Subject:**White House Pool 1a - No plans to fire Rosenstein*
Speaking to reporters outside the White House this morning, President Trump said he had no plans to fire Rod Rosenstein. “No, I don’t. No,” he said.
Trump was responding to a question from NBC’s Kristen Welker, who asked if he had any plans to fire the deputy attorney general. The loud chopping of helicopter blades from Marine One drowned out her question, which wasn’t picked up by boom mics and couldn’t be heard by the pool. Even POTUS couldn’t hear it, and he asked Welker to repeat it, which she did. Welker was kind enough to verify her question for the print pool.
Subject:**Travel Pool Report #2 Rod watch & arrival*
AF1 has just touched down in Orlando, Florida at 12:38 pm.
The pool still hasnt seen Rod Rosenstein, and the president did not come back to chit-chat during the fight.
The president took big AF1 to Orlando, so pool didnt have an opportunity to interact with senior staff we saw boarding the aircraft.
WH Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley stopped by the press cabin near the end of the flight and provided the following updates:
The president talked to the deputy attorney general on the way to Florida for roughly 30 minutes.
He referred us to the president’s remarks at the White House before taking off in Marine One in terms of the subject matter.
Asked if this means Rosenstein still has a job, he said yes he does.
Gidley said hed work on getting pool more information about the conversation, including who was in the room when the conversation took place.