attempt. we know that members of the militia groups that were present on january 6th have stated their desires that they want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direction nexus to the state of the union, which we know that date has not been identified. a warning came during the house appropriations committee hearing about the security failures on january 6th. the police chief there explaining the threat from extremists is why the fencing remains outside the capitol and why national guard troops are still manning the building. also from that hearing, pittman emphasised that the insurrectionists who attacked the capitol, quote, weren t only interested in attacking members of congress and officers. they wanted to send a symbolic message to the nation as to who was in charge of that legislative process. pittman s testimony serves as a flashing red light about the future threats still facing the u.s. capitol around future events, and the threat
speak with the president is uncompromising when it comes to the speed that we need to act out to address this crisis. the white house press secretary, how should we view the secretary s meeting between the ten republican senators? is this going to be aligned by negotiation where is this something much more broad and general? jen psaki said to look at this as a conversation come a chance for these two sides to sit down and hear each other out. we will see what they come up with when this meeting takes place at 5:00 this afternoon on a very snowy day at the white house. conversations may go nowhere when it comes and kristin fisher live in the white house, thanks. harris: let s bring in former national economic director. larry, we were so exciting. and welcome to the fox news family. thank you, john, great to be here. so you know the way things work on the white house. we have this big meeting coming up this afternoon. republicans making it clear they want a smaller
as sad as that fact is, as condemnable as theas decision w, it is still true that the final vote on donald trump s conviction was the largest and most bipartisan vote of any presidential impeachment trial in american history. i salute those republican patriots who did the right thing. it wasn t easy. we know that. let their votes be a message to the american people, because my fellow americans, if this nation is going to long endure, we, as a people, cannot sanction the former president s congress, because if lying aboutre the results of an election is acceptable, if instigating a mob against the government is considered permissible, if encouraging political violence becomes the norm, it will be open season, open season on our democracy. and everything will be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest clubs, the sharpest spears, the most powerful guns. by not recognizing the heinous crime that donald trump committed against the constitution, republican senators have not only ri
circumvented. points for the baby bonnet. i think we can do that all day, if you like. absolutely. the point you made off the fashion point for a second, mike pence is a curious figure. he also kind of is the human embodiment of the tragedy of really white evangelicalism. you had evangelicals make a compromise of whatever they said they believed in, whether fidelity in marriage, reverence toward women, whether it s whatever it is they were putting forth. the evangelical church, the church tells you to love the poor and immigrant. they didn t do that. they traded it all for judges and whatever else they thought they were getting. see if we have audio from capitol hill perfect the where the pences were just introduced. we have temporarily lost our ability to communicate with joy reed. we should mention, joy didn t get the hook. we lost connection. we have technical difficulties. i think what s about to happen is i think we re about to see vice president-elect
not in any way, shape or form, instructing these people to fight or to use physical violence. the house managers assert that the january 6th attack was predictable and it was foreseeable. if still, why did it appear that law enforcement at the capitol were caught off guard? holy cow. that is a really good question. and had the house managers done their investigate, maybe somebody would have an answer to that. but they didn t. they did zero investigation. they did nothing, they looked into nothing. but jiminy crickets there is no due process in this proceeding at all. my counsel said before this is the worst experience in washington, for that i guess we re sorry but then you should have been here on january 6th. rather than yelling at us and screaming about how we we didn t have time to get all of the facts what about your client did, bring your client up here and have him testify under oath about why he was sending out tweets denouncing the vice president of the unite