crisis proposed it to be a panel of doctors. the fact that there s a history and debates to read, i think it s really interesting. and i think just sort of a geeky point here of something new they all are. go ahead. it s remarkable. i think the middle of the 60 we had some constitutional framers who foresaw a moment where possibly a presidential inability a presidential disability would actually be disabling. and i think that we have a mechanism. mike barnicle, i would love to have a followup question with john meacham to ask what happened in the mid 60s that led many to move for the passing of the fifth amendment, but unfortunately we only have two hours and 50 minutes left. i m going to let you go to richard haas for the next question. that was great.
s-m-r-t. it s the homer simpson of the presidency. that s an insult to homer simpson. welcome to morning joe. it s monday, january 8th. can you believe it? it s a big night for you. big night. are you going to stay up and watch? of course i am. alabama and georgia. right now we have mike barnicle, elise jordan, richard haas, jerry peterson, and robert costa and john meacham. john meacham says he s connecting dots from the between fifth amendment and what really happened in eastern massachusetts at the end of the
in washington would just do their job and do it in a way that respects constitutional norms and, finally, if the university of alabama wins tonight. that will be andrew sullivan so glad you interrupted me for that. mike, the kids on the upper west side, think about how thrilled they are. they re waking up this morning and they re going, oh, my god, finally, a national, national championship. i know. this is actually dixie s version of the super bowl. alabama, which is birmingham is an hour and a half, two hours from atlanta, against georgia, whose campus is about an hour from atlanta. they re both going to atlanta. this is like dixie youth baseball championships we had growing up. foss point, mississippi, would play nothing captures the imagination of the people in new
threat to the special prosecuter himself to that office. where would you put the risk today of the president trying to dismiss bob mueller? in the same week, mike, as the wolff book came out there was an extraordinary, excellent report from the new york times about the president sending his white house counsel to stop jeff sessions from recusing himself. is that obstruction? does that play as a prosecuter, would you look at that and say, well, considering that he also lied about the russian meeting on air force one, considering that he also knew that his national security adviser had committed a crime against the fbi and then went to the fbi and tried to get a loyalty oath and didn t pressure them not to investigate, to drop the investigation, where they knew charges were coming and then the president is now we re finding out, pressuring the white house counsel who doesn t work for the president.
flipped. and so, mike barnicle for dinner at the white house. i guess, and to golf at his exquisitely laid out 18-hole he has become the president s up up boy. he s an up up boy. i don t know what that means. it means you push him up. stand up for the president constantly, continually. the interesting thing about michael wolff s book snads to the conversations is that most of the anecdotal evidence he assembled in the book was known by us and others prior to the inauguration. it s just a constant stream of things your familiar with because you ve been told and it leads to the question that i think a lot of people are asking internally in the white house that i ve heard now for the past several days. who is running the country? and it comes down to john kelly and jim mattis. those are the two most important