Say they support impeachment. Andy biggs is blasting the move and calling on cheney to step down. Ive called for her resignation. I dont think they should be the chair of the republican conference anymore. The reality is she is not representing the conference, not representing the republican ideals. Sandra Fox Team CoverageJennifer Griffin has the latest on security ahead of inauguration today. We have analysis on impeachment. We begin with chief White House Correspondent john roberts live from the north lawn. The fallout continues for the president following the riots on capitol hill next week. Whats next for him . It all depends on the house. Good morning, sandra and trace. Were at a real Inflection Point here as a nation. As you pointed out at the top if the house votes to impeach President Trump today, there is every indication it will, it will become only he will become the first president in history to ever be impeached twice, though still no president s have been convicted. Last night the house voted to call on Vice President mike pence to remove the president from office. He sent a letter to pelosi saying he had no intention of doing that. In texas yesterday the president said he is not worried about a 25th amendment action and slamming democrats for trying to impeach him again. Listen here. President trump the 25th amendment is of zero risk to me but will come back to haunt joe biden and the Biden Administration as the expression goes, be careful what you wish for. The impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and causing tremendous anger and division and pain far greater than most people will ever understand, which is very dangerous for the usa, especially at this very tender time. While the president will be gone from office by the time a trial could be held in the Senate Nancy Pelosi insisting its extremely important. The president s actions demonstrate his inability to discharge the most fundamental duties of his office and therefore he must be removed from office immediately. Removal of the president is an unprecedented action but it is required because he is an unprecedented moment in history because the danger that he poses. You mentioned at the top so far five republican congressmen have signed onto the effort including liz cheney, third Ranking Member of the gop conference in the house. Adam kinzinger, fred upton, republican from michigan and butler republican from washington Byron Donalds from florida heaping a lot of criticism on his colleagues who voted in favor of impeachment. Listen here. There have been no hearings, no ability for him to defend himself. We would never allow anybody in the United States to be convicted without a trial without an opportunity to defend themselves. The president hasnt had it. For five republicans to go along and agree with this is flat out wrong and wrong for the party and wrong for the nation. Another one of the president s social media accounts suspended. Youtube announced it would suspend his account for seven days. In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence we removed new content for the donald trump channel and inciting violence. At the Impeachment Vote tonight it is expected that more republicans will sign on. The white house believes anywhere between 10 and 20 possibly more could do that. One other note security here in washington in terms of road closures has been locked down. If ever there was a time to work from home if you work in washington, d. C. , this is it. They are prepared for that f. B. I. Warning, streets all around the white house and capitol are blocked off. It is a nightmare trying to get around washington, d. C. Today. Sandra glad you made it for the top of the hour. It was close. Trace meantime new developments on last weeks riot at the capitol. Authorities announcing more than 170 people charged in connection with the violence and the arrests are just the beginning. The scope and scale of this investigation and cases are unprecedented not only in f. B. I. History but probably d. O. J. History in which essentially the Capitol Grounds outside and inside are essentially a crime scene. Were going to have i believe hundreds of criminal cases. The f. B. I. Said its appeal to the public gave them lots of evidence. Deploying as many as 15,000 Armed National guards troop to washington as acting attorney general jeff rosen issues a stern warning overnight about the possibility of more violence. The department of justice will seek to hold any violators accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Anywrongdoers will be caught and accountable. Trace Jennifer Griffin live on capitol hill. Good morning to you. What is security like at the capitol today . Trace, we just saw dozens of National Guard walking the perimeter around the capitol. You see that fence behind me. We cant get close enough to show you all of the National Guard on capitol hill. The scene different from what it was exactly a week ago. It looks a in baghdad than it did like last week when you could walk right up to the capitol. That is no longer the roads are blocked as john roberts reported. They will be more blocked as the days go on closer to the inauguration. There are 15,000 National Guard who have been mobilized and called up brought to the city. Some of them even slept in the capitol with their weapons last night. I can confirm after speaking with senior military officials the morning the acting defense secretary chris miller has delegated authorities to the Army SecretaryRyan Mccarthy to command and control these forces. Another change from last week. Secretary mccarthy has authorized these troops to be armed. In a rare statement sent to the entire u. S. Military, all eight members of the joint chiefs of staff signed a letter to the force condemning the insurrection and warned Service Members not to do anything to impede president elect joe bidens inauguration. The violent riot in washington, d. C. On january 6, 2021 was a direct assault on the u. S. Congress, the Capitol Building and our constitutional process. We witnessed actions inside the Capitol Building that were inconsistent with rule of law, the rights of freedom of speech, and assembly do not give jae one the right to resort to violence and insurrection that signed by dr. Mark millie and the rest of the joint chiefs. Rosen went further. We will have no tolerance whatsoever for any attempts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power on january 20th. There will be no excuse for violence, vandalism or any other form of lawlessness. There are about 2,000 National Guard on capitol hill as we speak. More and more will be coming into the city this weekend. The threat level were told by a defense official is much higher than is even being reported in the press right now. Trace well talk more about that. Jennifer griffin, thank you. Sandra for more on todays Impeachment Vote lets bring in bret baier. Thank you for being here to kick things off. As we know the house convened a few moments ago and took a brief recess. Well see what happens in a few moments. First the rule debate governing the parameters of the actual impeachment debate for later in the day. What are we about to see . A couple of hours of debate on the rule. Youll pass the rule and get debate on the article of impeachment inciting this riot. Were looking probably, sandra, at 4 00 for final passage of impeachment and they are going to have the votes. Nancy pelosi is not going the lose any democrats not likely. With liz cheney the House Republican conference chair, with her very strong statement saying she supports impeachment and weve seen a few other republicans announce their intentions, it could as john mentioned have 10, 20, maybe even more republicans join on to impeachment. Liz cheney no up side politically for her to go out on this limb. She did it in her statement on principle but by doing that it opens the door. There is obviously everything in washington a political calculation. When the calculation about being primary by President Trump or Trump Supporters is less than the calculation of losing funding and any support you have for future runs or your political future, its greater than the entire decision changes. So it is not only principle but there are politics behind this as well. Sandra karl rove went on with martha and had a warning moving forward with this process suggesting that this will be bad for the country. The rush to judgment in the house, the lack of a thoughtful process and an immediately dumped on the United States senate to fill in the blanks of whether you are in favor of removing the president from office or not, this is unseemly and however it goes forward it wont be good for the country. Sandra you have Mitch Mcconnell as we just heard reports saying he is done and furious with the president and now supports democrats moving forward with initiating this process, bret two sides of this. One is karl is right. There is not an ample opportunity for the president to defend himself at least not yet and a trial seems like it would be rushed in this scenario ahead of him leaving office. So there is concern about the process. But on the political side, there are really angry republicans about what happened last wednesday and the political power of President Trump diminished, if not was devastated by the actions on capitol hill. So you have republicans who want to who are debating whether they go for this punch to try to keep him on the map, President Trump, or they step back and they let him fade away. The problem for the latter is that some of these republicans, institutional republicans, have been trying to have President Trump and trumpism fade away since he went down the escalator in trump tower and it never happened. So the other side is if you do this punch and vote for impeachment and move forward you could somehow empower him and his Political Movement after that. So thats whats happening in the minds of republicans on capitol hill. Sandra that will be discussed and debated for some time to come. Meanwhile, concern just one week out now from these riots in the capitol that tensions are very high. Steve scalise is writing about that in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal saying politics has no place for violence. In it he says it would, however, be naive to think the shooter referencing to his incident in 2017 arrived at his decision in a vacuum and equally naive to think the capitol high otters arrived at their decision in a void. Violent rhetoric affect people. We have responsibility to condemn Political Violence and violent rhetoric across the board, not only when its politically convenient. I read his words ahead of inauguration day. You heard reports about the amount of security were seeing in washington ahead of that. But does Steve Scalise have a point with that piece . 100 . Taking down the temperature in this country is the goal should be the goal of every politician because that rhetoric is what is firing up a lot of the fringe. Lets not pretend it is just the right fringe. Weve seen fiery rhetoric on the left as well. To have the National Guard ramped up, this level of security is there shows you as jennifer was pointing out the serious threats that they are taking seriously not only in the nations capitol but in all 50 state capitols around the country. Sandra appreciate you being here with us early this morning. Well see you tonight at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on special report. Thank you. Trace our next guest says there must be an impeachment it should be real and deliberate, not partisan stunt writing this. Dont play pelosis game of politicize impeachment. Andy mccarthy is a former assistant u. S. Attorney and Fox News Contributor. Great to see you. I want to clarify you believe the president has committed impeachable conduct and yet you do not think this article of impeachment is accurate. Square those quickly if you can, and andy. What you just had karl rove talking about. You could accurately describe what the president did here in the way of impeachable conduct and at the same time stay away from loaded terms like incitement and insurrection which are dubious in this context. It is one thing to say rhetoricly it was an insurrection mob but to take one example, this article of impeachment is called incitement to insurrection. At the same time, the democrats are talking about invoking section 3 of the 14th amendment which would disqualify from Public Office anybody who was seen to have basically aided and abetted an insurrection. So if you without hearings, without testimony, without anything decide that what happened last week qualifies as a matter of law as insurrection, it is not just President Trump, it is anybody that democrats later want to say aided and abetted this that could be disqualified from Public Office. Im not here to say that it is right or wrong. Im here to say that in American History we have hearings and we have our eyes open before we do stuff like that. Trace you say the following here, if there must be an impeachment it should be a real impeachment, not a political exhibition and not a partisan scheme to spring a Trump Senate Trial at a future date when it would be useful to democrats. Republicans should not be duped like they were last time but demand a commitment from Speaker Pelosi if the house approves an article of impeachment she will appoint managers and transmit the articles to the senate whose rules require a trial forth with. Do you believe this is a political stunt in essence, andy . Well, i again think there is impeachable conduct here but there is no reason to do this in a fast and nasty oneday proceeding if you cant immediately remove the president because there wont be a trial. There is no excuse not to have formal and proper due process unless there is such an emergent need to get this guy out of the white house that we have to do it forth with and the senate will drop everything and have an impeachment trial. Thats not going to happen, so whats the rush . Trace Jonathan Turley made the same point. I want to get your response as we look live at the house. Watch. My misgiving is over the use of a snap impeachment. They did not even hold a single hearing to talk about the implications of creating this type of fast track to impeachment. And so impeachment is not supposed to be some bang, bang play. Not supposed to happen on impulse. Trace there are some, andy, that are worried about this thing being dragged out well into the next administration. Trace, i think there is a happy medium between the two. Im not as worried as john is about the lack of due process. If we woke up tomorrow morning and we had a president and slam dunk evidence he was a chinese spy to get him out this minute and the 25th amendment didnt apply because it wasnt a medical disability, the National Security of the United States would demand that due process take a back seat so we could get the president immediately out of here. I get that and am for that. The problem is no one has acted like this is that situation and there is not a prospect of immediately removing him. So i wouldnt let it be politicized so they can stick the impeachment in their back pocket and then have a trial at some politically expedient time. Trace good to talk to you, sir. Thank you. Thanks, trace. Sandra well watch the house floor. A new warning from the cdc to all international travelers. Find out what everyone flying into the United States will soon have to do. Plus another tech company blocking the president but is this latest move a bridge too far . 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