President Trump has pushed to next week his scheduled meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein so as not to interfere with the current Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the president spoke with Rosenstein “a few minutes ago” and they now plan to meet next week.
She said, “They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing.”
Rosenstein’s job is in question following reports he discussed possibly secretly recording the president and using the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
Trump says he has denied the reports.
The meeting’s postponement marks a dramatic de-escalation of a conflict that Monday seemed certain to end with Rosenstein leaving the Justice Department, injecting uncertainty into the special-counsel investigation of whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 presidential election. But Rosenstein is still not out of the woods.
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena for McCabe’s memos, as well as other materials related to the Russia investigation. Conservative Republicans signaled Thursday that they expected Rosenstein would come to Capitol Hill “soon” to testify before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees.
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