Senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and Vice President of the United States. Each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. So even after the president sent the mob, the insurrecti insurrectionists to take over the capitol, there were republican members of congress who voted to overturn the result of the election. U. S. Senator who s who voted to overturn the results of the election. Look at all of this . Look at the results of those votes, those actions, and the president s words. And we should note that because of all of this, because of what the president said, because of what these people did, four people, four people are dead today after all of this. Look at their faces, john. Look at the faces and the sounds and the actions of the people wearing the maga hats, of the people that the senators wanted to align themselves with. These are the americans that they decided to align themselves with yesterday. Moments after presid
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york welcome to the week. 2021 begins with 11 senators and senatorselect calling for a commission to audit the election results. Thats despite there being no evidence of a national scheme. This Group Includes republican senators ted cruz of texas, ron johnson of wisconsin, James Lankford of oklahoma, john kennedy of louisiana, and Marsha Blackburn of tennessee. Today they released a statement threatening to vote against the results without an investigation. We already heard this week from republican senator josh hawley of missouri. He announced that he plans to challenge president elect joe bidens victory. The vote on that is set for this wednesday. In a Statement Released tonight mike pences chief of staff says the Vice President welcomes the efforts of members of congress raising those objections and that he shares the concerns of millions of americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election. Lets be clear. This is nowhere nea
Presidency is coming to an end. Mr. Trump attempted to condemn the violence, but he left out the part about how he incited it. Dozens of the rioters who stormed the capitol have now been arrested. The fbi is asking for the publics help in identifying those who vandalized and stole things from the offices of lawmakers and caused violence. A federal prosecutor is now investigating President Trumps role in this deadly siege. Brian sitnick is the name of the Capitol Police officer who died overnight from injuries in the insurrection. Brian sitnick. Donald trump, ted cruz, josh hawley, i hope you learn his name. A white house adviser tells cnn that trump recorded that video only because his presidency is threatened by looming calls for resignation and an impeachment process that nancy pelosi promised would begin next week. Two cabinet secretaries resigned now. Betsy devos joining elaine chao in quitting. Nancy pelosi will have to fast track impeachment if she wants to make it happen with ju
Vote, allowing joe biden to be president of the United States and Kamala Harris to be Vice President. It should be perfunctory. It should have been 25 to maybe 35 minutes. Their role is to just make sure that the electoral votes that are sent from the states are the ones that are counted. But they have turned it to Something Else that is ugly and the big reason we had an insurrection at the capitol. That would have happened, but we had a domestic terrorist event happen in the nations capitol. And were still dealing with the consequences tonight in the wee hours of the morning overnight word of a third resignation that we want to tell you about coming out of the white house. The resignations coming out of the white house, do they mean anything . Were not sure, because this one is a Deputy National security adviser. The former White House Press secretary among those who apparently had enough of this. After four years, though . After the bloodshed and all of this . This is their enough ti
Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early. I am kasie hunt on this thursday, january 7th, and we will start with the very difficult news. One of the saddest days in modern american history, as protrump rioters, insurrectionists, really, incited by the president , stormed the United States capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the certification of joe bidens election victory. Here was the president addressing his supporters just before the capitol was breached for the First Time Since the war of 1812. And were going to have to fight much harder. And mike pence is going to have to come through for us. And if he doesnt, that will be a sad day for our country. And after this, were going to walk down and ill be there with you were going to walk down were going to walk down, any one you want, but i think right here were going to walk down to the capitol and were going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and were probably not going to be cheer