This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, January 13th, 2021. I'm Caleb Brown. The President has been impeached again.

This time it followed a spun-up mob that invaded the capital, killed several people during and after an inflammatory speech by the president.

So how will the Senate consider evidence regarding the president's conduct and if

riling up supporters who then go and attack the legislative branch of the

federal government won't get you fired and reprimanded for all time.

What will?

Caters Gene Healy comments on today's historic vote.

Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, it was revealed this week, was in a in seclusion pleading with Jared Kushner in the White House to have some support,

some rescue operation in the capital in the violence of last week and then a bit

later came out and said I support censure but not impeachment and

well he didn't want to get reckless yeah he was in a secure location after fleeing the capital and after pleading with

Jared to use his influence didn't do the trick.

Apparently he decided he had to do as many TV hits as he could

because this was the only way to talk directly to President Trump, you know, through the TV screen

and let him know how dire the situation was and to get him to make a public statement calling off the rabid mob.

You know, this was a vote of 232 to 197, 10 Republicans voted to impeach the president. Boy, it just seems that we're in kind of a bad state if this kind of activity is viewed as not that

serious or not worth pursuing this late in a term?

Yeah, 10 Republican votes is not nothing.

But it's not too impressive. You know, like Kevin McCarthy, many of these people were under

siege, personally at risk of something happening if the chamber was breached.

And you'd be excused, you could be excused as a human being for probably even be healthy to take that sort of thing personally.

And if you don't, if you're not going to take it personally that the president has riled up a mob to

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