Listen live on the cspan radio viewnd visit cspan. Org to a playlist of Amy Coney Barretts legal views. Host a discussion on the continuity of government. Our guest is a lot professor at Michigan State. You wrote in the Washington Post friday morning that the law is clear about handling president ial illness, but it can get murky fast. Start with what is clear. Amendmentl, the 25th gives us clear procedures for transferring power to the president from the to the Vice President when he is unable to dispense duties or he is unconscious. The Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that transfer of power. Things get murky if the president challenges the declaration and get really problematic if the president and Vice President are both incapacitated because then we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday what concerns you the most right now . Well, i think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able
Gives us very clear procedures for transferring power from the president to the Vice President , when the president declares himself unable to discharge his unconscious,he is unable to declare himself unable , then the Vice President and the majority of the cabinet can make that declaration and transfer power. Things get murkier if the president contests the declaration by the vice thingsnt and cabinet and get really problematic if the president and the Vice President are both incapacitated. Because they are, we have a lot of gaps in our law. Host as you have watched this unfold since friday, what concerns you the most right now . Think, again, there is a murky area where the president might think that he is able and he is not. It is hard to know. We dont know exactly how the president is doing and what the side effects of his medication might be. He could be fine. The problem is that the president can be in pretty bad shape and still not incapacitated enough that the 25th amendment wo
Are positive Vice President mike pence we do know has tested negative for coronavirus were just finding that out as well as he continues to send his well wishes and they come in from around the world, other leaders and those in government or tweeting that they hope the president has a quick and speedy recovery. We also have a memorandum for the president s physician. And in fact you see a portion of it there on your screen. He says that both are doing well at this time they do plan on remaining home in the white house during their convalescence in the letter he also mentions the president is hes as he is this morning is expected to continue performing the duties of the office of the president for the foreseeable future of course if things do progress in a direction that they dont want then the president may have to be taken to Walter Reed Medical Center where hill continue to receive care but for the moment, his symptoms are mild and so he is recovering. At the white house and since th
The president the 1st lady says. Scary. Trying to score political points. I think would be a huge mistake. In severely. Impact his ability to be desired. Welcome to the day to day it has begun with just 4 weeks until the u. S. Election the white house says President Trump is experiencing mild symptoms now that followed the announcement that he and 1st lady. Had tested positive for corona virus democratic rival joe bidens tested negative despite sharing a platform with mr trump in tuesdays president ial debate when the president s diagnosis was revealed hours after it became known that senior aides who had contracted the virus she. Been traveling all week with the president and seen here on that wednesday throwing crap caps into a crowd of supporters at a Campaign Event mr trump tweeted that he had madonna quarantining at the white house where he said to be continuing hes duties so what happens now well lets run through some of the potential synonymous with john hes a senior fellow at t
Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency