President Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters he has no intention of firing special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump was quizzed by the press outside the White House after returning from a weekend trip to Camp David.
The president's transition team on Saturday sent a letter to Congress saying Meuller's team had obtained some emails illegally, but Mueller's team has defended its actions, saying everything was done by the book.
Trump's comments follow a Saturday report that there was a "rumor" in Washington, D.C., that the president would fire Mueller by Christmas.
"The rumor on the Hill when I left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week. And on Dec. 22, when we are out of D.C., he was going to fire Robert Mueller," Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier told California's KQED News on Friday.
Speier, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the president was trying to shut down the committee's investigation into claims of collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.
"We can read between the lines I think," Speier said. "I believe this president wants all of this shut down. He wants to shut down these investigations, and he wants to fire special counsel Mueller."
Officials of Trump's Presidential Transition Team discovered that Mueller had gained access to thousands of emails sent and received by Trump officials before the start of his administration. Investigators, though, obtained the huge cache of emails from the General Services Administration, the government agency that hosted the transition's "ptt.gov" emails.
Trump when asked about the emails Sunday said: "Not looking good. It's not looking good. It's quite sad to see that. 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. There's no collusion whatsoever. A lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad."
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