Reminded me of a states i visited over the 100 countries i have gone to in third ten horn dictatorships. It just cannot be sustained. Has to be immediately, immediately investigated. In depth. People have to be held accountable. Do you think you need to change any of the planning for your inauguration as a result of this . Totally different entity is in charge of the inauguration than was in charge of protecting the capitol. The secret service. I have great confidence in the secret service. I have great confidence in their ability to make sure that the inauguration goes off, goes off safely and goes off without a hitch. So its a different so i have confidence in what is in the planning thats been under way before this and continues with the secret service as the main agency. Thank you. Thank you. President elect biden, Vice President elect harris, good to see you both. About President Trump actively encouraging the insurrection at the capitol. Given that, given the perceived threat he poses to, the question is not so much the role of congress in impeachment but rather should President Trump in your estimation remain in office . I didnt think look. Ive been saying for now well over a year, hes not fit to serve. Hes not fit to serve. Hes one of the most incompetent president s in the history of the United States of america. And so, the idea that i think he shouldnt be out of Office Yesterday is not the issue. The question is, what happens with 14 days left to go or 13 days left to go . And i think that what 81 Million People stood up and said, its time for him to go. And the United States senate voted 936 to confirm that we should be sworn in, we were duly elected so i think its important to get on with the business of getting him out of office. The quickest way that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th. What action happens before or after that is a judgment for the congress to make but thats what i am looking forward to. Him leaving office. I was told that on the way up here, a way over here, that he indicated he wasnt going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. Its a good thing him not showing up. Earlier you said if you hoped that he would show up only in the sense that it was valuable to send a signal to the world about the transfer of power. You have clearly changed your perspective on that. Because he has clearly demonstrated exceeded my worst notions about him. Hes an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world, not worthy to hold that office. If we were six months out, we should be doing everything to get him out of office. Impeaching him again. Invoking the 25th amendment. Whatever it took to get him out of office. But i am focused now on us taking control as president and Vice President on the 20th and to get our agenda moving quickly as quickly as we can. Thank you. This is a headline and serious. Its about the more than 600 children orphaned under the Trump Administration under the policy along the border. You said that practice was criminal. Can you commit, will you commit to making sure that the Trump Administration officials responsible for that policy will be held to account . Ill commit that our Justice Department and our investigative arms will make judgments about who is responsible, how theyre responsible and whether or not the conduct is criminal across the board. But as i said yesterday, i am not going to tell the Justice Department who they should prosecute and who should they not. Thats a judgment to be made by the attorney general of the United States of america. Not influenced by me. But there will be a thorough, thorough investigation of whos responsible and whether or not the responsibility is criminal and if thats the concluded the attorney general will make that judgment. I will not intervene to tell him who he should or should not indict. Beyond the covid plan, what is the legislative priorities . You talked about infrastructure, introducing an immigration bill. After january 20th you democrats control the house and the senate. What do you do first . Two different three different issues there in that same question. One, the commitments i made that i would introduce, not necessarily we would move to but introduce in the United StatesCongress First i will do. I will introduce an immigration bill. Immediately. And have it sent to the appropriate committees to begin movement. I will, in fact, countermand executive orders that the president initiated that are contrary to what i think is either his authority and or even if its his authority contrary to the issues of the United States. Thirdly i will immediately move, though, to the most urgent need of asking the congress to give me the financial wherewithal to deal with the virus. To deal with the virus. To be able to move so that we have operation warp speed really working. Warp speed got the vaccine to places that were delivered but did not get them from those vials into peoples arms. And so, it is a gigantic logistical concern of how we do that. Im committed to get 100 million shots in peoples arms in the first 100 days. Im committed to insisting that on all federal jurisdictions anyplace i have control of president everyone is mandated to wear a mask, International Transportation and federal facilities. Thirdly, im committed to moving as rapidly as possible to get the vaccine to teachers and the material to children that can provide for the safe opening of our schools at the end of that beginning at the end of that 100 days. Theyre the most urgent things we have to do now. Now. Immediately upon getting in office. There are multiple things as you well know because youre a seasoned vet reran of how we wo and committees holding issues on my positions on infrastructure, what we should be doing to generate green economy, how and so on. In terms of the immediate need to get done, not just introduced but to get done, voted on and get the money and resources to do it it turns out that the most you a urgent need is dealing with the virus, number one, and Economic Relief to americans who through no fault of their own are really getting battered. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, mr. President elect and madame Vice President elect. I want to follow up with respect to what you just said about the inauguration and that its a good thing that the president is not coming but what about the Vice President mike pence . Hes welcome. I think its important that the as much as we can stick to what have been historical precedents of how which an administration changes should be maintained. So if mike if the Vice President is welcomed to come, be honored to have him there and to move forward in the transition. Have you spoken to him at alm . No, i havent. And you have called for unity and healing in this country but after the events of wednesday, does that make your job easier or harder . 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 for a long time, call me. They are many of them are as outraged and disappointed and embarrassed and mote if ied by the president s conduct as i am and democrats are and 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. And i think that youve heard me say this before and i apologize for repeating myself but understandably the questions are repetitive and good. Im not being critical of the question. And that is that theres two way that is people are inspired. By inspirational leaders and terrible leaders. By terrible leaders. What this president has done is ripped the bandaid all the way off to let the country know who he is and what hes about. And how thoroughly unfit for office he is. And you see already a number of republicans, i was so proud, i know were on opposite sides. Ill be kricriticized for sayin this but ive worked with the former, soon to be former majority leader mitch mcconnell. I thought what he said on the floor of the United States senate was, in fact, the right thing to do. He stood up. Hes ashamed. I spoke with the guy i have enormous respect for, enormous respect for and i ran against him, mitt romney. I spoke to mitt this morning again. This is a man of enormous integrity. Enormous integrity who lives his faith. There are so many more but theres others who should be ashamed of themselves. But they make up a minority of the republican party. This isnt about money and democrat anymore. This is about people who understand what this countrys about and the things we have to agree on and move together on. I just think that if you look at it, speaking to some of my republican colleagues, i have spoken to a number of them over the last month since ive been since weve been elected, through recently as the day in which this god awful debacle was taking place up on the hill, and i think they understand that theyre going to have we need a republican party. We need an opposition thats principled and strong and i think you will see them going through the idea of what constitutes the republican party. And to hear some of my republican colleagues talk about how shameful it is of the way ted cruz and others are dealing with this, how theyre responsible, as well, for what happened. Do you think some of them resign . Should senator cruz or senator hawley resign . I think they should be flat beaten the next time they run. I think the American Public has a real good clear look at who they are. Theyre part of the big lie. The big lie. I was being reminded by a friend of mine, maybe you were with me, i cant recall. We were told that the great lie. You keep repeating the lie. Well, there was a print that when dredsen was fire bombed, 250 people that were killed, or 2,500 people were killed . And goble said, no, 25,000 250,000 were killed. And our papers printed that. Our papers printed it. Its the big lie. Its one thing for one man, one woman to repeat the lie over and over and over again. By the way, trump said that before he ran. If you say it enough, im going to convince you. Ill say it enough. The press is bad. The press is bad. The press is bad. The press is bad. If hes the only one saying it thats one thing but the accolades that follow him like cruz and others, they are as responsible as he is. And so, its not about whether or not they get impeached. Its about whether or not they continue to hold power because of the disgust the American People have for their actions. There are decent people out there who actually believe these lies. Because they have heard it again and again. I was with a friend of mine, a medical doctor. Telling me that his neighbor said to him, he lives in another state. His neighbor is a good person. But, you know, doc, theres a lot of a lot of shikaniray that went on. They it is. They say it is. They say it is. It is a human condition. You say it and say it and say it and say it. The degree to which it becomes coroesive is in direct proportion to the number of people who say it. And so, its interesting to me and i was pleased to hear some of the more prominent republicans say to me that the ted cruzs of the world are as responsible in terms of impeachment believing the lies as not as responsible but similarly responsible like trump. But they didnt say go to the capitol. Ill be with you. Follow. Thats a different story. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very, very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Good friday, afternoon, everyone. Thats president elect joe biden on a wide ranging interview there with reporters tacking questions. Answering questions as he unveiled members of his Economic Team, talking about everything from covid relief to new stimulus relief bill to get passed and addressing the crisis the country has seen in the last couple of days, talking about that insurrection that happened at the capitol on wednesday. Once again saying President Trump is not fit to serve and saying it is a good thing that President Trump will not be attending his inauguration come january 20th. He talked about some of the republican senators that have been as he said accolades to President Trump saying they deserve to be beaten and part of the big lie. That was a wide ranging interview and i should say News Conference and will get to a lot more out of it right now. Lets bring into the conversation ali vitali. On capitol hill Leeann Caldwell and cara lee near the white house. Ali, lets begin with you. As we mentioned it started often talking about the Economic Team he is announcing, covid relief, the vaccine distribution, but as we know the headlines in the country over the past couple of days still rocked by what happened wednesday and the attention shif attention shifting to that in the q a part of that announcement. Reporter its just a sense of the competing crises that have the attention of this Incoming Administration and this president elect whos waiting 12 days out from being inaugurated. We know the pandemic were issued that biden were keen to tackle and we have seen the insurrection on capitol hill, this is the first time that biden has taken questions since before christmas so certainly it makes sense that it was wide ranging, that he had a lot to offer. I was sitting here taking notes at the things that stood out at me. Among the way is dodged when asked if democrats should push forward with impeaching President Trump. He said thats something that Congress Needs to deal with and saying his focus was on covid, the recession, figuring out vaccine distribution. He also offered harsh words for the way that we have seen the vaccine be distributed thus far saying a travesty and his own administration is going to be taking a different tact. Theyre going to be releasing all the of the doses of the vaccine opposed to what the Current Administration is doing right now which is holding back half of the doses to make sure that all the people that got the first round to get the second round of doses but when Geoff Bennett there asked him about impeachment and if on a personal level, not just a political lev level, he thought that donald trump should hold the office he preferenced running for president and always said that trump was unfit to serve and saying that he wished he was out of Office Yesterday but instead doinging what this transition has done consistently, saying that theyre focused on whats ahead. I was struck when he said this is the first time agreeing with donald trump on anything. Yeah. Reporter when trump said he is not going to attend the inauguration. Mike pence, biden said he was welcomed, would be an honor to have him and thats a reversal because biden takes pride in and honors the institutions of american democracy and said it would be good to preserve that image of a peaceful transis of power. What we have seen this week all of that is out the window. Yeah. He also made an important point talking about the ins didnt on wednesday with that attack on the capitol to see an accountable and thorough investigation to find out what happened. Lets go to capitol hill and talk about both of these things out of the president elect. The effort now to the impeachment of the current president gaining momentum inside the house. Is it even possible to achieve this given that President Trump has 12 days left in office . Reporter so we have some news and that is that three members of congress are expected to introduce their articles of impeachment on monday. That is extremely quickly. They plan to do that but theyre doing it at a special time of a proforma session in the house and means that that will then be up to house leadership on when they decide to bring that up to a vote if at all. These articles of impeachment. We saw in a letter to her colleagues, Speaker Pelosi, saying if the president does not resign immediately, if he does not evacuate the office, then they will move forward so those are strong words from pelosi and not said what her next actions are yet. But president elect joe biden was just talking about all the things that are going to have a lot of impact on capitol hill and he has a lot of phone calls coming up, too. He is expected to speak with Speaker Pelosi this afternoon and House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy putt out a Statement Today saying he is going to call president elect biden as well to talk about this issue of impeachment. His message to biden is lets not move forward on impeachment. His fear is that the country is too divisive right now, a powder keg and he thinks that it is just going to excite the tensions and hes worried about more violence so that is what mccarthy said his message is going to be to president elect biden. That seems to be according to my sources what a lot of republicans think, that not necessarily that the president should not be impeached but theyre worried of whats to come if he is. We move down to the white house where cara lee is. Mike pence mentioned there by the president elect saying he would be welcomed at the inauguration but before then he still has to deal with the current boss and there at the white house there. Mike pence meeting with trump. How is the white house viewing these efforts to impeach the president or to have pence use the 25th amendment . And to possibly even attending that inauguration of president elect joe biden . Reporter we have asked the white hou