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Rosenstein, Wray to meet with Trump amid controversy over FBI's use of informant

WASHINGTON - Top law enforcement and intelligence officials, including Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, are scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Monday afternoon amid a brewing battle over the bureau's use of a confidential source to advance the investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign.

Trump personally called for the meeting, two people familiar with the request said, and a White House spokeswoman said it was put on the books last week.

The people said Trump is expected to question the officials on their refusal to turn over documents to Congress about the early stages of the investigation into whether his campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election. He is also likely to bring up the Justice Department's announcement yesterday that it had asked its inspector general to investigate Trump's claim that his campaign may have been infiltrated by the FBI for political purposes, one person familiar with the matter said. Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats also will attend.

Th> gathering, which was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m., comes a day after Trump said on Twitter that he would order the Justice Department to "look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!"

The Justice Department quickly responded that it had tasked its inspector general with looking into what the president had alleged, although it is unclear whether that will satisfy Trump and his conservative allies. GOP lawmakers have been pushing Justice Department officials to hand over materials about the confidential source, but the officials have been unwilling to do so.

Trump could order the department to comply with congressional demands, although that would spark significant backlash in federal law enforcement, and it is possible that Justice Department officials might resign in protest or refuse the order and force Trump to fire them. The department has said that revealing more information about the source could endanger his life or the lives of those who worked with him.

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