to have him removed from office. the new york times reports the statements were made in a meeting with fbi and justice department officials one week after president trump fired james comey. now the justice department is pushing back. one justice official telling nbc news rosenstein s statement was sarcastic. rosenstein responded saying, quote, i never pursued or authorized recording the president. any suggest i ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false. joining me now is danny sevales. is it legal for someone to secretly record the president based on concerns he s unfit to serve? the question is when is a joke not a joke? can the ag or deputy ag initiate an investigation by wearing a wire against the president. d.c. is a one-party consent
jurisdiction. virtually anyone can record anyone else as long as one party consents to the recording. on the other hand, there is substantial support for the idea that the president cannot even be investigated let alone prosecuted or indicted while he s in office. one person who took that view historically was supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. on the one hand there s an idea that you can t even investigate the president. but there s not a whole lot barring the doj from having the president investigated. and that would include wearing a wire or wiretapping if they can get a warrant and a title iii wiretap authorization. does this give more fuel to the president s claim about a justice department out to get him, a deep satate? the president has tweeted in the past that it s frustrating that he fired james comey on the recommendation of someone who is
senate on whether or not judge kavanaugh should be confirmed. they re not an investigative body. how will the me too movement play into this chemical. i think you saw yesterday after the president s tweet an outpouring of support for dr. ford. it s just a different time now, we hope it s a different time. we do hope it s a different time. thank you so much. thank you. well, the president s tweet yesterday challenging kavanaugh s accuser has ignite as flood of support for christine blasey ford on twitter. more than 38,000 tweets used the hashtag why i didn t report. many people explained why they chose not to reveal they had been sexual assaulted. sadly that is common place. almost two-thirds of sexual assaults in this country go unreported. rod rosenstein s future with the justice department and whether the president has the information now to fire him. the legal implications up next.
reassuring his base at this point. the justice department pushing back on a new york times report that in may of 2017 deputy attorney general rod rosenstein floated the idea of secretly recording president trump to expose the chaos in the white house, and that he also discussed recruiting cabinet members like john kelly to invoke the 25th amendment. all of this reportedly happened shortly after james comey was fired. sources say that it s unclear whether rosenstein was serious or just being sarcastic when he made the comment about wearing a wire. the justice department disputing the part about the 25th amendment saying rosenstein didn t even know john kelly at the time. president trump continuing his attacks on the justice department, although not mentioning the new york times report or rosenstein. we have great people in the department of justice.
investigation. jillian turner has more. there s a wrench in the president s plan to declassify documents related to the 2016 investigation in his campaign. four days after he ordered multiple documents declassified, his own justice department pushing back. the president tweeting a few hours ago, i met with the dodge about the unredacted document. they said it could have a negative impact on the russia probe. the inspector general has asked to review the documents on an expedited basis. the president making clear that while he s going along with the doj s process for now, he s not entirely sold. in the end, i could declassify it. speed is very important to me and to everyone. so far reaction from democrats has been fierce and swift. ranking intel committee member adam schiff insisting the president knew releasing the documents to the public would cross a red line.