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
Of americans. On wednesday joe biden will be sworn in as u. S. President amid some of the toughest security seen in washington in many years. No spectators will be allowed on the National Mall, as is normally the case. More than 20,000 Armed National guard along with other Law Enforcement agencies aiming to prevent another potential assault on the capitol. Barricades and roadblocks now cut off the buildings in all directions. The fbi says it has identified some 200 people who took part in the deadly insurrection on january 6th. More than 100 have been arrested so far and more are coming. We know who you are if you are out there, fbi agents are coming to find you. Anybody who plots and attempts violence in the coming weeks should count on a visit. Its not just washington thats on high alert. All 50 State Capitols are bracing for possible armed protests next wednesday. At least 20 states have called in the National Guard to beef up their security. Federal prosecutors have identified anot
With the bible. Lets come back, this time not with the bible. You see plenty of people standing around them. Nobody is shouting them down. Many echoing that message that death is the only remedy and those are people that trump told he loved last week. And that guy, the ugly guy with the beard, wasnt alone. Dozens of people on the fbis terror watch list suspected White Supremacists according to the washington post, were reportedly in d. C. On trump insurrection day for protrump events. Now you add that fact to the warnings that went out from our intel agencies and others telling the government to be ready for extremist activity, and the answer to why all of that was ignored, why Capitol Police were overwhelmed like officer hodges, the answer becomes even more important. Five people died but this could have been a massacre. The feds say the man you just heard saying death is the only remedy is Peter Francis stager. He is now charged in the beating of a Police Officer again, they werent j
To the possible conviction of trump, which could purge him from the party, bargain him from office for life. The speed and intensity of this call to hold donald trump accountable is truly unlike anything in history, coming amidst these scenes of Donald Trumps imminent departure today. The moving boxes brought to the white house. People gathering out front, moving out statues and busts and property as preparations continue for the biden inaugural, from the bunting you see here, decoration across the street, to massive security, the fbi urgently warning of Credible Threats and the entire National Mall planned to be on a lockdown. We have more on that disturbing information and those warnings later in the show. It is obviously of national import. The warnings relate from the capitol area to across the entire city of washington, and a police response, which may have been lacking on the day of the attack, as weve reported, is now we can tell you accelerating. The feds are arresting the man
Ulysses s. Grant named him to be americas secretary of war, and then stuff started to go wrong. On the relatively meager salary that came with that cabinet position, William Belknap, secretary of war, started throwing really, really lavish parties in washington. And that was true with his first wife. It was also true with his second wife. He was just very obviously living this ostentatious, High Society Life of conspicuous consumption in washington that nobody knew he should be able to afford. Nobody knew where the money was coming from, until they figured it out, because it turned out where he was getting all the money from is that he was taking bribes. Hi was taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes as secretary of war. People who wanted jobs related to the u. S. Military of the 1870s, apparently one of the ways you could get one of those jobs is to grease the palm of war secretary William Belknap, and he got caught for it. And as a cabinet secretary, he was subject to impeachme