Inauguration checkpoint with unauthorized credentials, a loded gun is defending himself in an interview. More arrests linked to last weeks riot. He beat a Police Officer with an American Flag pole. Death is the only remedy for whats in that building. Reporter amid all this unrest, the president is mia planning for a massive sendoff for himself that could include a red carpet and a 21 gun salute while the Vice President fills the void. On behalf of your commander in chief, from your Vice President and on behalf of every american, thank you for your service. And president elect joe biden now three days away from undoing a slew of Trump Administration policies as he outlines his agenda of the executive actions he plans right out of the gate. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, january 17th. Im chris jansing. Welcome to the special edition of msnbc live. We have reporters blanketing this story as america remains on alert. We begin with our Incredible Team in d. C. , new york, and everywh
Answer completely shocks me. On pardons, can donald trump issue secret pardons . Yes. By the way but. Okay, okay. If i think yes, but if that person tries to use the pardon to avoid being prosecuted for something, they have to make it known to the court so it doesnt stay secret forever. I think thats the answer. Im not a lawyer. I dont know. Well, were going to deliver the answer later in the hour. Then the other one is, is there a form, is there a particular form the pardon has to take . I mean, for example, could donald trump just sit at the desk and hand write it out himself, that would be okay . Probably. I didnt know the answer to either one of these. I dont know. Okay. Stick with probably. Dont youre on solid ground there, but, rachel, it is way wilder than you think. Okay. It is way more than probably. The range of form of the pardon is whatever he wants it to be. We are going to get into details about this later in the hour with a former chief pardon attorney from the justice d
For something, they have to make it known to the court so it doesnt stay secret forever. I think thats the answer. Im not a lawyer. I dont know. Well, were going to deliver the answer later in the hour. Then the other one is, is there a form, is there a particular form the pardon has to take . I mean, for example, could donald trump just sit at the desk and hand write it out himself, that would be okay . Probably. I didnt know the answer to either one of these. I dont know. Okay. Stick with probably. Dont youre on solid ground there, but, rachel, it is way wilder than you think. Okay. It is way more than probably. The range of form of the pardon is whatever he wants it to be. We are going to get into details about this later in the hour with a former chief pardon attorney from the justice department, margaret love. Excellent. Who has shocked me today with her answers to those questions. This is a lot weirder situation than i thought. Were going to be on pardon watch for the rest of his
There, i merely said that is important, i respect the Speakers Office and the accouterment of history that is there but im more concerned that the damage that they did to our staff, to our colleagues, and the congress to the custodial staff and in the capitol of the United States. That is damage. That is damage that must be addressed. The resilience that we want to convey, we tried to do that night by coming right back, opening up the session of congress, proceeding with the business at hand. The counting of the Electoral College votes to ascertain that joe biden and Kamala Harris were president and Vice President of the United States. But that was one aspect of resilience. So many members felt their lives threatened, the uncertainty of it all contributed to the trauma. This is of something that everyone in the country should take a measure of how they reacted to this. But let us all pray for the resilience that our country is famous for and that our people need to have as we go forwar
In modern history, with more than 20,000 National Guard troops in and around the capitol grounds. As president elect biden confronts an unprecedented series of crises on day one, the administration will have a powerful partner, the woman presiding over it all, madam speaker nancy pelosi. After leading the house in a second impeachment of donald trump, this time for inciting the deadly insurrection, the speaker now confronts the task of overseeing the Ongoing Investigation and ushering in a new political era of unified democratic control of government in washington for the first time in a decade. Shes certainly up to the challenge. While battling donald trump, Speaker Pelosi has kept her ideologically diverse caucus together. Her leadership was forged by some of the most contentious political battles in recent history. Her first historymaking turn as speaker came on a wave of voter anger over the lies and mismanagement of the iraq war, which swept democrats into power in 2006. And then