but they re not too much above and parole belrobably below the presidential election. in the most recent presidential election, texas and florida didn t exactly go for the democrats. thank you for laying it out for us, zachary wolf. a week ago we were covering an unspeakable tragedy. coming up, a rabbi makes an emotional return to the tree of life synagogue one week after the worth anti-semitic attack in modern u.s. history. i m a witness. i m a victim. and i m a survivor. i m also a pastor. i m also human. and i stand here and i m in pain. for me. that last place was pretty nice. i don t like this whole thing. i think we can do better. change is hard. try to keep an open mind. come on, dad. this is for me, son?
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again, and then it goes to congress where two-thirds majority would have to agree to take power from the president and then the vice president takes over for the president. so it is a sort of long, complicated process that would play out over the course of three weeks and it is like a side way, it is not impeachment or death, it is a different way for the president to leave office, you know, without being voted out, and people for some reason keep coming back to this. we heard steve bannon was obsessed with it, we know trump has been thinking about it, with the anonymous op-ed and with the rosenstein story, people inside the white house talked about it. it is so fascinating because it makes you wonder how they re dealing with the president on a daily basis. zachary wolf, thank you for breaking down the amendment for us. we are four hours from the deadline senate republicans set
wearing a wire and trying to recruit cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment. earlier this month in the now infamous new york times anonymous op-ed, a senior white house official says there were whispers of using it to remove the president from office. what exactly is the 25th amendment we re hearing so much about. the digital director of politics zachary wolf is here. a famous amendment, is anyone sure what it does though? it was enacted in the wake of the kennedy assassination, has to deal with presidential succession. most of it, there are four sections of it, the first three mostly have to do with if the president dies or is no longer able to perform duties, power goes to the vice president. then there s a fourth section about how the cabinet and vice president can essentially vote to overturn the president, to take power away temporarily. that triggers a complicated process where the president can disagree with them, they vote
op-ed, they discussed how the 25th amendment was discussed by some cabinet officials and now rozenstein. we have to keep coming back to it. just the mountain you d have to climb for this to happen if you can imagine, pence, who s never said a bad thing about trump, essentially saying he was unfit to be in office, and then sending that to the entire congress. where a super majority, 67, more than a filibuster proof majority, would have to agree and essentially kick trump out in order for pence to take hold. so it keeps coming back but it just seems so unlikely. underscores a collective body not necessarily in private. all right, zachary wolf, thanks so much. all right, coming up, we re following developments from washington where the clock is ticking towards the deadline set by senate republicans for brett kavanaugh s accuser to respond to their counteroffer on her potential testimony. as tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran, secretary of state mike pompeo lashing out