I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, January 12th.

The House of Representatives will vote later today on a resolution calling on Mike Pence and the cabinet to remove President Trump

from office on 25th Amendment grounds of being unfit to serve. That is likely to fail, however,

without much Republican support expected, so then a second impeachment debate and vote is considered

likely tomorrow or Thursday. The single article of

impeachment that's been drafted accuses President Trump of incitement to insurrection. It may

use as evidence this from a White House news conference in September when a reporter asked a

straightforward question.

Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?

Well, we're going to have to see what happens.

Then there was this question from Chris Wallace of Fox News in the presidential debate a few days later, still in September.

Will you urge your supporters to stay calm during this extended period, not to engage in any

civil unrest, and will you pledge tonight that you will not declare victory until the election

has been independently certified?

President Trump, you go first.

I'm urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very

carefully. There was this famous moment from the president in that same debate on the topic of

political violence. What do you want to call him? Give me a name. Give me a name. White supremacists and

white supremacists and right. Proud boys.

Stand back and stand by.

Then at the D.C.

rally that became the Capitol riot,

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