Calling the president s conduct, quote, a betrayal of his office and supporters. Moments ago, for the first time, a republican congressman is now calling for the president s cabinet to invoekt the 25th amendment. Multiple sources tell us there have been informal talks within the administration to do just that. The man himself, republican congressman Adam Kinzinger joins us now. Hes now the first gop members of congress to call for President Trump to be removed from office. Congressman, you just posted a tweet calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked. Talk us through this. Its not something i do with a light heart. Its with a very heavy heart. The reality is the 25th amendment was put in place to ensure that government can continue to survive in unforeseen circumstances. Its been invoked in the past, for instance, when a president undergoes anesthesia for surgery. I think yesterday it became clear that the president is unmoored from reality and from his oath, and i think the Vice Pr
Congress clamored to impeach donald trump. At least one democrat suggested anyone in congress who supported his claims of Election Fraud must be expelled. Meanwhile the media said about denouncing donald trump as a terrorist and a murderer, we could go on. That is a rough recap of the last 24 hours. What do you notice about every news story on that list . They are all about donald trump, every one of them. The people in charge of every institution in American Life now spend all day talking about donald trump. You may not have noticed because thats not very different from any other day over the past five years. Since the moment he announced for office it has been all about donald trump all the time. The effect on us has been noticeable, weve gone from being this big continental country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a sweaty chat room of 300 Million People all of whom are focused on a single man, donald trump. That is not healthy no matter how you feel about trump. W
Theres not an analyst that wouldnt want more intelligence. The challenges are the immense amount of rhetoric out there, and what were trying to separate is aspirational from intent and combine in, in order to get to that intent, were really thinking about private communications and oftentimes encryption. I would say what we are faced with is the challenge of the amount of data and then really trying to find, because of the volume and because of private communications, intent that then would have given us the intelligence picture potentially to shed light on what some of the plans and intention, indicators and warnings, as our military folks might say. Ms. Smislova, quickly, please. I will defer to you, senator, your colleagues, other oversight entities to actually determine what went wrong on january 6th. I dont feel im empowered or have enough information to declare whether or not this is an intelligence r intelligence fail your. I do know, however, it was not a success, and we will d
Didnt send u. S. Troops in to defend the capitol because he was worried about a quote, military coup. The other breaking news, moments ago, one of the few republicans in congress to speak out against former President Trumps continuing election lies has now been ousted from her leadership role. House republicans pushed out congresswoman liz cheney as the number three ranked member of gop leadership. According to a member in the room, as the vote happened, cheney was booed when she criticized the former president in her opening remarks. Afterwards cheney remained defiant after her colleagues endorsed a falsehood over truth. I will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the constitution, and i think its very important that we make sure, whomever we elect, is somebody who will be faithful to the consti
A public official, which means you can take actions as a public official that will put money in your own pocket. Thats a second graders level understanding of corruption, an oversimplified one, right . Except for the fact that in real life, in the Trump Administration, when elaine chao was appointed to be secretary of transportation, she was told by ethics officials that she needed to divest, she needed to sell her stake in a company described by the wall street journal as the countrys largest supplier of crushed sand and gravel used in road paving and roadbuilding. Right . As any second grader who understands these things could tell you, as transportation secretary, you have a lot of say in, say, roads, so you cant also own a company that does road paving and roadbuilding. Elaine chao was advised by ethics officials that, of course, she needed to divest from that company. You cant be transportation secretary and have stock in a roadbuilding company. Come on she was told she had to div