after we had that firs inauguration of march 1930 three of fdr, after that, actue united states constitution i order to make that change. and they call that amendment t the constitution, the 20th amendment, they call it th flame duck amendment because by moving th integration from march back to january, we were shortening th lame duck period we were trying to eliminate long lame duck period afte which the old present had been voted out, but before that i would start on the job i mean, the idea was sort of obvious, right it was to try to minimize th risk of crisis, minimize the risk of confusion in terms o who is running the country i case something hickey happened and that interregnum perio between the election and the start of the new president s term so, the last time we had one goes long four month
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had talked with mark meadows, the chief of staff. hutchison s boss. about rallying up cabinet members. pompeo has denied this. it will be interesting to see where this goes. but, the 20th amendment is designed to remove, temporarily remove power from a president who was incapacitated. that is how dramatic that particular amendment is. we have jacob, mark short, and cassidy hutchison. compare that with the ross washington post, oscars and asking specific question about trump. the tape anything about the direction of this investigation? i think those are, in a sense, one in the same development. if you re going to? short, or cassidy hutchison, you re naturally going to be asking them about donald trump and mark meadows. yes, i think there has been a sea change in what we know about doj s investigation. if you think back a month ago, all that we knew was that they
talk about it. it was always hard for me to tell, at the time. you know, was his rumormongering ? how serious were the conversations about the 20th amendment? i guess that is one thing we will learn, here. how deeply these talks went and how close it came to happening. the conversations happened after the sixth, and could speak to the ex-president state of mind in that time, in those days. what you want to know? it could speak to the cabinets perception of donald trump state of mind. i don t think it tells us much about what was actually in donald trump s mind. but, yeah, the 20th amendment is remarkably drastic. scott hit the nail on the head, how far do these conversations go? was it chatter out there in the ether? was it something where there was more of a concentrated focus conversation? let s remember, cassidy hutchinson testified, as far as she knew, then secretary pompeo
tragedy and violence of january 6. that is something we cannot say with the same a lot of confidence before today. you call today s, he said it was watergate level and cassidy hutchison told the committee that trump finally said that biden would be inaugurated january 7th because there is a large concern the 25th amendment could be invoked. how big of a deal is it that this was ever considered? this would have been the first time the 20th amendment was considered. the fact that people around the president were fearful that his own cabinet was prepared to turn against him is a sense of the level of chaos in the white house and anxiety about the president s state of mind.