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Say something, telling him to say something. that this was. wrong -- before january six had stuck by the president through all sorts of mayhem. there was a sense that the republican party was going to move away from trump. and what we saw of course was in fact former president trump really strengthened his grip on the party. and by doing that he was able to sort of metastasized this lie and spread it throughout the gop. and really, now its become the sort of litmus test of whether or not you are...

The first time as the punitive majority leader. within 45 minutes of sitting there and watching the beginning of counting the ballots, a police officer in a big jacket and a large rifle grabbed me firmly by the collar like this. ill never forget that grip, and said to me senator, weve got to get out of here. youre in danger. we walked out the senate chamber door. made a right turn. went through another door. this happened to be captured on the video tape above. it was shown at the impeachment tr...

This is a disturbing new poll out showing that donald trumps grip on the republican party is getting even stronger. the embrace of authoritarian ideas on the right backing more intense. this comes as we watch the threat to democracy further exacerbated nearing the anniversary of january 6th but as that happens, this new poll shows the republican partys reputation among the country at large has rebounded. 34% of voters say the partys headed in the right direction. thats up ten points since the da...

Behind it. >> leave it to you to bring that into our holiday season. >> it was not my intention. i want to wish everybody a happy holidays and merry christmas. >> happy holidays. we laugh through the tears, as they say, in some societies. a russian saying, among others. you are speaking to the union of propaganda with oppressive authoritarian governments. in other words, it doesnt work as well, or at least the oppression doesnt take hold as easily in a society that still has a real grip on reali...

Traction do you think those kinds of comments will have within his place? i mean, pretty much whatever donald trump says now does have a residence, it does have a lot of power within that kind of call —— a resonance. he has a grip over that, sort of 25 or 30% of the republican party. the problem is the rest of the party are too frightened. republicans who see things differently feel unable to go down that road. they toe the line. otherwise, they get challenged or get removed. they certainly ...

And he failed to do so. its hard to imagine a more significant and more serious dereliction of duty than that. i think that there is absolutely no question that it was a dereliction of duty and i think one of the things the committee needs to look at as we look at a legislative purpose is whether we need enhanced penalties for that kind of dereliction of duty. >> dereliction of duty. she said it a number of times. a few times for the people in the back. think how much damage the disgraced, twice...

The uk culture secretary has said that the bbc licence fee will be abolished in 2027. in a tweet nadine dorries said a forthcoming announcement on the price of the licence fee for the next few years would be the last. one of her conservative predecessors — john whittingdale — says that currently — there is no feasible alternative to the licence fee. lets take a look at some other stories in the headlines. frances parliament has approved the governments implentation of a vaccine pass. it pa...

To generally speaking agree what happened was bad and should never happen again. many of them were prepared to blame donald trump for it. tomorrow republicans will not be participating in any of the formal remembrance exercises of what happened last year. >> and ali, its one of the starkest things that happened after january 6th. at the beginning of january 6th when we -- when the capitol had been broken into, when i was hearing from sources that everyone from house speaker -- house minority lea...

Instead of the power of the mob. theyre the ones that donald trumps republican party pushed to the side, theyre the ones that are having to quit congress. theyre the ones who are fighting for their political lives because -- my god, they chose sanity over violence. it speaks ill of donald trumps republican party and yet it still is very much donald trumps republican party. >> i will start by saying these images we are seeing now from the capitol dont get any easier or horrifying to see a year la...

Does have a resonance, it does have a lot of power within that kind of core vote he controls. he has an iron—like grip over that, sort of 25 or 30% of the republican party. the problem is the rest of the party are too frightened. republicans who see things differently feel unable to go down that road. they tow the line. otherwise, they get challenged or might get removed. they certainly get vilified. at the moment, the former president does have that viselike grip on the republican party, and ...