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Pence. We all know he struggled for about 24 hours during the First Campaign after the access Hollywood Tape came out. Decided to stand by President Trump, has never wavered in the more than four years since then. He has been under tremendous pressure from the president to try to do something that would not be constitutional, to overturn the elections results. He made it clear that he could not and would not do that yesterday. Tonight those clear comments of condemnation from Vice President penc...

Not and could not do what the president was asking him to do, the president wanting him to overturn the election results by unilaterally under power he didnt have to reject electors from several states that joe biden won. but george, i can tell you that shortly after all of this unfolded today with the storming of the capitol, republican leaders started to work the phones, work in person to try to get the republican objectors to drop their objections. this is something i am told that kevin mccar...

George, is that words matter. the rhetoric that comes out of washington matters. and we already knew that washington was a magnet for people who have grievances from time to time. and officials had been telling me time and time again, when you hear things like the election was stolen and the other, people always portrayed as the other, that they felt that one day there would be a moment like this where the people would show up and do something that was unthinkable. and today, george, it was almo...

Been planning for this for a couple of days, not knowing where it would flow. but, you know, each agency has its own authority. and that question you just asked, george, is a very important one, and obviously weve confronted similar crowd problems around the country for the last six months or so. and you always worry when that outer shell is breached, because all sorts of new bad opportunities arise, and we saw some of them develop today. and it was not a good day for america. and the urging, in...

Unrest today, given that we have an inauguration scheduled two weeks from now, it may well be worth the effort to attempt another impeachment. and as dan says, it is possible to impeach a former official. so it may well be something that both parties in congress want to pursue after january 20th. and i do think the 25th amendment could well be on the table that is a mechanism for basically the vice president and a majority of the cabinet declaring that the president is unable to discharge the po...

Come in, to bring the national guard in. all throughout the afternoon, he resisted, refused to authorize or agree to the authorization of the national guard to come in. and he was only moved to change his mind on that after the intervention of other white house officials who told him that for the sake of the country, the national guard needed to be called in and convinced him and urged him that if he did not do this, the situation would get worse. the situation would become more dire, and would ...