The uncertainty around the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh could once again delay a meeting between President Trump and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the White House press secretary said Sunday.
“A date for that hasn’t been set. It could be this week. I could see it pushing back another week given all the other things that are going on with the Supreme Court, but we’ll see,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump was expected to meet with Rosenstein last Thursday after a New York Times report said the second-ranking official in the Justice Department suggested secretly recording the president in May 2017 and invoking the 25th Amendment to have him removed from office.
Trump postponed the meeting so it wouldn’t interfere with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee about allegations the nominee pinned her to a bed and groped her during a high school party in 1982.
The president said Rosenstein denied the allegations last week when they talked on the phone.
“We’ve had a good talk. He said he never said it, he said he doesn’t believe it, he said he has a lot of respect for me and he was very nice, and we’ll see,” Trump said.
The president ordered the FBI to look into sexual misconduct claims against Kavanaugh after Senate leadership agreed to a one-week delay on his confirmation for the investigation to proceed.



