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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Andrew Procop's Senior Politics Correspondent Vox is the president about to get impeached again. |
0:10.0 | It sure looks like it. |
0:11.5 | Has that ever happened before twice in one term? |
0:14.0 | No, this would be an historic first for President Trump. |
0:18.0 | History maker if nothing else. |
0:20.0 | But there's also this question of the 25th Amendment. What's up with that? |
0:25.0 | So section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President and a majority of the President's cabinet to vice president's |
0:34.4 | to choose to take away the president's powers |
0:39.4 | if they conclude that he is unable |
0:41.8 | to exercise the powers and duties of his office. |
0:45.0 | And this has never been invoked in history, and obviously it hasn't been invoked |
0:51.0 | under the Trump administration yet, but after Trump's actions last week with the storming of the Capitol, |
0:57.3 | there was a new round of discussion about it. And Democrats took the position that Pence and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment now. |
1:08.0 | The problem is that they are not doing so. |
1:11.0 | Several Trump Cabinet Secret secretaries have resigned rather than stayed in |
1:16.3 | office to to the point where their 25th Amendment vote could be needed but the |
1:21.8 | bigger picture is that Mike Pence does not seem to be on board with this |
1:26.4 | even after the chaos at the Capitol put his personal safety at risk. He doesn't want to go this far and his consent is necessary |
1:36.4 | to invoke the 25th Amendment. |
1:38.3 | Okay, 25th Amendment is a bit of a pipe dream. In the meantime, there's impeachment and the Democrats are leading the charge. |
1:45.4 | So they released one article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection and it criticizes Trump for inflaming the crowd with false claims |
1:58.4 | that the election was stolen and for not respecting our democracy and the peaceful transition of power. |
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