NYT’s Schmidt: Rosenstein Said He Was Not Being Sarcastic About Recording Trump and Invoking the 25th Amendment

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SCHMIDT: “Yeah, because we went back and we did diligence on the information and we looked at what actually went on in the meeting and what happened in the meeting was that Rosenstein was questioned about whether he was being sarcastic. And he said that he was not. He said that he was serious about it. And that this was something that they were considering. We also know that this was not the only time that he brought this up. We also know that in the documents, in Andy McCabe’s memo, it says something about, references Rosenstein talking about the 25th Amendment. When we looked at that and had that information in front of us, and we went back and checked it, we felt good about it and we moved forward. We are here to follow the facts. And try and get to the bottom of all this as much as possible. And, you know, if one side likes that or the other one doesn’t, you know, it’s our job to be accurate. We felt good about that.”