Article snippet: President interview with The New York Times Wednesday, going so far as to express regret over appointing the former Alabama senator to lead the Department of Justice. "Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else," Trump told the Times. He added: "If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair -- and that’s a mild word -- to the president.” Sessions did not immediately comment on the interview. The investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election -- and any possible ties to the Trump campaign -- was a central focus of the interview, with the president repeating past assertions that he is not personally being scrutinized. “I don’t think we’re under investigation,” he said. “I’m not under investigation. For what? I didn’t do anything wrong.” The president made the comments despite reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey. As part of the Times interview, Trump levied accusations of a conflict of interest among members of Mueller's team, decrying that some made campaign donations to his former rival Hillary Clinton. He further addressed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who serves in an acting capacity as the head of the Justice Depa... Link to the full article to read more