On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein read the latest set of indictments produced by the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Those indictments, against 12 Russian government agents, were handed out just before Trump’s disastrous meeting with Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, the Department of Justice, independent of Robert Mueller’s investigation, arrested pro-gun, pro-Russia lobbyist Maria Butina on charges of conspiracy and acting as a covert foreign agent.
On Tuesday, the White House called Rosenstein in for a little chat.
Trump had scheduled a meeting with congressional leadership overnight—a meeting that none of those congressional leaders seemed to know about—but it seems now that meeting is related to Trump throwing out a new round of potential tax cuts to distract from the failure of his actions in meeting with NATO, Theresa May, and Putin.
Why Rosenstein was called in is not yet clear.