to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that andre trump state of florida received 11 votes for president and michael r. pence the state of indiana received 11 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote for the state of tennessee at the teller is verified as regular informant authentic. this certificate from texas the parliamentarians advised me is the only certificate of votes in the state it purports to be a return from the state as an extra certificate of authority of that state and purports to appoint ascertain electors mr president that certificate of the electoral vote of the state of texas seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 38 votes for president and michael are

prince of the state of indiana received 38 votes for vice president other any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of texas at the teller is verified appears to be regular informant of a. hearing none this certificate from utah the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from that state that purports to be returned from the state as an extra a certificate of authority from the state purporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of utah seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida receive 6 votes for president and michael r. presence of the state of indiana received 6 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of utah at the

teller's verified to be regular form and authentic bearing none. this certificate from vermont the parliamentarians advise me is the only certificate of vote from the state courts to be returned from the state as anastas certificate of authority from that state purports to appoint or ascertain electors this present the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of vermont seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that joseph biden jr of the state of delaware receive 3 votes for president and comedy hearers of the state of california received 3 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of vermont at the teller is verified as regular form and authentic. the certificate from the commonwealth of virginia on the parliamentarian's advise

is the only significant vote from that state reports to be returned from the state as an extra certificate of authority from that same state purporting to appoint and ascertain electors mr president this is typical of the electoral vote of the commonwealth of virginia seems to be in regular in form and authentic and appears there from the johnson of our biden jr of the state of delaware receive 13 votes for president and comedy harris the state of california received 13 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the commonwealth of virginia at the teller is verified as appearing regular in form and authentic this certificate from washington the parliamentarians advise is the only certificate of vote from that state reports to be a return the state has

a certificate of authority from the same state supporting to appoint or ascertain electors. the dentist certificate of the electoral vote of the state of washington seems to be regular in form in a frantic and it appears there from a just that far biden jr of the state of delaware receive 12 votes for president and connelly de harris of the state of california received 12 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of washington at the teller is verified and appears to be regular in form and authentic hearing none of this for its certificate from west virginia parliamentarians advises the only certificate of votes from that state reports to be returned from the state as an extra certificate of authority from the state purporting to appoint an ascertained electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of west virginia seems

to be in regular seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the donald j. trump of the state of florida receive 5 votes for president and michael are parents of the state of indiana receive 5 votes for vice president for there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote for the state of west virginia that the teller as verified appears to be regular in form and authentic this certificate from wisconsin parliamentarians advise is the only certificate from that state for ports to be returned from the state and has an axe to it a certificate of authority from the state purporting to appoint or ascertain electors mr president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of wisconsin seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from the

joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware delaware received 10 votes for president and comedy harris of the state of california received 10 votes for vice president. for what reason does a gentleman from texas rise mr president i've been jacked to the electoral votes of the state of wisconsin because 71 house members all of whom condemn violence as we witness today are firmly committed to the resolution of disagreements and civil lawful peaceful institutions with full and fair debate free of violence and though not a single court is allowed in evidence your hearing delish into the significant body of evidence of fraud in though some seize on the court's failures to misrepresent that no court would listen to the evidence as saying evidence did not exist while democrat leaders in milwaukee illegally and unconstitutionally created more than 200 illegal polling places tens of thousands of votes were changed by workers

despite election workers objections plus so many other illegalities to probably gentlemanly create 820000 vote lead we object along with a senator who now has withdrawn is objection. sections 15 and 17 of title 3 of the united states code require that any objection be presented writing signed by a member of the house of representatives and a senator is the objection in writing and signed by a member and a senator it is in writing it signed by a member but it is not signed and objected to by senator mr pres in that case the objection cannot be entertained.

this certificate from wyoming the parliamentarians advises the only certificate of vote from that state. for forts to be returned from the state as an annex of a certificate of authority from same state purporting to appoint s. or 10 electors. this president the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of wyoming seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears there from that that donald j. trump of the state of florida received 3 votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 3 votes for vice president are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of wyoming that the teller's verified appears to be regular and form an authentic airing on. the chair advises members of congress the certificates having

been read the tellers will 'd ascertain and deliver the result to the president of the senate. the undersigned roy blunt and amy crow bashar talers on the part of the senate zoe lofgren and rodney davis tellers on the part of the house of representatives report the following as a result of the ascertainment and counting of the electoral vote for president and vice president of the united states for the term beginning on the 20th day of january 2021 the report we may is that joe biden and comma heris will be the president and the vice president according to the ballots that have been

given to us. thank you. the whole number of electors appointed to vote for president of the united states is 538 within that whole number of majority is 270. the votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph r. biden jr of the state of delaware has received 306 votes donald j. trump of the state of florida as received 232 votes through the whole number of electors appointed to vote for vice president of the united states is 538 within that whole 'd number a majority is 270 the votes for vice president of the united states are as follows

comedy harris of the state of california has received 306 votes michael r. pence of the state of indiana has received 232 votes the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january 2021 and shall be entered together with the list of the votes on the journals of the senate and the house of representatives the chair now recognizes for the purpose of closing prayer the 62nd chaplain of the united states senate chaplain barry c. black. and there you have it the vice president mike pence really declaring the end of the voting sequence now of

all of those declared certifications from across the u.s. . as. joe biden is declared really the winner and confirmed the 46th president of the united states there is obviously some. housekeeping between the house and senate to be completed before the inauguration of course on the 28th of january let's bring in castro our correspondents been following the evenings and the early mornings events this whole process went on a lot longer than we expected it was interrupted both in the capitol building and more importantly a more worryingly on the outside of the capitol building. that's right there was a 6 hour delay sohail due to a riot where thousands of trump's supporters egged on by the president's own words to march upon the u.s. capitol did exactly that they descended on the capitol just after 2 o'clock

washington time in the afternoon and as the debate was unfolding they breached the security of the capitol and the congress people as well as senators and members of the house of representatives had to shelter in place fearing for their physical safety that is something that has not happened in modern u.s. history in fact i was reading says the war of 1812 the u.s. capitol has not breached in this violent fashion and the the remaining calm members of congress took it upon themselves leaders of both parties to not be stopped in their work to certify the election results and they vowed to return to the chambers as they did after that delay and continue their work pushing on through the night now if the rioters had intended to to prolong this process

and delay the inevitable of president leaving office perhaps they actually may have made this process shorter ironically because as you just heard from that last objection we heard to the state of wisconsin there were enough house republicans have jacked to certify in wisconsin's vote but the republican senator in the senate had withdrawn that objection and that's a trend we saw following the riots in which senators republican senators reconsidered their objection making that very plain in their speeches saying that the. violence that ensued made them realize in their good conscience they could not follow through with the objections of course the greater context is that trump's claims of voter fraud that his lies that he won the presidential election are just

that lies there are there is no evidence to support it and in fact in more than 60 lawsuits claiming that he won the elections those have been either dismissed or rejected out of court so hale and it seems the stage now of the process is owned by parents nancy pelosi the speaker of the house the vice president have really ended their duties as such to make sure that the next president has certainly been confirmed on paper now we have 2 weeks less than 2 weeks before the inauguration and a great deal of you might say political upset as you just just suggested or washington has to deal with washington we will be bracing itself about what comes next. that's right and there are obvious security concerns for the inauguration and now 13 days time when biden will be sworn in as president he was asked earlier

yesterday whether he was concerned about his own safety he said no that he has confidence that the situation will be brought under control however there are many members of the administration aides to the president who are very anxious about how these next few days will unfold there's even been a movement and we've been talking about it here so have. some house democrats who are asking for the 25th amendment to be invoked by the vice president what is that well that is the last ditch effort to remove a rogue president from office it's normally used for when a president is incapacitated because of a health a vent however it can be used for any president who is incapable to exercise the power and duties of his office so states the constitution and member democratic members of the house judiciary committee have asked mike pence the vice president

to initiate that process it's a long shot certainly pens would have to sign on it have to convince the majority of trump's cabinet to agree with him and eventually 3 for 3 fourths of congress would have to vote to remove the president from office but the fact that the effort is being made and there the washington post editorial board has also said that this should be a consideration using the 25th amendment that's further than this idea of using that amendment to remove a rogue president has ever gone and u.s. history and the fact that it's been entertained so close to his departure from the white house was just 13 days to go is really reflective of how dangerous some consider trump. to be even in his few remaining days in the white house and indeed i mean after what's happened what in the last few minutes the vice president really has a lot of food for thought because 1st easy he's really stuck in the middle right now isn't he heidi because he's you know been pushed by the president in the last 24

hours to do the president's bidding he constitutionally cannot do what the president wanted him to do and he's also viewed with his own eyes and he's listened with his own ears republican senators where he is within arm's length backtracking deciding not to object to those certification of votes it's a very clear message not to buy not just to mike pence who has perhaps presidential ambitions in the future but also to the president will be watching these events very closely. that's right and what this what there are so many uncertainties here but what's clear is that the republican party has been divided by this and you saw the pain on mike pence his face as he was put in this very difficult position the reporting is that he was pressured directly by trump over lunch overture and over more recent demands to stop this process from happening trouble arguing that there

was a constitutional way for that to happen which is completely false well pence followed through with his duty he did exactly as the constitution dictated and many of his colleagues in congress applauded him for carrying out that role but as far as the division in the republican party going forward this is a very this is a drastic departure from a party that's been known for its unity in comparison to the democratic caucus in recent years and as far as how the next few days unfold this perhaps it is the republican party that has the most at stake here in what legacy and what shape the party is left in after trump leaves it as its head how do you what do you make of the fact that you know we expected people like mitt romney they've seen of republicans who really didn't join. cabinet or government in any shape or form

and lindsey graham who was so vocal in the last few hours about the violence that was outside couple hiller what the such really means in terms of acknowledging joe biden and couple of horus as the next president and vice president again is not really an opening salvo but again they all want words that president that will hurt president trump at the heart. they certainly are but they're delivered by stele words of the republican party or in romney's instance someone who is leaving who is leaving office very soon and so a president trump he or he turns against those who he he sees as critics very rapidly. and and the fact that these older members of the republican party who have been members of congress for quite a while are criticizing him perhaps would not be as damaging as as this new wave of

republicans that he really inspired and the question is how these incoming republicans how they respond and how they carry forward the the legacy of the republican party 11 member to know was kelly lefler the senator from georgia who is a new senator but just lost her reelection race she said that she withdrew her objections to certifying biden's win because of the chaos and violence that was unleashed on the u.s. capitol today she was the one who said that she could not carry forward with good conscience those objections but it's notable that as she made these statements after she already lost her race her political future is already looking dimmer by the minute and. didn't have as much ammunition to sabotage her future political

career of it's already heading toward the end and secondly as you pointed out twitter has banned or suspended from using his account for another few hours here and these are. critical statements against trump that were made by his party loyalists were made when he couldn't use twitter to immediately attack them so perhaps that also takes some of the sting. out of the president's bite when he cannot use his favor medium to immediately attack his perceived enemies so we should not surely perhaps ignore the enormity of what the democrats have actually achieved certainly in the senate races in georgia where we've seen war could also if you know win in a state that's been heavily publicized and heavily worked on by all of the politicians i mean now joe biden really does have you might say an easier way of administering the united states he's got the presidency has got the house he's

got the senate now it might not always be smooth sailing but certainly these 2 wins in georgia certainly helps. absolutely this would make pushing through his agenda much more much more easy but also we've heard president at will president elect biden saying that once he takes office he intends to be everyone's president those who supported him voted for him and and those who did not and he's always campaigned on bringing the nation back from these divisions and boy could they be they could not be more stark those divisions than what we saw today in that violence that unfolded at the u.s. capitol so right there was the visualization of the challenge that biden will face on day one of his presidency and it makes one question whether that will make him take pause and how aggressive he wants to push his agenda he's always signal from

the start that he wants to be more of a he wants to govern war as a moderate and for the good of the country for healing the divisions in the country he may move even further in that in that direction that's in the center of the political spectrum he has got a bottle on 2 fronts he hasn't got the political battle which seems to be waning now to a certain extent but the medical bustling terms of covert 19 the battle that he faces to change public perception of people too when asked so should he distance because they feel about themselves and those people that they love and care about that is an age that some you might say republicans just don't want to hear don't want to listen to by no matter what he says. that's right and you saw in those protests today in that crowds of tens of thousands who gathered at the rally to hear president trump very few were were if any were wearing masks and you also note that on the senate floor and on the the house floor as these debates were unfolding

many times the members departed from the certification of the votes to talk about coded and all the other troubles that the country is facing certainly the challenges that are facing the incoming biden administration are great and to. have that plus the divisions the violence that we just saw unfolding confront him on day one the foreign affairs the foreign policies that iran with its increasing focus on its nuclear program this all measures up to a very difficult start likely for a president president elect biden once he's inaugurated on january 20th but heidi we're just getting a statement from the president tried to quote even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear out there for the last there will be an orderly transition of the 20th of january i have always said that we continue

our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted well this represents the end of the greatest in the presidential history it's only the beginning of our fight to make america great again and i think that's the nearest perhaps we're going to get to a concession heidi. wow i would say that that is a pretty big step forward for president trump. perhaps made under intense pressure from his white house aides who with us media has been reporting was very troubled by the president's actions yesterday in his inflaming of of the rioters in him calling them patriots and sympathizing with them even stelling them that he love them the fact that he he has made this statement it perhaps it might finally bring down the tension somewhat but then you'll note at

the end of what he said there he said he's not done perhaps hinting at a future run for the to return to the white house and that brings me to also another. another idea that democrats are floating to impeach president again certainly there's not enough time for that to happen before he would already leave office but impeachment word to happen where he to be convicted would at least bar him from ever returning to office but certainly it appears that trump has other plans for the update that sort of tied to the castro that our correspondent in washington d.c. you've been watching al-jazeera english and of course the trouble to us events in washington d.c. overnight as many tribes supporters invaded the capitol hill building were house of representatives and congress senate were sitting to verify and confirm that joe biden would become the president of the united states more about after the break to

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al-jazeera. and. after months of refusing to accept the results of the presidential election donald trump is defeated and joe biden says. votes for president of the united states are as follows joseph arbeit jr of the state of delaware has received 360 books. that i after a long night of kael silence the u.s. capitol congress confirms biden as the 46th president.