Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump has postponed his planned meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein until next week, the White House announced on Thursday.

"They do not want to do anything to interfere with the hearing," Sanders said in a statement.

Trump and Rosenstein were set to meet Thursday in person to discuss Rosenstein's future in the administration after The New York Times reported last week that Rosenstein suggested secretly recording the President and attempting to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment.

Rosenstein offered his resignation on Friday and believed he would be fired when he went to the White House on Monday to meet with White House chief of staff John Kelly. But he has now spoken to Trump on the phone at least twice and remained in his post.

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