been authorized yet by the congress, he s in a position to dispute that. and then there s a procedure. but that implies consciousness. it implies consciousness, absolutely, positively. so then we go to the michael wolff question. that s right. do you see anything from your knowledge of being part of drafting this amendment that it would be anywhere in the ballpark of being apply heeied . today, no. why not? because i think there s a difference between unable and unfit. i might think this president is unfit because i disagree with virtually everything he says and does, but i don t think he s unable. in fact, if i go back, i think the fundamental issue here is, we always envisioned the removal of a president under section iv as a political act, informed by medical authorities and decision making, but a political act to remove a duly elected president. donald trump was elected to do
democratic message is or who their leader is. that s really important because of the chaos in republican politics, tax bill allows republicans going into november to say we re for lower taxes, democrats voted for higher taxes. elections are decided on contrast and that s an important one to overcome. nonpartisan expert at cook report, says people haven t factored in how much worse things could get for house republicans in the next days. but david as fellow traveler and sometime critic, house republicans are going to say at least in some districts they finally got a bill passed with taxes and may be able to hide some of the negative impact because people haven t felt it yet. sure. and i don t believe the race will be decided over russia. this is a constitutionally grave moment over russia and president s fitness. but as bill clinton said, it s the economy stupid.
no easy feat. but as issa and others retire, more they seem at risk. other question, why are they retiring? may be fearing backlash against their party in next election as result of donald trump. here s what dave trot said about his decision to quick. you re not running again? i m not. why not? just not the right time for me to be in washington. we re not that productive, not just consequence of president trump, not that productive before he got there, not right to be serving. how much is president trump a part of this. it s a factor. we have different styles and don t always understandi what h does and says. david, you are what these individuals are planning to become, a former republican member of congress.
incredible legislator. he had grown up in the indiana legislature. he had a lot of friends on the republican side. he had howard baker, scott, people he worked with. this was truly a bipartisan effort and was really the mind-set was that it was an institutional reform. it grew out of, yes, the assassination of president kennedy and the context of people thinking that in the nuclear age, you had to guarantee some level, the performance of government 24/7. so there was a desire to get something done, but, of course, you had 535 different views as to how to get it done. so really some legislative genius that led to its paunlg. let me put up on the screen so we re clear exactly what we re talking about, the language, where we often start, is that the president would be unable to discharge the powers. the vice president and principal officers of executive department
everybody other than two networks who were phenomenal for about two hours. then after that, they were called by their bosses and said, oh, wait a minute. and unfortunately, a lot of those anchors sent us letters saying, that was one of the greatest meetings they ve ever witnessed. they sent those letters, they must have gotten there really quickly. i could say more, but i m going to keep moving. during the meeting, the president expressed support for this deal to potentially protect 800,000 people, often called d.r.e.a.m.ers from deportation. there was a talk of the comprehensive immigration reform, that would go to the entire undocumented population estimated around 11 million. he also told senator dianne feinstein, who we were just talking about, that he would in fact support a clean daca bill without border security funding, that would end this whole standoff, if true. he did say, yeah, i would like to do it, and the white house s official transcript completely excised that line,