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There in terms of launching these investigations to begin with? >> there's an elephant in the room about mccabe we haven't brought up yet. and that's he was fired for not being truthful. and so when i hear mccabe speak, i don't -- he doesn't persuade me of much of anything. what i hear from him is an accusation that's very, very serious or an accounting of facts that part of it was publicly known. of the things not publicly known, i think let's have open hearings about this. so if there was a conversation about the 25th amendment, that's a very serious thing. who said it, why exactly did they ...

Story is frivolous or if this story is exaggerated. because otherwise what he says alarms an awful lot of people. that's why i think this is the first step or should be the first step of a diligent investigation where people are called in under oath to figure out what happened here. >> and barry, it's interesting. it occurred to me here watching the interview here, mccabe is describing sort of a frantic, high-stakes set of events. a lot of which played out two years ago. 2017 relatively early in 2017, the firing of comey. the alarm bells it set off saying is the president trying to shut down s...

Most importantly mccabe explained why trump's actions prompted him to open an obstruction investigation and a counterintelligence probe of the president. >> there were a number of things that caused us to believe that we had adequate predication or adequate reason, facts to open the investigation. the president had gone to jim comey and specifically asked him to discontinue the investigation of mike flynn which was a part of our russia case. the president then fired the director. these circumstances are facts that indicated that a crime may have been committed. the president may have been enga...

To which the president replied, i don't care. i believe putin. >> betsy, i guess what's interesting about this is with any other president, i suppose the revelation, that sort of statement from somebody like mccabe, you'd be absolutely stunned and absolutely shocked. on the other hand, this is something the whole world watched the president essentially do at that joint appearance with vladimir putin last summer. >> i think this particular moment was the most significant part of the "60 minutes" interview and the comments mccabe made. it's really extraordinary to hear the characterization of a ...

Most attention, however, is mccabe's account of a discussion about invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. that prospect which would have required the support of the vice president and a majority of the cabinet was never carried out. however, mccabe said deputy attorney general rod rosenstein floated the idea in the wake of comey's oust for. >> it was really something he kind of flew out in a very frenzied chaotic conversation about where we were and what we needed to do next. the deputy attorney general was definitely very concerned about the president, about his capa...