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It is not even factionalism. It is a step on the road towards tyranny. So, now, were back here again, the president facing a Second Senate impeachment trial, this time for inciting insurrection in his speech before the attack on the capitol. In just a moment, im going to talk to one of the impeachment managers this time around, representative madeline dean on how theyre preparing to make their case. This is all coming in the country on high alert due to what happened at the capitol with federal and local officials preparing for the potential of more violence from trump supporters. Were looking at individuals who may have an eye towards repeating that same kind of violence that we saw last week. I am very concerned about the safety of our officers. What we saw, you know, on television, in reference to the u. S. Capitol, was just horrific. And i speak to you as a Law Enforcement official and also a member of the military, the navy reserves, and so for me, it was difficult to watch. A defiant joe biden, meanwhile, continuing to prepare to take the oath of office as the 46th president of the United States as he continues to assemble the team that will, in fact, take over. Were going to lead with science and truth. We believe in both. Thats right. This is how were going to, god willing, overcome the pandemic and build our country back better than it was before. In a couple of minutes, were going to look at the biden agenda and what success and simple competency might be able to do to bring this country together. Also this hour, race and the attack on the capitol. Were going to look at troubling new reporting about the Capitol Police that underlines concerns that protesters at the capitol got far different treatment than those of black lives matter protests. This as members of congress raise questions about what theyre seeing from their own colleagues. People of color are not safe around any individual who, frankly, sympathizes with a white supremacist cause and it doesnt matter if youre been elected to congress or not. It is a complete abdication of any responsibility that we all have to protect and defend and be there for each other as human beings and certainly as americans. Well, were going to begin with a second impeachment of the president and some new reporting, of course, from nbc news as the senate awaits the article from the house. Theyre telling nbc news that some of the president s congressional allies will likely play a role in his Senate Impeachment trial, though the exact details are still being determined. The top names being discussed include some of the president s staunchest supporters during both impeachment proceedings, including republican congressman jim jordan, of course, not surprising at all there, of ohio. And then matt gaetz of florida. Joining me now is democratic congresswoman from pennsylvania, madeline dean. Thank you so much for joining us. Not surprising to hear this news of possibilities of jim jordan and matt gaetzs involvement considering their support throughout. Staunch support even after the storming of the capitol, really surprising to hear from those two individuals, to say the least, but not surprising to hear what their roles may be in the impeachment trial. As i played the sound of congressman adam schiff a little bit earlier during the first impeachment, of course, we know that that was based on the ukraine phone call with the ukrainian president , a quid pro quo, shall we say, and it seemed like the objective of congressman schiff at the time was to make sure the president didnt lie again, was to stop him in his tracks, to keep him from abusing the powers of the office of the presidency. What is your objective going into this impeachment . Well, just reminds me of Maya Angelous wise words and im paraphrasing. When someone reveals himself, believe him the first time. So adam schiffs words were absolutely chillingly directly on point. Look where we are. There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States against his oath and against his country than by the actions of donald trump inciting insurrection and an attack on the capitol at a time of a joint session with the Vice President in the building. Never been a greater betrayal. Its going to come down to mcconnell, some reporting is indicating. This from an nbc piece on mcconnells impeachment decision, writing, the outcome could come down to mcconnell, who has a deep reserve woir. He could lead reluctant senators to follow suit. What will be the appeal that is made, especially to an individual like leader mcconnell . The appeal is what we all witnessed and many of us went through. I was in the capitol. I was in the gallery, trapped there for a short while. The senators were under attack. We were under attack. That mob was there with the intention of assassinating the speaker, hanging the president s own Vice President , and hunting down members of Congress Like senator mcconnell. This is its such a tragedy for our country, and so i am certain senator mcconnell and all of the senators are reflecting on their duties as this moves forward. I hope for a conviction. I hope we are successful in putting the case before the American People. Of course, the American People witnessed it themselves. But i hope and i hope we get the votes of all of the congressmen, Mitch Mcconnell, importantly, among them. How much do you think the senators decisions on their votes will be based on the president s behavior and the behavior of his followers and his voters in the coming three days . I have no idea. I have not spoken to senators about that. We certainly saw the claims of some of the members of the house in terms of their vote to certify the election or regarding impeachment that they seemed to make it based on politics or based on they didnt feel safe, therefore they threw their vote the wrong way. Very strange rationale from members who are sworn to uphold their oath of office as well as the constitution and the law. I dont have any speculation on the senators. The senators are the greatest deliberative body on the planet, and i count on them to deliberate, to take the facts, the evidence and the constitution and the constitutional oath this president took when they cast their votes. What are your concerns if this president is acquitted yet again in the senate . Im not going to anticipate that. I know we have a job to do. And the reason we want to continue with this, regardless of if the senate fails to convict, and i am very hopeful that they will not. As i said, if there were ever a greater crime, i dont know what it would be against this country. But what my hope is, is that we are there, we clearly put forward the case, because what it also sets is deterrence. If we dont move forward with this trial in the senate, it will say to any future leader that you can go on a crime spree at the end of your term and you will not be held accountable. So, were doing it for deterrence, for constitutional accountability, for the protection of our constitution and our precious rule of law, for the protection of our government. Its so important we do it, and i hope that we will then also take the next step, not only convict, but prevent the president from ever Holding Office again. We saw that he didnt learn his lesson by impeachment number one. We dont want him to get another shot at serving. And what does it say, congresswoman, to the world that have seen the United States as a pillar of democracy for so long that you can have a president in charge who incites an insurrection, who tells his supporters to storm the capitol and who spreads lies about an election, the freest and fairest that we have seen in our nations history. Oh, i know that our partners around the world are heartbroken for us and for this attack on our democracy. We absolutely know that. But what i believe they are counting on is for us to do our constitutional duty, try and convict this president , bar him from ever Holding Office, and send up a signal to the world that we do value and hold precious our constitutional rule of law, our democracy and this republic. And of course, the world is watching as very importantly Vice President biden will become President Biden and Kamala Harris will become our Vice President. Now, there are two people who value our precious rule of law and our constitution and their own public service. Democratic congresswoman madeline dean from pennsylvania, thank you so much, congresswoman, and thanks for taking the time out on this saturday afternoon. Thank you for having me. I want to bring in our panel now. Absolutely. I want to bring in our panel now, amanda, former National Political director for hillary for america and ceo of code for america, alexi and carlos, former republican congressman from florida and an msnbc political analyst. Thanks for joining us on this. Amanda, as i was just talking to the congresswoman about the strategy, we really didnt get into the weeds of what they want to put out there, how they want to go about it, because at the end of the day, they do need to get 17 senators on board for this thing to vote in favor of impeaching the president after, in fact, he has left office. Its going to happen after the inauguration as we know about the timeline at this point. What do you think their focus needs to be going into the senate trial . Well, i do think these next couple of days really matter, and i hope we dont see any violence from here on out, but just the experience of holding inauguration like this, i have been there. This is supposed to be an exciting time, a time where the country comes together and we hear a leader talk about what their vision is. The feeling that you see now in watching our capitol under lockdown and thats what we have to do for an inauguration, i think, will give some real reflection to the senate as they think about how do you conduct business Going Forward from this moment on out . And thats a real question that i believe will be important as senators talk to each other and say, how do we kick this off in a way where we are sending a message that we have a lot of work to do together, and particularly in the senate. This was a very big deal in the senate, and you could see the body in realtime at the moment, many senators change in terms of what they were going to do and what they ended up doing on that senate floor, so i do believe these next three days are really important for these relationships to mold again. Theyre going to go through an experience in this inauguration like no other and that in itself, i am hopeful, will bring new conversations to the forefront and new ideas as how this Congress Moves forward. So, okay, alexi, two questions to you based on what amanda just talked about and the question that i asked the congresswoman a little bit earlier. From your reporting, what you are you hearing about the realistic prospects of this actually happening in the senate, of getting 17 senators on board to vote in favor of impeachment, a, and how much of their decisions, these republican senators, are going to be based on the next three to four days, both the president s conduct and the conduct of his voters and supporters . Yeah, yasmin, thank you for having me. Happy saturday, guys. I feel like a lot of this depends on the timing of when the house transmits the articles to the senate. A lot could happen over the next couple days that could change the dynamics and the calculus for some of these republican senators who may be on the fence. Im thinking if we see anything like what we saw on january 6th, that would surely put more focus over the edge because of how personal those attacks were, not just to members of the house but to the senate. And im thinking back to, you know, early last week when sources close to senator Mitch Mcconnell told axios that he was leaning toward convicting the president and then of course he came out with his own Public Statement to his republican colleagues saying he hadnt really made a decision either way, but that, of course, gives him wiggle room to whip the votes, to figure out how his members are feeling. I think a lot about democrats, house democrats, when President Trump had only, before the january 6th attack, had that call with the georgia secretary of state and a number of democrats were coming forward with different ideas, not just impeachment, to hold him accountable, things like censuring him and impeaching him, and im curious whether and how republican senators are considering different options to try to hold President Trump accountable that wouldnt just be convicting him but that could involve other things, whether thats barring him from running for office or senturing him. Congressman, want to bring you into the conversation here and want to read to you from an oped from the New York Times talking about, what i are there so few courageous senators, specifically pointing at someone like mitt romney who voted in favor of impeachment the first time around and why there arent more senators like that, and basically, this oped is saying that we need to have more senators at the end of their career. In it, they write this. To get more courageous senators, americans should elect more who are near the end of their political careers. This doesnt just mean old politicians. Todays average senator is, after all, over 60. It means senators with the stature to stand alone. Congressman, i got to say, its an interesting idea, but we talk a lot about how washington is completely and utterly disconnected from the voting population and their experiences. If you have a heck of a lot of senators like mitt romney who has a lot of money and really doesnt owe anybody anything, sure, he can make a decision thats not based on his constituency because he feels like its for the good of the nation, and he knows he can always dip into his own bank account but at the end of the day, does he really have any connection to the voting public . What do you make of this . Yeah, yasmin, this is a tough question, and its a tough nut to crack, so to speak. So, the reason why so few republicans have taken the step of calling this for what it is, of condemning the president , of voting to impeach him in the house, is because the president remains popular among republicans, especially republican primary voters in the country. And the main motivation for most representatives and senators is to get reelected. Now, what these members should consider is that rather than being driven by fear of donald trump and what he may do in primaries to punish certain people, they should be driven, if by fear at all, by fear of what damage is being done to our democracy. I mean, we came very close but theyve never a massive constitutional crisis. Yeah, but i dont mean to cut you off. And of course twitter is going to go crazy because they hate when i cut my guests off, but theyve never done it before. They have never stepped up and said, we have to stand up for our democracy. None of these senators have ever done that. Why would they do it now . Because their lives were under threat . Because it affected them personally . And then what does that say . The trend is certainly good. We had zero republicans voting for impeachment about a year ago. Now we had ten. I know its not a lot when you consider that there are over 200 republicans in the house, but still, it was the most bipartisan modern impeachment out of the house, and now, in the senate, this development where Mitch Mcconnell is saying that he could vote for impeachment, that is significant, yasmin. Mitch mcconnell, if you think about it, has put himself in a very powerful position. Mitch mcconnells essentially going to decide whether or not donald trump gets convicted, and Mitch Mcconnell knows well see what he does, but for sure, Mitch Mcconnell knows that donald trump is bad for the Republican Party and dangerous for this country. Mitch mcconnell putting himself in a powerful position . Thats weird. Amanda, lets talk about looking ahead here and the future. And the reason why i want to is because i think its this incredibly important time in which were making the transition to the Biden Administration and were talking about how to bring americans together when they are, oh, so divided, right, and could it be kind of the recovery of the economy, you know, tackling covid, tackling the pandemic, less lives lost. I want to read for you from the Washington Post Editorial Board op ed on bidens plan and they write this. What the country needs soon is a plan to alleviate hardship and support Economic Activity in the period between the dismal shortterm and the promising medium term. The proposal president elect joe biden unveiled on thursday could build that kind of a bridge and ron klain released a statement, the president elects chief of staff, essentially saying, talking about and laying out the hard road ahead and what they, in fact, need to tackle and in a sense laying out a plan of how theyre going to go about tackling that. But nonetheless, do you think this is a bridge towards unity . If a Biden Administration is able to help recover an economy, save lives, send out more relief money to americans across this country, that kind of help quell things, quiet things . Allow people to kind of take in the change in washington . Absolutely. I think people need to see Government Works again and government cares about them. Ill say this. Theres been a lot of work done with the fed from the Great Recession, some of the Lessons Learned during the Great Recession is how do you make sure the markets sustain themselves and weve seen the fed do quite a bit of that which is why youve seen the markets be okay but what hasnt been seen is the vast numbers of people who are losing their jobs, who are trying to figure out how to put food on their table, money in their pocket, and keep going. What you see in this stimulus plan or in this relief plan is finally youre beginning to see a plan that addresses those folks who might have been invisible in this period of time but i got to tell you, theyre hurting quite a bit. Were seeing it in our programs at code for america that address food stamps. Were seeing the major spikes in unemployment. Were seeing what people are trying to do to get cash assistance. And finally, we have a program in front of us that speaks to that, to talk about Child Poverty cut in half is a huge its a huge win for our country, not the republicans or democrats, but people all across america that are hurting and we still have a long road to go, and i am hopeful that what ron klain is putting out there is truth and heart as we think about what the days and weeks and months ahead of us are. Amanda, alexi, congressman, thank you all, guys, really appreciate it. Great to see you on this saturday afternoon. Coming up, everybody, america on alert, State Capitols across the country are bracing for possible riots ahead of inauguration day. Up next, were going to go live to california where a fence now surrounds the Capitol Building and the National Guard is in place. Well be right back. Well rbeight back. At philadet makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. You need only the freshest milk and cream. That one and the worlds best, and possibly only, schmelier. Philadelphia. Schmear perfection. Nicorette knows, quitting smoking is hard. You get advice like try hypnosis. Or. Quit cold turkey. Kidding me . instead, start small. With nicorette. Which can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette welcome back, everybody. Law enforcement agencies are on high alert for increased threats of violence following last weeks insurrection at the capitol that, of course, is triggering a huge wave of new security measures around this country, including in california as well. With that, i want to go to jake ward, whos standing by for us in sacramento. Jake, good to see you. Talk us through it. How are Law Enforcement officials there fortifying the capitol from your standpoint . Reporter yasmin, this is a very lockeddown capitol complex. For blocks in every direction from where i am standing, you can see the 1,000 National Guard personnel that have been deployed here. They are working with california Highway Patrol to basically lock down this area. Chp is on tactical alert and you can see them arrayed everywhere around me. But as you know, the real tension, the real preparations seem to be happening on this larger scale on social media on all of the online chatter that were monitoring at this hour in preparation for what might come tomorrow. Hey, jake, talk to us about facebook. I know that they are also joining an effort to curtail violence ahead of this inauguration. Buzzfeed news is reporting that the social media giant is going to pause advertisements for gun accessories and military gear as well. Tell us more about what you know. Reporter you know, it is such a fascinating reflection of where we are at. You know, social media, the essence of facebook as an advertising platform, is the idea, yasmin, that you and i, if we showed an interest in workout gear and organic food, it might also assume were interested in Something Like parenting. The algorithm knows our interests. Well, Buzzfeed News found that, in fact, people who were engaging with news content about the coup and usergenerated content would assume to be also interested in weapon accessories, holsters, all the sorts of things that goes with a paramilitary interest. Well, this reporting from Buzzfeed News reported that, and then yesterday, attorneys general from four states determined that they were going to send a letter in and say the microtargeting of this is unacceptable. Well, this morning, facebook announced that it would, in fact, be putting a pause on all advertising around weapon and gun accessories until after the inauguration. I think that, you know, algorithms can always tell us a little bit about ourselves. They are the essence of the Business Model of Something Like facebook, and to see that shut down in advance of this inauguration tells us something about where were at, yasmin. All right, jake ward for us. Good to see you, jake. Thank you. Coming up, everybody, allegations of racism within the Capitol Police force, a propublica report showing since 2001 hundreds of black officers in the department have sued for racial discrimination. Were also going to dive into the discrepancies between the treatment of the capitol hill rioters versus black lives matter protesters and the evidence that is there behind it. Thats next. Itis. And take. It. On. With rinvoq. Rinvoq a oncedaily pill can dramatically improve symptoms. 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These people these people these people yo, yo, hes one person. Were thousands. More than one week since the deadly insurrection at the capitol, there are serious questions about whether some Police Officers there to protect, in fact, helped protrump rioters breach and destroy the building. Since january 6th, several capitol officers have been suspended and more than a dozen others are currently under internal investigation for suspected involvement with or support for the deadly riot. According to new reporting from the Washington Post, two members of the protrump mob who entered the Capitol Building told the fbi that an officer standing guard shook their hands, admitted defeat, telling them, quote, its your house now, and even gave one of them a partial hug. One of those rioters also told the fbi that he thought the officer was acting out of fear. The attack is not only raised questions over the extent of white supremacist infiltration to the Capitol Hill Police force but thrust the forces lengthy history of racism and treatment of black officers into the spotlight. Since 2001, more than 250 black officers have sued the Capitol Police department for racial discrimination. 250. Some of those former officers telling propublica that its unsurprising that a violent, mostly white mob was able to storm the building, drawing a direct line between racism in the force and the events that unfolded that day. I want to bring in my panel to discuss all of this. Joining me now is judith, former Montgomery Police captain and a founder of the black police experience, sonia pruitt and New York Times contributing opinion writer. Welcome to you guys. Thanks for joining us on this. Judith, i want to start with you on this one because weve talked about the stark contrast in the response to the capitol hill storming and the black lives matter protests. But there is clear evidence that we have seen of explicit racism and bias within the police force. Why has this not been addressed, specifically within the Capitol Police . Oh, well, this is nothing new, right . Like, we have a history in this country of police who are White Supremacists, and so anyone who is shocked or surprised is either has amnesia or has dismissed history or has been miseducated because if we look at our history, police and Law Enforcement were started as part of slave patrols to make sure that enslaved people were captured. Then, if we move through reconstruction, slavery, and through jim crow and the civil rights movement, racists and White Supremacists were always part of Police Departments, including seeing photos of some Law Enforcement standing at public lynchings, and so now, here we are in the midst of an insurrection, and so i where we see Police Participating in it, so we shouldnt be shocked, and we shouldnt say that they infiltrated. It is that they have always been part of the fabric of the apparatus of Law Enforcement in this country. So, captain pruitt, you have retired lieutenant frank adams who has said that he has endured constant discrimination, blaming congress for not listening to black members of the force, saying that they ignore racism. We have talked a lot about Police Brutality, especially towards young black men and women in this country, but we dont address discrimination and racism inside of the police force. How do you go about addressing both of those and understanding that they can simultaneously exist . Well, i would like to augment what my sister judith just said. Just imagine this, though. If bias and discrimination against black officers, in particular, is happening inside of Police Departments, then of course officers are going to feel comfortable going out on the road, going out in the streets, going out into our communities and acting in the exact same way. The black community is very familiar with aggression and violence that comes with the oppression of our black bodies and our minds, and so look at how the term law and order is being used as this sort of dog whistle for president ial candidates, for instance. Democrat and republican. Nixon and clinton. Its a rallying cry for White Supremacy and if you have Police Officers who are sympathizers, okay, then it would follow that White Supremacy and White Nationalism cannot really exist and be successful without the participation of these officers. So, you have this new report, and we talked about it a little bit earlier in the show in the 3 00 p. M. Hour with janelle, a reporter from nbc, who reported on a story in which so many of the folks that are being arrested, the people, the rioters that are being arrested were from military, that you had Law Enforcement officers, former Law Enforcement officers. I spoke to a former Law Enforcement officer who now identifies himself as militia. These are people that are on board with this rightwing extremist mentality with White Supremacists and so on and so forth, and they were part of the storming of the capitol. If you are a black or brown kid watching this happen, what are you supposed to think . When you realize you have members of the military, people that are supposed to serve and protect members of the police force, people that are supposed to serve and protect, and you may already have, you know, reservations about being able to trust these people, but then seeing them being involved in the storming of the capitol, what are you supposed to make of it . Youre supposed to listen to rage against the machine, who called it 25 years ago and said, some of those who workforces are the same who burn crosses. This is White Supremacy. Were witnessing the audacity of caucacity where we see a mostly white mob and literally Law Enforcement are taking selfies with them, are helping them, are part and parcel of this violent mob that wants to disrupt the election, that wants to help donald trump in his violent coup and what it shows you, if youre a black or brown person, is Law Enforcement is there to protect and serve whiteness, but if youre a black and brown in this country, youre on your own. In fact, if youre just trying to protest, peacefully, against Police Officers killing black and brown bodies in this country, theyre going to unleash hell on you. And we just saw in the first week of june, they literally brought batons, tear gas, rubber bullets. They beat up black and brown people and white allies who were on the streets saying, please stop killing us, we are american citizens who want equal standards but if youre white and youre angry and you have economic anxiety and want to literally take part in a violent insurrection, guess what . Not only will we take selfies with you, well join you and be part of the mob to intimidate the rest of you to stay in line because this is a white mans country, and you Better Believe were not going to give up power easily. We have to call it out and we have to confront it and we have to clean it up. Can i add to that, yasmin . Yes, please, please. I also think that what black and brown young people and some of us who are not very young think in this moment is exactly what people have been saying in the streets during this time, when theyre protesting to protect black lives, which is to divest from Law Enforcement. Because we cannot continue to have Law Enforcement in this country that not only has disparate way of treating us but then also want to partake in overthrowing the government. Like, it calls into question the legitimacy of Law Enforcement, and so we shouldnt be surprised when people with saying its time to divest. Its time to defund. And that we need something that is drastically different to protect us. Even when youre hearing most of the time when folks are saying, defund the police, what they mean more is just take some money away from the police and put it more towards programs that actually need it like the homeless system here in new york city that gets a fraction of what the Police Department here in new york city actually operates on. Captain pruitt, i wonder, you know, we talked about some of the programs that then attorney general eric holder put in place in order to deal with the problems inside with racism inside of Police Departments and Police Brutality towards black and brown men and women in this country, and some of it was rooting out racism, right . Racial sensitivity training. Community policing. So on and so forth. The idea, and the understanding is, will the Biden Administration put these types of programs back into place to address what is happening with Police Departments across this country . Do you think programs like that work . Im going to probably be a little bit controversial here. Policy and training are destroyed by the police blue culture. You can train someone all you want to. If they dont wish to embrace it, its not going to work. We have implicit bias training. Well, this bias is not implicit. It is complicit, and its explicit. So, how do you how do you divest yourself of that kind of person in your Police Department . First of all, they should never be hired but there are no mechanisms in place to keep that from happening, at least not nationwide. You cannot heal without acknowledgment and you cant have a reckoning without accountability. So, its great. We can have another commission, and we can have another task force. We have all of the answers about whats wrong, what we lack is commitment in this country, and i mean commitment on all levels from the highest of the politicians right down to Law Enforcement leadership and local politicians. Where is the commitment . The people are telling Police Departments and Law Enforcement this is what we want, and that is who Law Enforcement works for and they should listen. Yasmin, can i add Something Real quick . Accountablebility. Yes. Fbi did a report, released over a decade ago that said White Supremacists have enfiltrated Law Enforcement throughout the country. So, why have we waited ten years . People of color were whining and complaining thats what they said. Weve been talking about this for years. How come they ignored black officers who were complaining about racism against that were facing against their own peers . And so, we have to step up, and when everyone says Blue Lives Matter, a cop was killed. Where is Blue Lives Matter when a white mob kills a cop . So enough of this. Lets confront it. Lets call it out. Lets do an audit and lets clean up house. Such a good conversation once again. Thank you guys. Judith browne, sonia pruitt, really appreciate it. This news cycle has been dominated by the insurrection at the capitol and its aftermath but up next, some important stories that you may have missed in the run. Stay with us. S that you may havd in the run stay with us its a reason to come together. Its a taste of something good. A taste we all could use right now. So lets make the most of it. And make every sandwich count. 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