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Pence. We all know he struggled for about 24 hours during the First Campaign after the access Hollywood Tape came out. Decided to stand by President Trump, has never wavered in the more than four years since then. He has been under tremendous pressure from the president to try to do something that would not be constitutional, to overturn the elections results. He made it clear that he could not and would not do that yesterday. Tonight those clear comments of condemnation from Vice President pence perhaps a final declaration of independence. And i am told that the president has not spoken to th...

Not and could not do what the president was asking him to do, the president wanting him to overturn the election results by unilaterally under power he didn't have to reject electors from several states that joe biden won. but george, i can tell you that shortly after all of this unfolded today with the storming of the capitol, republican leaders started to work the phones, work in person to try to get the republican objectors to drop their objections. this is something i am told that kevin mccarthy, the republican lead mere the house who had supported the objectors was among those republican ...

George, is that words matter. the rhetoric that comes out of washington matters. and we already knew that washington was a magnet for people who have grievances from time to time. and officials had been telling me time and time again, when you hear things like the election was stolen and the other, people always portrayed as the other, that they felt that one day there would be a moment like this where the people would show up and do something that was unthinkable. and today, george, it was almost like the law enforcement officials outside just could not fathom that these people would force th...

Been planning for this for a couple of days, not knowing where it would flow. but, you know, each agency has its own authority. and that question you just asked, george, is a very important one, and obviously we've confronted similar crowd problems around the country for the last six months or so. and you always worry when that outer shell is breached, because all sorts of new bad opportunities arise, and we saw some of them develop today. and it was not a good day for america. and the urging, including by me for people to be peaceful and have their voices heard without getting violent was unh...

Unrest today, given that we have an inauguration scheduled two weeks from now, it may well be worth the effort to attempt another impeachment. and as dan says, it is possible to impeach a former official. so it may well be something that both parties in congress want to pursue after january 20th. and i do think the 25th amendment could well be on the table that is a mechanism for basically the vice president and a majority of the cabinet declaring that the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office. and if they put that in writing and send it to congress, the vice pre...