Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday.
The White House announcement comes days after The New York Times reported that Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording President Trump and that he raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office for being unfit to govern.
AP's Sagar Meghani has more.
The president's in New York for the U.N. General Assembly and a spokeswoman says he'll meet with Rosenstein when he is back Thursday. She says the two men had an extended talk today at Rosenstein's request following reports last week that he'd suggested secretly recording the president and using the constitution to remove him from office.
Rosenstein went to the White House today expecting to be fired.
AP's Sagar Meghani reporting.
"I believe that accountability needs to serve now. I think that the confirmation Brett Kavanaugh will set a precedence for lack of respect."
A young protester outside the Supreme Court in Washington speaking out about the pending vote for nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to support him despite a new allegation of sexual misconduct.
The New Yorker magazine reported late Sunday that two U.S. senators are investigating a woman's charge that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a Yale University dorm party in the early 1980s.
Mr. Trump addressed the allegation from New York where he is attending the U.N. General Assembly.
"For people to come out of the woodwork from 36 years ago, and 30 years ago and never mention it - all of a sudden it happens. In my opinion it's totally political."
Kavanaugh has denied this new allegation, calling it "a smear, plain and simple."
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The CIA is looking to expand its presence around the globe in order to eliminate so-called "intelligence gaps" and take on the growing threat from major powers like Russia and China.
CIA Director Gina Haspel on Monday called the shift from counterterrorism back to more traditional espionage against nation-states "a strategic priority."
Russia says it will supply Syria with a more modern S-300 missile defense system in the coming weeks.
Russian defense minister says President Vladimir Putin ordered the upgrade after a Syrian Soviet era S-200 shot down a Russian plane last Tuesday, killing all 15 on board.
Russia has blamed Israel, whose military was conducting airstrikes on Syria at the time of the incident.
Russia has said the S-200 system is not advanced enough to distinguish Russian planes as friendly.
A second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in the planning stage.
"We have an agreement to work out another summit and we look forward to doing that. I'm going to be meeting with Chairman Kim in the not too distant future. The location is being worked on, the time is being worked on, we'll be announcing it."
Despite the improved ties between Washington and Pyongyang, which have no diplomatic relations, North Korea is not believed to have actually taken any promised steps toward giving up its nuclear arsenal.
World leaders recommitted themselves Monday to the search for peace as they gathered for a United Nations summit marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth.
Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, declared, "It's time to say, 'Enough is enough!'"
"It is time for every leader here to take responsibility, those who are directly involved in the authorities plaguing our world, those who take sides and those who sit in silence. As leaders of this time, you have moral imperative and the ability to bring the death and destructions we witness on a daily basis to an end."
Prosecutors have asked the judge to send comedian Bill Cosby to prison for up to 10 years for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
On day one of the two-day sentencing hearing, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney Kevin Steele said not jailing Cosby would give him the opportunity to carry out the same crime on other women.
Cosby is legally blind, and his attorney, Joseph Green, argued the superstar comic is too frail to get through a long prison sentence.
Green is asking the judge to sentence Cosby to house arrest.
