US: Russia probe chief set for Trump showdown

The US deputy attorney general has had an “extended conversation” with the president, the White House says, amid doubts over his future in the job. Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, is set for crunch talks with Donald Trump on Thursday, said the White House. They discussed reports Mr Rosenstein talked last […]

The US deputy attorney general has had an “extended conversation” with the president, the White House says, amid doubts over his future in the job.

Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel’s Russia inquiry, is set for crunch talks with Donald Trump on Thursday, said the White House.

They discussed reports Mr Rosenstein talked last year about ousting Mr Trump and secretly taping him. Mr Trump is currently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

America’s second most senior law official was summoned to the White House on Monday amid a report that he had verbally resigned to the president’s chief of staff in the expectation that he was going to be fired.