Response to your reporting. He said, quote, the New York Times story is factually incorrect. I will not respond on a story thats biased against the department and advancing their own personal agenda but let me be clear about this. Based on my personal dealings with the president , there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment. I want to give you a chance to respond to that. I also want to point out when he says there is no basis, hes talking the present tense. Hes not saying, i never thought there was a basis. Yeah. That was my read. I mean im not going to parse rods statement. I think, myself and other news outlets have all now, including cnn, have recorded the basic facts that are now in dispute. The two basic facts are rod raised the idea of wearing a wire and in a second basic fact, in a memo Andrew Mccabe road that Special Counsel has rod raced the idea of the 25th
release of the transcripts of the witnesses in the russian investigation. The republicans refused. Mr. Nunes refused
recovery. but on the other hand, this is an 86-year-old man and as the saying goes there is no such thing as a minor surgery. so some degree of concern is warranted. how much, only time will tell. how are the responsibilities of his holiness delegated in situations like this to ensure that he can get the proper care and rest and focuses on that? reporter: his responsibilities really aren t delegated. the catholic church is not like the united states where there is a vice president who can step in if the president is incapacitated. there really is nobody who can exercise the pope s authority in the full sense. of course the cardinal secretary of state at the vatican is sort of the head of government and routine machinery of the vatican will continue clank ing along. but if he could be incapacitated
here. my pilot has gone incoherent and i have no idea how to fly the airplane. the voice you re hearing is not a pilot, but a passenger radioing for help. radio capture from live atc details the communications between the plane, a cessna caravan and the control tower at ft. pierce in florida. 333, lima delta, roger, what s your position? i have no idea. air traffic controller robert morgan was on break from working in the tower when his colleague said he needed to come back, fast. there s a passenger flying a plane that s not a pilot and the pilot s incapacitated. so, they said, we need to try to help them land the plane. reporter: morgan is a 20-year veteran controller, but also a certificated flight instructor with 1,200 hours flying experience. what s the situation with the pilot? his incoherent.
rosenstein, have to contemplate whether the constitution applies when the president is incapacitated. i mean that is alarming. for those that are ready to believe there is a deep state, those kooky conspiracy theories, certainly they ll seize on this as they ll seize on anything else, and they may very well be pushed out there thinking it s a useful way to defend the president. if rosenstein is fired, what happens then? if rosenstein were to be fired, it would be another clear demonstration of obstruction of justice by the president. in the immediate aftermath, we d have to consider, you know, what does that mean in terms of our system of checks and balances? what is the response of congress? and probably most importantly l there be any republicans who are willing to defend the institutions of our government? sadly they have been very few in number. i would hope if there s any effort to obstruct the investigation like the firing of
then all of a sudden they wanted to go on fox news. what precipitated this? was it the manafort guilty plea? did the trump lawyers say we want access to this? because the very next day the president himself issues this injunction, he wants classified documents released, a whole different set of classified documents. this looks like a coordinated effort. for those who believe there s a deep state conspiracy against the president, didn t this kind of fit into that idea? well, it could fit into a completely different kind of idea, and that is that the president is so unstable that lifetime career public servants who have worked in democratic administrations and republican administrations, many of whom who are republicans like rod rosenstein, have to contemplate whether the constitution applies when the president is incapacitated. i mean, that is alarming. for those that are ready to believe there is a deep state,