President Trump on Wednesday sought to calm fears he is preparing to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to stymie the Russia probe, but did not rule out the possibility.

“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 during a joint press conference with the prime minister of Japan.

The president also expressed a desire to end the Russia investigation, which he called a “very bad thing for our country.”

“So we want to get the investigation over with, done with, put it behind us,” he said.