Trump impeached again, facing Senate trial with six days left; National Guard troops fortify D.C. ahead of Biden inauguration; U.S. reports 40K Covid deaths in 2021, CDC estimates 90K more deaths in three weeks; Days before inauguration, Biden tries to shift focus from impeachment trial to Covid agenda;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sources: Trump irritated, in “self-pity” mode after second impeachment; Senate impeachment trial to begin after inauguration; GOP Source: McConnell telling colleagues he is genuinely undecided about convicting Trump; Senate GOP torn over convicting Trump “There’s no love lost”; Second impeachment trial threatens to derail Biden’s agenda; Official: Public not allowed on National mall for inauguration; Defense Officials: Natl. Guard, law enforcement expect pipe bombs & Molotov cocktails around inauguration; Feds warn extremists emboldened to carry out more attacks after Capitol siege; After impeachment, some GOP lawmakers and right-wing media continue to stand behind Trump; Less than 5% of House Republicans voted to impeach Trump; Right-wing media hosts slam 10 Republicans who voted to impeach; Trump adviser claims impeachment is “violence to this country” after five people were killed in Capitol attack; Dem impeachment manager: We could prevent Trump from holding office again; New mass Covid vaccination sites open as states struggle to get more people vaccinated; TX hospital group: Some rural hospitals yet to receive single dose of Covid vaccine; Early trials show safe, effective results of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose Covid vaccine; California reports lowest level of ICU beds available as Covid hospitalizations surge; France to test one million students, teachers every month to help keep schools open; Highly contagious virus strain forced UK to close schools only hours after leaders vowed to keep them open;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with the politics lead |
| 0:05.3 | President Trump on his way out of office completely disgraced impeached again. |
| 0:09.9 | What will happen next in the Senate remains unclear? |
| 0:13.2 | President Trump has now been rebuked in the most bipartisan vote to impeach in the history of the United |
| 0:18.3 | States of America and with six days remaining, the nation remains on edge. The FBI has warned of threats across all |
| 0:24.6 | 50 states from Trump supporters. U.S. intelligence officials fear that the |
| 0:29.7 | capital attack will motivate more extremist attacks and 20,000 members of the American National Guard |
| 0:36.0 | are now in Washington, D.C. fortifying the nation's capital against any further threats |
| 0:40.8 | of violence ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration. |
| 0:44.4 | Members of Congress remain worried that there may even have been |
| 0:47.6 | Republican colleagues or their staffs in their midst who not only incited the |
| 0:51.9 | terrorist attack, but may have been directly |
| 0:54.0 | complicit. Nonetheless, next Wednesday, President-elect Biden will be sworn in as |
| 0:59.1 | the 46 president of the United States and President Trump's second impeachment trial will not start until at least |
| 1:05.7 | inauguration day. Today Democrats are debating how long the trial might last, |
| 1:10.0 | whether they will call witnesses and how to balance a second impeachment |
| 1:14.8 | hearing and trial with Biden's new agenda. While Senate Majority Leader |
| 1:19.2 | Mitch McConnell will not say whether he supports convicting President Trump |
| 1:22.0 | and plans for that trial remain up in the |
| 1:24.2 | air. |
| 1:25.2 | See, N' Manu Raju's life for us on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:26.2 | I'mano, you have brand new reporting about what soon to be minority leader McConnell is saying behind |
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