Republican party. We would get wiped out. And it would take generations to overcome a trump candidacy. I hope the republican senators know that. It is a reality. And it will not help the country, the most important thing. Impeaching him after he leaves office will be disastrous for this country and our party so in 2016, senator graham said electing donald trump would destroy the republican party. Now he said convicting him would do the same. Its interesting because lindsey at one point had said maybe a week ago, week and a half ago after the riots, after we find out the rioters were coming to kill mike pence Vice President of the United States and coming to kill nancy pelosi. We have news they were minutes away. Possibly seconds away seconds. From getting mike pence and doing serious bodily damage to him, possibly killing him, his family. And now lindsey is saying, wait a second. Dont impeach him. Please dont peach him. After mike pence and nancy pelosi and other members of congresss life was on the line he said im done with this. Im done with donald trump. And then a couple idiots chased him through the airport. He switches position. A couple idiots chase me through the airport, its not going to be my problem. Its going to be theirs. Okay. Im surprised lindsey is so weak that a couple people yell at him and he jumps on a plane with the president the next day. It is sad and that pathetic. These are the weak minds trump preys on. Weak man. Very, very weak man. Lets take everyone through where we are at. A lot more came out about the assault at the capitol. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, january 18th. With us we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Eddie claude jr. And National Editor of the financial times, ed luce is with us this morning. With a little more than two days until joe biden will be sworn in, Law Enforcement is still grappling with the fallout from the deadly january 6th riot. And security around washington, d. C. Is ramping up. According to the Associated Press, u. S. Defense officials are worried about a possible insider attack or threat from Service Members involved. An inside threat. Securing the inauguration. Inside threat in america. The fbi is vetting all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming in to d. C. For the event. Army secretary Ryan Mccarthy tells the a. P. They are taking a second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation. And the guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats. Meanwhile, we continue to learn more information and see more video from the january 6th capitol hill riots. The new yorker published staggering new footage from inside the riot. Reporter luke mogulson has followed the radical fringe of Trump Supporters for months and attended the january 6th rallies in washington that paved way to the insurrection. By the way, mika, he is a veteran war correspondent. And here we have Donald Trumps own war, Donald Trumps own insurrection inside our Constitutional Republic. It is so mika, how disgraceful are the actions of these people you saw in the video . Well, it gets worse. As more and more video comes out, you realize theres no turning back from this as being complete and total criminal activity that needs to be held accountable. Thats what happens in this country. And the several times these cop killers are chanting f the cops, f the cops, screaming and abusing the cops. Pattying Police Officers with american flags. And, yes, its not antifa. Its maga. They say who sent them. They talk and they brag about who sent them and say ted cruz would want us to be here over and over again. Watch this. Whose house . Our house. Theres a million of us out there. Million of us out there. Youre going to run out of mace. Thats all you got . Ted cruzs objections. Objection. He was going to sell us out all along. Look. Objection to counting electoral votes on the state of arizona. Wait, no. All right, all right. Hes with us, hes with us. Ed luce, it it looks like were watching an insurrection from a foreign country. Fascist thugs overrunning democratic institutions. And some Eastern European land. But it is here. It is washington, d. C. As we learned last night, Donald Trumps insurrection and Donald Trumps efforts to have a coup, which we have been talking about for quite some time. He wanted to rile people up and have an auto coup, its led to this. And now even the National Guard is having the fbi check to make sure there is not an inside job to kill elected american officials, including the president and Vice President of the United States. Yeah. Really stark footage i think underlying something that is very true about fascist were kind of movements. There is a mixture of horror there and a degree of comedy. The comedy being just how ridiculously illinformed and unrealistic these people were, not just the ones wearing weird costumes but the ones wandering in like tourists saying lets set up a government. I think that youve got a situation now with the National Guard and other Law Enforcement being given very thorough background checks by the fbi where we are more worried about a recurrence of that on wednesday but what i think of annan war sa dat, the indian leader and aoe skwreupz leader both killed by their own guards, assassinated by their own guards. I can imagine that is a nightmarish headache for the secret service to be looking at. A lot of people on that very stark footage were offduty policemen from other states. There was some serving military there. And of course there are a number of Capitol Hill Police being questioned for sympathies with the rioters. The idea of anarchy on wednesday with 25,000 troops in this city probably unlikely. The idea of Something Else happening and pipe bombs included cannot be ruled out. I would not wish to be working for the secret service or the fbi this week. Yeah. Of course you brought up anwar sadat. Had they been muslim insurrectionists, they would have been shot and killed at the capitol or they would be in gitmo now. They would be somewhere. And it would have been taken care of instead. These traitors busted in and wanted to kill mike pence, the Vice President of the United States, wanting to kill nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, wanted to kill the number 2 and number 3 ranking constitutional offices to behead the United States government. Our Constitutional Government. What, so donald trump could run the whole thing itself . Yeah, it doesnt work that way in america, kids. Jonathan lemire, you are hearing increasing concerns inside Law Enforcement about the actual inauguration itself. Inside where they can secure the location. So far the biden team still wants to do it outside, right . Joe, that is right. And i was moving around Downtown Washington last night. Now of course a few days ahead of the inauguration. It is striking. Theres been a lot of comparisons to the green zone that was established, secure zones established in background at the beginning of the iraq war. Some of those parallels seemed fitting. Some images are so striking. An American Capital city and street upon street is blocked off by National Guard, heavily armed vehicles, roads closed to make it impossible to get around washington and setting the stage for what we will see here in the city this week. And the report of my colleagues at the ap is particularly chilling. The idea of looking at a potential inside job. The fbi vetting National Guardsman. They have been briefing the Biden Campaign in recent days. One of their real concerns would be for this influx of out of state National Guardsmen or other Law Enforcement agencies, local police worried there could be a threat posed from within. They have been leaning on the biden camp to really consider. Lets be clear. The secret Service Always looks for the most safe, cautious approach. They will represent the principal on a variety of options. There has been growing intensity in the last 72 to 96 hours, fears that something could happen. We have been on high alert since the capitol attack. They are urging the president elect to really consider moving something indoors to a more secure facility. To this point biden and his team are saying no. There will be incredible security lockdown, incredible presence. This inauguration was going to look different anyway because of the pandemic. There are some visitors but a much Smaller Group than usual because biden told me, celebrate at home. It is not safe because of the pandemic. Now of course theres security concerns from fellow americans, which is such a hard thing to even get our heads around here as we move to the transfer of power. For now, joe, president elect biden does want the symbolism of a capitol ceremony. He does want to have this sign as a first step of trying to heal america, bring america together. He has a long list of things he needs to do. He wants to adhere to tradition as best he can on noon on wednesday. Well, members of President Trumps failed president ial campaign played key roles in orchestrating the washington rally that spawned the deadly attack on the capitol. We are finding out real chilly things here. According to Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims, the event was the brain child of the president s grassroots supporters. The ap reports, a protrump Nonprofit Group called women for America First hosted the save america rally on january 6th at the waffle. But an attachment to the National ParkService Public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by trumps 2020 Reelection Campaign. Other staff scheduled to be on sight during the demonstration have close ties to the white house. In a statement, the president s Reelection Campaign said it did not organize, operate or finance the event. And that no Campaign Staff members were involved in the organization or operation of the rally. It said that if any former employees or inspect contractors for the campaign took part, they did not so so at the direction of the Trump Campaign. The aps review found at least three of the Trump Campaign aides named on the permit rushed to obscure their connections to the demonstration. They deactivated or locked down their social media profiles, removed tweets that referenced the rally and blocked a reporter who asked questions. Those aides include carolyn wren, a veteran gop fundraiser named as vip adviser on an attachment to the rally permit. Between midmarch and midnovember, donald trump for president inc paid wren 20,000 a month. And maggie mulvaney, a niece of former top trump aide mick mulvaney, listed on the permit tampment as the vip lead. She was earning 5,000 every two weeks from trumps Reelection Campaign. With the most recent payment reported on november 13th. Meanwhile, the personal accounts of the capitol rioters revealed the impact of President Trumps words on his most loyal supporters. Some felt called to washington by trumps false claims of a stolen election while others believed they were carrying out the president s direct orders at his rally that day. According to a criminal complaint, a retired firefighter charged with assaulting members of the Capital Police force, he went into the building following the president s instructions. And this is what a texas Real Estate Agent, accused of breaching the capitol, told a reporter about her involvement. I thought i was following my president. I thought i was following what we were called to do. He asked us to be there. So i was doing what he asked us to do. All right. So shes, by the way, asking for a pardon. Yeah, shes asking for a pardon, exactly. So, eddie, donald trump, Donald Trumps campaign, Donald Trumps supporters, people that were getting paid a lot of money by the Trump Campaign and then decided to organize this riot are trying to run. Theres nowhere to run, baby. Nowhere to hide. I think the supremes sang that one. And theres really not. By the time the feds are finishing investigating this, theyve got a trail that leads straight back to donald trump. Straight back to Donald Trumps campaign. And this is only the beginning of the investigation. Only the beginning, joe. Youre right. Theres no way they can hide from this. There is a sense in which we have known since donald trump came down the escalator, his objective has been to exploit, to leverage, a sense of disaffection, grievance for his own political ends and benefits. We have heard in the runup to the election, during the election and postelection, donald trump trying to delegitimate the results, of votes of particularly africanamericans. And, again, to leverage, to play on the sense of resentment, grievance and alienation of a particular part of this constituency. For the last four years he has been lying through his teeth. The people around him has been lying through their team. It is to not believe them. It is to think theyre lying. Im thinking about this in terms of u. S. History in the mid20th century. The United States is not innocent of political assassination. Were not innocent of kind of discord. Im thinking of that difficult period between 63 and 68 where we watched the assassination of john f. Kennedy, martin king, bobby kennedy. And what was at the heart of it was that america was morphing, we were changing, we were trying to address a central contradiction at the heart of the country. Here we are in the midst of this, the sagging of the peoples house, the selfishness of a political leader, and we are dealing with that contradiction right now. And, again, the difference between now and then, now and any other time since the civil war is that we have a president who is trying exactly. To undermine the constitution. It is the president himself who is trying to lead an insurrection against the United States of america, against the government, against the constitution, against constitutional safeguards. That makes this unlike any other time since Jefferson Davis became president of the confederacy. I know a lot of people support donald trump who like drawing that parallel. Well, it is an accurate parallel because jefferson was a traitor to the United States of america, and so is donald trump. And he continues to be. And if any of his supporters dont think he is, id love to know what their justification is. Because this is a riot that started to kill the Vice President of the United States and to kill the speaker of the house and to tear to shreds the capitol. And look at the pictures of them banging on the doors wanting to kill people, saying they were coming for them. Screaming in anger and disgust when they went through the Senate Chambers, screaming, where are they, where did they go. Ed luce, ive been talking to several pretty wellplayed sources through the weekend. Ive been talking to friends in journalism. Theyre all coming to the same conclusion about Mitch Mcconnell. Saying were not going to take this up in the nicks week or so. He was somehow trying to protect the president. Its taken some of us a little while that thats the last thing Mitch Mcconnell is doing. Mitch mcconnell probably knew when he said he was going to delay it that the longer this plays out the worse it looks for donald trump. Here we are 11 days later and more connections are being revealed. And the longer this goes, the more donald trump is going to be attached directly to the rioting and the killing of these Police Officers. Yeah. I think the arrests that are being made, the post the social media postings, the sort of celebratory meaculpas that you have seen from so many of the participants in the assault on democracy i think speaks of making the job of the police and Law Enforcement a little bit easier. But the naivety of some of them. But on the other hand there are clearly hardcore militia types who had plans to take out as you say, decapitate le