Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Tuesday ramp up the vaccine rollout. Good to have you with us. In just a few hours u. S. House democrats will begin their first push to hold President Donald Trump accountable for last weeks violence at the capitol. Its not impeachment, though. Not yet anyway. Democrats will introduce a measure today demanding Vice President mike pence invoke the 25th amendment and remove mr. Trump from office. And if pence fails to do so, House Speaker nancy pelosi says she will bring impeachment legislation to the floor. In a cbs interview, pelosi explains why she believes consequences are necessary. There is a possibility that after all of this theres no punishment, no consequence and he could run again for president. And thats one of the motivations that people have for advocating for impeachment. Wont that take more than the ten days . Does it actually make sense . I like the 25th amendment because it gets rid of it. Hes out of office. But there is strong support in the congress for impeaching the
Good to have you along. So extremist supporters of President Donald Trump are now calling for more violence in the u. S. Capitol. And its against that backdrop that lawmakers will now take action against the president in the coming hours. The house is expected to vote to urge Vice President mike pence to take steps to remove President Trump from office. If pence doesnt, the president faces a possibility of an unprecedented second impeachment. Sadly, the person running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States. And it will be 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. Well, arrests from last weeks riot are still being made, and officials are investigating whether some of the rioters planned to take lawmakers hostage. Ryan nobles has more now on whats ahead in the u. S. House. Ryan . Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi is ready to move forward with art
morning. the family of brian sitnick refusing to shake hands with mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy at a ceremony honoring law enforcement officers at the capital. joining us now are his family members who loved him so very much. you saw them in the video, his mother gladys and brothers ken and greg. good morning. good morning. we ll get to that and what happened. mother to mother, tell everyone about brian. brian was very, very quiet. he had a sense of humor that i didn t know about until there s two officers that are liaisons between the capital