So theyre scrambling. Theyre trying to figure this out as well, chuck. No indication as to whether the president has been briefed on this. Hes about to hold an event with sheriffs. In fact im told he just entered and so well try to get more questions to him about all of this. But this is unprecedented, as you say, the fact we have someone inside sounding the alarm like that. Thats what it is, someone sounding the alarm. The call is coming from inside the house. By the way, i should make a point, no Press Briefing today, no Press Briefing yesterday. How many are we up to how many Press Briefings have we had in the last six weeks . We havent had one in two weeks and we had less this summer. I think then its typical, for the record. So its becoming sort of the diminishing Press Briefing. Now, they would argue, hey, look, you had four different chances to ask the president questions today. That is true, and well take it. But of course shouted questions, yeah. Exactly, exactly. Shouted ques
two-thirds of the senate. not going to be easy if the president is saying i m fine, i shouldn t be removed. that s well put, that it was that we have high we have high bars for this. absolutely. and with the 25th amendment we really were talking about physical disability. that was at the point we didn t have a vice president. it was that moment everybody was worried and lbj and there was no vice president too. and that s been used twice, we know how it works for anesthesia. so getting rid of a president for being kind of emotionally erratic and volatile would be very, very big actually if i might interrupt for a second. 1987, howard baker became white house chief of staff. there were rumors that ronald reagan was not what he was mentally. baker took those seriously enough that he had some of his close trusted aides sit in on meetings with ronald reagan and observe him closely to see whether there was any truth to the worry that the president might not be functioning