4 for 4 today, brian. starting with john meecham, perfect, every word was caught. it was a statement of its own and then to have, of course, rooney i didn t know how close that relationship was, endured all those years after they left office. and then allen simpson with a earthiness to his message. and then to have to match all that, the son had to come on and bring them all home. was an amazing piece of work, just emotionally. i realize i d never seen him so overwrought and should have been based on the words spoken. that was the right ending, tears. i thought i never have been to a service, a funeral like this where everything was had integrity and everything matched up. and i even liked the fact that rooney brian, i think you said had to recoup with the
no idea how much longer this could last. steve patterton, just extraordinary. the pictures are amazing, but you can t imagine to what s happening to people on the ground. thanks for being with us. coming up, the soul of america. what history can teach us about escaping the political divisions of our time. historian john meecham joins me next. stay with us on andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. we re putting ai into everything, and everything into the cloud. it s all so. smart. but how do you work with it? ask this farmer. he s using satellite data to help increase crop yields. that s smart for the food we eat. at this port, supply chains are becoming more transparent with blockchain. that s smart for millions of shipments. in this lab, researchers are working with watson to help them find new treatments. that s smart for medicine. at this bank, the world s most encrypted mainframe is helping prevent cybercrime.
ali. have you got me? that s problematic if we lose john meecham because my knowledge of american history is this compared to that. i was going to ask him how donald trump is going to be remembered in about 20 years. let me see if i can connect back with john meacham in a second. we re going to hang on and try to reject with john while we figure out why we ve lost him. let s go to a commercial. i ll come right back after we try and reconnect with him.
quest, where they re kind of an their way to someplace. i think that s the distinction. right now we re in this remarkable situation, if the market were way down, this would be a radically different conversation, more people would know about russia, there s a kind of a false lull because some classes in america are quite prosperous right now. but if that begins to get shaky, i don t think trump has a great deal of rope. john meecham and howell reigns, thank you both for your perspectives as we approach this momentous evening. maxine waters is boycotting the state of the union, but sches here she is here on the beat tonight. and andrew mccabe s
others. john, i looked at your piece in time magazine, the headline is could the 25th amendment be trump s downfall? here s how it works. tell us how it works. well, we re talking about section 4 of the amendment, and the issue is, as the attorney just said, a question less of fitness and of capacity, of ability. and so what could happen is the vice-president could, in a crisis with either a majority of the cabinet or there is a provision that congress can authorize a different kind of body, maybe a panel of medical experts, they could write a letter saying they believe the president should be temporarily removed from power, the vice-president should become the acting president in what is one of the great bits of nerd porn ever. there could then be a process by which the president challenged that. the vice-president and the majority of the cabinet or the other body could say, no, we really meant it. and then it goes to the congress and it has to be the