Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein remained in his job on Monday afternoon after a visit to the White House that sparked a flurry of reports suggesting he might resign or be fired.
A person close to Rosenstein said he was expecting to be fired after the New York Times story on Friday about his early tenure in office. The deputy attorney general oversees the special counsel’s Russia investigation, which has made Rosenstein’s job security part of the long-running political battle over the probe.
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