White House: No plans to fire Rod Rosenstein

Published February 3, 2018 12:46am ET



A spokesman for the White House said Friday evening that President Trump has no plans to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“I’m saying it on behalf of the White House, and that’s that no changes are going to be made at the Department of Justice,” White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said on CNN. “We fully expect Rod Rosenstein to continue on as the deputy attorney general.”

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