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Skullduggery

Insurrectionist in chief

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Mace, newly elected Republican US Rep. from South Carolina, and Yahoo News' Hunter Walker join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Mace recounts her experience from inside the Cannon House Office Building when the US Capitol was stormed by riotous Trump supporters. She also discusses where we need to go from here as a country. Then Walker, who was on the ground during the horrific events in DC, gives us an insiders account of what it was like and what exactly motivated these insurrectionists.

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0:00.0

The whole number of electors appointed to vote for President of the United States is

0:05.7

538. Within that whole number a majority is 270. The votes for President of the United

0:12.6

States are as follows. Joseph Arbide and Jr. of the State of Delaware has received 306

0:19.7

votes. Donald J. Trump of the State of Florida has received 232 votes. The announcement of

0:27.7

the State of the Vote by the President of the Senate shall be deemed a sufficient

0:33.2

declaration of the person's elected President and Vice President of the United States, each

0:39.2

for the term beginning on the 20th of January 2021 and shall be entered together with the

0:45.5

list of the votes on the journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

0:51.7

That was Vice President Mike Pence at 333 Thursday morning, officially certifying the Joe

0:57.8

Biden and not Donald Trump had been officially elected the next President of the United States.

1:04.4

It was the final nail in the coffin of Trump's persistent and mindless demands that the

1:08.3

election results from last November be overturned, culminating in a horrifying day of chaos

1:14.2

and violence in which a mob, incited by the President, stormed the Capitol, smashed

1:20.1

windows, broken to offices, and literally terrorized members of Congress for hours as the

1:26.6

images of a democracy and chaos flashed around the world.

1:31.1

We'll talk to one of those members, freshman Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mase of South

1:35.1

Carolina, about what it was like for her and her family after she refused to go along

1:39.8

with the President's feudal election campaign and then found herself threatened by angry

1:44.5

Trump supporters on social media and in one case in person. And then we'll talk to our

1:50.1

Yahoo News colleague Hunter Walker about what it was like covering the riot and what will

1:54.5

happen to Trump as a growing number of administration officials quit in protest all on this episode

2:01.2

of Skull Duggery.

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