President Donald Trump and his White House have been adamant: There’s absolutely no need for a special prosecutor to investigate the ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian intelligence operatives.
At the moment, Congressional Republicans — at least the bulk of them — seem content to go along with Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted last week on the Senate floor that “too much is at stake” to appoint a special prosecutor, adding that such an appointment would “only serve to impede the current work being done to not only discover what the Russians may have done but also to let this body and the national security community develop counter measures.”
