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>> may 17 is a pivotal month. rosen sine was two weeks in the job when comey was fired by the president. investigation of obstruction of justice opened in addition to the russia probe. >> i wanted to make sure the case was on solid ground. >> in a statement, they stopped short of rosen sine removing the president. saying he never authorized a recording that mr. mccabe references. based on his personal dealings with the president there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. in a tweet, president trump hit back and characterized mccabe as a disgrace and puppet. >> last spring he was fired for...

Government of russia. >> may 17 is a pivotal month. rosenstein was two weeks in the job with fbi director james comey fired by the president. in response to a obstruction of justice investigation was open >> i wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground. >> in a statement, the justice department stops short of the nine rosenstein talking about removing the president, based on his personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment. in a tweet, president trump hit back characterizing mccabe as this grade and in the disgraced and in the pocket with jame...

With anyone at the white house? >> i did not talk about the views of the new investigation with anyone at the white house. from may of 2017 until i joined the department of justice in october of 2017. >> throughout that process, did you ever communicate with anyone -- here's the question. by my count, you made six comments in our beds, talk radio, or cable news critical of the special counsel between the time he interviewed in june of 2017 and the time you were hired as chief of staff to the attorney general. did you ever use any intermediaries? did you have anyone -- since the president didn'...

Let's ask our fox news contributor and former u.s. assistant attorney, andrew mccarthy. thank you for being here. see the former speakers analysis. where's the justification for opening an fbi probe in the sitting president being a russian agent? where does that come from? >> pete, i really think the investigation was about trump from the beginning. from the time that they started poking around during the 2016 campaign. i really don't know, i guess maybe i been looking at this too closely for the last couple of years. but i am kind of surprised people have whipped up the new new york times rep...

Amendment. rosenstein later denied the account with an unnamed source claiming he was speaking ingest. >> mr. baker, did you think that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein was serious about recording the president? >> page and mccabe consulted fbi general counsel james baker and october baker told house investigators that page and mccabe said rosenstein was not . >> the actions and the words of mccabe led baker to believe this was very serious. >> also on may 16, robert mueller, fbi director after 9/11, interviewed with president trump to replace comey. the following day, rosenstein appoint...