Biden supporters continually gathering across the country tonight to. The president elect and Kamala Harris he mades history is as the first woman in the first woman of color Vice President elect speaking tonight in bidens hometown of wilmington delaware where fireworks blared. You chose joe biden as the next president of the United States of america. All cities in all parts of the country indeed across the world an outpouring of joy of hope renewed faith in tomorrow to bring a better day. And i am humbled by the trust and confidence you have placed in me. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify, who doesnt see red states and blue states, only sees the United States. President trump is not conceding the race promising a legal fight has three states are still undecided. We have Fox News Team coverage with Jacqui Heinrich and john roberts from the white house but we begin with peter doocy live in wilmington, delaware. Good evening peter. Good evening. The world looks
President trump who took questions from the press pool for the First Time Since election day yesterday. The chaotic back and forth ended the longest stretch of time in his presidency that he didnt engage with reporters. 23 days, four hours and three minutes. Here was the most notable part. Just to be clear, if the Electoral College votes for joe biden, will you concede . If they do they, there is a mistake but will you was a fraud. The Electoral College does elect President Joe Biden will you not leave this building . Certainly i will. Certainly i will. You know that. But i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january. Well, to the surprise of nobody, the president contradicted his own statement when he tweeted this morning on his way to, hope youre sitting down for this, the golf course that joe biden can only be president if he can prove that his votes quote were not fraudulently or illegally obtained end quote. That is, of course, plainly no
Sunlen serfaty live on capitol hill. What do we expect . Alisyn, this will be a historymaking moment today. Later today the house will vote to impeach President Trump for the second time. Notably this time around he will be impeached with the support of some republicans. At this moment, five republican members are going to be voting in favor of impeachment and very notably there you have the number three republican in the house, liz cheney supporting impeachment. The senate is preparing to receive the articles of impeachment after the house sends them over later today and potentially signaling the start of a senate trial. Now Mitch Mcconnell notably over the last few days, weve been hearing reporting from sources saying that hes furious at trump after the attacks up here on the capitol. And is pleased about the impeachment effort thats going forward. And he believes, according to sources, that impeaching trump could help separate trump from the rest of the republican party. Now Mitch M
I was young a and a vicious ambitious. At the same time the Church Committee hearing was televised a and these were the congressional hearings that exposed cia activities misadventures from the 50s and 60s and senator church in big chunks were televised. Weaver on cspan if i am not mistaken bet watching this i do nothing about the cia it had no visibility at all. But it just occurred to me that if the cia did have lawyers it occurred to be theyve made need some so it was a shot in the dark. Host or they may need some new ones because there was some wrongdoing. Guest whenever they would get themselves into a pickle the cry would go out the cia needs more lawyers. I did not know it but i was hired with the first wave of new lawyers. Host people are still confused why the cia is different than any other agency of the u. S. Government. Summarize why do we need the cia and who is in control . Guest of course, it is a secret Intelligence Organization since 1847. 1947 it was shrouded in myste
After words with guest hosts dana priest intelligence reporter for the washington post. This week week john rizzo in this book company man thirty years of controversy and crisis in the cia. The man who represented the cia and the irancontra scandal and participated in approving the rules for waterboarding presents an inside look at the agencys evolution from an organization in the shadows to unfrequently epicenter of what occult controversy. This program is about an hour. Host john its good to be here with you. Guest its nice to see you again dana. Host i wanted to start in the beginning which is probably the easiest way to go. Can you just tell me why you decided to join the cia . Guest well it was 1975. I had been out of law school for three years. I had a good job, a good entrylevel job at the Treasury Department as a lawyer and the customs service. As i say it was a good job but you know i found the atmosphere, the bureaucracy at the treasury stultifying. In retrospect i was young