Proposed secondary attack on the u. S. Capitol and State Capitol buildings on january 17, 2021. Thats actually an emerging threat. We have two experts standing by later in this hour to brief us on that very threat. It turns out all it took for trump to get banned from twitter and facebook and instagram was his role in inciting the looting and desecration of our capitol. Other protrump groups gathered at statehouses across the country threatening state officials along the way. Meanwhile the momentum is gaining speed to make trump the first president to be impeached twice. Such a thing would settle any argument about historys worst president. Speaker nancy pelosi has thrown down the gauntlet in this area telling trump to resign or face a second impeachment or removal via the 25th amendment. She drew that line in the sand after meeting with her caucus for nearly four hours and after talking with joint chiefs of staff, chairman general mark milly, about making sure steps are in place to keep trump frump launching military hostilities including but not limited to a nuclear strike. The speaker made the case for action against trump in an interview with 60 minutes. The person running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. And with only a number of days until we can be protected from him. But he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. Three house democrats, members of the Speakers Team have already drafted the articles of impeachment titled incitement of insurrection. Nbc news reporting it could be introduced as early as monday. The wording here includes this, quote, the president threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperilled a coordinate branch of government. He thereby betrayed his trust as president. The white house had this response today. Quote, as President Trump said yesterday this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. A politically motivated impeachment against a president with 12 days remaining in his term will only serve to further divide our great country. Well, this afternoon president elect joe biden was asked if he backed this push for impeachment. I thought for a long, long time that President Trump wasnt fit to hold a job. Thats why i ran. Im focused on the virus, the vaccine and economic growth. What the congress decides to do is for them to decide. Meanwhile republican senator ben sasse of and since this may happen again lets not pause to lets pause to point out he has been a loyal trump vote in the u. S. Senate all these years. He now says hes open to looking at impeaching donald trump. The house if they come together and have a process, i will definitely consider whatever articles they might move. I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. Lisa murkowski of alaska now the first republican senator officially to call on trump to step down. In an interview with her hometown Anchorage Daily News she said, quote, i want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage. He doesnt want to stay there. He only wants to stay there for the title. He only wants to stay there for his ego. She went onto question her own membership in what has become the party of trump. Meanwhile with the inauguration just 12 days away, trump today announced he will not be attending the inauguration. Joe biden seemed to be fine with that decision. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on earlier you said you hoped he would show up only in a sense it was valuable to send a signal to the world about the transfer of power. Because hes clearly demonstrated, hes exceeded even my own worst notions about him. Hes been an embarrassment to the country. What about the Vice President mike pence . Hes welcome. And with that lets bring in our lead off guests on this friday night, susan page, veteran journalist, best selling author, usa today Washington Bureau chief. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. And john meacham, pulitzer prizewinning author, the professor on the american presidency at vanderbilt, unofficial advisor to the president elect, and once again relevant to this conversation both peter and john are among the authors of the book, impeachment and american history. Here we are again. Well, susan, you get the big starting question tonight, the task of summing up as a long time washingtonian, as a citizen of this country how it felt to watch what transpired in the capitol this week. And further, and this may call for speculation, whats the real chance this guy not serving out his term . You know, ive covered six president s. Ive seen assassination attempts, launches of war, disputed elections, impeachments two of them already. But ive never seen anything as shocking as what we saw on wednesday. Marauders rushing through the congress, some of them armed carrying ties apparently to take hostages while members of congress ive never seen anything like it. It was distressing and historic and will have ramifications for i think a very long time for our democracy. I think at this point its going to be hard to keep the house of representatives from impeaching President Trump probably toward the end of next week. I think theres a feeling that its not just to remove him from office. Hes only got 12 more days left. Its to make a point that his role in this was simply unacceptable and deserves historys rebuke. Peter baker, there are real nixonian concerns about the president s mental state, about the number of departures from the circle immediately around him. So the question can fairly be asked. Whos going to be left around him to watch him in the west wing . Yeah, its a great question. There was such an exodus this week of top aides and Administration Officials and officers in the immediate aftermath of the mob that you began to wonder who would be left. The white house seemed to be emptying out. That caused a lot of consternation among republicans and even some democrats who were worried that in fact as tempting as it was for people to leave in protest there was value in sticking it out these final two weeks just to watch the store, if you will. To make sure government is simply running if nothing else and perhaps to serve as some sort of a break on any further erratic action by the president. You had people like i talked this week to former secretary of state rice and she was concerned the National Security team would not disappear with two weeks left because who knows what mischief could be caused by our adversaries overseas thinking were in a period of instability. Weve not only had this devastating really unprecedented attack on the symbol of our democracy, you also have sort of a melt down on the other end of pennsylvania avenue in the white house where nobodys quite sure whos running the government. And if so, what will happen in these next last 12 days. John meacham, weve been looking to talk to you this week. Though, theres no joy in asking this next question, and that is i want to measure your level of sadness, your level of worry for our country as you along with the rest of us watched these rioters in, you know, cubellas Bass Pro Shops and red hats as susan mentioned a lot of them armed with zip ties. Said to be on the look out for the sitting Vice President and the speaker. Hoisting the Confederate Flag inside the u. S. Capitol, having setup a noose on Capitol Grounds in the parking lot. The social contract is if not broken, frayed. And this is the fullest manifestation of that over the last five years. It has been unspooling. You have done this every day for xnumber of days telling this story, chronicling this flight from fact, flight from evidence, flight from truth however inconvenient to a selfserving vision of reality where power is more important than principle. And the mob which was figurative until wednesday has become the literal Guiding Force in the republic. And, you know, one way to think about civilizational structures is we have a state of nature the state of nature is the war of all against all. The point of civilization is to enter into a social contract where we cede certain rights in exchange for certain protections. The entire notion of how we organize ourselves as nonhobsian entities is really under assault. And its not hyperbolic. Were beyond hyperbole if thats possible. And again without being too sentimental, it was heart breaking to watch that. And it was particularly heart breaking because its there seemed to be so little resistance. It seemed they felt entitled to do what they did. They felt empowered to do what they did. Soldiers have died, protesters have bled in search of a more perfect union, in search of a democratic world where the values of faith, hope and charity would have at least a fighting chance against our appetites and our ambitions. Thats one of the points of america. And its as disheartening and dispiriting and disturbing a moment as certainly in my lifetime with the possible exception of the attacks and the murder of innocents on september 11th. Well, susan, having heard john lay out the stakes, can you explain the remaining trumpers in the house and senate . When you look at this presidency one way, he leaves office, the democrats control the white house, the house and the senate. What explains the lingering allure of trumpism and trump loyalty . Well, one factor is that he has simply remade the Republican Party in his image. This is different Republican Party than it was five years ago before he came on the scene. And even now in the wake of this weeks terrible news, 77 of republicans say they approve of the job that President Trump is doing. Thats in a new pbs maris poll that came out today. He continues to have standing in the gop even though weve seen some erosion from some members, republican members of congress and some Business Leaders and others. I think that the supporters of President Trump continue to believe he speaks to them, he stands up for them, and hes telling them the truth when everybody else is lying to them. And that is perhaps one of the Biggest Challenges that joe biden is going to face when he takes office in just 12 days. Peter baker, your colleagues at the paper report this tonight. Behind closed doors, he, donald trump, made clear he would not resign. And he expressed regret about releasing that video on thursday committing to a peaceful transition of power and condemning the violence at the capitol that he had egged on a day before. In fa in fact, in his last video he called the rioters special and laid out his love for them. Peter, lay out how you view his presidency, and when those canons sound at the conclusion of the oath on the 20th of january, a few minutes past noon. Theyre usually audible throughout washington. Is this guy going to be an ogolf course in florida . Well, he will not be here to hear the canons. He doesnt plan to attend the inauguration of joe biden, and skr joe biden as you obviously showed is not that upset about it. Its the first time, by the way, a sitting president has boycotted in effect or skipped the swearing in of his successor since Andrew Johnson which john meacham wrote about in our book on impeachment. Hes an impeached parallel, too, and i suppose theres a certain sin energy there. At this point his discussion to leave washington altogether, to leave the white house january 19th, the day before the inauguration so he wont even be here when the bidens are moving in. And i think between now and then we dont know exactly whats going to happen. Theres talk of him going to texas in this coming week to the border to highlight his immigration policies. Hes making another video to promote the accomplishments of his administration as he sees them. If you talk to people who work there both currently and who have left in recent days theres such a demoralized spirit. People who gave years of their lif to this president and felt completely betrayed. This is such a defining failure on the part of this president no matter what you thought of before, no matter what good things you thought he might have did, they seem to be overwhelmed and overshadowed and really wiped out for the sake of history by this event this week if this is how hes going to be going down in history. Its been a crushing week, and i think the one consistent note you hear from most people in washington except for blood relatives and most partisan people is you cant wait for january 20th for this to be over. Yeah, this was a legacy event, no question about it. Hey, john, David Leonhart of the New York Times as i like to say pulled a meacham this morning. In the four months between Franklin Roosevelts election and his 1933 inauguration much of the world descended into chaos. The Parliament Building burned, japan quit the league of nations. In the u. S. Hundreds of banks shutdown, lynches surged in the south, the country numb and nearly broken anxiously awaited deliv deliverance as David Kennedy wrote in his pulitzer prizewinning history of the era. This is usually your role on this broadcast and others on this network to tell us, to reassure us, to remind us only that things have been worst worse in the past. Is that still your view . Well, not necessarily theyve been worse but that theyve been bad and weve come through it. And weve come through it because just enough of us were devoted to this notion that, in fact, we are stronger together as a whole as opposed to seeing politics as this perpetual clash of interests. Franklin roosevelt the night he took the oath on the east front of the capitol, he went back to the white house and like a good epa episcopalian he was having a glass of whiskey and going to bed. If you succeed in this youll go down as greatest president and if you fail youll go down as our worst. And fdr looked at him and said if you fail, ill be our last. I think that the reaction is a good signin terms of the horror the country seems to be addressing this moment. But heres the thing with all respect to my lane which i love. To some extent the more important question tonight and in the coming season is less about how history will view whats happened this week and more about the unfolding story of what do people who decided to make their peace with donald trump not once but twice in two national elections, millions upon millions of people, what do they do now . Are we so desensitized to genuinely transformative Public Events that somehow or other in the span of a couple of days, couple of weeks this is going to be, well, maybe the liberals were exaggerating, or you could just see how sort of that part of the political swamp and forest will try to change the perception of this. But this was a fundamental reality. And if a country does not begin again to see that politics is about the mediation of differences and the resolution of problems for a given period of time and not a shermanesque arena for total constant warfare, then this is just a chapter in an unfolding story. Its not the last chapter. And i think thats what all of us as citizens and not as journalist, not as historians, as citizens we have to think about is do we want to live in a world where politics is so consuming and so divisive and so ultimately depleting that it keeps us from addressing things like, oh, i dont know, a Global Pandemic that killed 4,000 people today in america . This isnt this is not an academic conversation. This isnt something youre doing to fill your broadcast. We are facing a deadly virus, a rise in political violence. There are people who are suffering who like the Great Depression are seeing their future slip away, their inability to provide for their families. This isnt paintball. This isnt prowrestling. This isnt fundraising texts. These are people breaking into the capitol with guns killing a Police Officer and distractsing the republic from addressing fundamental questions about the health, safety and security of millions of people. John, thank you for that. Thank you for setting our thinking right as we say farewell to what was a pretty awful week. Susan page, peter baker, john meacham, were in your debt for helping us start off our broadcast on this friday night. Thank you. Coming up, well go behind the curtain. We will sadly dive into the murk of the dark web and find out what the rioters who stormed the capitol are saying now and what they could do next. And later, they were once the president s greatest defenders. Some of them outright sold their souls and their seats in congress to donald trump. But now begins the great migration. As they start to distance themselves from their president. The the 11th hour is just getting under way on this friday night as we bring this consequential week to an end. We bring this cl week to an end because i can still make my own insulin. And trulicity activates my body to release it like its supposed to. Trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. Its not insulin. And i only need to take it once a week. 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Doj says Richard Barnett of arkansas, the man with his feet up on the desk in the speakers office, hes been arrested, faces several charges including violent entry, theft to public property. Nbc news reporting the extremists made little secret of their plans online. Quote, users talked for weeks about a siege of the capitol. Some talking about it like a forgone conclusion. Others simply debated how violent the uprising should be and if police should be exempt. Well, for more were happy to welcome to the broadcast gen goldbeck, an expert in malicious online behavior and a professor for information studies university of maryland. We welcome back clint watts. Also the author of the recent book messing with the enemy, siving in a social media world of hackers writerrorists, russi and fake news. How far in advance did you see this coming . Even i saw some of the storm the capitol memes. Some of them were emblazoned on the tshirts of the rioters while they were in the capitol. Thats right. We saw this for weeks leading up to january 6. We knew this march was going to happen, and it wasnt just in the dark web in these kind of not very popular forums. It was on twitter, on facebook, on instagram that we saw people planning to attend this march talking about their plans to storm the capitol. And as you led with in this segment talking about how many people they were going to kill and how it was going to happen. So its something i think a lot of us saw and expected i dont know we expected it to actually make it in but certainly that they were going to try. And clint, will they all in your view and given your experience with the fbi, will they all be found and tried . Yes, brian. One of the great ironies about the antimask movement it leaves them highly vulnerable to being detected with face recognition or followed up with just Surveillance Footage across the country. I think thats what you saw today not just from the fbi internally. Theyve got great mechanisms to do this. They do this all the time. But you also have a crowd Source Community thats very angry online combing through all these pictures because the perpetrators were up loading them onto social media, so theyre actually putting evidence about their own crimes, which is from an investigators perspective very unusual but also quite fortunate you can track a lot of these people down. So i think in the coming weeks you will see a continuous stream of arrests that continue. The big thing is a lot of these folks scattered afterwards, went back to their hometowns in many different states so it will take a long time to get all these i. D. S and trace these people out. Now it gets confusing because some online in the maga crowd have seemingly turned against their leader, their president. Theyre shocked apparently to find out hes only going to serve one term. So does that militarize the movement somehow absent the founder . Were really seeing a fracturing right now just in the last day or so since trump gave his speech yesterday. Theres a big feeling of betrayal that they have put the lives and really committed and all of a sudden hes going to go away. A lot of the people at the capitol on the 6th are believers in the qanon conspiracy theory. Their line has been trust the plan. They thought there was a secret plan going to happen. And now its kind of dawning on them thats not something thats going to come through. And theyre also seeing the movement itself turning on them with a lot of the acts at the capitol being attributed to antifa. I think what they want said was to be embraced as people defending their country and now the president is sort of denouncing them and within the movement theyre being denied and saying it was actually somebody else. So i think thats making a lot of them less enthusiastic about the action they had been really committed to up until wednesday. 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And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. Do you think you need to change any of the planning for your inauguration as a result of this . Totally different entity is in charge of the inauguration that was in charge of protecting the capitol, the secret service. I have great confidence in their ability to make sure that the inauguration goes off, goes off safely and goes off without a hitch. Now, to the point the president elect was making today, security concerns about the inauguration should be somewhat lessened because it will be declared a National Security special event. That means tons of law enforcement, lots of eyes in the sky from satellites to drones to hilos. Still with us jen golbeck and clint watts. And professor, back to you again. Despite the fact some of the rioters have been disincentivized in part politically because republicans were eager to put the blame on antifa, some are still incentivized. Talk about these planned events. One was mentioned in a twitter statement tonight, a gathering on the 17th. Theres a gathering on the 19th. What is the plan and among who . So on the 17th weve seen something planned from before wednesday for armed groups, and it comes from some militia groups and some Second Amendment enthusiasts to march both on the federal capitol in d. C. But also on State Capitols. So gatherings and marches, the point being to show up armed for those. Now theyve come out since the 6th and said were not going to do what was done on the 6th, but they are really explicitly planning to show up with guns, so thats something to be concerned about. The 19th and the 20th are much more the kind of elvmt that we saw on the 6th. Theyre really angry about the election. They feel it was stolen. Theyre also planning in these forums to show up armed, and so i think if that manifests and things can really change a lot in the, you know, couple of weeks we have going, what were going to see a much smaller contingent but one thats angrier and potentially prepared for violence. We certainly see that in the tweets where theres angolog like im willing to lay down my life for this. If this is what it comes to im going to joy my last cup of coffee today before i get ready to do this. So i think the fbi is going to look into who these people are but we also need to Pay Attention to those actions going on at State Capitols where theres plans to carry out these kinds of activities. Clint, i always note your unit flags on the wall behind you starting at your days from west point onto your days at the army and the fbi. You have seen terrorism beyond our borders. How does it look to you within this country legitimized by the leader . Brian, its remarkable. If you rewound 10 years, essentially inciting people to do attacks in the u. S. Homeland, telling people to attack symbolic targets, maybe the capitol. Possibly trying to hit soft targets in the united states. If i went into the online forums today i would see the same thing being said by domestic actors, militia groups, extremist groups, accelerationest terrorists who want to speed up a second civil war. And the tipping and queuing they look for is from the president. President trumps words carry more in that space than anyone elses. And i think your point even before the commercial break what you were talking about what the future looks like is one thing interesting is the president is what united many groups over the last several years. One of my colleagues made an excellent piece a couple years back you have sovereign citizen type groups. You have just people that want to go against more establishment government all showing up under one leader, and thats President Trump. He really binds them together. So i think moving forward what you do have a problem with now is many of these people that perpetrated these attacks at the capitol, they are now heroes in their community. As extreme as they are, they will be seen as heroes. And once they get that just bite of fame theyre not in jail, i think thats something to worry about particularly as we move into the summer of fall of this coming year. Glad you added the caveat of, if theyre not in jail. Our thanks for coming on tonight and explaining all of this to us and our audience, professor jen golbeck and clint watts. Coming up for us, one of our next guests coined the phrase everything trump touches dies. He wrote a book with that title. The other said those who stay with trump should be forced to stay on the bus until the end. Rick wilson along with Baratunde Thurston when we come back. Bare thurston when we come back but theres only one way to become one. By going all in. The new lexus is. 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You know it was rigged Trump Supporters none too pleased with Lindsey Grahams 11th hour decision to go ahead and uphold the results of our election. All it took for graham to change his mind was the looting and desecration of the capitol. And that was all it took for a leading trump supplicant like graham to come under fire from the base as if four years of boot licking gets you nothing in this day and age. Back with us again tonight Baratunde Thurston, author, activist, producer for the daily show with thev noah. And rick wilson, long time republican strategist whos since left the party. Hes an author and happens to be the cofounder of the lincoln project. Gentlemen, welcome to you both. Rick, i have to begin with you because of twitters decision tonight to kick off donald trump. Does trump without twitter now mean republicans without fear, meaning is rob portman going to emerge from the Witness Protection Program . Is nikki haley going to say she never did like trump . Brian, in the last five years i cannot tell you the number of times have said to me i hate him, hes destroying the country. Well, folks, now your excuses are expired. He does not have a twitter account. The bull horn is broken, the platform is shattered. He cant strike you down if you say whats in your hearts. I encourage my former republican friends to step out of the darkness now. Youve got that moment. Baratunde, its good to see you. Weve already seen some legacy repair work by lindsey graham. Weve already seen some legacy repair work by the likes of pence, mcconnell. Will it work any of it . I doubt it. I understand their fear, and i want to thank you for having me back. I wore a sweater tonight because America Needs a nice, big warm hug after the violent week we barely survived. So congrats, everyone, to making it to friday just so. Donald trump is not merely a president or a politician or a powerful figure. He has become a cult leader, and there are millions and millions of people who have bought into the deception hes wrought, that the Republican Party has amplified, right wing media has empowered and enabled with social media because it was profitable to do so. There was profit in serving up those lies and now people are living with it consequences of those lies. Many of us knew it years going in. There were chances to get off this bus in helsinki, at charlottesville, and people said, no, im going to go over the cliff. In these last hours i would urge anyone to defend, nows your time to do that. Preserve the safety and functioning and operation of the u. S. Government until its in good hands again. Rick wilson, your name was almost invoked tonight on twitter by the likes of jason miller. This was tweeted out by annie karni of the New York Times. Theyre bottom feeders says jason miller. The base will hate them. I guess theyre auditioning for jobs at the lincoln project. Rick, are you guys hiring . Jason miller who could never pass a personal screening. We dont have on our short list of Personnel Requirements deadbeat dads who give strippers abortion pills. Its just not on my list of requirements at the moment. But were flattered by jasons attention because we know its been in his head for about a year now. But speaking of rats, you know, theres no benefit in being the last rat as the ship explodes. Baratunde, lets talk about what we witnessed this week but more importantly what weve witnessed over the past year. The looting and desecration of the capitol, aka, the White Privilege jamboree has us thinking in a different way. Lets spend a minute talking about black voters in this country, the earnest, honest, church going, poll going voting group that more than any other single voting group saved the biden campaign, elected joe biden as president of the united states, and in their spare time oh, by the way earlier this week flipped control of the senate from republicans to democrats. I yield my time to you and your sweater. Thank you, brian, a great setup. Rick, amazing sick burn with the miller situation. Black people have been in this country since the start of this country. And you dont get to be more american than being owned by a america. So we have some special rights of memory, of belonging to this place. And i am in awe of the people that i am privileged to be a part of at how we consistently show up for a place that consistently tries to remind us were not welcome. And it sometimes feels like were dragging america cricking and screaming toward its own creed, toward its own beautiful words and documents, none more personified than this week with everything you said about the electoral results especially in georgia, especially given who reverend warnock is, who his ancestors were. And for that very same week to have a Confederate Flag waved inside the u. S. Capitol, so many died, so many bled to silence that rebellion and that flag and that undermining. And we still live in the shadows of that civil war with disproportionate voting and access to political power granted to people who lost that war with false participation trophies of confederate memorials propped up for traitorous losers to that civil war. All this in one week because america is nothing if not a place of contradictions. Ugly, yes, but also beautiful. And so to my fellow black americans, youre beautiful, thank you. We can still keep showing up, and we need the rest to show up, too, and that includes the republicans who remain. Stand for the country. Opt back in. Join us as weve been fighting this a long time. Get onboard. Beautifully put. Rick wilson, i can offer you the last word. In 30 seconds, how should people process what ive been calling the great migration, this movement of people away from donald trump, people here to for have signed over their seats in congress to him . The tranceference of their souls back into their bodies is going to be a painful process. And its not going to be without a political and personal and moral cost. I encourage them to take the right steps. If you wanted to see people truly make a step towards reforming their reputations in the white house, the administration either quit or invoke the 25th. Do it tonight. Dont wait. Every minute that passes does not improve your chances of being readmitted into society. It lessens them. 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I am concerned because there have been a number of people at this job, drivers especially who have been exposed. Reporter with each state controlling how vaccines are given, theres a patchwork of plans. People just dont know where they are in line, and if they are up for the shot where to go and how to figure that out. Reporter shes 88 years old and lives in albany new york. She knows she qualifies for a vaccine. At my age i really would like to have the vaccine yesterday. Reporter but he doesnt really understand whats supposed to happen next. I have not heard of a definitive timetable in this area for my group, for the over 70 people. Reporter some states including texas have announced that everyone 65 and older is eligible for vaccination. My phone has been blowing up with citizens calling who are over 65 trying to find out how they get the vaccine. Reporter but there are still hundreds of First Responders waiting for their vaccines in johnson county, texas. 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