This is a Cato special podcast. I'm Caleb Brown following a disastrous

debate performance in a presidential debate that did anything but lay to rest

questions about the president's mental acuity.

Many Democrats have been asking what could be the steps needed to deal with a truly

incapacitated president.

Both as a matter of having a fit chief executive and

having a credible candidate for this November's presidential election.

Earlier today I spoke with Cato's John Samples and Jean Healy about the 25th Amendment and the broader politics of putting a new candidate on the ballot.

Gene, following President Biden's generally frowned upon performance at the presidential debate with Donald

Trump as of this recording, it was last night. A lot of Democrats and Republicans alike are very concerned about the

mental capacity of the president, Joe Biden and and there have been, I think, pretty serious discussions about

using the 25th amendment to deal with the fact that we may have or may soon have a president who lacks the capacity

that we want in a sitting US president.

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when people were seriously concerned

that Ronald Reagan was too old and out of it to be president because he had a

senior moment towards the end of the first debate with Walter Bondale in 1984.

This was like 90 straight minutes of that and the overwhelming reaction people both sides of the

is that it was a excruciating almost shambolic and tragic performance.

So yeah, there have been whenever something like this happens, there's talk about the 25th amendment in the air.

Senator Mike Lee, I think, tweeted out something last night about the 25th amendment.

Congressman Chip Roy has said that he's going to introduce a resolution in the

House to call upon Vice President Kamla Harris and the Cabinet to invoke the to trigger the 25th

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