time. >> rosenstein was actually openly talk about whether there was majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president? >> that's correct. counting votes or possible votes. >> did he assign specific votes to specific people? >> no, not that i recall. >> as you're sitting in this meeting in the justice department, talking about removing the president of the united states, you were thinking what? >> how did i get here, confronting these confounding legal issues of such immense importance, not just to the fbi, but to the entire country. it was -- it was disorienting. >> i'll say. you never see discussions like this reported out of the justice department. now after mccabe sat for that interview, his spokesman released a statement that tried to play down the reference to rosenstein counting votes. the statement says mccabe did