South Carolina Republican joins Hannity to discuss legal discrepancies in Trump s pending Senate trial.
This is a rush transcript from Hannity, January 26, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: We begin tonight, FOX News alert. Huge news.
As we predicted, 45 Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell, yes, they did vote in favor of a motion declaring the proceeding again proceedings against former President Donald J. Trump are unconstitutional.
Now, this latest Democratic impeachment Schiff show is now officially dead in the water. It s over. The Senate trial will be conducted as planned, but Democrats do not have anywhere close to what would be the two-thirds super majority that would be needed to convict.
Vice President Pence opposed calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump
Business Insider first reported that Pence would not back the move, citing advisers to the vice president.
Following the violent riots at the Capitol building Wednesday, a number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers urged Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. The 1967 amendment to the Constitution ensures that the government remains in operation should a sitting president be deemed unfit to perform presidential duties.
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A majority of the Trump Cabinet and Pence would have to agree the president is unfit to serve for him to be removed.
anyone,
anywhere, hiding behind the vaunted veil of peaceful protests, is wrong. You don t change the government by destroying it. The thugs from yesterday are responsible for their own actions, she continued. They don t represent the millions of Trump voters, or the massive MAGA movement; they insult them.
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Conway also praised Trump for his response to the riot. Importantly, President Trump has denounced the violence, acknowledged the certified election results and committed to a peaceful transfer of power to the Biden-Harris Administration, she wrote. He is the founder of a movement, leader of a party, and a President whose words persuade millions of people.
The extraordinary attack on the symbolic epicenter of the U.S. s democracy left the building in tatters, at least one rioter dead and lawmakers in both parties shell-shocked by the unprecedented threat to their safety in a building previously thought to be virtually impenetrable.
Shortly before 4 a.m., after lawmakers formally tabulated each state s Electoral College votes, Vice President Pence announced before a joint session of Congress that Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
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The images of chanting Trump supporters smashing windows, brawling with Capitol Police and marching unimpeded through the Rotunda quickly ricocheted around the globe, stunning Washington, the nation and the entire free world while leading to accusations from lawmakers in both parties that it was the president himself who had incited the riot.
ADVERTISEMENT What was underestimated? That the president of the United States would not be as inciteful? Perhaps somebody thought for a moment that he would be patriotic before he leaves office for just this once, she said.
The Speaker said the House sergeant-at-arms, Paul Irving, would step down. He has served in the role since January 2012. Sund, meanwhile, assumed his role as Capitol Police chief last June.
At least one person, a 35-year-old woman who was among the rioters, died after being shot by a Capitol Police officer outside the House chamber. Sund said in a statement on Thursday that the officer involved has been placed on administrative leave and is under investigation.