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The White House issuing a statement from President Trump responding to the appointment of a special counsel.

The president says in part, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know.

There was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein naming former FBI Director Robert Mueller to oversee the investigation into Russia's election interference.

Rosenstein signing the order before alerting Attorney General Jeff Sessions and only giving the White House less than an hour's notice before making it public.

The surprise announcement comes after mounting pressure for the deputy AG to appoint a special prosecutor after President Trump

initially cited a memo Rosenstein wrote as the basis for why he fired James Comey.

He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.

One source telling CNN Rosenstein is throwing President Trump overboard with the special counsel.

A move the White House opposed.

There's frankly no need for a special prosecutor.

You have two Senate committees that are looking into this.

The FBI is conducting their own review.

A statement from Rosenstein explaining,

The public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.

The move follows back-to-back bombshells for President Trump, including a damning memo from Comey,

where he documented private conversations with President Trump, in which he says the president

asked him to drop the investigation and to fired National Security Advisor Michael Flynn

just one day after Flynn was terminated. And today, more bad news for the embattled administration.

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