10 things you need to know today: September 22, 2018

Rod Rosenstein reportedly suggested secretly recording Trump to invoke the 25th Amendment, Grassley grants Ford testimony decision extension, and more

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1. Rod Rosenstein reportedly suggested secretly recording Trump to invoke the 25th Amendment

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the spring of 2017 talked about invoking the 25th Amendment to declare President Trump unfit for office, The New York Times reported Friday. Rosenstein reportedly said he might be able to convince Attorney General Jeff Sessions and John Kelly, then secretary of homeland security, to back the plan, which involved wearing a wire to secretly record Trump. An unnamed Justice Department representative said Rosenstein was speaking "sarcastically," the Times notes, but other sources said he was serious. Rosenstein called the story "inaccurate" and said "there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.