Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, then pointed out that no one in the virtual meeting had yet discussed “invoking the 25th Amendment,” which allows a majority of the Cabinet to remove the president.

Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, then proposed another option for removing Trump from office.

“I think another way out that we should consider as a conference,” she is quoted as saying, “is asking our own leadership to join with the Republican leadership in the Senate and asking this president to resign.”

Those quotations were based on a “firsthand” account, said Jonathan Martin, a New York Times reporter who co-wrote the book with fellow reporter Alexander Burns, in an email. In an authors’ note, Martin and Burns wrote that quotes in the book were taken from transcripts, interviews or recordings.