Rod Rosenstein: Trump-Russia probe official’s job in doubt

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is heading to the White House amid reports he is expecting to be fired.

It follows a report that America’s second most senior law official talked last year about ousting Mr Trump and secretly recording him.

In a radio interview aired on Monday, Mr Trump said he had not decided whether to fire Mr Rosenstein.

Mr Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia inquiry.

If Mr Rosenstein did lose his job, another Department of Justice official, the solicitor general, would be in line to take over supervision of the investigation into whether there was any collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign before the 2016 election.

Mr Rosenstein assumed oversight of the inquiry after his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, recused himself when it emerged he had been in contact with Russia’s ambassador to Washington while serving as a Trump campaign adviser.

BBC