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As previously stated, based on his personal dealings with the president, there's no basis to invoke the 25th amendment nor was the d.a.g. in a position to consider invoking the 25th amendment. all this prompting trump to retweet one fox commentator who called mccabe's account an illegal coup attempt on the president of the united states. trump adding, "true." mccabe says trump's public comments after firing comey were cause for investigating obstruction of justice. as well as trump's private pressure on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to include the word, russia, in a memo justifying co...

Did not provide a comment for the story. >> so wait. is the spokesperson for rosenstein denying an investigation was opened up? >> reporter: this -- the spokesperson for mccabe is not offering any comment for this story. if you look at the comment from a source in the justice department, this source only said that rosenstein never said that he wanted to rein in the president. he was just discussing ways in which to conduct the investigation. >> why would rosenstein okay opening a probe when it was his own memo that the white ouse was using to justify firing comey in the first place? >> reporte...

Justice department tenure into the awkward role of supervising the mueller investigation after he wrote the memo justifying comey's firing that sources say he crafted voluntarily. now, critics have argued that the comey memo makes rosenstein a potential witness in the obstruction case. so it is interesting to note, anderson, then in the following days after comey's firing rosenstein was involved in these discussions with other fbi officials and was at the very least aware that the fbi was opening this probe into trump for the firing of comey. it's not clear why the fbi first moved to open up t...

If you look at the comment from a source in the justice department, this source only said that rosenstein never said that he wanted to rein in the president. he was just discussing ways in which to conduct the investigation. >> why would rosenstein okay opening a probe when it was his own memo that the white house was using to justify firing comey in the first place? >> reporter: that's a good question, and it's a bit puzzling. for the deputy attorney general, this obstruction investigation into trump and the appointment of the special counsel certainly turned his entire justice department ten...

Department of defense for >> i think rod rosenstein long ago had the justification, the off-ramp to get out of there, basically to go into the private sector and live a quiet life. he could have said i'm a witness in this investigation. i wrote the memo justifying comey's firing although i was duped into doing so. i don't fully believe in that justification anymore, and he could have said, therefore, i can't be part of this investigation. instead he's stuck it out. i think he's really worried that the president would insert somebody over bob mueller and be a crony of the president and do the p...