To uphold the constitution. Metal detectors now being installed directly outside the House Chamber, although some republicans have objected and fought with Capitol Police about going through those metal detectors. Joining us now, is democratic congressman, jason crow. He was an impeachment manager for the first impeachment. He also serves in the House Armed Services committee. Congressman, thanks so much for being with us. By sunset, donald trump will be the first president in history to be impeached twice. Reflect for a moment on the historical significance. Yeah, he will be impeached twice, because he needs to be impeached twice. You know, we know very well who donald trump is at this point. He is a violent and unstable man. Weve actually known that for years. If people have been paying attention, they could have seen that we were heading in this direction. So this is less of a story about donald trump at this point than it is about his enablers, those around him, members of congress
Top of the hour, everyone. Im kate bolduan. Thank you for joining me. The drum beat of impeachment is growing louder while the silence from the president is deafening. So far, the white house has not the president has yet to condemn the mobs horrifying calls for Vice President mike pences head during wednesdays attack. The two men have not spoken since that day when pence did the only thing he could, which was defying trump by upholding his constitutional duty to certify the election for joe biden. And heres further evidence of the growing divide now between the two men. Sources tell cnn that pence is not ruling out using the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. And pence will also be attending joe bidens inauguration. Yet we also know that donald trump will not. Even before then, House Democrats say they are ready to move ahead with a Historic Second impeachment of the president for inciting violence and fearing he could do more damage in the days ahead, the very few da
President trump is set to become the only american president to be impeached twice. The house of representatives this morning is debating the need to hold the president accountable, accountable for en sighting a riot that engulfed the capitol of the United States. Democrats on the side of an historic rebuke, an indelible stain on President Trumps term in office. The damage this Building Sustained can be repaired, mr. Speaker. But if we dont hold donald trump accountable, the damage done the our nation could be irreversible. Domestic terrorists broke into the United States capitol that day. Its a miracle more people didnt die. Some republicans have been fighting back with complaints about the process, saying what the president did is wrong, but its all just moving too fast. Meanwhile National Guard troops are inside and outside the Capitol Building preparing for a worst case scenario. It is a military zone. Theyre concerned about more attacks on the capitol, being issued weapons today a
Michael beschloss, i wonder if you have thought through how republicans can begin with somebody on my team called earlier today debaathification of the Republican Party . And i wonder if liz cheney, her statement being the thing that republicans used the democrats used, sorry, to explain why they needed to impeach donald trump, is there a little wing of the Republican Party that you think can do this sort of debaathification of the party and can it work at this point . Look, i think the challenges is that the rot is from the grassroots all the way to the presidency, to the rot is at every layer. You can call it rot because its now criminal sedition. But there are people who supported it from the grassroots all the way up through to the white house. I think what liz cheney may be is part of a party that may not always be called republicans, or maybe that other part thats top to the bottom corrupted by trumpism isnt always called republicans, they cant coexist. What is clear to me today,
Truth. But also that racial progress can enrage some in the majority and that violence can be used as a refuge for those coming from a place of animus and ignorance. And that democracy even in america is a fragile, fragile theng. At the committee lighting the flags on a deserted National Mall tonight illuminating 56 pillars of light representing every state and territory. Some 200,000 u. S. Flags standing tall, representing americans unable to attend the Biden Inauguration due to the pandemic and now due to the disease of division. 25,000 National Guard members must protect our democracy from ourselves. We can no longer boast peaceful transfer of power. There is no peace. We must be suspicious of even the peacekeepers. All are being vetted by the fbi ahead of wednesday to ensure that none will turn on their country and pose an insider threat. We used to have to do that in iraq. By the way. This is where we are four years of trump. The only place his demagoguery could take us chaos capp