Transcripts For FOXNEWSW The Story With Martha MacCallum 20210108

Ashli babbitt was among them. She was killed by Capitol Police officers during the riots inside the capitol hall. The group that she was and tried to break down the door to the white senate floor clearly, but we want to look back at ashley for a moment. A air force veteran, serve the multiple middle east tours, she and her husband owned a pool service in san diego and according to reports, she was a follower of radical Services Including qanon. Her brotherinlaw said this today. She was extremely passionate. She left the country and felt honored to have served in our armed forces. There were countless others out there. Passion did not drive them to extreme, but it did drive them to gather. Millions more to watch all of them on tv and about why they were standing there. Many of the folks who serve the country, family members who do, they talked openly about the belief the constitution, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms. They want chops to come back to their hometown. If they want their churches and businesses open. They like that President Trump was the unsighted to d. C. And they felt like outsiders too. Its unbelievable whats happening in our nation and you see 1 Million People here, were here. If everybody doesnt care, were supposed to be the racist and dead people, where fighting for them. Social media stopping. They think were stupid, and were not going to take it. These guys have lost office, theyre not standing up for us. This is President Trump, its the American People and these guys are not standing up for them. Most asking for their voices not to be silenced and the political process and some in the media were happy to pour salt in those wounds. Theyre going to go back to the olive garden and the holiday inn that they are staying at in the garden marriott. Theyre going to have drinks and theyre going to talk about the great days that they had in washington and they really did something and stood up to something. They stood up for nothing. Martha we will talk about all this. President tyler today and to twitter and facebook republicans asked we do expect and hearing moments ago actually got to the president will speak shortly and that it will be a very strong statement coming from the white house. We will stand by and have that for you obviously. President elect to have the opportunity to reach out and to heal the entire nation, but instead 74 Million People who voted for President Trump, this is what they heard. They were not protesters. Dont dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionist. Domestic terrorists. Martha we will hear from people tonight on all of this. Senator mark is here, but first up today, Peter Navarro who serve the president and the 2016 election and t. Good evening to you, as soon as we get the message from the president we will go to that. But can you tell us anything about what the president will be tonight . Do you know . I am here in my personal capacity, martha. The message i have and you listen to the signal and more of the noise. Yesterday was a historic day and several things can be true at the same time. We saw congress certify the election. I think its also true that there is a high probability the election was stolen and i think congress has the historic opportunity to do its constitutional duty to hear some of the grievances across the battleground states. Arizona, georgia, michigan, nevada, pennsylvania. We know based on thousands of pages of documents that are significant election irregularities there. The last thing that can be true is the violence has no place in american political discourse. If weve had too much of that over the last six to eight months. Martha let me break that down for a moment. Youve said the election might be stolen but when i read what you wrote and i listen to interviews he did, what im hearing is something slightly different than that. When i am hearing is that a lot of what happened prior to the election in legislation that was in lawsuits that were lost, 50 some lawsuits led across the country. The rules changed in this game. In a way that left republicans in a bad position. Maybe they should have done a better job in making sure those rules can be passed. But their roles were changed and i heard you say this as well in the interview you did earlier. Then, you have this idea of we won in a landslide and it was stolen and then all of the people on the mob. I want to say we need to talk about protesters and violent disruptors in different ways. I want to make the point tonight that most of these people out there are good people who had very strong convictions about the country and we mentioned moments ago. The people who broke in and disrupted and vandalized the United States capitol are sought by the fbi. But is there a problem with us talking about it being stolen and saying it was won in a landslide and did it lead to some of this emotion . That weve seen. It rather than being straight with people and saying this is not going to change on january 6th. What do you say to that, peter . First of all, we had a historic opportunity yesterday. Under the rules of constitution to take two hours per states in the voting chambers in the senate and house to repair some of the grievances. Going from arizona to georgia across the ballot boxes, there are Serious Problems there that raise significant issues of illegal ballots. Its true, martha, that much of what the democrats did was legal in terms of changing laws, rules, guidance. They did it in a way that was designed t to to commit an illel act. And stuff the ballot box with mailing ballots which is carter and james baker would have said, the fastest way to fraud. They stuffed the ballot box with those and at the same time the political equivalent of defunding the police. Martha weve been through this and we put your reports up on the screen. I want to talk about the motion on here tonight because we are waiting to hear from the president moments from now. The fact is, Vice President pence went out there and said, look, this is not what were going to do. He thought it was unconstitutional to do that. You are part of the white house staff. Were you there today at the white house today . No, im working in personal capacity trying to parse this particular issue. Two reports, very well documented. There is been thousands of pages testimony documents. It is my professional analysis based on what i have seen on the chessboard that theres a high likelihood that this was a stolen election. I think a lot of people believe that. If you look simply at the margins across the state. Martha peter, i understand what youre saying and i appreciate the fact youre looking into it and we covered it extensively here as well. But i think the problem is that we have this reaction in people who have been led to believe that something was going to change when it wasnt. There is a lot of anger out there and some of it is directed from people whove been very staunch supporters of the president who felt they were misled. Can you speak to that . Misled by whom . Martha misled by the idea that anything was going to change, it was actually going to flip the election and people who are saying yesterday, they would believe that that was going to happen yesterday. That was not going to happen yesterday. I think that needs to be said. It could have happen yesterday. I thought matt gaetz and everybody yesterday was magnificent in speaking about what could have happened in that chamber. Of martha the one person who had the ability to do that was Vice President pence and he looked at it very closely and believed it could not. They made a stand in that regard for which he has been given credit in some quarters and none of the president wasnt happy and you were too. Peter, thank you. Final comment. Its not a question of emotion, martha, it is simply we do not have a belief in free and Fair Elections in this country. It will be very difficult for us to move forward as a vibrant democracy. Thats what we are grappling with. Lets move forward. Martha we talked to rand paul about th it at the legislature level. The transition will happen and it will happen peacefully. Its a very positive move, but i got to leave it there. Its always going to. Martha okay, thank you, Peter Navarro. Joining me tonight is florida senator marco rubio. Thank you for being here. You had people protesting outside your home who were very upset about all of this. Wanting you to make a different decision about this. What do you say about these individuals who clearly they are patriotic, they gathered and many of them deserve to be in the same category as people who rightfully protested over the summer about the things they cared about. Thats american, everyone is allowed to do protests. The people who burned buildings, over the summer or whether it was storming into the capitol yesterday which is one of the most horrific sites that any of us have ever seen, deserved to be in a different category. Do they not . Speak out let me first unpack a few things here because theres a lot to discuss in the previous interview. There is things that we need to talk about as a country and deal with. This practice of states going to court to end friendly judges, changing the laws so they can get the advantage for democrats. In circumventing the legislature, that needs to be addressed. It all needs to be addressed and then there is fraud, thats a crime, people should be put in jail and revealed and i would point out that its hard to make a case for fraud or the argument out there for it when none of the president s lawyers over alleged fraud. Its a hard thing to prove into it it in four weeks. The real crux is the change of the lies absolutely. Yesterday the opportunity to discussed the need for changes, it could have been until thousands of people rushed into the capital and five people now dead. If we got word moments ago that a Capitol Police officer among those who died as a result of what happened yesterday. Five people that are dead. Its a bit tough to have that kind of historic opportunity when members of congress are supposed to be having that debate are hiding in the bunker or basement somewhere while people are rummaging through the building and creating a loss of life. As far as what you said, all those complaints about the election are absolutely legitimate. Millions of americans have it. 99 yesterday that went to washington, d. C. , to protest and have their voices heard, did not barge into the capital. 1 of thousands of people is a lot of people and they can cause a lot of havoc and damage and embarrass the country the way they did. I want to make one more point, there are people i know. A lot of people did not come because they thought were going to be able to make the point and send the message. They believe the outcome was going to change, they believe the Vice President was going to discard the votes and believe that somehow were going to get Nancy Pelosis Democratic House to vote for a single one of the challenges. None of it was going to happen. Do you know who admits . The people who file the challenges. The senator said we know were not going to win but people were led to believe the challenges would prevail and when it did not happen yet, small group of people but nonetheless Significant Group of people created a tremendous amount of damage. Some of them unfortunately are adherents of a conspiracy. Theory, and the chinese are laughing at us tonight. Martha thats another question before i let you go. Thats the concern about National Security and when you look at the chaos thats happening right now. How destructive the nation is as we stand 13 days from the transition of power, what concerns you have about that tonight . First of all, if youre a terrorist out there watching this, youre saying hey, its not that hard to get into the capitols, maybe not that hard to get in the white house or the Supreme Court building or somewhere else, thats the first. The second is weve known and we saw this summer, we see it now. This sort of thing creates more from the same side or the other side. The third point i would make about that, yeah, the iranians are looking at it and sing the great state, they are in decline. Vladimir putin looking at us and saying america is in total chaos. The chinese are laughing at us and saying its why democracy doesnt work and you need a strong firm figure. Anything that will weaken in decline. If you or anybody else, you think americans are distracted and tied up in all of this, nows the time to do things. If you make a mistake, you might think this. Its a real thing that we need to be serious about in the one i go back to is just embarrassed, we got third world dictators lecturing us about government and making a mark of us. Thats the part that upsets me as anything else and of course the loss of life and the terrible images we saw. Martha it before i let you go quickly, this discussion of the 20 for amendment. You have members of congress. I dont understand to these guys. I saw joe biden speech, it was the opportunity for him the day after all of that to calm things down and instead he goes off and talks about everything that happened last summer and that this was black protesters and the police responded. It showed tremendous restraint. Why potentially one we know now, maybe thats why or whatever but the point being that there was no need for that. It makes everybody go up and go back to their corner. Everybody is outraged by what happened and people are thinking maybe politics has gotten too hot right now. You come out with a speech like that and i dont think it does any good for anybody. Im disappointed in biden speech today and i expected more and better. Be what senator marco rubio, good to have you here tonight. A video just released and were going to bring you that in the senator manchin, of course tonight capitol officer has died from the injuries that were sustained yesterday. Breaking report as soon as we get the video and in all of that. 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The demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy. Up to those who engaged in acts of violence in this direction, you do not represent our country. To those who broke the law, you will pay. Weve just been through an intense election and emotions are high. But now, tempers must be called and calm restored. We must to get on with the business of america. My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results. My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. In so doing, i was fighting to defend american democracy. I continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and the eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections. If congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people. The pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens. Isolated millions in their homes, damage to our economy, and claim to countless lives. Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. It will require a renewed emphasis on patriotism, faith, charity, and family. We must revitalize the sacred vows of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family. The citizens of our country, serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime. To all of my wonderful supporters, i know youre disappointed, but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning. Thank you, god bless you, and god bless america. Martha all rights, that statement tonight from the president of the United States. I need to point out thats the first time weve heard the president say that its over. That he did not win the election. We took every avenue possible to ensure the integrity of the election, but he is now acknowledged that those avenues have closed. That the transition is whats the most important thing right now and he says that he will work to ensure that peaceful transition to the next president , the former Vice President joe biden. Of president. He did not use did not say him by name, but he said they would work on the peaceful transition to the next president and that would take place on january 20th. Acting Homeland Security joining me now. Good to have you with us tonight, sir. This is the first time weve heard the president acknowledge that there will be a transition up until recently he said he believes he could still be continuing and reinaugurated on january the 20th. Whats your reaction to what the president has just sent in i . While, he did not just make that point and say that its time to move on and move to a transition, he also condemned yesterdays violence and yesterday in the middle of it, urging people to stop being violent and leave the capital and respect the police. I was glad to hear a stronger statement there as part of the video statement. I think it was a excellent package, the whole thing. I appreciated it as a Public Safety person, seeing the condemnation of violence pointing out the people who come in that the violence are going to pay. Those investigations are going on right now. They are very active, the fbis leading dads and theyre very engaged you can fully expect to see it in that regard. Its tragic we have to do it. But you heard the president say it is transition time. The electors have been certified, the race is over. He made strenuous efforts to win, but they fell short. He is ready to keep moving and as a member of the administration, im ready to implement that. We were preparing within our department for that. And it is time to make the two week transition after the electors are done. Going onto the next president will be president biden. Martha no doubt. Everyone wants to see the process happen smoothly, a process we revere in the count country. I do think that theres going to be questions obviously about what we heard today from the president and what we heard yesterday at that rally. When he talked about the fact that he had won the election in a landslide in that it had been stolen from him. Then he had wanted Vice President pence to do the right thing and he hoped he was going to do the right thing and not side with the rioters on capitol hill and not do the right thing. This is a extraordinarily different message were hearing from him tonight and what we heard yesterday at that rally where there were as you keep pointing out, so many peaceful protesters, but also right after that we saw the march to the capitol and terrific scene that unfolded. What you say about it, sir . First of all, jump to the horrific scene and condemnin cot again. Weve been protecting communities across the country for virtually seven months of violence. For most of the time, there have been people who are in power in society who havent been willing to condemn the violence. In fact, the speaker of the house was condemning the police. Remember when she called him stormtroopers instead of violent protesters. I am hoping that particularly with the president s video here, that one point of unity that should not be partisan, that we can all come together again and agree that violence is unacceptable as a substitute for protest. We have debates, that we have elections, that thats where the energy should be direct. We can have protests, were famous for that in the country and all over the world. Free protesting. But it has to be peaceful. Weve said it consistently month after month and frankly, as the president. There was a sudden shift when the center of gravity of people being violent was right of center yesterday instead of the left of center we have seen for so many months. It is sad that that seems to be what it took to get some of our friends and fellow americans to join with us in supporting the rule of law and Public Safety. I hope they are back to stay. We are still here and were always committed to maintain the safety of the United States of america and the department of Homeland Security. We should point out, martha, in particular in the next two weeks, yesterday, it was a wakeup call. It went badly but we have the inauguration coming up. It will be conducted safely. It will be conducted safely in the secret service will lead the effort and do so successfully as they have in the past. Martha the world will be washing that in the reassurance that we have hardened perimeter. Its absolutely penetrable in the United States of america protecting all the buildings. Deputy secretary of Homeland Security, thank you for being here tonight. Inc. You, sir. My pleasure, good to be with you. Martha as we mentioned, we heard reports that a capitol officer has died from injuries sustained during the protests. White house correspondent kevin corke has the latest on the latest devastating report of loss of life yesterday, new details on the four other people who also lost their lives on capitol hill. Good evening, kevin. Good evening, martha, we continue to chase confirmation on the story. I personally have called out as a number of my colleagues tried to confirm whats been reported in the u. S. Capitol Police Officer has died in the wake of yesterdays violence. We can tell you that foxes affirmed the police chief has announced his resignation after yesterdays violence. He will leave his post on generator the 16th. The decision comes just that one day after all the violence here that claimed the life of ashli babbitt, a 14 Year Air Force veteran. She served four tours in the air force before she was killed yesterday. If she lived in san diego prior to her death. As you know, the violence unfolded in dramatic fashion yesterday afternoon after thousands of people walked over into the capitol following a speech by the president. The metropolitan Police Department is handling the investigation of the u. S. Capitol Police Officer shooting that occurred in the house lobby area. There were three additional deaths that occurred which we believe all to be a result of medical emergencies. Those deaths involving 50 year old Benjamin Phillips of raytown pennsylvania, 55yearold kevin of athens, alabama, 34 years old. Local Authorities Say the three died as a result of the medical emergencies. This is happening by the way as the city of washington remains under a declaration of emergency, which will last at least two weeks that will take us through the inauguration, martha. Martha kevin corke on capitol hill, thank you. Good to have you here. Still ahead, reaction from karl rove and lisa boothe, President Trumps message of unity, and next social media giant silence him, the New York Post wants to know who put them in charge of policing National Discourse . That is up next. At visionworks, we want you to feel safe and we want you to see yourself in your new glasses and think, ooh but if you get home and your ooh is more of a hmm. You have 100 days to change your mind. Thats the visionworks difference. Visionworks. See the difference. Since youre heading off to dad. I just got a zerowater. But weve always used brita. Its two stagefilter. Doesnt compare to zerowaters 5stage. 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Martha we understand that we havent observed it independently, but where seen news reports from other outlets as well. Of course if its true, everyone shares that. Thank you. Yes, but the social media platforms are concerned, for good or ill, hes been very irresponsible lately, 75 million americans voted for President Trump. Before that, 63 Million People in 2016. So, hes the commander in chief of the United States. Sovereign as it were. No one elected Mark Zuckerberg or jack dorsey, th to police the National Discourse. You get the sense of the increasingly private t court actors can shutdown the speech of the president of the United States, leader of the free world, however fraud he may be, forgo some very scary stuff because what is next . Obviously average americans, but he just suggested no one is free from this kind of censorship that can be very arbitrary, onesided, very divisive. Martha for sure. We heard some of the people talking about it being a big issue. They do not want to have this enormous arm of dialogue in the United States which has an incredible amount of power. Limiting them from saying what they want to say. Heres a quote from Michelle Obama saying now is the time for Silicon Valley copies to stop enabling the monstrous behavior and go further than they have already by permanently banning the man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nations leaders to fuel insurrection. Your thoughts . If youre worried about conspiracy theories, worried about extremism, this is exactly the wrong thing to do. The sentiments, the frustration of the people will not go away and they will just be channeled in any kind of darker placers where they can voice themselves. This is the move of a insecure elites, a confident aleta would allow people and hear peoples anguish and respond to them with reason, with thoughts, arguments, not this kind of always showing the back of the hand. Whether its antiand locked down protesters or whoever they may be. Giving them the back of the hand and telling them to shut up, its a recipe for more polarization and more conspiracy theory. Martha i keep thinking about the tweets this summer, the funds that would be a lot of people who were tearing down peoples businesses. What are they thinking . Yeah, frankly, the speech that president elect to joe biden and kamala harris, they just said and i as a reporter, i could pick things out there were not true. If the refrains this summer as though it werent a violent event. It is not going to be flayed . A lot of representatives and members of media get away. When they see its on one side, a oneway ratchets, thats just going to lead us into this dangerous territory. Martha good to have you with us tonight. So, Republican Josh Hawley and ted cruz being called Senate Position nests and facing calls to resign from members of the socalled squad even for further objections of the Electoral College certification in no way advocating for violence. Republican congressman dan crenshaw is up next. Your sleep number setting. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet. But, can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. Will it help me keep up with mom . You got this. So, you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. And now during the lowest prices of the season, the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is only 899. Only for a limited time. To learn more, go to sleepnumber. Com. Martha we want to give you an update, this is from chad pergram reporting on capitol hill, and a lot of conflicting reports on the Police Officer tonight. It according chad reporting, we can tell you that the officer has not died. Hes an difficult condition and a washington, d. C. , hospital. He is not passed. We will continue to keep you posted on that and we certainly pray for him and for his family, and all affected in yesterdays terrifically horrible incidents. We will keep you posted what the developments there. We want to bring this to you now as republican senators face a fury of some on the left who are making a dramatically linking them to violence. Congressman alexander because io cortez, senator cruz, except responsibility for how your craven selfserving actions contributed to the death of our people yesterday and how you fund raised off this riot. Both you and senator holly must resign, if you do not admit to move your expulsion, joining me now. Thanks for being here tonight. So, that is one. Youve gone castro, beto orourke representative joe moody, all of these government officials making very similar statements calling them sedition nests and saying theres blood on their hands. Let me be good as clear as possible. Senator cruz and colleagues, i disagree with them in the fundamental way but the constitutionality of the process, the ability of congress to overturn any electoral votes period. Lets be honest. Senator cruz and holly were not hyping on january 6. They were not calling for people to fight the industry and saying this is the last stand. That being said, many members of congress to do that. Many in the media has been doing that. Last few weeks, constantly saying this is our time to fight and let me tell you something very clearly. Theyve been lying to people, lying to millions. Theyve been lying january 5th was going to be the big solution for Election Integrity and never was it going to be. Two hours of debate, that some time for the opportunity and the politicians to get 5 minutes of time on the floor. It was never going to solve anything and its always unconstitutional. You have to have these hard battles. Thats where you saw the question of Election Integrity and lie to people single fights, go fight. Everythings on the line and thats what they said. When people fonts, they gain the fight and fought Capitol Police and people are dead. The same members of congress who called people to fight, nowhere to be found. Its all fun and games to them. They never knew what a real fight was. Real fights are scary. Bullets flying, glass breaking, scary. Nowhere to be found, they scattered. They talked about the courage to stand up, the courage to fight for weeks and weeks but when it came down to it, theres no courage. Thats what happened then thats what people need to know. They were lied about what january 6th was. Election integrity is important, its been important to me that day i entered congress. But i know that im not going to lie to you, im going to tell you where we have to do the hard work and we have to change these laws of the state level because these laws are loose and didnt give people confidence. People are getting ballots that dont belong to them, no barter i. D. And signature verification. We hear you. We hear you but we have to come together and work at the state level in change these things. Martha i dont think it could be said any better than that. Thank you very much. We needed a lot of that honesty and straightforwardness right now. In order to heal the country. Thank you for being here tonight and i can hear the emotion in your voice. I hear you. Thats all i can say. Thank you very much, congressman. Good to have you have your. Thank you, martha, think for having me. 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A new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th, my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation and to all of my wonderful supporters, i know you are disappointed but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning. Martha here now with reaction to the new message from President Trump, karl rove along with lisa boothe and jonathan swan, good to have all of you with us tonight. Very different message tonight from the president than what we heard yesterday when he came out to the rose garden, just a bit of what he said there we had an election that was stolen from us, and landslide election and everyone knows, but you have to go home now, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order, your thoughts. Too little, too late. He said he exhausted every appeal to overturn the election after weeks of pedaling a bunch of nonsense theories including saturday when he told the secretary of state of georgia that 50,000 jordans had shown up at the polls and were turned away, thats one out of every 20 voters that appeared on election day. He said we needed to have tempers cooled of the day after he gave an hour and 20 minute long speech inciting tens of thousands of people to march to the capital and show strength, dont show weakness. He talked about reconciliation a day after he threatened his own Vice President unless he did an unconstitutional act. He said we are going to have a smooth transition 13 days before the next president takes office and nearly two months after the election and he finally decried violence, 27 hours after people broke into our capital, broke through police lines, broke through barricades, yesterday all he could do is muster a tweet and a video in which he called them special people and said i love you. Too little, too late, this will be a stain on donald trump despite all of the good things he did as president , this will be a stain that remains. Martha lisa boothe . Im glad the president is saying this, obviously he has run out of avenues to try to dispute this election, it is not the outcome that many Trump Supporters wanted but unfortunately this is the outcome. I will say you are not a conspiracy theorist to have concerns about the election. We changed the entire rules of the election mid election, change the way we voted as a country during one of the most contentious elections in american history, of course that is going to raise concerns. Look at new yorks 22nd Congressional District was still has not been called to this day because they are used to seeing a few thousand absentee balance and they sought 60,000 absentee ballots, there were concerns with the way votes were tabulated, its not dangerous to have those concerns, but it is more prudent for republicans and conservatives and Trump Supporters to focus on the next election and ensure that we can have elections where both sides trust the integrity of it and believe the results of the election. That is the focus of where trump supporter should turn and making sure that changes. Martha i cant help but wonder, i think everything you said with regard to the future of elections, no doubt about that but i cant help but wonder what yesterday wouldve looked like if the president had said what we just heard tonight at that rally, if he had said i hear you, i hear your concerns, we have exhausted all avenues and now what i need for you to do is to continue to support me because theres a future for everything you care about, but we need to start this transition in a peaceful way. Would we be looking at a very different last 24 hours . Im not persuaded that january 6th was probably the moment after he summoned all of these people to washington promising that this day had great significance. I thought congressman crenshaw laid out effectively, he had built up this expectation that they could overthrow the results of the election, it got to this absurd climax in which he suggested based on ridiculous legal advice from Rudy Giuliani and john eastman that the Vice President could unilaterally reject the results of the election, theres not a single constitutional scholar mike pence d knew that. Everyone i talked to in the administration including very close people who have been loyal for a very long time which had given this speech a while ago, hes given it today which is a good thing and it is his concession and its there and done but i dont think it wouldve changed much. If he had already summoned all these people to the capital. Martha the machine was already revved up to the point where thats probably not going to be on th undone at that poin the best outcome would be to resign and spread the United States and other impeachment fight your reaction . I think the democrats are overreaching by saying impeachment and i break with my editors at the wall street journal, i think the best to do is for the president to recognize he has sullied his reputation and be normal, be reticent, be cognizant of his responsibilities and be out of the public sphere and let the next 13 days pass as quietly as possible. A terrible moment for our country, he bears direct responsibility for inciting that mob to go to the capital. The violent protesters bear the responsibility for undertaking the exit they did but he is the man who encouraged them to go up and dont show weakness, show strength and they took him at his word. Martha lisa, final thought. I am sort of sick and tired of this demonization of Trump Supporters in this country, what happened yesterday was wrong and there is no excuse for it, the individuals who broke the law should be punished to the fullest extent of the law but weve seen for four years Trump Supporters are racist, xenophobic, sexist, we are talking about 75 million of our fellow americans who have been labeled as less than by half the country, we will never come to a point of unity when people are demonizing and labeling the other half in this way. Martha thank you to you all, great to have you here tonight. That is the story but as always the story continues, well be back here tomorrow night at 7 00, be well everyone. Well see you then. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, so much going on, yesterday President Trump pulled a group of his supporters to head to the u. S. Capitol building, many of them did. While they were there, some of the supporters pushed over police barricades, crawled over broken windows, and made a mess inside, one of the protesters who was wearing a donald trump lag is a cape was shot dead by police. Within minutes of all of this every powerful person in the country erupted in rage at donald trump, Business Leaders demanded drum be removed from office immediately,