The White House on Monday stressed that President Trump does not plan to fire special counsel Robert Mueller after the president said the Russia investigation was “based on an illegal act.”

“As we’ve said many times before, we have no intention of firing the special counsel,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters.

“We’ve been beyond cooperative with them, we’re continuing to cooperate with them,” she added.

Sanders was responding to Trump’s provocative tweet from last Friday about the probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia in that country’s election-interference efforts in 2016.

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