GOP House leader backs FBI raid of Trump lawyer

A Republican House leader defended the FBI’S raid of President Donald Trump’s private attorney, saying special counsel Robert Mueller had an obligation to report “potential criminality” to the “appropriate jurisdiction” of New York.

“I don’t know what Mueller was supposed to do other than what he did,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told “Fox News Sunday.”

Gowdy dismissed the notion Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should be fired for his handling of the special counsel, even if Rosenstein warrants some “criticism.”