Trump starts last full week in office facing likely impeachment; Law enforcement braces for potentially more extremist violence in DC and all 50 states before inauguration; Bien: “I’m not afraid of taking the oath outside”; 100,000+ Americans hospitalized with COVID for 40th day in a row;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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House democrats plan to vote Wednesday to impeach Trump; House formally introduces article of impeachment against Trump; Sources: Trump tells allies he isn’t to blame for capitol riots; GOP Sen Blunt: Trump “touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again”; Sources: WH counsel Cipollone and former AG Bill Barr warn president Trump against pardoning himself; Sources: Republicans considering vote to censure Trump; Trump would be first president to be impeached twice; Law enforcement bracing for more violence in DC, around U.S. ahead of inauguration day; Pelosi: Trump “has to pay a price” for “inciting insurrection”; House Dems introducing measures to punish GOP members for their role in capitol attack;
DC mayor calls or more security leading up to inauguration; New video shows officer dragged, stomped, beaten with flag pole; Ex-chief of capitol police: Pentagon officials worried about “optics” of national guard troops at capitol; DHS secretary: secret service to begin inauguration security operation this week; Wash Post: ex-capitol police chief says Pentagon rebuffed his request for help at least five times; FBI says it has received information indicating “armed protests” planned at all 50 state capitols; Top national guard official on delay in getting troops to capitol riot; Democrat introduces resolution to expel lawmakers who voted to overturn election;
Biden gets second dose of COIVD 19 vaccine; CNN: Biden’s COVID vaccine distribution plan still in flux;
100,000+ Americans hospitalized with COVID for 40th day in a row; U.S. averaging 3,000+ deaths per day; Inside L.A. hospital with no ICU beds remaining; L.A. county reports 1,000+ deaths in past four days; As cases & deaths surge, can kids safely go back to school?; Miami official: schools are “safest place” for kids; NYC & Miami schools have in-person learning; Chicago, L.A. & DC schools remain all virtual; Biden promises getting schools open is a top priority; House Dem blames COVID diagnosis on GOP colleagues;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today on this final full week of the |
| 0:05.9 | Trump presidency and the effort to remove President Trump from office even before these |
| 0:10.5 | final nine days run out today Today an article of impeachment against |
| 0:14.3 | President Trump has been formally introduced by Democrats in the House |
| 0:18.4 | charging the president with quote incitement of insurrection. It's a reference of course to the deadly |
| 0:23.6 | terrorist attack by Trump supporters on the US Capitol last week. A vote this |
| 0:29.1 | week could make President Trump the first president in the history of the republic to be impeached twice. |
| 0:35.9 | Of course President Trump was not alone in inciting this deadly attack. |
| 0:39.2 | Before the attack came, incitement, and before the incitement came votes to commit sedition and |
| 0:44.7 | before votes to commit sedition months of lies about the election and now one |
| 0:49.3 | freshman Democrat Missouri's Cori Bush has introduced a resolution to expel the lawmakers who sought |
| 0:55.4 | to invalidate the election results. That's two-thirds of the House Republican |
| 0:59.6 | Caucus, though she specifically mentioned Senators Ted Cruz Josh Hawley and Congressman |
| 1:04.4 | Mo Brooks who led objections to the outcome of the Democratic election even |
| 1:08.8 | after blood had been spilled in Congress giving further credence to the false motivation of these |
| 1:14.8 | rioters that the election was somehow stolen, which of course it was not. |
| 1:18.4 | Brooks even more specifically and directly incited that pro-Trump crowd on the morning of the terrorist |
| 1:26.4 | attack, telling them this. |
| 1:28.2 | Today is the day American patrons start taking down names and kicking ass. |
| 1:37.0 | Now there's a growing call for these Republican lawmakers to face at least some consequences for enabling and inciting this deadly |
| 1:46.0 | delusion and attack as Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and Republican Senator Pat Toomey told |
| 1:51.7 | me yesterday. |
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