Biden signs flurry of Executive Orders on racial equality; Senators sworn in for Trump impeachment trial; Biden to announce plans to order 200 million more doses of vaccine; State GOP officials push conspiracies, condemn anti-Trump Republicans;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Senators vote 55-45 against questioning trial’s constitutionality; Five GOP Sens. vote with Dems on impeachment procedural vote; GOP Officials in AZ & OR condemn anti-Trump Republicans; Republican party faces reckoning in post-Trump era; CNN KFile: GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in 2018 and 2019; Source: States will get about 16% more vaccines starting next week; CDC: New study finds very few Covid cases in schools when precautions are in place; Biden to announce plans to order 200 million more doses of vaccine, 100 million each from Pfizer and Moderna; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:06.0	We begin with Breaking News.
0:08.0	Any American citizen thinking that Republican senators might have finally reached their limit with Donald Trump after Mr. Trump incited a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol
0:16.8	resulting in five deaths, including a Capitol police officer.
0:20.0	Well, I have bad news for you. They apparently have not. A short time ago, U.S. Senators
0:25.6	were sworn in for the second impeachment trial of now former President Trump,
0:29.1	senators raising their right hands, swearing to be impartial jurors in each lining up to sign an oath book as they
0:35.2	consider the sole article of impeachment charging Mr. Trump with inciting that
0:39.8	insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The trial is slated to begin two weeks from today on
0:44.2	February 9th. Moments after all the senators took their oaths, Republican
0:48.6	Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky raised a point of order to question whether it is unconstitutional to try an ex-president.
0:57.0	Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted in favor of Paul's motion, though it did ultimately fail.
1:02.0	With five Republicans, only five joining Democrats
1:06.5	to move forward with the trial.
1:07.8	So the vote was 55 in favor of proceeding with the trial, 45 opposed saying it's unconstitutional.
1:13.6	Now the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says it quote,
1:16.8	most scholars who have closely examined the question have concluded that Congress has authority
1:21.7	to extend the impeachment process to officials who are no longer in office, unquote.
1:25.0	And while surely some of those 45 votes may have been based in divergent constitutional law,
1:32.0	let's be clear-eyed about the politics at play here and what today's vote foretells.
1:37.0	To convict Donald Trump, Democrats will need to win over 17 Republicans.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.