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 where 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.
Speaking Thursday morning, Pelley said: “There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment.
“These were the eight days from Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. The highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president.”
Pelley went on to say: “McCabe is the very first person involved in these meetings who has come out and spoken publicly ... They were counting noses, not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president. But they were speculating ‘this person would be with us, that person would not be.’”
He added: “This was not perceived to be a joke.”
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