Pence. We all know he struggled for about 24 hours during the First Campaign after the access Hollywood Tape came out. Decided to stand by President Trump, has never wavered in the more than four years since then. He has been under tremendous pressure from the president to try to do something that would not be constitutional, to overturn the elections results. He made it clear that he could not and would not do that yesterday. Tonight those clear comments of condemnation from Vice President pence perhaps a final declaration of independence. And i am told that the president has not spoken to the Vice President since all this has unfolded. They have not spoken, if you can imagine that, even as the Vice President was whisked out of the Senate Chamber and taken to a secure location, no contact to the president of the no contact with the president of the United States. The break began earlier today when Vice President pence issued a letter or a rather lengthy letter explaining that he would
repeating the racist phrase when the looting starts, the shooting starts. it was all about being tough by the thugs and the mobs. here you saw mobs and thugs storming the capitol of the united states and the president refused for some time to agree to authorize the national guard to come in to restore order. that is a stunning stunning piece of news right, there jon. thank you so much. i want to go to martha raddatz. you were out on the streets among protesters today. you were on the streets with black lives matter protesters this summer. describe what you heard. well, the difference, first of all, is extraordinary, as we ve been saying. i remember taking a picture of the national guard lined up at the lincoln memorial to protect the lincoln memorial. they were in full kit, as it s called. they had body armor on and helmets and looked incredibly threatening. the national guard today in the
from democrats already writing articles of impeachment, even though there are 14 days left in the donald trump presidency over what they consider an abuse of power in the weeks since the election, the lies about the election, the phone call to the georgia secretary of state where he tried to get him to overturn the election, the incitement to violence today. yeah, and i think some people are going to say but what would be the point? the president is going to be out in two weeks anyway. well, the argument would be that if he were impeached an convicted, that would prevent him from running for office again. there is a single example of someone who they can even try even after he is out of office to continue with the impeachment proceeding. look, i don t know that that s going to actually happen. i don t know that it s going to get the numbers that they need here, but they re clearly trying to make a point here. and particularly when you hear information like jonathan karl s report abou
we re there for we ll come down to get them out. flooding is not going to be just here the coast some of the greatest damage could be far finland especially in towns along smaller rivers, across mississippi which is already had tremendous flooding. jon back to you. all right steve in st. louis, thank you. our meteorologist adam is tracking barry from fox extreme weather center and has latest on that. hey there jon. still a slow-moving storm picked up three to five miles an hour, not fast enough that it is going to stop all of this flooding potential. center of circulation now is off to the west of lafayette, louisiana, this is going to continue to track to the north and you do notice most of the action is being pulled behind this system. usually we get a little bit more balance this one you see almost all of the rain still hanging offshore. so as this continues to track north it is going to pull that rain with it and heaviest rain are is on the way. winds currently in the 30s to 40 m
we re waiting for president obama and german chancellor angela merkel to hold a joint news conference in the east room of the white house, possibly major developments regarding the future of the war in afghanistan to be announced. embattled leader mo maqaddafi vows he will stay in power until he s dead, this after rare daytime nato air strikes in libya s capitol city around his compound. we ll have a live report just ahead. also, high winds fueling a fast moving wildfire in arizona. forcing turns of hundreds in the town of grier to pack up and get out in a hurry. our own anita vogel has the very latest on those fires from our west coast newsroom. anita. reporter: well, hi there jon. it s not just that one town of grier, it s several small towns along eastern arizona. in fact late yesterday governor jan brewer had to declare a state of emergency for those affected areas. now, we re talking about flames that have scorched more than 240,000 acres so