Did they get it from their colleagues who refused to wear masks . Its way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that has lots of new reporting to cover for you this morning. I am kasie hunt on this tuesday, january 12th, and we will start with the news. House democrats introduced a single article of impeachment against President Trump yesterday, accusing him of inciting insurrection against the United States government. The house is set to vote tonight on a measure that calls for Vice President mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office before his term ends in eight days. If pence doesnt take action, and sources say its likely he wont, the house will meet tomorrow morning to hold the impeachment vote. The measure, which has more than 200 democratic cosponsors, says the president , quote, willfully made statements that in context encouraged and foreseeably resulted in lawless action at the capitol. The impeachment measure also
1974 by republican whos came to him and said this is done. Your time on the stage is over. That is essentially the equivalent position to where donald trump is now exempt hes already been peexd once before. So even to get close to something in history, you have to morph it into something way more serious than anything like what were seeing now. Yep. Anyway, thank you. Much appreciated. And thanks to you at hole for joining thus hour. Things are moving very fast now. Im not sure that even yesterday at this time when i was talking to you here on this bat channel at this bat time. I dont think even yesterday i could have imagined that i would be telling you tonight what i am about to tell you. But here are the facts. Heres where we are. Document the house of representatives is voting on a resolution to urge mike pence to act in accordance with the 25th amendment to the constitution to urge a majority of trump cabinet to vote with him to remove President Trump from office. Now, this 25th a
It is a real threat. We are going to fight and do Everything Possible to come back, but it could be never. We dont know yet. Jesse twitter is defending the crackdown on conservatives, while admitting what it is doing is dangerous. Ceo jack dorsey writing having to take these actions fragment the public conversation, and sets a dangerous precedent i feel is dangerous. The power of an individual or corporation the power of an individual or corporation has is a part of the global conversation. A former School Consultant telling dana that this wave of censorship could lead to the downfall of social media. A former google consultant. They now feel accountable. If they are accountable for their content, its going to lead to a bigger discussion about section 230, their rights as to whether or not they are publishers. Lets be fair. Content platforms, they are not built to be publishers. Its going to be the beginning of the end for them, unless they make series decisions and change their busine
Notdown shifting at any point in the year 2021. We hit it march of 2020. It has been accelerating ever since. Pete, grab the steering wheel. See if we can guide this thing in a true direction. Pete that is not possible. When my wife got me a motor cycle it had a sixth gear. That is precisely where we are. Welcome to fox friends. Great to have you. We showed that shot of the white house to open the show. The president in the white house today without a single most powerful tool he used over the last decade, certainly during his presidency, twitter, in order to communicate straight to the American People. Not only his account, campaign account, potus account, anyone tweeting on his behalf, others who support him either followers diminish quickly or deleted all together as the president has been. A lot of people looking for the opportunity to speak freely are looking for an alternative. One which emerged is pardon me letter. Parler has seen massive downloads on the app store and apple as
Deadly riots on capitol hill. Same parler allow dangerous threats like the call to kill Vice President mike pence on its site, parler ceo condemned the moves on sunday morning features earlier today. They claim that we somehow are responsible for what they call the insurrection, we have never allowed violence, we have never allowed any of the stuff on our platform and this seems to be like an excuse to basically eliminate free speech at a convenient time for them. We have grown so much. Eric Charles Watson live in atlanta with the very latest on all of this. The latest move by apple and amazon to remove parler from the platforms could be a major blow to the company parlers website could go dark tonight as amazon threatens to be in the company from its Web Hosting Services. The move follows google and apples decision to support parler from their app stores after accusing the rightleaning social media platform of facilitating violence in the wake of the Capital Building riots. Apple sayi