Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday, September 25th.

In today's news, Rod Rosenstein will keep his job at least through Thursday.

President Trump speaks to the UN today about Iran, and the West is taking a much more confrontational approach to counter Russian spying.

But first, the big idea.

President Trump, antsy, and impatient, called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday

with an unmistakable message.

Call the vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

and call it soon.

Trump has been simmering with frustration

over what one senior White House official

dubs the molasses-like pace of Kavanaugh's confirmation

process, where the president has also long blamed Republican leaders with slow walking

the border wall and other key agenda items.

The president doubled down for his pick in New York on Monday,

even after the New Yorker magazine reported

on a second accusation of sexual misconduct

from a classmate of Kavanaugh's at Yale.

There's a chance that this could be one of the single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a

candidate for anything, but I am with Judge Kavanaugh, and I look forward to a vote.

And for people to come out of the woodwork

from 36 years ago and 30 years ago and never mentioned it all of a sudden it happens in my

opinion it's totally political. Despite their public projections of unity

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