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by Axios | 2.14.19

In an upcoming interview with \"60 Minutes,\" former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CBS's Scott Pelley that the Justice Department had to discuss \"whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove\" President Trump under the 25th Amendment.

Why it matters: McCabe's interview with Pelley marks the first person involved in those meetings to speak publicly. \"They were counting noses,\" Pelley told \"CBS This Morning\" on Thursday. \"They were not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating.\"

The NYT first reported on this back in September of 2017.
\"I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I have ever advocated for the removal of the President is absolutely false,\" a Justice Department spokesperson on behalf of Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein told Axios at the time.

Go deeper: Fired FBI deputy director: Trump directed Rosenstein to write Comey memo

—Marisa Fernandez

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