Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 04.59 EST
Top story: House poised for impeachment vote tomorrow
Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories today.
The Republican revolt against Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot is gathering pace after Liz Cheney, one of the most senior Republicans in Congress, said she will vote to impeach the president. Cheney, a representative from Wyoming and the daughter of the former vice-president Dick Cheney, said that Trump had “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack”. She was joined by two other Republican representatives, and it was reported earlier that Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell had suggested to colleagues that he supported impeachment. In another day of high drama in Washington, vice-president Mike Pence rejected calls to strip Trump of his presidential authority by invoking the 25th amendment. This paves the way for a vote expected tomorrow in the the House of Representative