For eight days after Comey’s firing, the upper echelon of the Justice Department seriously debated invoking the 25th amendment – provided they could get enough cabinet members to side with them.
DOJ Officials were privately “counting noses” according to Pelley, but not asking members of the Trump team where they stood, to see if their plan was viable.
Instead, Pelley explained, “They were speculating, this person would be with us. That person would not be, and they were counting noses in that effort.”
McCabe was convinced Russian interference played a part in Trump’s victory and expecting his imminent firing, rushed to start the obstruction probe against Trump so that the Russia investigations would live on whether his career survived or not.