Senators launch bipartisan effort to ensure Trump cannot fire Mueller

Robert Mueller departs after a closed-door meeting with members of the Senate judiciary committee in June.US senators from both parties are seeking to protect the special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by Donald Trump, marking the first bipartisan bid by lawmakers to impose a check on the president against the backdrop of the Russia investigation.A pair of bills were unveiled on Thursday, co-sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, that would take measures to bar the p