>> as congress works on legislation to protect special counsel robert mueller from being fired by president trump, mary clare july joins us with details. she's a reporter for the associated press. tell us about the bill. >> the bill is designed to protect any special counsel. obviously it would protect special counsel mueller. it would allow a 10-day judicial review if there was an intended firing of a special counsel. it ould also put into place

justice department regulations. there are already regulations, but it would put in a lot any special counsel but after he fired for what is called good cause. the 10-d review would ensure the special counsel was fired for good cause. >> we are talking about the senate side. the senate bill, the senate judiciary committee orking on this. who put this together in the committee and why do they say it is needed? >> there are four members of the committee, to republicans and two democrats. tom tillis in north carolina and lindsey graham of south carolina, and the democrats are chris coons of delaware and cory booker of new jersey. they set up two separate bills in august. right hen trump was beginning some

criticism of special counsel mueller. they had introduced two separate bills. they had seen to sort of stall for several months as the republicans in particular insisted they did not think trump won firing mueller and they were not needed. this week they came out with a combined bill. all four of them on the ame bill that combined the two pieces of legislation they introduced earlier. they said it was good policy and they thought it was needed for any special counsel. the timing was certainly interesting because it came within 24 hours of when trump had really become very angry after the raid of his personal lawyer's hotel room and office. he really stepped up some of his criticism of mueller's investigation, saying it was an attack on the country and it was never ending and corrupt. even though they say this is just the timing as a result of months of negotiation, this came very shortly after trump made those

remarks. what about the chair of the judiciary committee in the senate, chuck grassley? what is his view of this legislation? >> senator grassley said he thinks it might be -- he has questions about the constitutionality of the bill. it might be unconstitutional. he still feels he feels obligated to bring it up since four members of his committee came together and did is compromised bill. he is planning on introducing an amendment, which no one has seen yet, but he has described it as increasing reporting from the special counsel's office to congress. and also perhaps give congress early notice if the special counsel was going to get fired. democrats have a lot of concern about this amendment even though they say they have not seen it. they have concerns a could undermine the investigation by increasing so uch reporting to congress that it could jeopardize the

investigation itself. you write in your article about the timing of this. it is supposed to be considered -- it is already on the schedule. >> judiciary committee has a court for the listening on the schedule and in the holdover a week. usually things take a couple of weeks to be considered. it will be on the schedule next week that they will not vote next week. most likely if they were changing plans, it sounds like they will be voting on it in two weeks. grassley mentioned in unrelated hearings yesterday where they discuss the bill there were some republicans on the committee who were opposed to it. it sounds like they probably will not be voting on it immediately, but the potential date right now for a vote of the april 26. mary clare, writing for the associated press. we will continue to follow your

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