by which power can be taken from a sitting president. how would this go into motion? first the vice president would have to say and cabinet members have to say he s not fit. the amendment is about transferring power if the president is incapacitated. if the president is undergoing an operation or something happens, has a heart attack, shot, who will take over? you need to have a clear way of someone to take over the powers and as they drafted this in the wake of president kennedy s assassination, became clear they also should have a provision in the event that the president himself couldn t transfer power, so, you know, like if the president has a stroke or something and so they came up with this mechanism in section 4 by which the vice president and the majority of the cabinet have to write to congress to say that the president is incapacitated in someway and power gets transferred to the vice president but only permanently within 21 days, two-thirds also agree to that.
wrath of america s women yet but he s about to, 25th, the 45th, 25th amendment. what are you saying here, congresswoman? i have been speaking about the invocation of the 25th amendment since early this year because i think the president is not equipped to do the job. when he lashed out at kim jong-un and said he was going to feel the fire and fury, and he was inciting an international incident and inciting nuclear war and the 25th amendment is there to be invoked by the vice president and the majority of the members and cabinet if the president is incapacitated. you think the president is incapacitated? you think president trump is mentally unfit somehow? i do believe that he does not conduct himself in a manner consistent with the presidency of the united states. lashing out at members of both
you cite it s 50 years old. it was enacted as we understand it after john f. kennedy s assassination to create a process if the president is incapacitated. but as you mentioned there, the way it s set up, a majority of the cabinet appointed by the president, they would presumably support the president and you have republicans controlling both houses of congress. what are your actual chances of getting such a commission established in the current political environment? well, i think we ve got a constitutional responsibility to do it, not just for the trump presidency but every presidency to come. it contemplates the possibility of a temporary disability, and it s been invoked several times, including when president reagan and president bush underwent surgery. but this is a provision that s not been fully implemented and it s time because the physical health of the president and the mental health of the president is of fundamental importance to
the first season, you didn t i didn t get the sense you were trying to write about the current day issues of american politics. in this season, a dramatic change. well, yes. i mean, stuff is happening in this season, then happening the following week in real life. the season is overshadowed by a spy scandal and who knew what and what senate i know, the spy scandal. like, there you go. right. i think the first season we wanted to get to know her and also the role of vice president. she describes as a very strange there are only two constitutional functions you have as vice president. one is you take over if the president s incapacitated. the second one is, president of the senate. anything else you have is entirely dependent on how well you get on with the president. that can vary from day to day. let s talk about your choice of having a female vice president. i can tell you in my household