Donald Trump would 'prefer not' to fire Rod Rosenstein as meeting looms

President may delay highly anticipated meeting with deputy attorney general to focus on Thursday’s supreme court hearing

Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would “certainly prefer not” to fire the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and that he may delay a highly anticipated meeting with the justice department’s No 2 official.

Trump said Rosenstein had denied making remarks first attributed to him in a New York Times report, including that he had discussed possibly secretly recording the president and using the constitution’s 25th amendment to remove Trump from office.

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