Democracy, the Day After

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Hours after a mob of pro-Trump rioters breached the United States Capitol and disrupted the Presidential certification process, Congress certified President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the nation’s next leaders. On the ground in DC, CNBC’s Washington Reporter Eamon Javers recaps the day’s chaos and the country’s attempt at recovery. President Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney addresses his own responsibility in supporting a leader who ultimately incited violence in the People’s House. Mulvaney announces that he has resigned from his final position in Donald Trump’s administration. Plus, entrepreneur and author John Hope Bryant underlines the lessons of January 6, 2021. “This suggests something is wrong with the business plan for this country.” Bryant rejects what some have considered the “separatist movement” that prompted the violence at the Capitol, and calls on Americans to reconsider the way they maintain democracy.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm C NBC producer Katie Kramer. Is this how it ends?
0:07.0	Today was a dark day in the history of the United States Capitol.
0:10.0	Donald Trump's presidency in its closing days.
0:13.0	Joe Biden and Kamla Harris will be the president and the vice president.
0:19.0	The 3 a.m. joint session of Congress approves the final count of Joe Biden's electoral victory.
0:23.4	The announcement of the state of the vote.
0:26.6	After an unimaginable delay when the count was stopped by a mob of Trump supporters who
0:31.5	breached the US capital.
0:33.0	Is flash grenades going off on the inauguration balcony?
0:37.0	We're seeing flash grenades going off over and over again.
0:42.0	Today on our podcast, the morning after.
0:45.6	A Trump veteran Mick Mulvaney was acting chief of staff in the White House for more than
0:49.7	a year.
0:50.7	Do you feel at all in retrospect that you were an enabler?
0:54.5	We didn't sign up for what she saw last night.
0:56.5	We signed up for making America great again.
0:59.0	Why, as of today, the former insider is out of the administration for good on his own terms.
1:04.6	When the President of the United States encourages people to interrupt a constitutional
1:09.2	process and violently have an insurrection against the government of the United States, then nothing is off the table in terms of the discussion that comes after that.
1:17.0	On the ground in Washington, attempting to make sense of yesterday's chaos, see NBC's Amen Javers.
1:22.0	There is sort of a nascent separatist. of yesterday's chaos, see NBC's even Javers.
1:22.8	There is sort of a nascent separatist effort here
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