Mccarthy and the rest of the Republican Leadership knew what they were getting into with Marjorie Taylor greene in the beginning. She had a primary. There was, i think, a Brain Surgeon she was running against but they didnt want to interfere. That was the time to say, you know what . We will leave it up to the voters of georgia, but should she come to washington, she is not going to be given much opportunity because we do have standards, and once you stalk the children who lived through a mass shooting, thats where we can draw the line. Lets start there, you know. Amanda carpenter. Amanda, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. So the scene at the capitol today or tonight i should say, beautiful, stately, mournful, honoring a fallen hero, officer Brian Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there just a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists tried to take down our government. That as the second Impeachment Trial of the previous president is looming. Because of the insurrection he incited, the insurrection that killed Officer Sicknick who lies beneath the capitol dome instead of home with his family, thats where he should be quite frankly. House democrats laying out their case in an 80page brief saying, quote, If Provoking An Insurrectionary Riot against a Joint Session Of Congress after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, it is hard to imagine what would be. Then they laid out the evidence point by point. In the president s own words, the case against the president , and you know the story because it is the truth and we lived it. After the election trump refused to accept the will of the people, claiming that he won in a landslide, claiming the election was stolen. All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and a bold and radical left democrats which is what theyre doing and stolen by the fake news media. Make no mistake, the election was stolen from you, from me and from the country, and not a single swing state has conducted a comprehensive audit to remove the illegal ballots. A big difference between losing and winning and having it stolen. The truth is we won the election by a landslide. Well. If im down by five when theyre doing 38 to 21, that means im winning in a landslide. If thats the case, we are going to have the greatest landslide in history. That as opposed to what is happening now, people died. After the Electoral College vote he focused his protest on january 6th, tweeting this. Be there, well be wild. On the day that became one of the darkest in the nations history, urging the crowd to fight like heel oll or you won have a country anymore. And if you dont fight like hell, youre not going to have a country anymore. You will never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. And the violence raged at the capitol. He told the insurrectionists, we love you and youre very special. Go home. We love you, youre very special. Team trump responding with their own brief today, a brief that begins with a misspelling on page one. But they seem not to have heard any of the former president s own words. After all, if you heard a single thing he said about the election, how could you claim this, and i quote here, it is denied President Trump made any effort to subvert the certification of the results of the 2020 president ial election. Denied . Really . He said it over and over, demanding mike pence refuse to certify the results, even though he had absolutely no authority to do that. All Vice President pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president and you are the happiest people. That was a lie. He said it out loud. They want to recertify their votes. They want to recertify. But the only way that can happen is if mike pence agrees to send it back. Mike pence has to agree to send it back. Again, a lie. He put it in writing, Tweeting Again And again and again. And lets not forget his call to Georgia Secretary Of StateBrad Raffensperger, demanding he find votes to flip the election. So, look, all i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. I just want to find. Where did he think they were going to find them from . What does that mean . And then theres Lindsey Graham, rideordie Lindsey Graham who tells politico today if team trump argues the election was stolen, quote, thats when you are going to lose everybody. Thats when most of us will be ready to move on. Thats when you will be ready to move on . Funny, because you already told us you were done. Weve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh, my god, i hate it. From my Point Of View he has been a consequential president , but today, first thing you will see, all i can say is count me out. Enough is enough. Well, that was the night of the insurrection, and now just a month later the former president s second Impeachment Trial is looming, a moment for america to grapple with everything we have seen over the past month. Joining me now cnns White House Correspondent john harwood and political commentator anna navarro. Good evening to both of you. It is sad to watch what is happening in washington right now. President biden paying respects to the fallen Capitol Hill Police officer, Brian Sicknick, as he lies in honor at the capitol rotunda, the exact building he died protecting. A powerful moment and a reminder, john, of the horror of that day. Don, joe biden understands service. He understands loss. He has a referverence for the capitol as the citadel, the american temple of democracy. He spent 36 years there in the senate, another eight years as Vice President and president of the senate, and he went to pay respect to this fallen officer for an event that was incited by his predecessor for the purpose of overturning a democratic election, that five people lost their lives that day. You couldnt have a more eloquent symbol of what america has moved beyond, that is donald trump, to the president that we have now trying to move the country beyond that moment that we saw tonight. But, anna, the republicans arent moving beyond trump. The republicans are what . They are not moving beyond trump. No, theyre not. They are beholden to trump. They are afraid of trump, and, you know, as i was watching that ceremony today, tonight, that cnn was carrying, i was growing angrier and angrier because, don, that did not need to happen. Officer sicknick did not need to be lying in honor there. There were 140 other Law Enforcement officers that were hurt. More people died there. Look, you know, these congress people, these senators, trump and his cronies who peddled these lies that incited this mob, these domestic terrorists, they may not have been the ones breaking the windows or smashing the doors or holding the Fire Hydrants with which they were smashing peoples skulls or the sticks that they were using to hurt people, but they have responsibility. They have blood on their hands. I am yet to hear any of those people, any of those people be held accountable or take responsibility or take some of the blame for what happened. I have yet to hear some reckoning. Instead, they went back into that building where that officer is lying in honor right now and they voted to confirm the lie that led to that mans death. That is such a shameful moment for america, but it is a shameful moment, it is an unforgivable moment. It is a moment we should not move on from for the Republican Party. So kevin mccarthy, if he wants to honor that officer who is laying there, you know what he needs to do . He needs to strip Marjorie Taylor greene, who is one of the primary peddlers of lies, of her committee assignments. You know what the senators need to do . They need to stop hiding behind the process argument about constitutionality and they need to vote on the article of impeachment that donald trump incited an insurrection. Thats what they need to do. I dont want to see them going over there, you know, and paying their respect to Officer Sicknick. Im talking about american, im not talking on behalf of the ceremony. As an american, i am livid, livid seeing them hold their heads down, bow their heads there and cross themselves in prayer when they dont have the guts, when they dont have the guts to take responsibility for the fact that they should be held accountable. And there are there are many people in this country who feel the outrage that you are feeling, just the sheer hypocrisy is just too much to take, john. Listen, anna just mentioned Marjorie Taylor greene, and i want you to check out this newlyuncovered video of Marjorie Taylor greene. It is from a few years ago, suggesting that her followers storm the capitol. Here it is. If we have a sea of people, if we shut down the streets, if we shut down everything, if we flood the capitol building, flood all the government buildings, go inside. These are public buildings. We own them. We own these buildings. Do you understand that . We own the buildings and we pay all the people that work in the buildings. Just two years ago. That was december of 18, just two years ago. We reached out to, by the way, greenes office for comment on the video, but they didnt respond. These comments are horrific. Theyre nothing new, john. So why is it so hard, as anna said, for republicans to figure out what to do about her . Because they are in hock to the energy and intensity that people that Marjorie Taylor greene speaks for to win their elections. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous nut who is no more fit to serve in congress than donald trump was to serve in the white house, but thats the problem. Donald trump served in the white house because a whole lot of people with the same viewpoints that elected Marjorie Taylor greene to congress from Northwest Georgia voted for donald trump and voted to reelect him, 74 million of them did. That is the problem, and the Republican Party is terrified of Crossing Donald Trump even though leaders of the Republican Party know that donald trump was not fit to be president. Were only now beginning to learn how horrendous the final days of Donald Trumps presidency had been. We saw some of it in realtime, that phone call trying to browbeat Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary Of State, into committing Election Fraud. But the Republican Party depends on those forces. And until they are able, until they have the strength to be able to stand up and say, no, thats not what we represent, invite those people to leave, form a different kind of Republican Party with a different kind of message, they i think are going to stick on the path that theyre on. Mitch mcconnell is trying to alter that path, but, of course, Mitch Mcconnell tolerated the big lie after the election for quite a long time before he finally called it out. So, you know, you have various ranges of responsibility of people who either tolerate the lie for a long period of time or a short period of time but a whole lot of them tolerated it and it led to the result we have seen. It has to be the last word. But, john, i want to thank you. Anna, i want to thank you. You represent a lot of what people are feeling, your comments and feelings tonight, anna. Thank you so much. Disgusting, don. It is disgusting. Now i want to bring in mary trump, niece of the former president. She is author of too much and never never, how my family created the worlds most dangerous man. Mary, good to see you. Thank you so much for joining. You know, it doesnt matter that dozens of courts have ruled that trump, your uncle, lost the election fair and square. He still wants his legal team to argue that the election was stolen. It is a massive lie that ultimately led to the violent insurrection and his second impeachment. Why cant he just let it go . First of all, why should he . The Republican Party did themselves and this entire country a great disservice when they didnt put a stop to this On November 7th after the election had been called for President Biden. The fact that they let this play out for so many months and gain steam among donalds most virulent supporters is one of the major reasons we are in this mess. You know, he Still Believes that theres a chance for him to i mean i dont know anymore if he believes he can overturn the results of the election, but he Still Believes theres a chance for him to be relevant and to dictate how things go going forward. So far the republicans in congress seem more than willing to allow that to happen. Well, his legal team says that he urged supporters to protest peacefully. I mean he used that word once in his january 6th speech, but this is what else he said. Watch this. After this were going to walk down, and ill be there with you. You will never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We fight like hell, and if you dont fight like hell youre not going to have a country anymore. Mary, so youre a psychologist. After months of being prepped with false threats of a stolen language, what kind of impact could that have on those trump supporters, those people who were there and riled up . Well, we have to remember that he has been prepping them for this for months. So it is not as if january 6th was the first time he was stoking their sense of grievance and anger. It has been going on forever it seems. So that was just the final straw, if you will, and they were ready to go. I mean they were ready to go before they got there, and he and donnie and several senators and members of the House Of Representatives added fuel to that particular fire. He was probably told to throw the word peacefully in there so he could have plausible deniability later on, but, as you said, he said it once. The rest of that speech was an incitement to violence against our congress. As of now it looks like there arent enough Senate Republicans to convict trump. What do you see as the consequences if your uncle is able to skirt accountability again . It would be disastrous. What i find particularly disturbing is that there are republican senators saying that they will vote to acquit without leaving room to be convinced by compelling evidence. So thats it already seems a setup in that respect. At the very least, they need to invoke the third section of the 14th amendment, which would bar him ever from seeking Public Office again, because if he is allowed to run, he will have a platform that will give him power and relevance he absolutely has no business having anymore. Yeah. Well, he has been able to use what happened to make a whole lot of money. You know, his grift about stolen and we have to fight, he has used that to make a whole lot of money. How do you think your uncle is handling leaving office in disgrace and having to face a second Impeachment Trial without his beloved twitter feed. Is he having withdrawal . I think he has probably had the worst couple of weeks of his life, which is welldeserved. The problem is because of people telling him, threaten to start a third party, you know, he has gotten the republicans back in line. And, again, they seem more than willing to sacrifice due process, to sacrifice our democracy to hang on to their power no matter how ill gotten, and it is a very dangerous development. I cant believe we still have to be having this conversation in february 2021. But we are not anywhere near Out Of The Woods yet. It is amazing, right, were in february and we have a second impeachment of the former president. It is unreal. Listen, we all make little typos in an email or text, but i mean this is a legal document. Trumps legal team misspelled United States on the first page of their response to the article of impeachment. I mean it comes on the same day that axios is reporting trump said it was very embarrassing for his former Attorney Sidney Powell when she misspelled the word district three different ways in their lawsuit. Is this what happens when you surround yourself with incompetent yes people, they dont even use spell check . Yes, when i saw that today or yesterday, it kind of sent me Over The Edge because this has been happening since the very beginning. I dont know if it is arrogance or laziness, but they have such contempt for the American People that, youre right, they dont even bother using spell check. It is just disgraceful. You know, they misspell the names of heads o