BREAKING: ROSENSTEIN RESIGNS UPDATE: Nevermind? Trump to Meet With him Thursday

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly, according to a breaking news report.

Rosenstein offered his resignation following reports claiming the Justice Department’s second highest-ranked official considered secretly recording President Donald Trump and lobbying cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment in a bid to remove him, Axios wrote Monday.

UPDATE: Nevermind?

Trump is scheduled to meet with him on Thursday:

Jonathan Karl on Twitter

This may be the strangest day yet at the Trump White House. Rod Rosenstein was summoned to the WH to meet with John Kelly this morning. He expected to be fired. He wasn’t. And now Rosenstein is attending a previously scheduled cabinet-level meeting (filling in for Sessions)

Mark Knoller on Twitter

In written statement, @PressSec says “At the request of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he and President Trump had an extended conversation to discuss the recent news stories.” Says Pres and Rosenstein will meet Thursday on @POTUS return from the UN.