And then there is this on going back and forth over where we stand with getting the president out of office with only 12 days to go. Theres the impeachment process, seems like an uphill battle. The 25th amendment process, seems like a nonstarter as far as the Vice President has to say. Where does this go from here . Were on that, talking to a former confidant top security official of the United States, rick granel. Im neil cavuto with your world. First from john roberts and the confirmation from the president that he will not go to the inauguration. He is the fourth president to consider and decide on doing just that. John has covered all previous three that did the exact same thing. See you, my friend. Yeah, i like good for being 150 years. Good afternoon, neil. No surprise to me that the president has decided not to go to the inauguration. He made it official in a tweet this morning. To all of those that asked, i wont be going to the inauguration january 20th. There you go. Make it official there. As you mentioned, hes the fourth president. The others were the father and some duo of john adams and John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson in 1969 that was unsaysed by grants win and having been impeached himself that he decided not to attend. And talk of impeachment or legal exposure gains a little traction here in washington. The president acknowledging in a video last night that the election is over and that its now time for the white house to move toward an orderly transition to the next administration. Listen here. Now congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated january 20th. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, order through transition of power. Nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house on the left there, has been threatening impeachment if mike pence did not invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president from power after the Vice President s office made it clear he was not even going to entertain that. Shes now saying that the president will be impeached if he doesnt immediately resign, which could begin as early as monday. Heres what the speaker said about it. Yesterday the president of the United States i believe cited an armed insurrection against america. A very dangerous person that should not continue in office. This is urgent. This is emergency of the highest magnitude. The other question here is if there is enough republican senators that would sign on to a potential conviction in the senate. Were getting an indication that theres a few at least. Would you have the 2 3s majority with the open seat now in georgia, 66 required in order to convict the president. Its unclear whether theres that number of republicans that would sign on to a conviction. An also an issue in time. Can you get it done before the 20th. Doesnt seem like theres an appetite to try the president after he leaves office. Defections in the administration continued last night. The education secretary betsy devos joining elaine chao saying she will step down as a result of what happened wednesday. A scathing condemnation of the president saying the behavior was unconscionable for our country. No mistaking the impact the president s rhetoric had on the situation and its the Inflection Point for me. Nancy pelosi says that she called the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley earlier today to inquire about the status of the Nuclear Forces and whether or not President Trump would be able to launch a nuclear attack. The Chairmans Office said that the answer to her question regarding the process of Nuclear Command authority, you know, neil, its getting to the point where it seems one side is kind of trying to make this as bad as they possibly can over the next 11 days. But im hearing from white house staff that what theyre trying to do is just get through the next 11 days to bring this plane in for a landing. Make a smooth transition to the biden administration. Well see if that is possible. Yeah. Plant the seeds of a nuclear war. Its getting crazy now. Thanks, john roberts. Good job. So young all of these centuries here. Touche. Meantime here, i do want to go to the invite that is out there from the president elect to the Vice President that he is welcome at his inauguration. But joe biden is very happy to hear at least in thoughts that donald trump wont be at the inauguration. Peter doocy is here to sort this out. Peter . Neil, i was just in with the president elect. He said hes about too hop on a call with nancy pelosi and talk about his agenda and whatever else Top Democrats want to talk about. If its the impeachment, he says he trusts the house. He said hes glad his predecessor isnt coming. I was told on the way over here that he indicated he wasnt going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and i agreed on. Its a good thing him not showing up. Biden has long said he doesnt think the country can survive another four eyes of donald trump and he ran to unite the country. Something that he thinks just got easier after angry Trump Supporters rioted their way into the capitol. I think it makes my job easier, quite frankly. Ive had a number of my republican colleagues, former colleagues, i used to serve in the senate a long time, call me. They are many of them are outraged and disappointed and embarrassed and mortified by the president s conduct as i am. As democrats are. I think i have said from the beginning and i have not changed my view, my overarching objective is to unify this country. We must unify the country. Bill and i asked the president elect on his way out of the theater about the newly announced covid19 plan. If he wants to release all available doses as opposed to right now where some are held back for second shots, how he can guarantee that everybody could get their second shot on time. He said he will talk about that thursday. Neil . Neil all right. Good job squeezing in questions again, peter doocy. John can here from quinnipiac on some of these measures. Democrats moving to impeachment or the 25th amendment, anything to get the president out of office right now. They seem like uphill battles to me. How would you define them . Yeah, its impossible. You can do the 25th amendment, but the Vice President said he wouldnt sign on. Neil, lets start here. If there was ever a president in our day other than nixon that deserved to be impeached and im a republican, it is donald trump. He should be impeached and convicted for what he did. If it happened a week after the election, i think there would be they would impeach him. He might get convicted. With 12 days to go no inauguration day, you would have to swear out articles and have them vote on that and have a trial in the senate. Im surprised at this point that the president elect doesnt come out and say, people, lets take a breath here and lets make a bad situation worse. Neil if you think about it, john, biden all but did by saying that is up to the house, the senate. Im moving, getting prepared for the 20th. Let me ask you about the 25th amendment thing. That involves the Vice President working with a majority of the cabinet to say we dont think the president is fit for office. Isnt that usually assigned for a president that might be doing under anesthesia for an operation or a situation where his health is in peril or could be temporarily idled. Not for Something Like this or am i wrong . Im smiling because you use the word usually. When it comes to the 25th amendment, we dont have a data set to form what is usual. Youre right. The 25th amendment has been used when the president has gone under for surgery, for anesthesia or whatever. Youre right. Such an unbelievable occasion if all of a sudden it were to happen this time. So theres no usual. Yes, usually used for that. Look, i think theres this is the first time that its been talked about in the case of a president. This is the first time in modern times its even been contemplated. Neil on the impeachment effort, nancy pelosi wants to do that. You have to have a lot of senators of both parties pursuing it in the senate. How likely is that . Again, given that time period, i mean, when they talk about speeding and impeachment process, that is not something generally our founders envision. Its not like, you know, a bullet, lets rocket through this . Yeah, lets switch from i always tell my students, this is not a Political Science course. Quinnipiac law school, my common law courses. Shes making a mistake. Youre not going to get an impeachment. I know you have between now to force something and whatever tonight and a lot of people on fox news talking about impeachment. We wont have an impeachment. I can tell you that right now. What youll see from this is from the republican standpoint, theyre doing the party a favor. Theyre making donald trump unviabliu unviable as a political candidate. They dont have to worry about that. Donald trump needed his base, but he also needed people that sort of held their nose and went to the voting booth and voted for themed. He lost those people. Bill your audio is breaking up here. I get your point. By the way, were going to raise that with his former top intelligence adviser, ric grenell. The pressure has been pick on the president right now to go ahead and leave. Hes of the opinion that this is getting too extreme. Well pursue that. Were also going to explore whether the Capitol Hill Police have been criticized for their handling of the protests, whether they refuse to help and service from the National Guard. A lot going back and forth. We dont know where its going. Just that it is far from ending. 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Nationwide 5g is now included. Switch and save hundreds. Xfinity mobile. Neil all right. Were getting more details as a flag is at half staff in washington. More details about those taken in and arrested as a result of the storming of the capitol. Were getting word that National Guard troops will be brought in for the next 30 days in to washington that will include the inauguration. 62 from new york, virginia, pennsylvania and delaware. 1,100 from d. C. Capitol hill police can do more. 850 are taking various shifts on can toll hill. That is coming from Jennifer Griffin who has been following very closely. The security plans being put in place for the inauguration but well after that as well for the next again 30 days. Mike tobin right now with the latest details. How and why the Capitol Hill Police might have to defend more Going Forward. Hey, mike. What i can tell you, we have a statement from the family of offic offic offic offic officer stick nick. He was a veteran and served in Operation Enduring freedom. I can read you part of the statement. Its long. Part of what the family said is many of the details and the causes of brians injuries are unknown. Our family asked the public and the press to respect our wishes and not making brians passing a political issue. Police honor brians life and service and respect our privacy while we move forward in doing the same. Brian is a hero and thats what we want people to run. And he was a 12year veteran. He was injured while engaging with protesters. He got back to his decision and he collapsed. Sicknick succumbed to his injured. The feds will get involved. Acting attorney general stating the fbi and metropolitan Police Department will jointly investigate this case and the department of justice will spare no resources in investigating and Holding Accountable those responsible. Meantime, theres been arrests for those people that stormed and showed up in the capitol. Richard barnett, the man photographed with his feet on the house speakers death, hes been arrested in little rock, arkansas. Theft of public property and violent entry. Derek evans has been arrested. His charges are not entirely clear. Its predicted he will be charged with illegally entering the capitol. A man marked mark leffingwell. Christopher Michael Albert entering the capitol illegally and had a 9 millimeter hand gull. And Maggie Kauffman had a pickup trump with molotov cocktails, home napalm and two rifles. And we have new information from the secretary of the army. When you spoke of the guardsman that will be here on the scene, they will possibly now be carrying weapons with live ammunition, neil. Bill mike, thank you very much. Incredible coverage this week. That is probably an understatement. Thanks very much. Mike tobin in our nations capitol. Lets go to Chris Swecker the former fbi assistant director. You probably might not have seen the pictures that were getting inside and outside the capitol. One thing that i did notice is in the wider shot, the cameras are everywhere. Corners of the building and all. So theyre going to have that resource to replay, look at, examine, which probably help them get the 13 individuals they have already. No doubt about it, neil. This video is going to be converted to still photos. Theyre going to break it down with individual face shots. Theyre going to send them to every Police Department in the country, sheriff department, Law Enforcement agency. Theyre going to appeal to the public. Theyre going to identify the main movers here. I fully anticipate to see more arrests, especially in the investigation of officer sicknick and the condolences to his family. Tragic death there. And of course, a review of what happened and why it happened. Neil you know, i get when you hear from the protesters, this wasnt us. But looked like hundreds that stormed in to the capitol. There was more than just a few. A good many of them were armed. How does that happen . Its baffling, neil. This was entirely predictable. If its predictable, its preventible. There should have been more officers, should have been more mobile forces, forces trained in crowd control. There should have been better equipment. In the capitol, they werent wellequipped. They didnt have the right training. There were some mobile force officers around but didnt seem like enough of them. Neil so Going Forward and now i know theyre welcoming that as the Capitol Police for federal help and National Guardsmen and more will be at the ready, but Going Forward, you always worry about what has happened at the white house since 911 where they closed off pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house. Its only pedestrian traffic now. Can you envision them doing Something Like that around the capitol . I do. They have already put up a seven or eight foot fence around the capitol. I used to jog around the capitol. The capitol will be less accessible to the public. Its the symbol of our democracy. Very sad. I expect to see layers on top of layers of security for the inauguration. I dont anticipate anything happening at the capitol during that time period. Its very sad what happened here. Neil no, i hear you. I hope youre right about that everything is a peaceful transfer of power and cooler heads prevail. Chris swecker, the former fbi assistant director. Thanks, chris, very much. Be safe. Thanks, neil. Neil meantime, two cabinet officials have bolted. Why ric grenell said its not a jake break and why the former top acting intelligence director says youre not getting the entire story what is going on in that building after this. Good morning, mr. Sun. Good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. Im gonna grow big and strong. Yes, you are. Im gonna get this place all clean. Ill give you a hand. 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