Of the United States is in increasing legal jeopardy at this hour. Federal prosecutors say they are looking at President Trumps role in inciting the insurrection that the entire world witnessed live in our nations capitol yesterday. Calls growing from both parties to invoke the 25th amendment to immediately remove trump from office. If Vice President mike pence and trumps cabinet do not go ahead and do that we are now learning Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering a lightning quick impeachment process that could be done in a couple of days. All of this because of what transpired thanks to trump yesterday. The u. S. Capitol breached, a mob marching on the capitol. Congress stopping counting the Electoral College vote. Offices ransacked. Four lives lost. With words and deeds many of them we have all seen. Ones like this one from the president of the United States. This was just before they started marching. Here is what he told them. We are going to walk down to the capitol and we are go t
Of the cabinet declare the president unfit for office and remove him under the 25th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Now cnn is learning that federal prosecutors are looking at mr. Trumps unprecedented role in inciting this shameful violence. One top u. S. Attorney saying, and im quoting now, we are looking at all actors here and anyone that had a role. Meanwhile, the disgust among members of the president s own team is fwroeing and growing. Secretary of transportation elaine chao has become the first cabinet member to resign over these truly stunning events, saying shes deeply troubled by what she calls, and im quoting here now, entirely avoidable events. Were covering all angles of the breaking news this hour. Correspondents in key locations. Lets start with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Fastmoving developments in the wake of one of the countrys worst days. Thats right, wolf. President trump is back, and hiding inside the white house after inciting a bloody coup
Rioters and opening the barricades for rioters to pass through. Some of them were even armed. I would like to contrast that with the response we start over the summer with largely peaceful protests for Racial Justice in dc that were quickly met with tear gas, militarized police, rubber bullets. We cant read anybodys minds but we can report what they do. Virtually nobody is defending yesterdays riots, donald trump hammered on all sides but suggesting that police were complicit a racist does not line up with the facts as we know them tonight. United States Capital Police Officer on life support at this hour and pilot and a federal Law Enforcement may be surprising to some but not to nancy pelosi who defended the frontline officers but attacked the leadership. Before any investigation into how Law Enforcement agencies coordinated yesterdays fully underway, democratic mayor of dc is floating a solution that would result in two new democratic senators. We must get stated on the president s
At the capitol. Disruption to supermarket supplies in Northern Ireland, as food shipments from Great Britain become more complex after brexit. And an fa cup upset, as leeds united are defeated by crawley town. Good evening. The Health Secretary matt hancock has warned that flexing lockdown rules could be fatal, urging everyone to adhere to restrictions aimed at bringing Coronavirus Infections under control. As hospitals continue to be under intense pressure, there is concern about public compliance with the rules the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the current ones may not be tough enough. Ourfirst report is from our political correspondent, iain watson. Central london on a sunday. Shops usually open, now shuttered. Streets eerily quiet. Government ministers say the early signs are more people are complying with this lockdown than the last one in england in november, but the data also shows that in some parts of the country, more people are on the move than during the first lockd
Staffers. There have also been recriminations as well over the massive security failure. The chief of the Capitol Police is resigning, so, too, the sergeant at arms. The Law Enforcement spent much of today securing the area around the capitol. The president haz been indefinitely banned as you know from facebook by that company. Weve also witnessed today and late last night the attempts by some of the president s enablers to rewrite history. And duck responsibility for their lies and their inflammatory rhetoric. We are all flawed as human beings. We all make mistakes and were sometimes seduced into telling ourselves were doing the right thing when it turns out later were not. What were seeing now is not a recognition of that by remorseful people. It seems its people trying to save the reputation and political kreecareers or trying rewrite history. Exhibit a, congressman mo brooks, republican of alabama. Hes pushing the lies that it wasnt Trump Supporters who attacked the capitol tweetin