JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s SUV pulled into the White House complex shortly before 11 a.m. — about 20 minutes after the first headline blared the dramatic news. Rosenstein was scheduled to meet with chief of staff John Kelly before attending a previously scheduled national security meeting with other senior officials at the White House. But he didn’t expect to actually attend that second meeting. Indeed Rosenstein had already offered Kelly his resignation on Friday [9-21-18] after The New York Times reported that he had suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump and discussed an effort to oust Trump from office via the 25th Amendment. And as he pulled up to the White House on Monday [9-24-18] morning — still the deputy attorney general, his resignation pending — he expected he would leave a private citizen, fired by President Donald Trump. Instead, about two hours later, Rosenstein clambered back into his official SUV and returned to the Justice Department having emerged, unscathed, from his two meetings at the White House and a phone call with the President.”
–Jeremy Diamond, Laura Jarrett and Kaitlan Collins, “Rosenstein’s tumultuous day capped with lingering suspense,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 24, 2018 10:15 pm