republic. i yield the floor. [ applause ] reporter: as the senators applauded her decision to abandon the president, so did vice president pence. still, more than half of house republicans voted to overturn the election, and so did a handful of republican senators, including ted cruz and josh hawley, who was seen raising a fist in solidarity with trump supporters shortly before they stormed the capitol. today, other republicans called their actions shameful. you have some senators who, for political advantage, were giving false hope to their supporters. these senators, as insurrectionists literally stormed the capitol, were sending out fundraising emails. all right, so, let s get to jon karl with us live from the white house again tonight. jon, as we know, a lot of eyes focused not only on president trump, but on vice president mike pence now. we saw that moment when he re-entered the senate chamber last night, jon, he asked for that rare moment to address democrats and republica
able to get things done. and when we can t convince them, we go out and beat them like we did in the 2018 election in red states and in purple states. peter baker, some joe biden critics, and just democrats in general who even supported him were often concerned that he wasn t able to answer the basic questions in earlier debates. he hit that landing extraordinarily well last night. seemed like a different joe biden at least to me. it did. and it came right after the british election that raised questions in the american democratic community as well as to what kind of candidate you want to put forward in the fall. are you going make the mistake that some moderates like biden supporters saw in britain in putting forward a candidate who s seen too far to the left? critics say the opposite, you need somebody who stands up for something and they re going after him as too much of a
extra seconds to let him talk more like joe biden normally talks. i think there s no doubt that last night was the best debate of the six this year for joe biden. he came in to the debate the national front runner. he walked you the aught national fro out the national front runner. and you did not have a moment where even democrats who were sympathic to him looked at him and said, i don t know, do we want that guy to be the nominee? he didn t have a moment like that last night, which i think is a really big a huge win for him. and then you saw amy klobuchar who was the other person who had a night last night. she has been slowly rising out of the pack. she has been picking up ground across the board since the october debate when she first aggressively tried to stake the claim in the moderate lane and started to go after some of her fellow democrats on stage. last night she was very aggressive. she sees the possibility that pete buttigieg and elizabeth warren both could be flat lining
this money. mcconnell s not budging on that. mcconnell wants a structure more like they saw during the clinton impeachment where the only thick that s guaranteed is the managers will get a chance to present their case and the white house will get a chance to present their defense and then they might open things up for motions either to dismiss the trial, acquit the president, or if senators want it to hear more witnesses. they are stuck there. in terms of the politics of it, the next two weeks are free. they were never going to start the trial over christmas. it was never going to start before january 6th when both the houses back anyway. so the next two weeks have the political room for negotiations, if they continue to talk over the holidays. but when both men left the senate chamber last night for the last time in this year, both were saying there is not an agreement. all right. garrett haake, thank you very, very much. still ahead on morning joe, joe mentioned that exchange bet
graham. but i remember him getting attacked by conservatives because he thought the great commission, jesus great commission meant what it said. he went to the soviet union and was cost gatedcastgated. but that was the open heart that billy graham had. the crazy thing is, christianity is for sinners. you can t you can t go through the gospels and not see that. so that s not the problem. the problem is donald trump says that he is beyond god. he does not need to be forgiven. and that s certainly tip off and that was underlined last night by the magazine. john heilemann, if you want to weigh in on whether that s going to impact evangelical voters think there right now a lot of people are skeptical that it will, but let s talk about the debate last night.