Pleading The 25th
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After Trump incited an attack on the nation’s Capitol, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the President, and a second impeachment of Trump by Democrats is also on the table.
Resignations abound in Trump-world right now. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned yesterday, along with others responsible for security at the Capitol building.
Plus, writer and comedian Grace Parra joins us for headlines: Elon Musk becomes the richest man on Earth, no booze on American Airlines flights from DC, and the legend of Denmark’s John Dillerman.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, January 8th. I'm Kila Hughes. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Gideon Ressneck and this is what a day where we are utterly stunned to be wrapping up |
| 0:13.0 | the first week of 2021. Yeah, how is it somehow March 2020 and November 2020 still |
| 0:19.1 | and also 2022 because it's been the longest week of my life? |
| 0:22.9 | Yeah, I'm tired of Christopher Nolan's time tricks. |
| 0:25.5 | It is ability to reach beyond the silver screen into my life. Exactly. |
| 0:32.3 | We don't want to be tenants of TINET. |
| 0:40.8 | On today's show, Biden is officially certified as President-elect and calls for Trump's removal |
| 0:45.3 | grow than some headlines. But first the latest. The whole number of electors appointed to vote |
| 0:51.0 | for President of the United States is 538. Within that whole number, a majority is 270. |
| 0:58.1 | The votes for President of the United States are as follows. Joseph Arbide in Jr. |
| 1:04.0 | of the state of Delaware has received 306 votes. Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has |
| 1:10.5 | received 232 votes. Anyway, that was the final word on the matter from Vice President Mike Pence, |
| 1:18.6 | who oversaw the electoral college tally in Congress saying what we've known for literally |
| 1:23.2 | months now that Joe Biden is going to be taking over at the White House in less than two weeks. |
| 1:27.4 | The certification process in Congress went into the early hours of the morning yesterday, |
| 1:31.3 | following a day of destruction in chaos, caused by a pro-Trump mob that stormed the capital, |
| 1:36.1 | resulting in the deaths of at least four people. And even after the day's events, |
| 1:40.0 | a handful of Republican senators and over 100 Republican House members still voted to reject |
| 1:44.5 | the election results. Honestly, it drove them all out. Other than that, there have been a lot of |
| 1:50.3 | development over the last 24 hours. So let's start with what Democratic leadership is now saying |
| 1:54.6 | because it got a lot more heated. Yes, it certainly did. So yesterday, both soon-to-be-Senate |
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