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White House is prepping an effort to undermine Rosenstein

The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan.

The plan calls on President Donald Trump's allies to cast Rosenstein as too conflicted to fairly oversee the Russia investigation.

The talking points are still in their preliminary form, and not yet finalized, people familiar with their preparation said. The White House and the Justice Department declined to comment. Ref. CNN

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Rod Rosenstein proposed secretly recording President Trump, reportedly discussed invoking 25th Amendment. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the steward of the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference, proposed wearing a wire to secretly record President Trump last year in order to capture the chaos of his administration and the ineptitude of his presidency, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said Friday. Source 4s.

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resigns. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, submitted his resignation letter to the White House Monday.

It is effective May 11.

"We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls," Rosenstein wrote. "We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter, because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle." Ref. CNN.