Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170930:23:23:00
There was a newly enacted 25th amendment -- >> yeah. >> -- and you could have incapacitated -- >> we could have invoked the 25th amendment. we made it -- i may have made a mistake here. i got criticized for it in the aftermath. but i don't think it was a mistake. i concluded that we ought not to invoke the 25th amendment. the doctors had told us they were going to -- that they were going to take the president into surgery. they're going to remove this bullet. and that he would be under anesthesia for maybe four, five hours. and so ed nese and i, counselor to the president, and had been his chi...