Realized. The committee devoted to investigating that day had revealed truths about that day. And yet, the house probe is also underscoring something new to many, trumps plot to overthrow the election was far broader than one day, or prepping a oneday crime spree. It wasnt a legal Coup Conspiracy starting before the election, and lasting months. With criminal plots that had nothing to do with even january 6th and the legal orders by trump that were resisted. So were going to show this to you tonight, how it began with things that are perfectly legal, like Filing Lawsuits to challenge the results, but quickly morphed into something much broader, a conspiracy that involves crimes, the January 6th Insurrection that we know about, but a whole set of other criminal plots. This is vital to any potential set of indictments, and were going to to get to all of that tonight, through the evidence, to show you exactly what is new and what matters. Now, if any of that sounds familiar, remember, tha
House democrats who appear ready to impeach or the first republican senator calling on him to resign, but his own Vice President. Mike pence, he has the power to invoke the 25th amendment along with other cabinet members and a source close to the Vice President tells our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta that pence is not ruling out use of the 25th amendment, which would remove the president from office. And tonight im learning, though, that this is not under serious consideration. But the Vice President not ruling it out. And news of that possibility comes after the latest pence move that may be aggravating a president who has shown little interest in the transition of power in 11 days. The source tells cnn pence will attend the inauguration of joe biden while trump boycotts. And tonight we are learning more about what is quickly becoming a fractured relationship between trump and pence. We now know that they havent spoken since the riot on the u. S. Capitol and the president
Closing in on President Trump. Threats of a second impeachment, a Historic Second impeachment. Calls for his resignation, a staff exodus, potential criminal charges against the president and escalating concern over his mental state at this hour. For the first time in a new video clearly edited, the president acknowledges a new administration will be sworn in soon. No doubt that grudging admission was forced by selfinflicted catastrophe. Sources tell cnn that several cabinet secretaries have informally discussed invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. Overnight, a second cabinet member, education secretary betsy devos resigned over trumps role in the attempted coup, of course its easy to walk away with 12 weeks left in trumps term, its called two weeks notice. In that spirit, the wall street Journal Editorial Board adding its voice to those calling for the president to resign. The paper is owned by the same family that runs fox news. The wall street journal says this, w
His assertions as he continues to push substantiated claims of voter fraud with no evidence to support it. Tonight stories with all of those categories starting with chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto at the pentagon where President Trump welcomed his defense secretary to the job and signed that executive action on refugees that is getting a lot of attention tonight, jim. Lets talk about that executive action and what the president says institutes extreme vetting of immigrants. What exactly does that mean . Reporter john, key measure of this extreme vetting, hard to call it anything else but a religious test. The majority muslim countries, one of the exceptions in this executive order talks about minority religions in those majority muslim countries, which by definition means not muslim. Theres that. But theres also the question as to what data justifies this. When you look at these countries, iran, iraq, syria, smael ya, libya, certainly countries that have terror probl
But, ike, thanks for being here, sir. That does it for us tonight. See you monday. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Hows that for a long work day for you. I dont know what you are talking about. Besides i have a cohost now made of wax. The 12hour work day helps to have a cohost. The Trump White House issued the First Executive order about the Affordable Care act. We will have the details on that and much more. The dancing is already underway at the inaugural balls. The first dance is over. Donald trump and the first lady appeared at the liberty ball a few minutes ago. The thanked his supporters. We are awaiting their second appearance of the evening. This will happen at the freedom ball. The president is expected to speak again. We will bring the remarks to you live when that happens. So, the trump tv series has a title american carnage a phrase that appeared in todays inaugural address and never appeared in any other speech by any american president in history.