Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is scheduled to appear for a transcribed interview with two House panels next week, following a postponement in their meeting with him earlier this month.
The deputy attorney general will appear before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees on Wednesday, the panels announced on Thursday. Rosenstein will sit for an interview with the chairmen and ranking members of these panels, Senators Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Trey Gowdy, the Oversight Committee chairman, as well as Representatives Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings, the top Democrats on the panels.
The two committees said that the transcript of the interview will be reviewed by the intelligence community and will then be made public.
Rosenstein will face questions about recent reports that last year he suggested wearing a wire during meetings with President Donald Trump to record him. According to a New York Times report released in September, Rosenstein also discussed invoking the 25th Amendment last year to remove Trump from office, The Hill informs.
The deputy attorney general denied the allegations made in the report, and some Justice Department officials noted the comments were made in jest. Although the report led to speculations about Rosenstein’s firing, the President said he would keep him in the administration.
However, the House Judiciary Committee said it would subpoena Rosenstein to testify over the report. “It is essential that we talk to him — he knows that,” Goodlatte said on Monday.
“He has not agreed to come for a transcribed interview on the record. He needs to do that, and if he does not agree to do that very soon, I will issue a subpoena for him to appear,” he added.
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