Chris Spyrou

One person in that presidential line of succession is designated the survivor and that they are actually kept out of negotiations.

whatever the event is and that they are usually kept out of Washington itself.

They might go to one of the underground bunkers that the U.S.

government maintains around Washington for what are called continuity of government purposes.

Both of these hollowed out mountains could support about 1,000 personnel operating underground for a period of up to a month at a time.

So the designated survivor might go to one of those facilities.

They might go to a different city.

Dan Glickman, who was the secretary of agriculture and was the designated survivor once or twice during the Clinton years, one time he just went up and had dinner with his daughter in New York.

And during that sort of brief window where the protocol is active, there's a whole security bubble around that official.

They have a copy of the nuclear football, the so-called nuclear war plans that they might be called upon to execute.

And then the moment the event is over, that whole security bubble disappears.

The nuclear football goes back into a safe, and Dan Glickman –

remembers that it all happened so quickly in his case that he was standing outside trying to hail a taxi in the rain by the end of dinner.

Wow.

There might be some people listening who might recall those famous images of JFK's vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, being sworn in just hours after his assassination.

Jackie Kennedy standing there in her bloodstained clothes.

That was historic for a number of reasons.

If something similar were to happen at one of these events, and let's just say the Secret Service does not fulfill their role as planned, would we be seeing something similar happen where JD Vance would be sworn in that immediately?

I know you mentioned that he's the next one in the line of succession.

Would that be happening so quickly today?