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There is something in Washington politics called the pool spray.

And that is when, if I'm a member of the pool, we get called into the Oval Office and we

hold out our boom microphones and we can record some of what is happening, whether it's the

signing of an executive order, whether it's the president meeting a visiting head of state.

Today the pool were in the Oval Office and at the end the White House junior press officers

are rushing to get you out of the room. Just go, go, go, get out of the way.

Let's go away, let's go away.

Except they had some assistance today.

So that's what the new security operation sounds like at the White House now.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that was champ and major.

And they are.

The German Shepherd's brought in by the Biden family to begin this new tenure in the White House.

Thank goodness for them.

My dog, sleepily, not raising a wippity eyebrow as we report this historic moment, the papers

of impeachment traveling from the House to the Senate ahead of the trial to convict

Donald Trump, which will begin in two weeks time.

And in the last few moments, we have had the clearest signal yet that this is a move

that the president himself Joe Biden agrees with telling CNN, I think it has to happen.

He acknowledged the effect a trial could have on his agenda and his nominees delaying

what he wants to get done, but he said it would be worse if it didn't happen.

And that is the firmest statement we've had from this incoming president that he would

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