OnPolitics Today: A Mueller firing? Police get riot gear ready, just in case

with Josh Hafner

President Trump (left) and special counsel Robert Mueller

Pittsburgh police received orders this week to get their riot gear ready just in case President Trump decides to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, a local CBS affiliate reported.

What's the likelihood of that happening? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has told Trump he's not a target in Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, nor is his now-raided lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to Bloomberg Politics on Thursday.

Trump later said that's reason enough not to fire either man.

"They've been saying I'm going to get rid of them for the last three months, four months, five months, and they're still here," Trump said Wednesday. "So we want to get the investigation over with, done with. Put it behind us."

Still, the Senate will vote on a bill to protect Mueller next week.

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