Investigate the insurrection that was triggered by trumps own words. This is american voices. As we come on the air tonight, a virtual coasttocoast lockdown to ensure a peaceful transfer of power. A far cry from the america we are used to seeing, celebrating a new commander in chief. Yet, here we are, 21,000 National Guard troops now protect the nations capitol, along with a 7foottall barbed wire fence surrounding the grounds where joe biden will take the oath in just four days. Grounds where we have learned a virginia man was arrested yesterday after showing police an unauthorized inauguration credential. Police say he did it at a checkpoint along the perimeter, securing downtown d. C. And police claim they found a gun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle. Fears spreading far beyond washington, d. C. State capitols are beefing up security. National guard troops now activated in a dozen states. Its all to be prepared for whats truly an unknown tonight. Threats from ext
Than ever. Set your alarms. Eat your breakfast. Its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. Of course, the invasion of the capitol was also a superspreader event including, apparently, in the safe room where they were Holding Members of the house of representatives. Were going to be joined tonight by 75yearold congresswoman Bonnie Watson coleman who now has covid19 because she was in that room with those republican members who were refusing to wear masks. Blatantly refusing to do it. Shes been protecting herselfca. Shes going to join us this hour. Also congressman Eric Swalwell. Hes now appointed a house manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump. And ive been thinking about this tonight, rachel, we saw so much expertise in the first impeachment investigation of donald trump. Jamie raskin, Eric Swalwell, others, who were not named house managers. They saw that historical ship pass them by, that historical moment. They mi
Force him to do this. Whats your reporting on whats going on . The president was encouraged to do this by advisers who had watched these republicans all day on capitol hill, people who were typically such close allies of the president , people like Kevin Mccarthy, have his favorite cando ready. But mccarthy came out and said the president bid dare spent for what happened the wednesday before. The president was furious about what Kevin Mccarthy said. He had left hope the idea of censuring the president when discussing this possible impeachment with other republicans. And so the president has not taken any responsibility privately. He certainly has not done so publicly for the role that he played in that. He did not in that video last night, but i think the video had an audience of one, Mitch Mcconnell, because they obviously want to stave off this impeachment trial coming in a possible conviction for the president given that mcconnell took that remarkable step of not ruling out that he
Bigger than just one account. Its going to go on for longer than this week. We have to be ready for that. The focuses on this account, and how it ties to realworld violence, but also we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out. I dont believe this is going away anytime soon. Jesse twitter responding in a statement to fox news. The remarks shown in the video were delivered to our more than 5400 employees, and are nearly the same words jack shared in a tweet threaded, offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks. Its not just big tech censorship. The mentality is bleeding into other areas as well. Harvard students want to yank diplomas from ted cruz, dan crenshaw, and people who work in the trump administration. Tyrus, i feel the most sorry for these harvard people. They have at. Tyurs oh, my gosh i am so i dont get it. If they are going to take your diploma or degree away, does that mean they are going to take a
Its the last night. It feels like a dark night. It is hard not to feel trepidatious about it now at the end. Not only given what we have been through with this presidency, but also just given the terrible way it is ending. For the first time in the history of our country, there has not been a peaceful transfer of power between president s. And the outgoing president tomorrow will not attend his successors inauguration. Did you know that President Trump is going to give a speech tomorrow . Seriously. He is leaving not long after dawn, sunrise is 7 23 a. M. Tomorrow in washington, d. C. The outgoing president is throwing himself a goodbye ceremony shortly thereafter. That he is ordering members of the military to attend, which he can do, because in the morning he will still technically be commander in chief. He will have a couple hundred Service Members there. They do not have a choice. And he may order one of the military bands to play for him as well. Well see. There has been continuin