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Two Cabinet secretaries resign and a Capitol Police officer dies a day after Wednesday's riot, while some administration officials discuss removing the president, who releases a video saying he is focused on an orderly transition of power.
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Blunt added in a separate interview with KSHB, another Missouri TV station, that impeaching Trump was not going to happen.
Though the House would need to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate would hold the trial and ultimately vote on whether to convict Trump and remove him from office.
Blunt is the highest-ranking Senate Republican to weigh in on calls from a growing number of Democrats for Trump to be impeached after a mob came to the Capitol as lawmakers were counting the Electoral College vote.
Trump has claimed for weeks that the election was rigged, even as his legal team lost dozens of court challenges and election experts dismissed allegations of widespread voter fraud.
“My colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale … that would tip the entire election,” says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, pictured Wednesday afternoon back-to-back with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in the House chamber during the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Congress has certified Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, making him the nation’s 46th president, following lawmakers’ debate Wednesday that went past midnight after being interrupted by rioters who stormed the Capitol in the afternoon.
The rioters forced a lockdown of the Capitol that suspended lawmakers’ debate in a joint session of Congress over counting and certifying the electoral votes by which Biden defeated President Donald Trump. The expected outcome officially would make Biden president-elect and pave the way for his inauguration as president Jan. 20.
The extraordinary attack on the symbolic epicenter of the U.S. s democracy left the building in tatters, at least one rioter dead and lawmakers in both parties shell-shocked by the unprecedented threat to their safety in a building previously thought to be virtually impenetrable.
Shortly before 4 a.m., after lawmakers formally tabulated each state s Electoral College votes, Vice President Pence announced before a joint session of Congress that Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
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The images of chanting Trump supporters smashing windows, brawling with Capitol Police and marching unimpeded through the Rotunda quickly ricocheted around the globe, stunning Washington, the nation and the entire free world while leading to accusations from lawmakers in both parties that it was the president himself who had incited the riot.