WASHINGTON _ Two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared to be on the verge of getting fired, President Donald Trump said he would like to keep him as the Justice Department's second-in-command.
"My preference would be to keep him and let him finish up," Trump said during a news conference on Wednesday in New York.
Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, has been at the center of controversy over news reports that he suggested secretly recording the president or removing him from office under the 25th Amendment. He has denied the reports.
After numerous reports on Monday said Rosenstein was about to resign or get sacked, the White House announced that Trump would meet with Rosenstein on Thursday at the White House.
However, Trump said he may delay the meeting so he could focus on a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will defend himself against allegations of sexual assault when he was in high school and college.
