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James baker was not in this may 2017 meeting when the comments were allegedly made, he's relying on an account from then acting director andrew mccabe and fbi lawyer lisa page. >> it's deeply troubling that you got the former general counsel for the fbi saying that people were very serious and their reactions to rod rosenstein saying there was going to be a wire worn by him on the president of the united states and that there were serious discussions that he was having with cabinet members about invoking the 20th amendment. i think it's ludicrous that we are having these hearings behind closed...

Wearing a wire around the president of the united states. i'm thinking national security, the president's own personal security here. >> i don't think it was a joke, as i understand it, andy mccabe was talking about investigating the president and was pushing hard on rosenstein to investigate the president. the way i understand it, was kind of a sarcastic pushback. what do you want me to do, where a wire? not so much a joke but a pushback to say this is a crazy idea. >> harris: the idea that anybody at that level would be considering the 20th amendment says what to you? >> i can tell you rod r...

>> asking the justice department whether rosenstein was refusing a transcribed interview under oath which is the standard for handling witnesses, the justice department spoke back to the committee. your first point, what we know from our own reporting is that the fbi's top lawyer at that time, james a baker was relayed information from that meeting by lisa page and andrew mccabe and he told the committee last week and we first reported that here on fox, that they were serious and that his comments were serious about recording the president and also the 20th amendment and baker said he didn't h...

Like that in front of somebody he had serious trust issuesris:t issues, the american public learns even more, that there was somebody at the fbi and a high rule there as the deputy director who would even consider the 20th amendment, let's put a wire on the president. do you think it was up to rosenstein to alert the president, maybe the white house that this was going on with the fbi? >> you know, that's a good question. i think there is a wall there that they wanted to keep up front. that said, it's obviously extremely concerning. i think rod talked to the president about it and relate exact...

Number of us that are standing by with impeachment documents. >> harris: democrats are urging rosenstein not to resign in order to protect the mueller pro. part of the freedom caucus, cosponsor of the impeachment articles for rosenstein in july. here we are, congressman. now talking about these impeachments, proceedings potentially against rosenstein, has it changed any, do you think it will happen? >> it's definitely changed. what we are talking about here is effectively a coup attempt if you want to think about it. he was saying it was a joke, if it happened it all it was just a joke. he's k...