speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. this morning with great solemnity and sadness i m announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation s history. i ve said it now three times. it is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. speaker pelosi s announcement follows months now of public and brazen obstruction by senate republicans including voting against the establishment of an independent bipartisan commission. last month only six gop senators voted alongside all of the democrats in favor of it falling short of the 60-vote threshold. the select committee follows months of white washing of the horrors of january 6 by republicans including calling it a peaceful protest and likening the insurrectionists to everyday touri
who has been a civil officer of u.s.? if we ever tried a president of the united states after he left office, sir. no and no. the answer is no. the text of the constitution to me is clear. that judgment in cases of impeachment runs to what removal and then possible disqualification. a former officer by definition cannot be removed. that is the text. the text is supported by our constitutional history. the only president in history to have resigned is richard nixon, as your viewers know from his history or living through it president nixon upons re resignition flew to san clemente, california, that was it. and the third, if i may just say a word about the fact that the impeachment of president trump now the second time occurred when he was the president of the united states one week before he did not resign, before his term came to an end in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the united states but the article of impeachment had not been delivered over to the u
who has been a civil officer of u.s.? if we ever tried a president of the united states after he left office, sir. no and no. the answer is no. the text of the constitution to me is clear. that judgment in cases of impeachment runs to what removal and then possible disqualification. a former officer by definition cannot be removed. that is the text. the text is supported by our constitutional history. the only president in history to have resigned is richard nixon, as your viewers know from his history or living through it president nixon upons re resignition flew to san clemente, california, that was it. and the third, if i may just say a word about the fact that the impeachment of president trump now the second time occurred when he was the president of the united states one week before he did not resign, before his term came to an end in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the united states but the article of impeachment had not been delivered over to the u
it is i think it may be behind us. yeah, i mean, that s the thing i worry about, don, is that they seem to have cracked the code. you know, like safe crackers. they ve opened up the vault and found the mother lode. how they can overturn an election by going through the state election results. and you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say okay, hold on, it shows joe biden won re-election, but we re just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are really i think facing that real-life scenario. and then what do we do at that point, don? i think that is a crazy question to consider. but it s becoming more real by the day. it was a wake-up call watching that. i can say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. kyung needs her own thing. she s been doing great reporting. as all of our reporters on this. as you shall other kyung s great. thank you very muc
and found the mother lode. how they can overturn an election by going through the state election results and you can control that if you have secretaries of state in these various battlegrounds who are going to say, okay, hold on. it shows joe biden one re-election, well, we are just going to throw that out and donald trump is the winner. i mean, we are we are really, you know, i think, facing that real-life scenario. and then, what do we do at that point, don? i mean, i think that is that is a crazy question to consider but i you know, it s it s becoming more real by the day. yeah. it was a wake-up call watching that. or i could say reality check but i don t want to take that away from mr. john avlon. she s been doing great reporting as all of our reporters on this. thank you very much. i appreciate it, jim. i will see you tomorrow night. this is don lemon tonight. and um, well, so let s talk about something that is i think this is good for not i think