Washington (CNN) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump he would make sure Trump was treated fairly in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe in a plea to keep his job, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

In September, The New York Times first reported Rosenstein discussed wearing a "wire" to secretly record conversations with Trump and recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. CNN later confirmed the story. He reportedly made these suggestions in the days after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey.

On a call with Trump, who was in New York and looking for an explanation in response to the Times report, Rosenstein attempted to assure the President that Rosenstein was on Trump's team, people familiar with the matter told the Post. He criticized the Times report and blamed it on former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, according to the Post.

He told Trump he would make sure he was treated fairly in Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Post reports, citing people familiar with the conversation.

"I give the investigation credibility," Rosenstein told Trump, according to an administration official offering their own characterization of the call to the Post. "I can land the plane."

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