President Trump still has confidence in Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s job is safe, at least for now, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Thursday.

“He was disappointed in Atty. Gen. Sessions’ decision to recuse himself" from the Justice Department investigation into potential collusion last year between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Sanders said. "But clearly he has confidence in him or he would not be the attorney general.”

That was unclear, however, after the scathing comments Trump made in an interview with the New York Times published late Wednesday. The president lashed out at the top leaders at the Justice Department and FBI, but especially at Sessions, provoking immediate speculation whether the attorney general would resign or be fired.