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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (R) and FBI Director Christopher Wray (L) testify during a House Judiciary Committee hearing June 28, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on oversight of FBI and DOJ actions surrounding the 2016 election. Mark Wilson—Getty Images  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Feb 17, 2019 8:16 PM UTC Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein brought up the possibility that the 25th Amendment could be invoked to remove President Trump from office, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said. In an interview with _60 Minutes_ scheduled to air on Sunday, McCabe confirmed that Rosenstein was “counting votes or possible votes” to determine the whether the Amendment could be invoked. Under the fourth section of the Amendment, a President can be removed by the Vice President and the cabinet members if they find that the President is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” “Discussion of the 25th Amendment was simply – Rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort,” Rosenstein said in the interview. He added, “The deputy attorney general was definitely very concerned about the president, about his capacity and about his intent, at that point in time.” McCabe’s spokesperson, Melissa Schwartz, appeared to walk back some of McCabe’s comments in a statement release on Twitter on Friday. She wrote that McCabe’s statements had been taken “out of context and misrepresented.” “To clarify, at no time did Mr. McCabe participate in any extended discussions about the use of the 25th Amendment, nor is he aware of any such discussion,” Schwartz wrote. “He was present and participated in a discussion that included a comment by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein regarding the 25th Amendment.” > [](https://twitter.com/MSchwartz3/status/1096449137564962848) After learning of the comments, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham promised to hold a hearing to determine if Rosenstein was trying to conduct an “administrative coup” to remove the president. “We’re a democracy. People who enforce the law can’t take it into their own hands. And was this a bureaucratic coup? I don’t know,” Graham said on the CBS show _Face the Nation._ McCabe [isn’t the first](http://time.com/5529715/mike-pence-denies-25th-amendment-trump/) to suggest that officials government officials have talked about the potential the Amendment could be invoked. An op-ed by an unnamed Trump administrative official published in the New York _Times_ last September suggested that there had been “whispers” in the Cabinet about invoking the Amendment. The_Times_ later reported that Rosenstein had suggested wearing a wire during meetings with Trump. On Thursday, however, [Vice President Mike Pence said](http://time.com/5529715/mike-pence-denies-25th-amendment-trump/) that suggestions that the 25th Amendment would be invoked to remove Trump are “absurd.” “I’ve never heard any discussion of the 25th Amendment by members of the government and I would never expect to,” Pence said. > [](https://twitter.com/MSNBCPR/status/1096080136494039040) Watch the clip of the McCabe _60 Minutes_ interview below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5531496/mccabe-rosenstein-25th-amendment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5531496/mccabe-rosenstein-25th-amendment/"},"headline":"McCabe Claims Dep. 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