You, secretary mccarthy. No more than 30 days, that will be erected . At a minimum. We will work that in coordination with the city as well as the capitol. Thank you. Yes, mark . Two questions for the secretary. One, trying to follow along, could you repeat the specifics about the fence . Will it completely surround the u. S. Capitol complex . The specifics, one more time. Yes, constitution, independence first, and then the road and found by the pond. It will be all the way around. Seven site. Nonscalable. This is what was available. We worked through the solution yesterday. We were on the phone to get as quickly as possible the capability impossible to extend the perimeter of the National Capital complex. Metropolitan Police Officers out into the streets. In the event that if this was to occur again, that we would have as much flexibility as possible, and we could take over the security positions. That she send the mayor said it was in their decision, but what can you tell us about th
We begin with kevin corke. Happy new year. Happy new year. The stage is set. Duelling peach rallies including rally by the end himself and a pair of Pivotal Senate races that could chart the course for our nation for years to come. Tomorrow each of you is going to vote in one of the most important runoff elections in the history of our country. Its not runoff. Its elections. Its a biggie. Our country is depending on you. An 11th hour pitch from a man that is not ready to leave the political stage. While hes eager to lead the charge for the gop in georgia, its where his strongest opposition has surfaced. I just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. So tell me, brett, what are we going to do . We won the election. Its not fair to take it away like, this. Opposition in the form of georgias secretary of state, brat raffensperger that a his conversation reported and leaked to the washington post. We responded with the facts. Critics from both pa
Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early. I am kasie hunt on this thursday, january 7th, and we will start with the very difficult news. One of the saddest days in modern american history, as protrump rioters, insurrectionists, really, incited by the president , stormed the United States capitol in a failed attempt to thwart the certification of joe bidens election victory. Here was the president addressing his supporters just before the capitol was breached for the First Time Since the war of 1812. And were going to have to fight much harder. And mike pence is going to have to come through for us. And if he doesnt, that will be a sad day for our country. And after this, were going to walk down and ill be there with you were going to walk down were going to walk down, any one you want, but i think right here were going to walk down to the capitol and were going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and were probably not going to be cheer
This is cnn breaking news. It is the top of the hour. Im kate bolduan. Thank you so much for joining us. For years, Vice President mike pence was president Donald Trumps most loyal righthand man. But this week may have changed everything. Cnn is now learning that the two men have no tt spoken since wednesdays attack on the capitol. And that pence now isnt ruling out an effort to use the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. But sources, also, say that the Vice President s team is concerned that making this rare and extraordinary move could cause the president to act out, and do something that could put the nation at risk. The relationship between the two soured after trump tried to get the Vice President to overturn the Election Results in congress. Calling him out on the stage, before that riot played out. And obviously, this is something that pence cant do, and he had made clear that he could not do. And add to that, the president has done nothing to denounce this. The
Police say he returned to his office and collapsed. There is now a homicide investigation. Officers near the capital a tribute to him, he joined the Us Capital Police force in 2008. The department chief and other officials are resigning after wednesdays massive security brief. The fbi released wanted posters and dozens who entered the capital, vandalizing, from the legislature of the United States government. Senior officials and even cabinet members abandoning the Trump Administration setting the president s rhetoric wednesday for inciting violent protesters overrunning the capital, the education secretary has resigned, she joins transportation secretary elaine shall, to a National Security adviser and china expert matt potin ager and other senior and lowerlevel officials. Last evening the president finally spoke posting a video on twitter and for the first time acknowledging he will seed the presidency. Reporter like allamericans im outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem, t