invoke executive privilege. so this will create an impression, again, already in the minds of the american people going to the midterm election that donald trump is obstructing the russian investigation. bret: susan, we should point out that this denial is not point by point. it s a pretty broad and vague. these officials at the doj suggest that the new york times had these memos from mccabe and lisa page, and they were responding to a number of things. and they suggested it s taken out of context. your thoughts? s vehicle rosenstein s denial issue is a nondenial denial. he doesn t deny the specifics. he used the present case for the 25th amendment. i think, as you say, is a very big deal. it confirms the worst suspicions of both sides. on one side, people who don t like president trump, it s so
said, i remember this meeting and remember the wire comments. the statement was sarcastic and never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president. bret? bret: people in the room, there are seven of them. including anti-mccain aide, lisa page, do any of them remember the 25th amendment talk? not according to a senior doj official according to lisa page who was there and had more detail, but it was in a memo written by andy it was in a one-on-one meeting that he allegedly said he thought he could get dhs secretary john kelly to help them get the cabinet to getting up on the president and remove them using the 25th amendment. apparently at the time hadn t even met john kelly. lastly, what do they think is going to happen now? where is this coming from? they think it s coming from
inaccurate and factually incorrect. i will not comment on a story on anonymous stories. we are biased towards the department advancing his own personal agenda, but let me be clear on this. based on my dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. this deals with the meeting on may 16th between rosenstein, andrew mccade, a former fbi deputy director, and lisa page, including four other career folks from doj. one senior official telling us it was heated and mccabe was charging he was getting in the way of his administration. rosenstein yelled back at mccabe s that he was going overboard and in the heat of the moment, what do you want me to do, andy, where a wire? the person discuss this going very heated. do you want me to wear a bleep
not just sort of childish and move beyond that but the silence for 48 hours i think gave permission for a lot of the people who are actively active extremists on the right to pour out and attack mccain and now we have the sludge, the anti-mccain on social media competing with this outpouring from other americans, millions of americans who would like to get back the traditions of bipartisanship. yeah. it s not every day you see this president, president trump, basically cave on something like this. he doesn t usually do this. he does not. and we should say i wonder why it appears to be the american legion was principally responsible. whether his wife melania weighed in in a way that made a difference, we know he rejected the staff s comments. wolf, i cannot remember, perhaps you can, because we have had the experiences, i can t remember a president had to be dragged