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On Thursday morning, "CBS This Morning" ran a clip from an interview with former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe in which he said that the Department of Justice had considered whether or not members of Trump's Cabinet would be willing to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.

Shortly after this interview aired, the Department of Justice released a statement calling this and other statements that McCabe had said "inaccurate and factually incorrect."

What did McCabe say?

Although it wasn't included in the clip, CBS "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley told the "CBS This Morning" panel that McCabe had told him, "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment."

Pelley said that McCabe had told him that while the DOJ had not asked specific Cabinet members whether or not they would invoke the 25th Amendment, but that it was "counting noses" and "speculating" about which Cabinet members would be in favor of such a move.

McCabe was fired on March 16 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Bill Barr's Hot Mess

Kimberley A. Strassel

February 14, 2019

It’s fitting that William Barr’s confirmation as attorney general happened just as two powerful law-enforcement figures were trading accusations involving President Trump. Mr. Barr’s greatest challenge isn’t antitrust deals, immigration policy or even handling special counsel Robert Mueller. His overriding challenge is to reboot a Justice Department that has shredded its reputation and lost the confidence of Congress and the public.

It’s hard to feel confident in law enforcement when a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andrew McCabe, reveals that a small cabal of unelected senior law-enforcement officers held meetings in May 2017 to plot Mr. Trump’s removal from office. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Thursday and a forthcoming book, Mr. McCabe says he and other officials, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, did head-counts of which cabinet officials might vote to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” under the 25th Amendment. Mr. McCabe claims Mr. Rosenstein repeatedly offered to wear a wire when meeting with Mr. Trump.

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That’s Mr. Barr’s opening. For the first time in this presidency, the Justice Department will have a leader who is apart from the Russia stink—neither accused of “collusion” nor obsessed with finding it. He’s also uniquely suited to understand the importance of credibility and accountability, having worked in the 1970s at the Central Intelligence Agency, then under intense fire. The first measure of the “independence” Mr. Barr promised in his confirmation hearings will be his ability to assess ruthlessly the institution he’s about to join and come clean with the public on two key questions—the “whether” and the “how” of 2016.

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Mr. Barr may be tempted to fob all this off on the investigations by the U.S. attorney for Utah, John Huber, or the Justice Department inspector general. But Mr. Huber appears to have done little by way of investigation, the inspector general’s report could still be a long way out, and in any event these questions merit answers from the nation’s top legal officer. Mr. Barr needs this job like he needs a hole in the head. But if he spends the next years rebuilding trust in federal law enforcement, he’ll have performed an immense public service.

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