Prosecutors are Looking at Trump’s Role in Inciting Riot
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:31.8 | Outfront next. Breaking News. CNN Learning Democrats are eyeing a quick impeachment vote as |
| 0:36.7 | federal prosecutors are |
| 0:37.8 | refusing to rule out charges against Trump for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. |
| 0:42.8 | Also breaking the U.S. Capitol Police Chief is resigning in the wake of the riot as we learned |
| 0:47.6 | that pipe bombs were also found at the RNC and DNC headquarters as well as on Capitol grounds. |
| 0:57.7 | And tonight we are uncovering new details about the rioters and exactly who they are. |
| 0:59.4 | You will see. Let's go out front. |
| 1:05.4 | And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news. |
| 1:09.9 | The President of the United States is in increasing legal jeopardy at this hour. |
| 1:12.6 | Federal prosecutors say they are looking at President Trump's role in inciting the insurrection that the entire world witnessed live |
| 1:17.6 | in our nation's capital yesterday. Also tonight calls growing from both parties to invoke the |
| 1:23.8 | 25th Amendment to immediately remove Trump from office. And if Vice President Mike Pence |
| 1:29.4 | and Trump's cabinet don't go ahead and do that, we are now learning that Speaker Nancy Pelosi |
| 1:35.1 | is considering a lightning quick impeachment process, which could be done in a couple of days. |
| 1:40.3 | All of this because of what transpired, thanks to Trump yesterday. |
| 1:46.0 | The U.S. Capitol Security breached, its offices ransacked, a mob marching on the Capitol, |
| 1:51.2 | Congress forced to stop counting the electoral college vote, forced to flee and evacuate offices ransacked, |
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