Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom 20210107 : compar

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas Newsroom 20210107

Congress returning to the capitol chambers hours after the mob stormed tblg. Lawmakers working through the night to certify the results of the president ial election. Vice president pence saying joe biden was the winner. Joseph r. Biden junior of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. Donald trump of the state of florida has received 232 votes. We have team fox coverage. John roberts at the white house, where the president is promising an orderly transition. Katie pavlich with reaction. We begin with mike emanuel live for us in washington mike, good morning to you. Set the scene for us if you will. Good morning. Sad and ugly day at the United States capitol. Great anticipation of the Electoral College certification. Protestors stormed the Capitol Building became the story. Journalists focused on the debate on the house floor as lawmakers argued over the Election Results in arizona. Things stopped. The gathering crowd outside tblg was walking freely through the capitol. Police pulled their weapons on the house floor to keep out the mob. Lawmakers grabbed gas masks and moved to a safe undisclosed location and leaders were left in shock. It was a very disturbing day yesterday. I had a lot of anger as so many of my colleagues that the capitol got overrun and an ork consists and terrorist. No place for it. A similar scene on the senate side. Debate over arizona Election Results was taking place and there was a serious security breach. Capitol police tried to lock the chamber. Senators were taken to a secure location to ride it out for hours until security could be restored to the Capitol Building. Lawmakers were determined to get back to work to finish their duties certifying the 2020 election. At the end of a marathon day after 3 40 a. M. Senate chaplain barry black said the tragedies have reminded us that words matter and the power of life and death is in the tongue. Four people died including one in the Capitol Building. 14 Police Officers injured including one seriously. And at least 52 arrested, trace. Trace heart rending. Youve been doing this a long time. Your perspective is key. Where were you when this was happening and what did you see . I was on the senate side of the capitol. I could see looking out the window the protest crowd was building. We were told to get away from doors and windows. I saw a lot more police running to stop the spread of the protestors throughout the capitol complex. That was alarming to see police running at full speed. I went to our reporter position in the Russell Center Office Building and did live reports for tv and radio. Tried figuring out if i could get back to the Capitol Building to report on the drama. I was told to shelter in place. I reported from there until tensions eased late last night. Trace mike emanuel live in d. C. Thanks. Sandra thanks to mike. Glad he is safe. New fallout over the chaos on capitol hill. Several white house staffers resigning as facebook and twitter blocked President Trumps account where he maintained for weeks that the election had been stolen from him. The president issued a statement overnight saying even though he doesnt agree with the results of the election, there will be an orderly transition of power come Inauguration Day. John roberts is live at the white house on all this. John, good to see you this morning. A crazy evening. We heard your voice throughout. Whats the latest from the there this morning . Good morning. There really has been in the last 24 hours a sea change in the administration and more broadly in the Republican Party. A lot of people openly splitting with President Trump including his former chief of staff and his special envoy to Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney who submitted his resignation yesterday as a result of what was going on. He talked about it more on cnbc this morning. Listen here. I called mike last night to told him i would be resigning. I cant do it. I cant stay. It is a nothing thing. It doesnt affect the outcome or transition but what ive got, right . A position i enjoyed doing. You cant do it. I wouldnt be surprised to see more of my friends resign over the course of the next 24 to 48 hours and be completely understandable if they did. You can add to the resignation matt pot enger. He had been planning to leave for some time and 13 days anyway. You mentioned Stephanie Grisham and the social secretary as well last night. The Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews calling me to tell me that she was going to resign as a result of what happened yesterday. In a statement saying i was honored to serve in the Trump Administration and proud of the policies we enacted. As someone who worked in the halls of congress i was deeply disturbed by what i saw today. Ill step down from my role effective immediately. Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power. You mentioned the president s statement. Twitter has locked President Trumps account after a couple of tweets that twitter said violated rules inciting violence. After the vote early this morning it was left to the president s Digital Media director to tweet out a response from the president who said even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out there will be an orderly transition january 20th. Ive always said that we would continue our fight to make sure only the legal votes are counted. It is only the beginning of our fight to make America Great again. I talked to a number of republicans in the past 18 hours who say it would have been easy for the president to go out with his head held high on the 20th of this month and keep his powder dry for another run in 2024. Now im being told there is talk among some republicans in the senate about a snap impeachment process before the end of his term to keep him from running for a second term. There were also some rumblings about potentially using the 25th amendment to remove him from power. That would have to be done at the cabinet secretary level. I checked with a couple of cabinet secretaries yesterday there is no momentum to do that. That part at least may only be talk. But there is no question that politically the president finding himself this morning much more isolated than he was just 24 hours ago. Sandra. Sandra well have developments throughout the morning as we hear from the white house. John roberts, thank you. Trace. Trace San Diego Air force veteran identified as the woman shot and killed in yesterdays chaos at the capitol Ashley Babbitt was a 14 year veteran who served four tours with the air force. Family members say she was a strong supporter of President Trump and was reportedly unarmed at the time of the shooting. Sandra and amid all the chaos on the capitol yesterday lawmakers were forced to shelter in place inside the house and senate as riotors stormed the building. Joining is one lawmaker locked down on the house floor congressman mark green. Good morning to you. How are you . Sandra you woke up this morning and look back at what happened yesterday and what did you think . Im pretty disgusted at what happened. It was really a national disgrace. We were there to talk about election and debate the issues with the election in terms of some of the states that there was some questions about and all of that got interrupted by the mob. Absolutely a mob. And ive seen tracer coming in on me in iraq and afghanistan. It was nothing compared to that. But it was deeply disturbing for our country. Many people have mentioned 1814 the last time Something Like this happened. As a military guy and guy who has given his life to this country it was disturbing. Sandra you are looking back at your time as a combat vet. You have experience seeing battle. You were in that room. What did you do . What was your instinct when you saw that mob coming . Well, i was actually moving out of the House Chamber into the tunnels as it all happened so i got more sounds than actual visual input but heard the chaos. They said go to a safe place. We went into the tunnels and i went to an undisclosed location where we barred ourselves in and my staff and i stayed there really until about 8 00 or 9 00 last night locked in that room. Sandra did you ever think the capitol could be breached, that there could be this massive of a security breach, sir . No, i really never thought this could happen. I think the Capitol Police are great and they did a fantastic job yesterday. There will be an after action review that looks at whether the intelligence information was good or whether or not they were prepared based on the intelligence information they had. All those questions have to be asked. Overall i think the Capitol Police did a good job of the assets that they had available for yesterday. Sandra the president has now committed to a peaceful transition of power come Inauguration Day, sir. You have often shown your support for him. Where does that stand this morning . You know, i think right now what im focused on. Were about 24 hours out of the capitol of the United States being stormed. I think we have a lot of healing to do before we can think about whats next. Sandra what is your message to him and how we could do that . We heard a strong message from joe biden yesterday. We saw that video message from the president calling for an end to the violence. What more would you ask of him to do in the wake of this . I think what we all need to be doing is reflecting on what happened yesterday to consider what it is that caused that in our society. You know, since earlier this year with the antifa stuff in portland and the tragic riots that happened after george floyd and now this, there is something deeper going on. And i dont know if its, you know, because were not facetoface and were talking to each other over facebook and saying things that we wouldnt say in person and then that sort of is taken down the barriers and we say things that now we would previously wouldnt have said. There has just been something has changed and we really have to look deep into our hearts and maybe start putting america ahead of ourselves. I think all of us need to be thinking about that and not just, you know, who is running for what. There is something very deep going on here and it is about the condition of our hearts, sandra, all of us. All of us need to be introspective and put America First and not our own specific and unique desires. Sandra it is remarkable as we look back at these pictures this morning. Some of those pictures a man who took the seat of Nancy Pelosis chair in her office. A man who took the seat of mike pences seat that he occupied moments earlier. Just a remarkable thing. We all watched it in realtime yesterday and couldnt believe what we were seeing and look back this morning. A final thought from you, sir, as you went through that in a completely different way. You were inside that building im sure fearing for your life. I dont know so much that i had fear for my life, you know. So many years of experience and handling these kinds of situations i was more concerned about my staff and my classmates, my fellow classmates. One of the things i did was start calling around and texting all my class to make sure they were safe. It is very disturbing. When you think about the United States capitol and the freedom that symbolizes and then you get mob rule yesterday, it is we have a lot of introspection to do, sandra, a lot. Sandra were glad youre okay. Thank you for coming on with us this morning and well have you back soon. Trace. Trace there are questions now over what is next amid divisions in congress and within the Republican Party. Some republican senators distancing themselves from President Trump yesterday including Senate Judiciary chair Lindsey Graham. Watch. Trump and i we have had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my god, i hate it. From my point of view he has been a consequential president but today first thing youll see. All i can say is count me out, enough is enough. Trace lets bring in Katie Pavlich town hall editor. Good to see you as always. Im listening around. You hear john roberts say the president is more isolated. You just heard congressman green saying something has changed and then Lindsey Graham saying enough is enough. What about you, katie . Would you add to what they are saying, subtract, or do you think its the right tone . Look, i think that folks who have been supportive of President Trumps agenda over the past four years, which has been full of accomplishments for coming off of operation warp speed which the Biden Administration will benefit from with a vaccine it made in under a year to help americans get through this pandemic, you know, i think that theyre very disappointed that yesterday is overshadowing the accomplishments and policy positions of the past four years and the truth is that those policy positions and what people want for their own lives and what they want for their Representative Government is not going to go away. The senate is split 50 50 with the incoming Vice President who will be giving up her senate seat soon breaking a tie. You have nancy pelosi and the house with a very slim margin in terms of her majority. There are very serious debates to be had moving forward and theyll be difficult and tough but should not divulge into violence. Its why we have the process of voting. There is a lot of tough work to be done and i think the biggest takeaway from yesterday. People who believed in the agenda and accomplishments which were good for the country have been overshadowed by this at least in the short term. Miranda devine writes the storming of the capitol was a tragedy for the Republican Party saying it has bestowed the great gift of the moral high ground on the most undeserving people in the world, joe biden and the left. They now have a free pass to persecute their ideological enemies while enacting pet projects and changing this country irrevokeably for the worst. Your thoughts. I would say most of that is true. I disagree that they have a free pass. There are a number of republicans who were just reelected and been elected in years past to stand up to the left and their aggressive agenda. Republicans should not be deterred by what happened yesterday in terms of having serious policy debates and standing against big policies and legislation that the Biden Administration wants to put on the country. We are split 50 50. Joe biden got 80 million votes. Donald trump got 70 million votes. Capitol hill talks about unity and introspection. Constituents can hold them to that and see if they can work together. We heard a lot about what happened yesterday but little about what happened over the past year and you cant view yesterday as in a vacuum and one single incident. There are deep seated issues on both sides of the political aisles and there needs to be debated on capitol hill. Trace its interesting. You say the republicans should not be deterred. I was listening to brit hume. His sense is that somebody already have, a good chunk. Listen and ill get your response. I sense, bret, there is a sea change now in the Republican Party as a result of this. Trumps post election conduct has split him off from half or more of his voting base. I think those people now almost certainly have deserted him. If the election were held tonight he would lose by far more than he lost the last time. Trace what do you think about what brit said . I wouldnt say theyre deterred as a result. I would say theyre moving in a different direction with principles and values and ideas about what the governments role is in their lives. Limited government, fewer taxes, healthcare being privateized rather than nationalized. Were a nation of laws, not men. And they can apply a lot of what the past four years of success have been under President Trump and the populous ideology and move forward with that. Again, yesterdays actions do not reflect the ideology of the vast majority of people who have supported President Trumps policies and they can move forward on capitol hill and they have to be able to stand up when they try to silence them and use yesterday as an excuse to push through enormous consequences for the country in terms of policies. Trace always good to see you, thank you. Sandra rioters broke into the Capitol Building in a shock pg display of violence. How did this happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again . Ken cuccinelli will be our guest next. Control was reestablished quickly but it doesnt change the questions that arise from the breach in the first place. Those are going to have to be addressed by Congress Given that we all knew that the epicenter of todays events would be the u. S. Capitol. Your grooming business is booming. You need to hire. I need

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