Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Monday, January 11th. In today's news, the PGA pulls its 2022 championship from President Trump's golf course,

as Democrats tentatively schedule an impeachment vote.

More evidence emerges that Trump exerted potentially criminal influence on Georgia election officials.

And Joe Biden picks Bill Burns to direct the CIA.

But first, the big idea.

Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Biden's victory.

Capitol Police Chief Stephen Sunde was growing increasingly worried about the size of the

pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest.

To be on the safe side, Sund asked House and

Senate security officials for permission to request that the DC National

Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup. But Sund said Sunday that they

turned him down. In his first interview since pro-Trump riders stormed the

U.S. Capitol last week.

Sund, who has since resigned his post,

told my colleague Carol Lennig that his supervisors were reluctant

to take formal steps to put the guard on call, even as police intelligence,

suggested that the crowd Trump had invited to Washington probably would be much larger than earlier demonstrations.

Sun said House Sergeant-at-arms, Paul Irving,

said he wasn't comfortable with the optics of formally declaring an emergency

ahead of the demonstration.

Meanwhile, he says Senate Sergeant- Arms Michael Stinger suggested that

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