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On Wednesday, an explosive op-ed about President Donald Trump was published in

'The New York Times' and you had better believe the late-night hosts had plenty to say

on the subject. The piece was written by an anonymous senior Trump administration

official who claims to be part of the "resistance" to Trump but not from the left and said,

in part, "Many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve

our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump's more misguided impulses

until he is out of office." On CBS's 'Late Show' Stephen Colbert addressed the

mystery surrounding the author of the opinion piece, and took the opportunity to

poke fun at the revolving door of employees the White House has seen since

Trump stepped into office. Referring to the vague revelation that the writer was "a

senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and

whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure," Colbert quipped:

Pondering just how many people there could be in the current administration who

believe in its policies and goals yet still think the president is a dangerous idiot,

Colbert came up with this simple equation.

Colbert's guest, former Secretary of State and onetime Democratic presidential

candidate John Kerry, also shared his thoughts on the 'Times' piece, saying that it

"scared the hell out of him," before offering some sobering words. "You know what

it really means, Stephen, is that we don't really have a president," Kerry said.

"We have a president who is there but he's not capable of doing the job or living up to

the responsibilities." Over on Comedy Central's 'Daily Show,' Trevor Noah expressed

shock at what the news could potentially mean. The host exclaimed, "Holy shit.

There's a secret group of people within the White House actively working to

curb President Trump, which is wild, because this means this whole time we've

been dealing with the watered-down version of Trump!"

Noah also said the op-ed and its author's admission that "it may be cold comfort in

this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room,"

did not make him feel any better. "Before this, I knew there was turbulence," Noah began.

He then concluded his comparison by joking about this potential solution to

the hypothetical scenario.

On ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' Kimmel joked that he had cracked the case of

the authors hidden identity.

The late night host also pointed out that some Internet users have picked up on the use

of the word "lodestar" in the piece. "That's not a common word, lodestar. Not a lot of

people use that word," Kimmel explained before offering video evidence of Vice

President Mike Pence using the word…..like, a lot.

"Wouldn't that be something if it was Mike Pence?" Kimmel asked. "This is gonna drive

Trump absolutely nuts. Can you imagine what it must be like to have a job at

which almost everyone who works for you thinks you're a complete idiot?"

On NBC's 'Late Night' Seth Meyers also addressed the op-ed piece, paying homage

to the best-selling board game "Clue."

Also on NBC, 'The Tonight Show' host Jimmy Fallon joked about the situation saying,

He then pulled out his best Trump impression to imagine how the Commander-in-Chief

might have reacted to the news of the op-ed being published.

Trump's actual reaction, came via his favorite social media platform on Wednesday night

with the president tweeting, "Does the so-called "Senior Administration Official" really

exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source?

If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must,

for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!"

On Thursday morning, POTUS took to Twitter once more to write, "The Deep State

and the Left, and their vehicle, the Fake News Media, are going Crazy -

& they don't know what to do."

To read more on this story and to watch full clips of the late-night hosts reacting to the

mysterious op-ed about Trump, head to THR.com.

For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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Four senior Trump advisers disavow NYTimes 'resistance' article - Duration: 3:04.

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Trump Wants New York Times To Turn Over Author Of Scathing Op-Ed - Duration: 1:55.

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#1 Way to Reverse Trump's Global Harming - Duration: 6:38.

If we were actually honest with ourselves

we'd admit that we still have

an irrational fear of quicksand. Or that

we're powerless to cheese. Or that one

time we got a great deal on a pair of

jeans at a thrift store and realized

while showing them off to friends that

they were actually women's jeans. Why is

it so tight like right here? And we may

also admit that environmentally speaking,

Trump and his Congress are giving the

Royal f--- job to Mother Nature. Welcome

to Naughty Politics! I'm your host, Brad Lee.

Now when it comes to the environment,

Obama isn't exactly worthy of the

pedestal most liberals put him on. He did

some awesome: he promoted regulation--- hey

Karl, can we--can we cut it with the

graphics? Let me do my thing? All right,

those were Obama's good things. But he

also did some awful: he wavered on the

Keystone pipeli---Karl! Let me do my thing!

I'm trying to do my thing and you're not

letting me do my thing! Let me do my

thing!! Trump, though. Holy shit, Trump. He is

on another level.

He is a wartime president and the enemy

is the environment.

Trump has---don't, Karl. Don't. Trump has---

what are you doing you piece of sh--?

This is my show!

(acoustic guitar plays softly)

Holy sh--! Who's got a cheese? Who's got a

f---ing package cheese? I know for a fact

that one of you motherf---ers has a

pack of cheese. That was a running list

from National Geographic of all of

Trump's environmental awful from not even

600 days in office. With all of this, and

more to come in mind, I hope you agree

that it's f---ing imperative that we, you

and I, and your hot friend, and your

medium looking friend, we all need to do

everything in our power to help protect

this planet and the lives of those of us

who can't move to Mars. Because that's

what this comes down to. Helping to

protect people's lives and local

economies crippled by giant storms,

droughts, fires, floods, etc. Whatever your

reason is, I hope you agree that we need

to step up to help the peoples, places,

animals, and plants of this beautiful

world. Now there are things we can do as

a people that will make major strides in

reducing the earth's temperature, but I

as an individual can't force my state to

adopt wind farming. What are do you doin' today?

I was just gonna farm some wind. Brad's

making us do it. To make changes that big

we need to do the most important thing

we can do regarding basically all issues:

vote. Vote for candidates who believe

that humans cause climate change and

that we need to take action like the day

before tomorrow. Wait! That's today! Sh--!

Giant companies wouldn't spend millions

to swing elections if voting wasn't

important. They've paid top dollar to make

climate change a political issue so

their puppets can spout bullshit like,

"The science is unclear." "The verdict is

still out." "What is a verdict?" I can't

stress enough how truly important it is

to vote. Vote! Vote! Vote! Come on Karl! But

chances are we can't vote right now and

maybe we're feeling helpless. Well we're

not. We are not helpless. We, on a

micro-level, can do three things to make

a giant impact in reversing Trump's

Global Harming. Number one. Food wasted.

Cutting down on food waste is the number

one thing we can do to reverse climate

change. Why? Because rotting food releases a

f--- ton of methane into the atmosphere

and methane is far more potent than

carbon dioxide in warming the planet.

Food waste happens on so many levels. A

third of the food raised or prepared

doesn't make it to our spoons, forks, sporks,

or forkoons. A third! Some produce is

left in the field because demand isn't

there. No one will buy it. An enormous

amount is thrown out before shipment

because it's not pretty enough.

Other times grocery stores and

restaurants order too much for fear

their customers will be upset if they're--

Out of eggplant?!? What kind of restaurant run's out of eggplant?!?

And once we buy the food we often throw

it out because we think it's bad, we

forget about it, or we overestimate at

the store how much we need. But on top of

produce there's the milk we thought had

gone bad or meat that doesn't look fresh anymore.

So here are five things we can do to

reduce food waste. Number one: make sure

something is actually bad before garbaging

it. With meat, if it's not smelly or slimey, cook it and eat it.

That's my grandpa's rule. Another rule of

his: ranch dressing. You're really gonna throw out limp lettuce?

The entire purpose of ranch is to help

you forget about the f---ing taste and

texture of lettuce! Number two: don't

forget about it in the fridge. This helps

our bank accounts and the planet. It's

all happened to us. Driving back home to

introduce your girlfriend of almost two

years to your parents, only to be told

that you can't sleep in the same bed

with her because you're not married and

it will desecrate your parents home and

something about the Bible. And your dad

tells you to let it go but you can't let

it go and you lose sleep because you

can't let it go and you remember the bag

of spinach you left in the back your

fridge. We've all...we've all been there,

but we can do things like keeping food

that will go bad quicker at the front of

the fridge to prevent forgetful food

waste. Number three only by the amount we

need. People who plan their meals and

write a list are far less likely to over

buy. Dana Gunders, author of "Wasted," a

game-changing 2012 report that put food

waste in the spotlight, says, we should

definitely make a list, but also ask

ourselves when we're going to cook it.

She says we're often aspirational in the

grocery store and making a list and

questioning our aspirations will lead us

to choose a different major than studio

art. You were you were right dad. Number

four: don't freak out when the grocery

store or restaurant you're patronizing

is out of something you want. You're out

of kale? What's your name? Karen? How the

f--- am I supposed to make kale chips

without kale, Karen? If we are more

forgiving, if we just buy or order

something else without sass, there'd be

less overbuying by stores and restaurants.

And finally, number five: buy ugly produce, the

misshapen types with maybe a bruise or two.

Dude! Ms. Shapen. She was the best! Open

book tests. She was a bit lumpy but still a

babe! Ask your grocery store where

their ugly produce or reduced-price

section is, and if they have one, buy from

it. If they don't, ask them to get one and

choose the produce others won't because

that's what will get passed over and

release methane in a landfill. The most

impactful thing we can do to reverse

global warming is cutting down on food

waste. And those are five ways to do it.

Thanks for watching video one of "The

Naughty Politics Top Three Ways to

Reverse Trump's Global Harming. Be sure

to watch video two. It's shorter and I'm

giving away a prize. Wow. Ms. Shapen. She

had this thing on her neck, but such a sweetheart.

We used to call her sweet thing. No. That was sweet

neck thing. Yeah, we were...we were mean.

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In Mueller vs. Trump Encounter, Who Would The Odds-Makers Back? - Duration: 4:58.

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Billings preps for the arrival of President Trump - Duration: 3:32.

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Senior Trump official describes resistance inside administration - Duration: 4:24.

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N. Korean leader says he plans to denuclearize within President Trump's first term - Duration: 2:26.

Kim Jong-un made it clear that Pyongyang is committed to getting rid of its nuclear weapons.

And for the very first time, the North Korean leader even unveiled a denuclearization timeline.

Park Hee-jun shares with us his remarks.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has once again reiterated his willingness to denuclearize.

South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, during a press briefing at the Blue

House on Thursday,... said that Kim remains very much committed to making the Korean Peninsula

nuclear-free.

"Chairman Kim Jong-un reaffirmed his stance towards denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula,...

and expressed his willingness to closely cooperate with South Korea, as well as the United States,

to achieve it."

Earlier Thursday,... North Korea's state-run media KCNA reported that North Korea remains

determined to establish peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

It said the two Koreas should continue efforts to realize the goal of denuclearization,...

but did not elaborate on the details of how that would be achieved.

But during his meeting with the South Korean delegation,... Kim revealed that he plans

to achieve this within U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, which ends in January

2021.

Never before has the North Korean leader presented a potential timeline on denuclearization.

And according to Chung,... the North Korean leader asked that he deliver his good will

to the U.S., shown through the destruction of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, of which

two thirds is irreversible,... and the shutdown of the Tongchang-ri missile launch site, which

means the country will no longer be able to test long-range missiles.

Kim says that if the U.S. takes measures that acknowledge the efforts made so far,... he

will accept stronger steps on denuclearization.

"I think that is a good sign from North Korea.

But we have to pay close attention to what kind of agreement the U.S. and North Korea

are going to make to achieve denuclearization.

So the importance of the summit from September 18,... is going to be how South Korean President

Moon Jae-in is going to tell Kim Jong-un that he has to have formal nogotiations between

the U.S. and North Korea.

What's left now,... is how President Moon Jae-in will drive denuclearization at the

upcoming inter-Korean summit,... and whether that summit will provide a potential breakthrough

in the nuclear deadlock.

Park Hee-jun, Arirang News.

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Will fallout from President Trump vs. NYT op-ed impact Florida election? - Duration: 3:25.

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Estados Bálticos receiam que Trump acabe com ajuda militar à região - Duration: 2:22.

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President Trump arrives in Billings - Duration: 6:06.

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Billings airport preparing for Trump visit - Duration: 1:28.

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A top White House official just declared war on Trump in astonishing Op-Ed that's going viral - Duration: 7:57.

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Hillary Clinton just went on a Twitter rampage against Trump's nominee Brett Kavanaugh - Duration: 1:26.

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Anonymous op-ed blasts President Trump - Duration: 2:52.

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President Trump fires back at NY Times op-ed - Duration: 2:02.

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TRUMP NEEDS TO FIRE ROBERT MUELLER AFTER THIS - Duration: 14:08.

TRUMP NEEDS TO FIRE ROBERT MUELLER AFTER THIS

Robert Mueller is no friend to President Donald Trump.

But that doesn't mean that he will be overly helpful to Democrats.

Democrats just realized that after being forced to admit what we always knew about Robert

Mueller.

Robert Mueller's investigation is extremely one-sided.

It is Donald Trump vs. his enemies in a legal battle over the future of the United States

government.

If Trump wins, it at least appears as though he will keep control over the federal government.

His polling numbers are much stronger than they were before he defeated Hillary Clinton

anyway, and his approval within the Republican Party is at all-time historic highs at this

point in his presidency.

But if he loses, all of that could come crashing down.

If Robert Mueller can provide compelling enough evidence that Trump's campaign colluded

with Russia it is bad news for Trump supporters.

It doesn't matter if Trump actually colluded with Russia; it matters if Mueller can convince

the public he did.

But regardless of whether that happens or not, one thing is clear, the investigation

will not put the controversy involving the 2016 election behind us.

Former Federal Prosecutor Joseph Moreno explained this in an opinion article at The Hill.

Moreno is not someone with partisan ties; he has sided for and against the Trump administration

throughout the Russia collusion investigation.

He points out the fact that the conclusion of the investigation will likely make no sides

happy in the end.

The anti-Trump left is hoping that Mueller provides some smoking gun proving a massive

conspiracy between all facets of the Trump government that brings down Trump and everyone

close to him.

Trump supporters are hoping that Mueller provides zero evidence of any wrongdoing from any party.

In reality, Moreno believes that something in the middle will come out, and that it will

be unlikely that Trump will be indicted on any front.

Without an indictment, the only front of punishment for Trump will be impeachment, which will

be virtually impossible without a Democrat takeover during the upcoming midterm elections.

Any Republican voting to impeach Trump would be committing political suicide.

In order for any Republican, outside of a lame duck situation, to consider voting to

impeach Trump it would take a very high level of evidence that he did anything wrong.

And unless Mueller provides some sort of smoking gun, that will be unlikely to happen.

Moreno also explains that the real battle to impeach Trump will take place in the public

debate.

Public opinion would need to be turned against Trump before any real talk of impeachment

could occur.

That would mean that Republicans would need to turn on President Trump.

Right now that doesn't seem likely to happen..

Nearly 90 percent of Republicans currently approve of President Trump.

At the 500-day point in the Presidency only one Republican president has held a higher

approval rating, with that being George W. Bush in the wake of 9/11.

Impeachment seems less likely by the day, and even Democrats are being forced to realize

this.

Do you think Democrats have any chance at impeaching President Trump?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Trump clobbers 'gutless' and 'failing' anonymous aide behind NYT op-ed - Duration: 13:29.

President Donald .'Does the so-called 'Senior Administration Official' really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source?' Trump tweeted hours after the newspaper published a brutal opinion essay written by one of his staffers

 'If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!' An hour earlier, Trump tweeted a single word: 'TREASON?'  The op-ed describes the president as 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective' and says the author is part of an organized 'resistance' whose goal is 'to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting [President] Trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office

'During a White House event with a group of sheriffs, Trump called the op-ed 'gutless' and suggested the writer is 'probably

failing and probably here for all the wrong reasons.'Separately, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that the essay was 'pathetic, reckless, and selfish' and challenged the Times to 'issue an apology

''This is just another example of the liberal media's concerted effort to discredit the President,' she said

   Sanders said the unidentified writer chose 'to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States

He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people

This coward should do the right thing and resign.' But Trump focused equally on the 'dishonest media' – specifically the Times, a paper he claims is 'failing' despite its steady growth in subscribers since he took office

 'The New York Times is failing. If I weren't here, I believe The New York Times probably wouldn't even exist,' he said, later adding: 'They don't like Donald Trump and I don't like them because they're very dishonest people

' The Times described Wednesday's move as 'rare,' leaving open the possibility that its editorial board has masked the names of op-ed writers in the past

The identity of the mystery scribe, Washington's new 'Deep Throat,' will become the stuff of cocktail party chatter and Twitterati sleuths for weeks

But in a tweet the Times described the person as a male, saying 'he and others' are working together behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

 A Times spokeswoman later told Business Insider that the pronoun was a mistake that shouldn't be read as a tip-off

'Senior opinion editors know the identity of the official, as we pointed out in our editor's note,' Danielle Ha said in an email

'The tweet was drafted by someone who is not aware of the author's identity, including the gender, so the use of 'he' was an error

'Online chatter Wednesday quickly focused on Vice President Mike Pence as armchair language analysts focused on one line describing the late Sen

John McCain as 'a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue

'That word – lodestar – is a favorite of the vice president. But a senior White House official told DailyMail

com that suspicion is not focused on him or anyone in his office following a frank discussion among the VP's senior staff

The official suspects 'lodestar' was purposely included in the op-ed to throw journalists off the scent

RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Trump slams Woodward's book as a 'fraud' and labels him a

Trump says an assassination attempt on Syrian dictator. Share this article Share In an online introduction, the Times says the author's 'identity is known to us' and the person's 'job would be jeopardized by its disclosure

We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers

'The essay describes a 'quiet resistance' that by its nature has remained secret but isn't designed to bring Trump down – only to curb his worst impulses

 'Ours is not the popular 'resistance' of the left,' the author writes. 'We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous

''But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic

'So rather than risk the invocation of the Constitution's 25th Amendment, the prescribed route for removing a president, he boasts that 'we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until – one way or another – it's over

' Highlights: The most searing quotes in Bob Woodward's book WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT TRUMP:JOHN KELLY, CHIEF OF STAFF: 'He's an idiot

It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in Crazytown

I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had.'JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY:  'Fifth- or sixth-grader'REX TILLERSON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: 'He's a f***ing moron

'JOHN DOWN, FORMER PERSONAL ATTORNEY: 'F***ing liar.'JOHN DOWD ON HOW TRANSCRIPT OF A MUELLER INTERVIEW WOULD BE DESCRIBED BY FOREIGN LEADERS: 'I told you he was an idiot

I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?'GARY COHN, FORMER CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER: 'A professional liar'  ROB PORTER, FORMER STAFF SECRETARY WHO QUIT WHEN BOTH EX-WIVES ACCUSED HIM OF ABUSE: 'A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren't such good ideas

'WHAT THEY SAID TO EACH OTHER:STEVE BANNON TO IVANKA TRUMP: 'You're nothing but a f***ing staffer! You walk around this place and act like you're on charge, and you're not

You're on staff!'IVANKA TRUMP TO STEVE BANNON: 'I'm not a staffer!  I'll never be a staffer

I'm the first daughter and I'm never going to be a staffer!'JOHN KELLY TO GARY COHN:  'If that was me, I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his a** six different times

'DOWD TO ROBERT MUELLER: 'He just made something up. That's his nature.'     WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT THEM:BARACK OBAMA: 'Weak d**k' RUDY GIULIANI, PERSONAL ATTORNEY: 'Rudy, you're a baby

I've never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there

You're like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?' WILBUR ROSS, COMMERCE SECRETARY:  'I don't trust you

I don't want you doing any more negotiations. You're past your prime.'  H.R McMASTER, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: 'Dresses like a beer salesman

'REINCE PRIEBUS, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF: 'Like a little rat. He just scurries around

'AFTER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT FATAH AL-SISSI ASKED IF HE WAS GOING TO BE AROUND: 'Like a kick in the nuts

'BASHAR AL-ASSAD, SYRIAN DICTATOR: 'Let's f***ing kill him! Let's go in. Let's kill the f***ing lot of them

'The nameless internal Trump critic bashes the president's 'amorality,' and claims he has no 'first principles that guide his decision making' and no affinity for typical Republican ideals

  And Trump's 'impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective' management style, the writer claims, has brought disaster most of the time – and most Cabinet officials 'are working to insulate their operations from his whims

''Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back,' he continues

Unlike The Washington Post, the stated policy that guides the Times in its decisions about publishing op-eds does not exclude anonymous essays

The West Wing has been buffeted from one incoming missile to the next in recent days; the biggest recent salvo has been journalist Bob Woodward's book 'Fear,' which caught the Trump administration flat-footed when excerpts first emerged Tuesday

That book, too, reveals at least one episode of a senior Trump adviser going behind his back to prevent him from making a catastrophic mistake

Former chief economic advisor Gary Cohn, Woodward writes, once tried to prevent a trade disaster when Trump asked for paperwork pulling the U

S. out of a bilateral agreement with South Korea.He 'stole a letter off Trump's desk,' Woodward writes, specifically to prevent the president from signing it

And Cohn told others he did it 'to protect the country'. The president has branded Woodward's book a 'fraud' and a work of fiction

WHAT DOES THE 25TH AMENDMENT MEAN? AND CAN CABINET REALLY TOPPLE TRUMP? The anonymous New York Times op-ed by a 'senior Trump official' says that there were 'early whispers within the Cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment'

 The 25th Amendment deals with presidential authority in the event of death or removal from office, and was ratified in 1967

What does the 25th Amendment say?It is in four sections. The first states clearly that the vice president becomes president if the president dies or resigns (or is fired) - something which the original Constitution did not clearly state

Section 2 states that if the vice president dies or resigns - or is fired - both the House and the Senate have to confirm the new vice president

Section 3 makes clear that the president can temporarily give their powers to the vice president and reclaim them when capable of discharging them

But it is Section 4 which is at the heart of the op-ed's claims.It sets out how the president can be removed from office if he (or she) is incapacitated and does not leave of his own accord

It says that the vice president and 'a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide' must write to both the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House that 'the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office'

That act immediately makes the vice president the acting president.But it also allows the president to contest the claim, and if he does, the ball is back in the vice president's and executive's court

They have four days to repeat their claim to the Senate and the House that the president is incapable of holding office

Congress then has two days to convene - unless it is already in session - and within 21 days has to vote on whether the president is incapacitated

If it does, he is not removed from office, but his powers are all held by the acting president unless or until he resigns, or Congress votes that he is capable of holding office

What would happen to trigger the 25th Amendment?There is no precedent for its use so much of what could happen is unclear but the most likely scenario is that the vice president would need at least eight Cabinet members to back him in a claim that Trump is incapable

A total of 15 Cabinet members - not the whole Cabinet - are designated as 'principal officers of the executive departments'

So Mike Pence would need eight of those to agree. Currently the 15 are: Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State; Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury; James Mattis, Secretary of Defense; Jeff Sessions, Attorney General; Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior; Sunny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce; Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor; Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services;  Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation; Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy; Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education; Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security

If Pence and eight of the 15 agree, they will write a formal letter to both Orrin Hatch, the most senior senator, who is President pro tempore, and to Paul Ryan, the Speaker, declaring Trump incapacitated

That would make Pence acting president as soon as it was sent.What if Trump does not agree?If Trump claims he is capable of holding office, a crisis ensues: he has to write to Hatch and Ryan within four days - a move which would prompt Congress into up to 21 days of debate in both houses

At the end of the debate both houses have to reach two-thirds majorities agreeing with Pence and his gang of assassins for the acting president to keep office

If either house fails to reach the two-thirds majority, Trump resumes power.Is there another way of removing him?Yes - but only with Mike Pence on board

The amendment says that if the vice president and a majority of 'such other body as Congress may by law provide' agree the president is incapacitated, the process can be put in motion

That means that Congress could set up a commission of fitness or a committee to assess Trump's capacity and give it the legal power to enact the 25th Amendment's Section 4 alongside Pence

That would itself be fraught, but a Democratic House and Senate could create the body with a simple majority

Could Trump fire Pence if he rebelled?In principle, yes, he could. But the 25th Amendment has a poison pill - that both houses of Congress have to approve a new vice president

 If Pence and a Congressionally-created body seemed on the way to declaring Trump incapacitated, Trump would be up against the same Congress which created the body to get a new and loyal vice president confirmed

 Is there any precedent for this?Essentially, no. Section 3, the voluntary relinquishment of power, has been invoked by Jimmy Carter alone

Section 4 has never been invoked, although there are claims that Ronald Reagan's outgoing chief of staff Donald Regan told his successor, Howard Baker, that he should be prepared to invoke it because Reagan was' inattentive and inept' and 'lazy'

But the PBS documentary American Experience recounted how the new chief of staff and his team met Reagan and after watching him closely at their first meeting for signs of incapacity and decided he was in perfect command of himself