james comey triggered a sea. mainly, whether he was working on behalf of russia as we have previously reported. mccabe has done more describing his discussions with the deputy attorney general who has been overseeing the special counsel s investigation, mainly the fact he says rosenstein raised the idea of wearing a wire to record the president and also discussed, potentially, potentially, recruiting cabinet members to invoke the amendment to remove the president. they are pushing back on behalf of rosenstein saying as they previously stated based on his personal dealings with the president, there was no basis to invoke the amendment, nor was the dag in a position to consider invoking the 25th amendment. they are not saying it wasn t
to whether he ll be confirmed. michael zeldin, thank you so much again for your time and perspective. my pleasure. also in washington at the white house, the question, will deputy attorney general rod rosenstein keep his job. at this point it seems that time will tell. a meeting with president trump may be delayed for a second time. rosenstein appeared to be on his way out the door last monday. this following reports that he had discussed wearing a wire to record the president and allegedly planned recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office. here s what white house press secretary sarah sanders said about the timing of the meeting. i m not going to get ahead of the president s conversation with the deputy attorney general. a date for that hasn t been set. it could be this week. i could see it pushing back another week given all of the other things that are going on with the supreme court. but we ll see, and certainly always like to k
reaching this area, also difficult. the airport shut down, of course. the next closest airport some 10 to 12 hours away by car. roads are compromised, landslides made travel difficult, bridges down and the fact you have power out and communication down is slowing the process. incredibly difficult work for rescue crews to do, but they re trying to reach the affected areas and frankly, fred, we have to prepare for the fact it will take days to understand exactly how much damage has been done here. a terrible situation. alexandra field, thank you so much. let s take a look at our top stories now. other top stories. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein agreed to meet with house republicans in the next few walks. he will talk about reported comments where sources say he discussed wearing a wire while talking to president trump and he reportedly also talked about recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president from office.
yeah, i hope that if the fbi does find corroborating evidence that it s clear what that is and who gave it to them and how it was presented. i think they re going to be careful. i m sure they have in mind that the entire country if not the world, of course, is looking at this investigation, and i assume they re going to be even more careful than usual if that s possible. kelly jane torrance, joey jackson, errol lewis, thank you all. thank you. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has agreed to meet with house republicans in the next few weeks. he ll talk to them about his reported comments where sources say he discussed wearing a wire while talking to president trump. also talked about recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove him from office nthey say. house republican leaders struck an agreement to hold a hearing to avoid a possible impeachment vote against rosenstein. as we said, the president is asking the fbi to investigate the allegations against
allies of rosenstein now say he s given the impression he does not plan to quit. they tell the journal he tus cussed secretly record thing president and recruiting cabinet members. he want to hear directly from the deputy attorney general himself. meanwhile members of the house freedom caucus will force a ovote to impeach rosenstein. last night he told reporters he plans to subpoena memos that as the budget deficit continues to sore, the federal government may soon be paying more than it spends on any other federal programs. the cost of interest is on track to hit $390 billion by next year, making it the fastest growing government expense and as it nears $1 trillion, they re