Pelosi Says Congress May Impeach if 25th Amendment Not Invoked

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Nancy Pelosi warns that Trump is “deadly” to Americans and U.S. democracy. Sources say that the Feds are looking at Trump’s role in inciting insurrection. Transportation secretary Chao is the first from Trump's cabinet to resign over the Capitol riot. Biden states that the Trump inspired riot that took place yesterday was one of the “darkest days” in U.S. history. He also nominated Judge Merrick Garland as Attorney General, and introduced nominees to lead the Justice Department. CNN Identifies rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Former Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson reacts to the attack on the capitol. The U.S tops 364,000 Covid deaths and 21.5 million cases after pandemic’s highest daily death toll of 3,865. Los Angeles County is seeing one Covid death every 8 minutes. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:09.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.2	I'm Wilflitzer in the United States and around the world I'm Will
0:12.6	Flitzer in the situation room we're following breaking news fresh fallout from
0:16.7	one of the most shameful days in US history the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is
0:22.4	now among a rapidly growing number of
0:25.0	lawmakers and officials calling for President Trump's removal from office in the
0:29.8	wake of the domestic terror attack on the U.S. Capitol that he incited.
0:34.4	Pelosi saying Congress may impeach the president unless Vice President Pence and
0:38.8	members of the Trump cabinet declare the president unfit for office and remove him under the 25th Amendment to the
0:45.9	U.S. Constitution.
0:47.6	And now CNN is learning that federal prosecutors are looking at Mr. Trump's unprecedented role in inciting this shameful violence.
0:56.0	One top U.S. attorney saying, and I'm quoting now,
0:59.0	we are looking at all actors here and anyone that had a role. Meanwhile, the disgust among members of
1:05.8	the president's own team is growing and growing. Transportation Secretary
1:10.7	Elaine Chow has joined other members of the administration.
1:14.0	She's become the first cabinet member to resign over these truly stunning events,
1:19.0	saying she's deeply troubled by what she calls, and I'm quoting her now entirely avoidable events.
1:26.4	We're covering all angles of the breaking news this hour with our correspondence in key locations.
1:31.1	Let's start with our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, Jim,
1:34.4	fast-moving developments in the wake of one of the country's worst days.
1:39.4	Oh, that's right, Wolf. And President Trump is back in hiding inside the White House after
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