Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, has reportedly claimed that there were meetings in the Justice Department following James Comey’s firing in which officials discussed whether it was possible to remove Donald Trump from the presidency using the 25th Amendment.
Correspondent Scott Pelley told CBS This Morning that McCabe made the admission during an interview with 60 Minutes. McCabe, who was named acting director of the bureau after Trump fired James Comey in May 2017, makes a string of revelations in his new book The Threat.
McCabe is the first person who was involved in the meeting to admit that it happened on the record—Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, previously denied a report from The New York Times that he discussed recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.
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