Vice President Mike Pence Thursday rejected claims made by former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe that there had been meetings at the Justice Department to discuss that he and cabinet members could remove President Donald Trump from office as "absurd."
"I never heard of it," Pence told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell in Poland, where he is attending Middle East talks this week. "I never heard any discussion of the 25th Amendment, and frankly, I find any suggestion of it to be absurd."
President Donald Trump has been "producing for the American people,' he added, and "I couldn't be more proud to stand with him, and the words, the writings of a disgraced FBI agent won't change that fact for the American people."
Pence emphasized, when Mitchell asked him if he'd ever heard of the claims that he "had never heard any discussion of the 25th Amendment by members of this government, and I would never expect to."
CBS News' Scott Pelley, while discussing his interview with McCabe, reported that 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."
The meetings, he said, were in the eight days between when FBI Director James Comey was fired and special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate Russian activities in the 2016 race, and when "the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president."
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