Thompson said on The Joe Madison Show that there s no exemption for being put on the no-fly list, emphasizing that even a member of Congress that commits a crime, you know, they expel you from the body. There are ethics charges that can be brought against.
A top House Democrat is suspicious of how rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this week seemed to know how to target a specific part of his office.
Maxine Waters (D-CA) was a guest on SiriusXM’s
The Joe Madison Show, and went into detail about her conversation with the Chief of Capitol Police before the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill, and how the massive security failure could have been prevented and invoked the assassinations of JFK and MLK when describing her experience inside the Capitol building.
She also said that Donald Trump
“is trying to create a Civil War” and has to be stopped
“dead in his tracks
,” either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and that Vice President Pence isn’t
Raphael Warnock was a guest on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show, where he spoke out against Republicans who have their “fingerprints” on yesterday’s attack on the capitol.
“The president and all of those who had enabled him, including Kelly Loeffler, who I ran against, and who has yet to concede this race, their hands and their fingerprints are on this….[Senators Hawley and Cruz], they’re thinking about 2024 and this crazy notion that somehow if they appeal to the worst in people, that they appeal to this base, that that gives them a chance. So they were willing to sacrifice the nation, sacrifice its most cherished ideals of democracy, the peaceful transition of power for their own personal ambition.”
“How did they know to go there?” he asked. “How come they didn’t go where my name was? They went where you won’t find my name, but they found where I was supposed to be. So something else was going on untoward here. So we need to have an extensive investigation to find out. Why were they taking selfies with these people? Why were they out there waving people on to the grounds? Why were they allowing people through the door? They went to Statuary Hall as if they were part of the statutes that are there.”
Mr. Clyburn’s comments came after a mob of President Trump supporters who falsely believe he won the election against President-elect Joseph R. Biden stormed the Capitol building and temporarily halted a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College votes Wednesday afternoon.