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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein Expects To Be Fired, Reports Say

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attends the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attends the first day of his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein expects he will be fired Monday after Friday’s report in The New York Times that he suggested secretly recording President Trump and using the recordings to get members of Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office. Rosenstein denied the report.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson gets the latest from NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas (@relucasz).

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