Tonight, the breaking developments involving Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Did he suggest secretly recording the president . Amid chaos rosenstein was reportedly witnessing involving the president. And did he discuss trying to recruit cabinet members to try to remove the president . Tonight, what abc news is now learning about what might have been said. And, rosensteins response. Right here tonight. Also developing, the president suddenly shifting tone on Brett Kavanaughs accuser. Taking aim. And tonight, outrage from one key republican, senator Susan Collins, who says the president went too far. Was his plan suicide by plane . Late today, what we learned about the man who allegedly jumped a fence and got into a passenger jet, an airbus, before being tackled. The emergency unfolding in the carolinas. A dam has now breached. A power plant threatened. And fears coal ash could spill into flooded rivers. Severe storms hitting tonight. From the midwest and moving into the northeas
Conversation. And sources familiar with those memos say rosenstein also discussed whether to rally the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment. The times reports that he said he believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then Homeland Security secretary john kelly would back the plan. But sources say none of this was ever carried out. And that the president was never secretly recorded. In a statement, rosenstein calls the times story inaccurate, factually incorrect, and based on Anonymous Sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. He adds, based on my personal dealings with the president , there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. Rosenstein has been under attack since the moment he named Robert Mueller special counsel. The president once tweeting mueller is most conflicted of all, except rosenstein. The white house facing this question for months. Is the president going to fire Rod Rosenstein . I dont have any announcements
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