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Former top FBI lawyer James Baker: 2 Trump cabinet officials were ‘ready to support’ 25th Amendment effort

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“I was being told by some combination of Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, that, in a conversation with the Deputy AG [Rosenstein], he had stated that he... had at least 2 members of the president’s Cabinet who were ready to support, ... an action under the 25th Amendment,” Baker said.

“I had the impression that the deputy attorney general had already discussed this with two members in the president’s Cabinet and that they were…onboard with this concept already,” Baker said.

During the closed-door hearing, the former FBI lawyer told lawmakers he could not say whether Rosenstein was taking the initiative to seek out Cabinet members:

“Lisa and Andy did not tell me, and my impression was they didn’t know themselves,” he said.

But when the New York Times broke the story in September, it reported that Rosenstein told McCabe he might be able to persuade then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-Secretary of Homeland Security and later White House chief of staff John Kelly to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Another senior FBI lawyer Sally Moyer, who sometimes commuted to work with Page, said during testimony the chances of securing a 2016 surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide were only “50/50” without the controversial anti-Trump “dossier,”

Asked whether the FBI would have been able to establish probable cause if the application “did not have the Christopher Steele information in it,” Moyer responded: "So I think it's a close call, like 50/50, 51/49. I really think it's a close call."