ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is heading to the White House Monday morning with the expectation that he will be fired, sources told ABC News.

The news came on the heels of reporting that at a May 2017 meeting between Rosenstein and then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Rosenstein suggested that McCabe or others wear a wire when speaking with the president, according to memos McCabe made of the conversation, sources familiar with them told ABC News. The meeting took place a week after President Donald Trump had fired James Comey as director, the sources said.

Additionally, sources told ABC News that, according to the memos, Rosenstein told McCabe he could recruit members of the president’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office for being unfit. Rosenstein believed he would be able to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to sign on, according to the sources.

The White House, as of Friday evening, had not commented specifically on the story.

But Trump, speaking at a rally in Springfield, Missouri, once again attacked his Justice Department.  

“Look what’s being exposed at the Department of Justice and the FBI,” the president told a packed house Friday night. “You have some real bad ones. You see what’s happening at the FBI — they’re all gone, they’re all gone. But there’s a lingering stench and we’re going to get rid of that too.”

Rosenstein issued a second statement not long after the president spoke.

“I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false,” Rosenstein said.

Early on, the relationship between Rosenstein and the White House seemed strained.

After Comey’s firing, ABC News reported that Rosenstein was so upset with the White House for pinning Comey’s dismissal on him that he was on the verge of resigning.

Rosenstein remained on the job and a week later assigned Robert Mueller as special counsel to look into allegations that the Russian government tried to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe early last year.

Trump has repeatedly called the Russia investigation a “Witch Hunt” and asserted he has done nothing wrong. He does not, however, have direct authority to fire Mueller — that authority belonged to Rosenstein and now could belong to Noel Francisco, the solicitor general.

Rosenstein was confirmed as the second highest ranking official in the Justice Department, with wide bipartisan support, just over a year ago.

But Rosenstein’s name was in the headlines since just weeks after he began his new role at the Department of Justice after reports that he signed off on an FBI raid of the home and offices of Trump’s longtime former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

The raid, which was connected to the special counsel’s investigation, was approved by Rosenstein, who has overseen the investigation since Sessions recused himself.

The president called the raid “an attack on what we all stand for” and a “disgrace.”

The president later tweeted that Rosenstein was “conflicted” in his role supervising the investigation.

In the months leading up to Rosenstein’s firing, Republicans and Democrats called for legislation to protect the investigation led by Mueller. Many Republicans — including those close to the president — publicly warned against firing Mueller or Rosenstein.

“It would be a mistake and there would be consequences that the president would come to regret,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who dined with President Trump and other GOP leaders in April at the White House.

That same day at a news conference, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said that he’d received “assurances” that Trump wouldn’t fire Rosenstein or Mueller.

But Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor who was in discussions to join Trump’s legal team, said earlier in the week that he supported the decision.

“I would fire Rosenstein in a New York minute; without any question,” diGenova told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein on the “Powerhouse Politics” podcast earlier this year.

“Rod Rosenstein is so incompetent, compromised and conflicted that he can no longer serve as the deputy attorney general,” DiGenova said in an appearance on Fox News’ ‘Hannity’ earlier this year.

Before becoming deputy attorney general, Rosenstein was the longest-serving U.S. attorney, serving in Maryland. Rosenstein served throughout both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama’s administration’s, holding the position for 12 years.

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