Former FBI director Andrew McCabe comes out and says that the 25th Amendment was considered

against President Trump. The media struggled to exonerate Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism,

and we talk about the one-year anniversary of Parkland. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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All righty, so the big news today is that former acting FBI director

Andrew McCabe now has, I believe, a new book coming out. He has an interview with Scott Pelly of 60

minutes. And in this interview, in this interview, he tells Scott Pelly that he and a bunch of

other people at the FBI and inside the DOJ considered recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Here is Scott Pelly reporting that from CBS this morning.

The most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May,

when all of these things were happening behind the scenes that the American people really

didn't know about.

There were meetings at the Justice Department in 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. These were the eight days from

Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels

of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president. Okay,

and this is fully insane, right? If you recall, this was first reported by the New York

Times. They reported the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who's always been seen by President

Trump as sort of anti-Trump as the guy who was allowing Robert Mueller to run wild in the Mueller

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