Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce a Department of Justice campaign to root out and punish leakers of sensitive government information on Friday.

The president has been pushing Sessions to plug the leaks for months.

Republican senators on the Homeland Security committee said in a June report that the rate of information flowing to the press was 'alarming.' They urged DOJ to launch an investigation.

Fox News is reporting that Sessions will address the leaks at a news conference on Friday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce a Department of Justice campaign to root out and punish leakers of sensitive government information on Friday

Anthony Scaramucci, the ousted Trump aide who made profane comments about his colleagues to the New Yorker, told CNN last week that he was working with Sessions to craft an inter-agency plan to 'uproot some of these leakers.'

That was after a Washington Post report said Justice was launching an investigation into the leaking of intelligence to the press.

Trump has berated Sessions in recent days for his handling of criminal leaks, among other things.

'I want the attorney general to be much tougher,' Trump said in an interview. 'I want the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever leaked before, at a very important level. These are intelligence agencies we cannot have that happen.'

Scaramucci had vowed to clamp down on leaks coming from within the West Wing before he was fired yesterday.

He said last week, on Wednesday, that he convened a group of 40 people at the White House and told them to cut it out.

'I’m not naïve. I know that we're never going to end all the leaking. I didn't suggest that but I want to put a culture in place where people trust each other,' Scaramucci said on CNN's New Day program.

Anyone who can't get with the program will be dismissed, Scaramucci said.

'We serve one person and his agenda, and that's the President of the United States. You are not serving the president's agenda if you're nefariously leaking on people. You’re not being loyal to him,' Scaramucci says he told White House communications staff.

'Nefarious leaking is disloyal to the president, is disloyal to the institution of presidency and it’s bad for America,' he added.

Scaramucci acknowledged that the leaks are coming from other areas of the White House that are beyond his reach, and he delivered the same message to his colleagues in senior positions serving the president on air that he gave to his soon-to-be-staff in their closed-door meeting.

'I would tell my colleagues to stop doing that. It doesn’t help the president. It's embarrassing to the institution of the presidency and it makes you look very small when you're leaking on your colleagues. That's not good team sports,' he said on CNN.

It was hardly a new theme; Trump said in a February press conference that he'd talked to the Department of Justice about 'criminal' leaking and said administration will be 'looking into that very seriously.'

The president vowed then that trouble-makers won't get away with the misdeeds.

'The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers! They will be caught!' he said in a tweet.

The president suggested from the White House's East Room that internal investigations were underway to ferret out the people who are passing out damaging information to the press, although nothing has officially come of the threat.

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Sessions will announce Friday that probes are beginning, Fox News said.

The campaign comes on the heels of the White House's announcement that he's not being replaced as attorney general - or being moved to the Department of Homeland Security.

'There are no conversations about any cabinet members moving in any capacity, and the president has 100 percent confidence in all members of his cabinet,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

Trump and Sessions appeared to be on better footing on Monday morning at a cabinet meeting, where Sessions sat across from the president.

The attorney general smiled as Trump delivered opening remarks to reporters.

It was the first time they'd seen each other since Trump began a humiliating public campaign against his cabinet secretary.

If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay Senator Lindsey Graham

The president hosted his entire Cabinet at the White House on Monday morning.

Trump and Sessions had been speaking about one another but not to one another throughout an unusual disagreement over the law enforcement official's decision to recuse himself months ago from the Justice Department's investigations involving the 2016 election.

Instead of firing his attorney general, Trump has repeatedly berated him on Twitter.

Trump was said to be considering a shakeup that would keep Sessions in the cabinet but in a lower-profile position than the one he's currently in.

Huckabee Sanders shot the notion down in her briefing on Monday, saying that Trump had no interest in moving, or firing, him.

Republican lawmakers informed Trump last week that any move to oust Sessions would be met with blowback on Capitol Hill.

Sessions was right to recuse himself from investigations into the last election, including any Russia probes, given his involvement in Trump's campaign, they've said.

'If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay,' Sen. Lindsey Graham forewarned.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate's Judiciary Committee, explicitly told Trump that his committee would not schedule hearings on a new attorney general this year if he cans Sessions - so he may as well forget about it.

'Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way,' Grassley tweeted.

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Trump's meeting today also put him in the room with Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, who he'll have lunch with later today as well, and James Mattis, his defense head. They are seen on the left and right of Trump

Trump had reportedly been considering a change in his cabinet line-up that would see Sessions move over to the Department of Homeland Security so that he could nominate a new attorney general.

The president has named his DHS chief, John Kelly, to chief of staff. He started yesterday.

Sessions was known in the Senate as an immigration hardliner, which would have made him an ideal choice to lead Trump's DHS.

Trump sent Sessions to El Salvador last Friday to deliver a speech near the immigrant gang MS-13's headquarters while Kelly accompanied him to an area that's been terrorized by MS-13 in New York.

If Trump were to nominate Sessions to Homeland Security chief, the cabinet official would have to go through another set of confirmation hearings in the Senate. Trump's attorney general appointee would also be grilled and then voted on by senators.

The idea seemed to die over the weekend. Graham dismissed the idea of playing musical chairs with the cabinet Saturday on Twitter.

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine who's become a thorn in Trump's side on health care, said Sunday, 'It’s up to Jeff Sessions and the president. But if he’s being moved because of his correct decision to recuse himself I think that’s a mistake.'

Sessions had resigned from safe his Alabama Senate seat to serve in Trump's administration.

He was one of Trump's earliest endorsers on Capitol Hill. Sessions was also a member of the president's inner circle in the transition.

Trump said last week that he didn't put much stock in Sessions' endorsement last week. The Alabama senator had nothing to lose in helping him, the president said.