Rod Rosenstein to Meet With Trump on Thursday

Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, was expected on Monday to leave his job at the Justice Department, days after private discussions were revealed in which he talked about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office and secretly taping him to expose chaos in the administration.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has verbally submitted his resignation and the White House has accepted it, according to one person familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is out at the Department of Justice. Axios reported that Mr. Rosenstein verbally resigned to White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly, but CNN said that he is expecting to be fired.