Coup. I want to make something clear. The u. S. Does not arm members of the National Guard, make that decision lightly. That is in response to the severity of the threat in the coming days and on the inauguration. So what about the president . He made his first Public Comments on this yesterday. Did he take any responsibility . No. He denied any role in the violent attack. He claimed that his comments to that crowd were completely appropriate. Well, many in his own party strongly disagree. Several members of Congress Planning to break ranks joined democrats in their vote to impeach, including the number three republican there, representative liz cheney, the number three republican in the house. The number one republican in the senate, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell perhaps the most powerful republican on the hill, he is signaling that he may turn on President Trump, too. Indicating that impeaching trump will make it easier to get rid of trumps influence within the gop. He has n
1974 by republican whos came to him and said this is done. Your time on the stage is over. That is essentially the equivalent position to where donald trump is now exempt hes already been peexd once before. So even to get close to something in history, you have to morph it into something way more serious than anything like what were seeing now. Yep. Anyway, thank you. Much appreciated. And thanks to you at hole for joining thus hour. Things are moving very fast now. Im not sure that even yesterday at this time when i was talking to you here on this bat channel at this bat time. I dont think even yesterday i could have imagined that i would be telling you tonight what i am about to tell you. But here are the facts. Heres where we are. Document the house of representatives is voting on a resolution to urge mike pence to act in accordance with the 25th amendment to the constitution to urge a majority of trump cabinet to vote with him to remove President Trump from office. Now, this 25th a
Attack on capitol hill. Earlier this morning parlers ceo said its impossible for them to keep tabs on every single post. Weve never allowed any of this stuff on our platform. And we dont even have a way to coordinate events on our platform. They somehow want to make us responsible and this seems to me like an excuse to just basically eliminate free speech at a convene p correspondent time, you know, convenient time, you no foknow, for them. Weve grown so much. Arthel lets go to charles watt tonwatson, live in atlantah more. Reporter the latest moves to remove parler from platforms could deal a major blow to the quote, unquote, free speech app. Amazon is threatening to suspend parler from Web Hosting Services by midnight which could take parler offline completely. Saturday, apple banned parler from the app store, meaning it could no longer be downloaded on the phones of millions of users. Parler has attracted a large conservative audience. It has failed to demonstrate it can address thr
Vice president pence is not expected to go along with that imploring resolution from the house, even though president got an angry mob on him a week ago, that tried to hunt the Vice President down and kill him. At least thats what they said in their own words they were going to do. The president tonight, excuse me, the Vice President tonight made public this letter to nancy pelosi telling her formally that he will not take that route. He doesnt support the 25th amendment path here regardless of what the house passes. Whats next . Well, the rules committee in the house is expected to take another vote tonight. Separate and apart from all this 25th amendment stuff. They will vote to put an article of impeachment against President Trump on the house floor for a vote sometime tomorrow. And heres what was unimaginable about this, even just 24 hours ago. We have now started to see House Republicans come out and say they will vote with democrats tomorrow to impeach President Trump again. Repu
Leave early. Instead, he plans to award the president ial medal of freedom to one of his top allies, jim jordan. Meanwhile democratic congresswoman bonny Watson Coleman has now tested positive for the coronavirus. Her office saying she was exposed while sheltering during that riot at the capitol. More than 300,000 americans are now testing positive every day. The u. S. Death toll is over, more than 375,000 with 717 additional deaths today so far. Joining us now, correspondent the senior digital white house correspondent. Garrett, lets begin with you and all the developments on capitol hill. What more can you tell us about the time line surrounding the articles of impeachment . Well, the articles were introduced today and as you pointed out, they could be acted on as early as wednesday. The house putting out the all call saying we need everyone in washington to consider this. I think the biggest delay could be selfimposed. The speaker of the house had said it was her intention to give m