowed to do his job, and the answer is yes."

A redacted version of Mueller's report, released earlier this month, described several episodes in which Trump was likely to impede justice in Mueller's investigation of Russia's electoral interference.

The report states that McGahn refused when Trump ordered him to fire Mueller and that McGahn had decided "that he would resign rather than trigger what he saw as a potential Saturday night massacre".

Last week, Trump denied having ordered McGahn to fire Mueller, saying that if he had wanted to fire the special advocate, he would have done it himself.

"As falsely reported on Fake News Media, I never told White House lawyer Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller while I was there." legally right, "said Trump on Twitter. "If I wanted to fire Mueller, I would not need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself."