Twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey defending his companys ban on President Trump while making a shocking admission quote having to take these actions sets a precedence thats dangerous. All they did is show us its for of a power grab. That offended a lot of people. I think its going to backfire. Brian here we go. We begin with a fox news alert. I dont know if you have heard but the house voted to impeach President Trump for a second time. Steve this is the first time in American History that any u. S. President has been impeached more than once. Ainsley right, to the very end. Griff jenkins is live in washington with more on this historic vote. Griff . Griff historic, indeed. Good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. 2ing 32 to 197 vote, will impeaching it will President Trump for inciting an insurrection. They believe the president remains a danger. Watch. He poses a continuing threat to our nation. To the intelling infantry at this of our elections and to our democratic order. We are debating this historic measure at an actual crime scene and we wouldnt be here if it werent for the president of the United States. He is capable of starting a civil war. He must be impeached. He must be stopped now. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love. Griff it was historic for not just twice impeaching a president but most bipartisan vote in history. You see here 10 republicans that crossed the aisle creating division in the gop. My vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fearbased decision. Im not choosing a side, im choosing truth. Its the only way to defeat fear. This doesnt europe night the country. There is no way this helps the nation deal with the terrible and tragic event of last week that we all condemn. President trump addressed the nation denouncing violence and calling for calm but not addressing his own impeachment. Mob violence goes against everything i believe in and everything our Movement Stands for. No true supporter of mine could ever endorse Political Violence. I am calling on all americans to overcome the passions of the moment and join together as one American People. Let us choose to move forward united for the good of our families, our communities, and our country. Griff so what now . Impeachment will head to the senate for a trial, but it wont happen immediately. Majority leader mcconnell rejecting an emergency session push saying it will have to wait until after the inauguration. And its unclear exactly where mcconnell stands. Writing in a note to colleagues yesterday he says, quote i have not made a final decision on how i will vote and i intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the senate. So the big question really is how and when this actually happens. President elect biden says he hopes the senate will do their constitutional duty while also addressing business. That business would include confirming nominees and helping him seat a government and his cabinet members. So we just dont know what happens next. But certainly a day that was historic indeed. Brian, ainsley, steve . Steve no kidding, griff. All right. Thank you very much. After the vote, apparently privately in the oval office, the president of the United States had a private ceremony where he awarded toby keith the National Medal of arts. But we have not seen any of those images. The only thing we have seen from the president is that video that he cut where he denounced the violence. Apparently his soninlaw, jared kushner, his daughter ivanka, his video guy dan ask a trivino and Vice President pence all convinced him to film that video. They told him it could actually boost support with some republicans. And they asked him not to mention impeachment and he did not. Ultimately, as we just heard from griff, the message was very clear, violence is never good and his true followers would never be violent. The big question, ainsley, is had he cut that video a week earlier, would we be looking at him being impeached a second time . I dont know. Ainsley well, even when he is out, they want him out. Seven more days, you know. And Kevin Mccarthy had a warning. He said impeachment will further divide the country during an already difficult time. Ben domenech, who is the publicist for the federalist and is on our show a lot. He said this is not about rejecting President Trump. Its rejecting all of his voter. Listen to this. Its a 19710 split. Its really putting the finger in the eye of all of these Republican Voters who came out and backed the president. You are telling them effectively, cnn is right about you. Jake tapper is right about you. All these people who said that you were racist, and the like they were right about you. When you are going along with this joke of an impeachment, with no process no, research, no evidence, its one of these things where i just think you are insulting the very voters you need in order to build a coalition that can move forward. Any politician looking at this has to understand theyre not rejecting a president , he is leaving office in a couple of days. They are rejecting the voters who supported him. Ainsley he is a the publisher not the publicist. He is the cofounder. Steve when he comes on the program is he kind of a publisher, yeah, absolutely. Ainsley he is the cofounder of the federalist. But next week the senate because Mitch Mcconnell has rejected that emergency session the senate will meet on the 19th the day before inauguration. Steve if nancy pelosi hands the articles over to him. Ainsley thats true. She hasnt done that yet. A lot of people are saying push them over there make the senate meet quickly. They will meet on the 19th and thats a proforum session. They wont be able to do any business. They wont be able to take this up until an hour after inauguration after President Trump is already out. Brian physical Steve Scalise and jim jordan behind the president of the United States. Is he a blilgt upset that more people have not stepped forward. Very angry at Kevin Mccarthy for saying the president was wrong in this and how to roll in this but should not be impeached. If you want to censure him censure him you saw him run down and say that kind of extraordinary. Kevin mccarthy was one of his first high profile allies he was saying things as he saw them. I just think if joe biden really wants people to believe he wants people together and America United which is a theme he has been talking about for the most part when he is not calling americans nafts is is. Nazis. Are here is an opporti called nancy pelosi this morning and i said we would like to end this lehr. Here. I understand your point, i understand your outrage but its really important to get my cabinet nominees put in place and will. Steve confirmed. Brian come confirmed. I think its really important for me to get together on another stimulus package and find a way to open up the country. Now those democratic governors and mayors that were determined not to open up the country because it was too dangerous because of the virus, now realize i have a democratic president. Now i can open the country. Brian mast gets it. He is a veteran as you know from florida, won two terms already. Heres his message and listen to the silence after he gives it on the house floor. On january 6th, thousands broke the law by taking siege of our capitol here with us inside. Has any one of those individuals who brought violence on this capitol been brought here to answer whether they did that because of our president . It appears i will receive no ape. I will yield my time back to the gentleman from ohio. Brian if you think about how this thing came together, there is so much we do not know. We do not know about this coordination. We do not understand how they knew where to go from jim clyburns office which is not even labeled downtown. How they got the radios. What their actual goal was. If you look at every trump event. I have been to about 20 before he was president are, while he was president and while he was trying to be president again. There was no violence. The only violence was when somebody came from the outside and be antitrump and then you can debate that they stopped doing that once he became president. You didnt see that anymore. You just didnt think that there would be violence with a trump group. And there was. I still think there is so much to be done. The fact that they do a rocket pocket impeachment in a matter of one day what was it three minutes of debate from each side is outrageous. And i totally agree with Victor Davis Hanson it cheapens the whole process. He even worries about republicans as i do as i mentioned yesterday getting power in the house and being upset about, i dont know, the will exsills tense of sanctuary cities or something that joe biden does that its border wall but they have the majority so they will rocket it through. It cheapens the entire thing. Steve for brian mast to take 30 seconds out of his allotted time and devote it to making a point with that dead air he felt so strongly about it he could have talked for 30 seconds. Up stead he wanted to make the point and draw attention to his comments. Did he draw attention. A guy on another channel who had this observation about brian mast. Listen to it and see if you agree. We have video and i was just watching it as they were starting this vote of the people who were storming the capitol saying the president told us to come here. [laughter] right. That has happened. There is video of this. It is just exhibit a of the reams of evidence that we have. There is one other thing i wanted to share. Just one other thing, thats relevant what you are saying right now is relevant because congressman brian mast a republican from florida who lost his legs by the way fighting for democracy abroad although i dont know what his i dont know about his commitment to it here in the United States. He said did anybody say that . Steve i dont know about his commitment to it here. Brian mast didnt like that and a lot of you didnt like that. Perhaps some of you liked it. But brian mast tweeted this out. Attention, jake tapper, i lost two legs for jake tappers right to say whatever the hell he wants, but that free speech also protects the republicans he is so eager to condemn for asking constitutional questions about the election. And then jake tapper clapped back. Ainsley doubled down. Steve you are a hero for your service, and im grateful as i have said before. And, yes, i question the commitment to democracy of anyone who spreads election lies, signed on to that deranged Texas Attorney general lawsuit, and voted to commit sedition. You were not just asking questions. We will be asking questions of congressman brian mast from florida, retired army ranger. Hes going to be coming up later on in the program. Ainsley listen, they have hated this president since day one. Right after the inauguration in 2017, it took 20 minutes for them to Start Talking about impeachment. It was all over the headlines, they have been talking about it the entire time. They got their wish twice. Is he impeached. Steve they won. Ainsley seven days until he is out. Even if you dont like him, he lost the election. He is out. Isnt that enough . They have to go through all of this and republicans are complaining about the money this is costing us, the time its wasted if the senate does take it up its going to be weeks before they can even talk about confirmation. Steve you know what, ainsley, you know, i said a moment ago, they won. The democrats did win. Ultimately though, impeachment is about removing somebody from an office. Ainsley umhuh. Steve he is going to be gone before they would be able to have any sort of a senate trial where, you know, they go we would just like to guarantee he can never run for office again. Just being convicted in the senate does not guarantee that there has to be a subsequent vote after that. Of course, its just simple majority and given the fact that they have got a Majority Democrats will, that seems to be a done deal. But, nonetheless, when you look at it, they did win. So whats the point . Hes going to be a private citizen. He will be, brian, removed so why do it . Ainsley can i finish . Brian mast, we love you. We appreciate what you did for this country. We lost both of your legs. You stepped on an ied in afghanistan and you are a true hero for that and you fought for the right to stand ton that floor and be able to say whatever you want for freedom of speech. Brian good lawmaker, extremely are works hard. He is a power player. Stepping forward and not stepping back texas lawsuit. Their contention was that texas did it right, florida did it right, ohio did it right. California did it right. And these other states changed their constitution at the last minute and did it wrong and therefore stifled that states right to have a say in the election. The lawsuit failed. You are allowed to go through the legal process. Nobody, i thought, was contending about that but the president decided to do that and i will tell you in the long run there are stories today about in the the Washington Post and New York Times that the president is just enraged about Rudy Giuliani demanding 20,000 a day and giving him some terrible legal advice and mounting some awful legal offenses. Meanwhile, lets talk about the other story that is going to ripple after President Trump is a private citizen. And that is the crackdown of big tech. Were wondering what twitter is doing besides losing a lot of their value. They have lost billions of dollars since they decided to ban done the president their ban the president number one customer even though they dont like him. Ainsley what a business model, right . My number one customer, you are out. Steve we only want to appeal to half the country. Brian right. So they have lost facebook has done the same ban. Facebook has lost more valuation. Maybe they feel they can get it back. Maybe thats the reason why ceo and founder jack dorsey tweeted this out to further explain why he took the action he did, to shut down the president of the United States. And here it is. Just roll it back so i can get the very beginning. Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning and sets a precedent, i feel, is dangerous. The power an individual or corporation over a part of the Global Public conversation. Check accountability on his power has always been the fact that a service like twitter is one of the small parts of the larger public conversation happening across the internet. If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement, they can simple arely go to another internet service. The problem is number one opponent you had your own behemoth companies collaborate with unproven yet, to destroy parler whose ceo says yesterday number one in the app. Store how mocked with an emoji when they got shelved said i dont know if we can come back. He went on. We are trying to do our part by finding an initiative around an open decentralized standard for social media. Our goal is to be a client of the standards of that public conversation layer of the internet. We call it blue sky. Blue sky is a big x mark on the president. I think this is an extremely scary situation. And they are losing customers on a second by second basis. Steve do you know what, brian, i know a lot of people who dont do twitter and dont do social media. And they are just puzzled by all of this. However, its very clear that twitter wanted to make sure that donald trump was not reelected. We heard in the fallout as Silicon Valley was doing most more items back in 2016 they were furious that he had won and that Hillary Rodham clinton had lost and they want to make sure that never happened. And did they change things . Did they alter algorithm . A lot of people on the political right. Brian shadow banning. Steve shadow ban something a number of Different Things they have done to number of conservatives a number of conservatives allege. Nikki haley had this observation about what ultimately twitter is doing by banning trump. Hear these companies talk about how their whole model is about free speech. Yet, you just shut down, you know, the president of, you know, the most free country in the world. And, yet, you left iran and you left china up there. I just think it was a gut reaction. I think it was an emotional reaction. All it did was raise the tensions and the passions of all of the Trump Supporters higher and make things more dangerous. If they had taken their time and calmly introduced whether a they were thinking to the rest of the country, it would have been a different story. But all they did was show more of the power grab. And that offended a lot of people. I think its going to backfire. Steve well, lets see what happens Going Forward. Parler was born a couple of years ago as an answer to twitter. Will somebody be able to build the infrastructure from top to bottom so you do not rely on the Third Party Vendors who might pull the plug . They could do that and have a complete unit, but then you are beholden to apple and to google, which both operate the app. Stores. And if you do not have that app. Store gismo right there, the emoji where you push it and you add it to your phone, how would you be able to do it . Because effectively, that is how big tech, these monster monopolies are able to be the gate keepers to you. Brian or you go to google and gool is also in on it, too. These competitors collude together in order to stop just about anyone and if they can stop the president entirely, if the president wants to use the potus account, they stopped his twitter. If he goes