I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, January 8th.

Two days after the deadly riot at the Capitol, we have Senator Cory Booker to talk about it later this hour.

Also, since it's Friday, it's our weekly Ask the Mayor segment with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

That'll be at 1130 today, a little later than usual, to accommodate some things in the mayor's schedule.

So Senator Booker at 1025, Mayor de Blasio at 1130.

And we can now confirm that a U.S. Capitol police officer died yesterday from injuries sustained during the insurrection. That brings the

total count of lives lost to five. One woman was fatally shot by police, and three people

died of what they're calling medical emergencies.

Calls for the president's removal from office intensified yesterday as top Democrats threatened to undertake another impeachment

if Vice President Mike Pence does not invoke the 25th Amendment, which begins a removal process in the cabinet.

Here is soon to be Senate

majority leader, Chuck Schumer.

I don't care if you're Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative from the Northeast,

south or west. If what happened yesterday doesn't convince you that the president should

be out of office now, then something is very wrong with your beliefs about democracy.

Now, those close to the vice president say that he's not interested in invoking the 25th Amendment,

and democratic lawmakers are set to meet today to discuss next steps.

When Senator Booker is on later in the hour, we will certainly ask him about that.

But first, as the dust settles on the events of Wednesday and more tragedies come out,

right-wing politicians and right-wing media pundits are already spinning the story,

claiming Trump supporters did not breach the Capitol. It was actually Antifa.

Some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters. They were

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