Amendment. or i m not sure it was designed for a situation like this. his concern is it would take too long. the reason he s worried it could take too long is the cabinet can vote to remove the president, but then the president can challenge that, and then it goes to a vote of the congress. and then you re in a situation that s really not all that different from impeachment. and again, to bring folks back to this extremely urgent moment, two days after january 6th, 12 days left on the clock of president trump s administration. you have the top republicans in the country truly worried about whether it s responsible to let donald trump remain as the president and commander in chief for just 12 more days. yeah, and jonathan, it s incredible when you think about kevin mccarthy s issue with the 25th amendment is it wouldn t get rid of trump quickly enough. so you also write about trump s response to mccarthy s condemnations of him in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, quote, tru
I don t know what it is today. but how do you deal with people who you know they wear the face of hypocrisy when they show up to work every day on this stuff. how do you do it? how do you engage with them? yeah, it s such a different place. i think about the race in 2006, i ran against a 24-hour republican incumbent who was pro choice, who supported a lot of environmental measures, that sort of version of the moderate republican party is absolutely gone and it s really hard when you exist in a place where a number of your colleagues voted to overturn the 2020 election, who believe that joe biden s election was illegitimate. i guess from my perspective, i can t give up. so when that letter came out on the eve of january 6th, 12 republicans saying that they were going to vote to seat donald trump, i got on the phone and called them.