planning illegal acts. why? because according to former acting director an draw mccabe, he and rod rosenstein seriously discussed wearing a wire to record the president and invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said, i never get searched. now, he was not joking. he was absolutely serious, and in fact he brought it up in the next meeting we had. to that, the president called mccabe disgraced and deranged. then accusing those two top officials of quote, planning a very illegal act and got caught. this was the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in
many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched. he was not joking. he was absolutely serious. and he brought it up in the next meeting we had. the president called mccabe disgraced and said his story is deranged. then he accused the two officials of planning a very illegal act. and getting caught. he went onto claim this was the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action. mccabe and rosenstein disagree on what skb how things were discussed. they agree they didn t act on anything. even so, the president taking his queue from a conservative ally on the fox news. quoted him in a tweet. this was an illegal coup attempt on the president of the united
there s a feeling that maybe there needs to be a change of leadership. in that position. revelations about coats come as the president is lashing out at former fbi director mccabe. following his interview with 60 minutes. trump tweeting he was fired for lying and now his story gets more deranged. he and rod rosenstein hired by jeff sessions another beauty looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. there s a lot of explaining tootd to the millions of people who just elected a president who they really liked. this is an illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action. in the interview mccabe described in detail discussions with rod rosenstein about using the 25th amendment to potentially oust trump from office. rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the cabinet.
cnn has learned deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is set to leave the justice department mid march. we previously reported that rosenstein planned to step down after the senate confirmed bill barr as attorney general. a justice official confirmed this more precise timing but said it has nothing to do with the latest revelation andrew mccabe. the former acting fbi director claiming that rosenstein suggested wearing a wire to secretly record president trump and then talked about a strategy to oust the president using the 25th amendment. yesterday the president made his feelings known about rosenstein and mccabe, writing that they were, quote, planning a very illegal act and what he called an inn he will legal and treasonist insurance policy. lindsey graham says his panel will investigate mccabe s comments related to the 25th amendment. roger stone who says never apologize formally apologizing to the judge overseeing his criminal case. a photo posted and then deleted from stone s
but james baker, working with mccabe and lisa page about their conversations with rosenstein testified the effort went further, quote, i had the impression the deputy attorney general, with two members and the president s cabinet, they were on board with this concept already. on twitter the president responded to mccabe, quote, now acting fbi director andrew mccabe, he and rod rosenstein looked like they were planning a very illegal act. mccabe and others say the president s may of 2017 firing of director james comey with the fbi and just apartment in turmoil and the fire was designed to obstruct justice. the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go into the white house, i think the general counsel had a heart attack. when he got off the floor he