Took steps to stop users from accessing the app, potentially shutting it down for a full week, we have Live Team Coverage on all of that and all of more Christina Coleman in los angeles, Jacqui Heinrich in wilmington, delaware tracking how the democrats impeachment push would affect president elect bidens plans and Mark Meredith in washington following the implications of the socalled cancel culture. First the Charles Watson live in atlanta, more on the controversy surrounding social media. In a matter of hours parlers website could go dark and amazon threatened to be in the company from its web hosting services, the move follows decisions from google and apple to pull parler from their app stores after accusing the white leaning social media platform of facilitating violence in the wake of the Capital Building riot on the contrary parler says they tried to work with the Big Tech Companies and have taken steps to remove violent post that violate the platforms rules. We have tried to gi
Hours to proceed with the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. If that does not happen, they will move forward with the formal vote to impeach this president. Also breaking this afternoon, the d. C. Attorney general says his office is looking at potentially charging President Trump and others for inciting violence in speeches before that riot. We are also learning today that both white House Counsel Pat Cipollone and former attorney general bill barr have warned the president not to pardon himself. This is what were getting here at cnn from multiple sources there. Barr sent the warning before he resigned last month, and now in the days leading up to joe bidens inauguration, authorities are bracing for the possibility of even more violence as there are further threats proliferating online. While all of this is happening, where is the president . Lets begin this hour on capitol hill with manu raju there. Manu, whats next . Yeah. We expect an Impeachment Vote that will happ
Force him to do this. Whats your reporting on whats going on . The president was encouraged to do this by advisers who had watched these republicans all day on capitol hill, people who were typically such close allies of the president , people like Kevin Mccarthy, have his favorite cando ready. But mccarthy came out and said the president bid dare spent for what happened the wednesday before. The president was furious about what Kevin Mccarthy said. He had left hope the idea of censuring the president when discussing this possible impeachment with other republicans. And so the president has not taken any responsibility privately. He certainly has not done so publicly for the role that he played in that. He did not in that video last night, but i think the video had an audience of one, Mitch Mcconnell, because they obviously want to stave off this impeachment trial coming in a possible conviction for the president given that mcconnell took that remarkable step of not ruling out that he
Potential new protests. Lets first go to the nations capital. The pentagon authorizing the mobilization of an additional 5,000 National Guard troops, bringing the total to 25,000 ahead of president elect joe bidens inauguration. Pete muntean is there in the nations capitol, paint the picture for us about the barriers, the fences, the forces in place. Reporter security getting more and more strict all the time here, fredricka. This is about as close as you can get to the capitol on foot right now. We are blocks away. I want to show you, just the eight foot fence here around the capitol complex thats also going up around the National Mall beyond it, about 7,000 members of the National Guard here in washington right now, the head of the d. C. Guard, which is leading this operation, tells me 25,000 members of the guard will be here by inauguration day. They are armed with m4s but he insists this is not a war zone. This is not a war zone and anybody whos been in a war knows that this is not
Getting national attention. Scientists say is the most concerning because it spread so quickly deep in the amazon rain forest. And on night number six of the Biden Administration, democrat sent over the articles of impeachment against a former President Donald Trump be to unity requires you to take away, eliminate the vitriol. I make anything that you disagree with about the other persons personality or lack of integrity, or they are not different legislators and the like. Shannon tomorrow senators will be in the Senate Impeachment trial against predecessor and now private now theres an article from the center for tonight notably calling for the removal of president duda is a legal president ial be removed from office on impeachment for ending conviction of treason, bribery or other Donald John Trump by such conduct has the student that he will remain a threat to National Security yemen democracy and the constitution allowed to remain in. Shannon at the impeachment article also mention