Rosenstein agrees to meet Republicans in the House next week

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has agreed to meet Republicans in the House next week to explain information he allegedly suggested secretly recording President Donald Trump and invoking the 25th amendment for the dismiss the post of unfit, told ABC News sources Friday.

House Watch Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte has invited Rosenstein to meet with the House Republicans sometime in the next week. During a conversation with Goodlatte on Thursday night, Rosenstein agreed, sources close to the case said.

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"There are a lot of questions we have for Mr. Rosenstein, including questions about the allegations made against him in a recent article," Goodlatte said in a statement released on Friday. "We have to get to the bottom of these very serious claims."

In a tweet sent Friday morning, the House Watch Committee representative, Mark Meadows, CR-N., Threatened to summon Rosenstein when he "did not show up".

Rosenstein 's future seemed to be compromised last week, following allegations reported by ABC News and other media outlets: at a meeting between Rosenstein and the FBI' s director. At the time, Andrew McCabe, in May 2017, Rosenstein had suggested to McCabe or other people to wear a microphone According to notes of the conversation that McCabe made, sources close to these told ABC News.

The meeting took place a week after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as the FBI's director, the sources said.

In addition, sources told ABC News that, according to the memos, Rosenstein told McCabe that he could recruit members of the president's cabinet to help invoke the 25th amendment. Rosenstein said he thought he could persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to sign, according to sources.

McCabe's memos have since been summoned by Goodlatte.

In a statement released Friday, Rosenstein insisted that he "had never pursued or authorized the registration of the president and that any suggestion I was advocating for the removal of the president is absolutely false" .

The coming week will be a busy and consequential announcement for Rosenstein, who, in addition to his scheduled meeting with House Republicans, has to sit down with President Trump at the White House.

Originally scheduled for Thursday, the White House announced that the President had postponed the meeting until next week so as not to disturb Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Capitol Republicans have already criticized Rosenstein for his criticism of how the Justice Ministry handled the investigation of Russia, even going as far as introducing indictment articles. Members of the Conservative Freedom Caucus have accused the Justice Department of hiding investigative information from Congress, violating the federal intelligence oversight law and failing to comply with the law. comply with subpoenas.

The House is no longer in session until November, so any vote on impeachment should wait until after the mid-term elections.

Ben Siegel of ABC News contributed to the report.