you supported him so that could be part of the political calculation. has he it's not great i guess when the media talks about itself the whole time but you were just mentioning that on the door there was a sign saying murder of the media so for journalists like you that cover politics especially i'm thinking of the reporters that were possibly inside the building i mean how worrying was it then and how worrying is it still now that those writers managed to get in when we know what they think about the media. it's actually very very terrified and it's not just the media i've spoken with members of people who work in this building and in these office buildings and they just feel like their entire belief system has been shattered up until this point they thought and what i was telling my friends and family yesterday that this is the most secure building in the country and it was proven that in just a matter of minutes they could overtake it and another thing i think that's going to be investigated on the other side of the capitol from where i was the associated

press was set up with all of their equipment and the trump supporters absolutely trashed it i'm not sure if anyone was hurt but there were so lot of media that really had to run from a mob i think it's worth noting that i've covered a lot of these events in washington never before have i needed security al-jazeera felt it was necessary to give me security guards on election night and on the night that the vote was certified and i needed that security one of the things i think a lot of people in washington are wondering is is this over if you drive through the streets here all of the businesses all of the buildings they're still boarded up and there was one particularly. aggressive supporter who was really getting in our faces yesterday when the security guard as she had to push him back he said hey will be back so that is the concern is this actually over everybody is

a concern with the latest that from capitol hill passing as always thank you. well the presidents increasingly lost his ability to communicate with their supporters as social media platforms have blocked his accounts twitter suspended his account from posting for 12 hours following messages that the site said had a risk of violence it's threatened to make it permanent if trungpa breaks the rules again facebook has banned him from its site and instagram which owns for 2 weeks chief executive mark zuckerberg said allowing trump to post was too risky and he could be barred indefinitely. ok let's take you back to washington d.c. now and listen to senior republican senator lindsey graham speaking there the 1st thing that stands out to me is how embarrassed in disgusted i am that the united states capital going to be taken over by a domestic terrorist or insertion transferring power from one president to the

other. that a band of people who are terrorists not patriots literally occupy the floor of the house drove the senate out of this chamber and the question for the country is how could that happened 20 years after 911. september this year all be the 28th anniversary of the attack on our nation it is mind boggling that such an event could occur. senator schumer's call for the secretary sort of arms the senate to resign i echo that. anyone in charge of defending the capital. anyone in charge of defending the capital failed. in their duties if they would

have been in the military they had been relieved of their commands and most likely court martial so the 1st thing that has to happen is to hold those accountable for failing to defend the nation's capital while the congress was in session why am i worried it would have been so easy for a terrorist organization to infiltrate this movement the lone wolf terrorist i think we've got a pretty good grip on the political protest in this country is the heart and soul of who we are but we haven't been protesting lately we've been burning down cities we have been attacking federal courthouses we've been looting in the name of social justice and now we've occupied the capital this needs to stop to my democratic colleagues i share your disgust and embarrassment and determination to make sure that what happened in our capital never happens again but you need to speak up

when this happens and other places lawlessness lawlessness in one place breeds lawlessness everywhere when one calls resource of our balance and people are not prosecuted other causes believe maybe this is ok so the mistake we made is when people tried to destroy that courthouse in portland they were prosecuted the full extent of law when they occupied seattle they were prosecuted the full extent of the law when they attack the except of the nomination for president trump here in d.c. virtually no one was prosecuted it's good to hear everybody warning prosecutions. some are late to the dance i was there from day one so less reset and move forward until every political movement out there no matter how just your calls in your own

mind using violence will not adventure of coals will only lead to your personal incarceration or if you go too far to injury so what am i calling for i'm calling for a joint task force to be assembled and spend all the time and money necessary to a den of every person who breached the security of the capitol who occupied the chambers who invaded offices and destroyed property there's a ton of video evidence out there i was interviewed this morning about 2 f.b.i. agents they came to my house wanting to know if i any surveillance cameras outside my house i did not but i'm encourage their own the case trust me in social media world it is this today it will be not won't be that hard to find thousands of

people who took the law in their own hands the people sitting in the chairs need to be sitting in a jail cell the people who attacked the capitol police need to be charged with attacking a police officer sedition may be a charge for some of these people so i will for the next 6 years god willing every week ask of the department of justice starting with this department of justice and the next department of justice what kind of progress are you making in holding those accountable the domestic terrorist who took over the house in the senate chambers and laid waste to capitol hill. what do you need that you don't have if you need more prosecutors money will not be an object if you need more investigators will provide you the resources this is a moment for the nation to show will and determination to be

a nation of laws that anarchy shall not reign the constitution controls not the mob yesterday i was proud of senator mcconnell the republican leader of the senate who stood up and called for a peaceful transfer of power to vice president biden and calmly harris like senator mcconnell supported president trying. to come close to the president personally i think his president has been consequential from a conservative point of view it's been an amazing 4 years in terms of judges securing the border a vaccine in record deregulating the economy cutting taxes historic mideast peace agreements the destruction of the caliphate all on and on and on was tarnished by yesterday when it comes to accountability the president needs to understand that his actions are the problem not the solution that the rally yesterday

was insanely it got out of hand and a good friend of mine rudy giuliani did not help i said on the floor of the senate i cast my vote accordingly that joe biden is the legitimate president elect of the united states are there regularities in this election yes i'm sure they are had they been overblown absolutely there's been a constant effort by people from the president's legal team to provide misinformation to distort the facts to make accusations that cannot be proven that needs to stop. as to the 25th amendment being invoked i do not believe this appropriate at this point i'm looking for a peaceful transfer of power i'm looking for the next 14 days to reset and louis handoff power in their traditional sense by being a peaceful transfer

a talk to mark meadows this morning the transition is going well is fully in place a top of the president's legal counsel pat simple loney he is doing everything he can to help the transfer curry as to to these 2 gentleman most americans will never know the service that mark meadows and pets and their those under their charge provided to this country over the last year taught as secretary minucci today who is in israel no one will fully understand what he and others have brought to the table. so to those who believe you should leave your posts now to make a statement i would urge you not to robert o'brian if we get a good counselor the president you've been a steady hand i've been missing your vom calls robert stay on to those in the national security apparatus we need you now more than ever so i

embrace joe manchin statement to joe this morning he has called for those around the president to stay in place to ensure that we're going to have a peaceful fish and transfer power why do i say that joe biden is the legitimate president the united states because he got the most votes the state certified him the winner enough to get over 300 electoral votes and all you need is to 70 to my colleagues who objected yesterday he didn't do anything illegal. the law allows you to do what you did i respect your ability to do it i disagreed with what you were trying to do when member of a mock conference said we can't turn a blind eye. to the problems in this election i will tell the american people there

has not been a blind eye turned. the allegations about the law being broken in wisconsin that they changed election law contrary to the wisconsin constitution because the code was litigated by the wisconsin supreme court there'll 4 to 3 that what happened was legal al gore accepted a $54.00 decision by the u.s. supreme court to end his litigation to be president. my job is not to overturn the wisconsin supreme court the allegations about the consent decree in georgia changing georgia law unconstitutionally were litigated in federal court and the trump team lost the people on the campaign legal team have made accusations without sufficient proof they have been more the problem then the

solution they have claimed that 66000 people in georgia voted under 18 i have not found one person they have claimed that 8000 felons voted from prison in arizona i have asked for a list of names and received. this needs to end a blind i was not turned the outcome that was reached was disappointing to those of us who supported the president but it was done through the lawful process of challenging courts court challenges and actually having hearings with the legislative bodies. of these swing states not one judge anywhere in the land except in their accusations to be legitimate and not one legislative body in the states in question. decided to change the certification after hearing the accusations that congress is not to overturn elections

that we disagree with the congress's job is to count the votes sent in by the states that were lawfully certified and declare the one with the most votes the winner president and vice president as to my pits. in this debacle of the last week or so there is one person to me that stands out above all others. and that is vice president might fits the thing said about him the things he were he was asked to do in the name of law. were over the top unconstitutional illegal and were to have been wrong for the country mike pence basically fulfilled the duty assigned to any vice president to count the votes and declare the winner to those who would wish that the vice president

noted states could send electoral votes back to the states because they believed fraud was involved be careful what you wish for do you really believe it's good in america for a single person to have that power do you think the 12th amendment gives that power absolutely not so it was so disappointing to me is that people who have prided themselves on being constitutional conservatives were pushing this bizarre theory so i just want every republican to know that in my view limited government. applies when you don't like the outcome just as much as when limited government applies and you do like the outcome the constitution needs to be followed as written even though you wish you could do something the constitution does not allow

to get your way that's the very essence of activism to those who are pushing the idea that vice presidents had the power to unilaterally set aside certified electoral votes from a single state or send them back you have chief and the. constitutional conservatism so when asked to do something against conservative values that would be harmful to the nation my parents said no other people chose this moment to advance their personal causes i have found in this over time moments like this come back to haunt you if you're doing something you shouldn't be doing so january the 20th tend to be there.

i am hoping that president trump well allow his team to continue to work closely with the biden. transition team the transfer of power peacefully the president trump will focus on some of the sea is complex remind the country of the consequence of presidency is here except that he fell short and a new president will be coming and to turn down the rhetoric and allow us as a nation to heal and move forward to my democratic colleagues i ask the same of you that out questions. you are one of president from biggest critics during the 26th you know what became of his biggest supporters you have we were listening there to republican senator lindsey graham speaking in d.c. very strong words there he also called the rioters yesterday on capitol hill

domestic terrorists specifying that they were not patriots and he also said that he'd make sure that those responsible for ensuring the safety of the capital would be held accountable for the security breach he went on to draw parallels i guess between what happened on wednesday on capitol hill and some of the black lives matter protests saying that democrats as well need to speak up when violence happens in other settings as well and then he mentioned that he was going to try to form a joint task force ask for it to be assembled to identify every person that entered the capitol yesterday and other point that was a very interesting he said the president needs to understand that his actions were part of the problem. when people stormed the capitol although he said that the 25th amendment invoking it would not be appropriate and he looks forward to the

peaceful transfer of power to joe biden and his administration. we're talking about 21st amendment has been a lot of talk about it over the past few hours about invoking it the 25th amendment to the constitution which would remove president trump now the clause was added to the u.s. constitution in 1967 it clarifies the presidential line of succession and sets out a process for filling the vice presidency if that office becomes vacant we're going to do that later let's go back to lindsey graham though he's still speaking let's listen in good relationship with him. but senator mccain we've begged him do not leave iraq but he did as to yesterday it breaks my heart that my friend a president of a consequence were allowed yesterday to happen and it will be

a major part of his presidency it was a self-inflicted wound it was going too far and here's the one thing i can say the next 2 weeks can begin to right this ship depending on how the president. and over time his presidency will be viewed in a fuller context i have absolutely no regrets of helping this president make a safer more prosperous enjoyed my relationship with him i say these things not because of animosity i say these things because i have to. graham. after being so close to this president for 4 years do you think that you and other republicans had more of a responsibility to speak out both privately and publicly when he said things that were untrue when he ginned up his base do you think that that would have made

a difference yesterday i think the trump presidency has been poorly covered by people in your business i think that from the time he took office there's been an effort to cover his presidency in a way that i think is not helpful to the country i have spoken up there is been an effort to believe everything that trump did was wrong before it's proven or not. all i can say is that i have shared my thoughts with the president spoken out when i thought i should but the one thing that i want you to know there are plenty of republicans believe that the trump presidency was never legitimate in the democratic party never accepted by the people in your business and it's been a constant drumbeat and i think that's taken a toll on all of us so could have done better yes question could you have done better could those of you who cover the white house done better you need to ask

yourself that. much and it really quickly you didn't acknowledge joe biden as president of this united states for a month and a half didn't that contribute to the notion of i thought it was i think that is exactly the problem did anybody doubt the. vice president gore did you ask any democrat want to acknowledge that vice president gore lost you waited to the results were in of the litigation. no it's not i know it's a president going to court challenging the results from the time the race was called i was held that why don't you say by one you want to made it clear by the winner before president had the right to go to court and exercise the same rights other presents and i chose not to do that i said

last night joe biden is the president he won the constitution worked. a legal yes and yes he was. the president. now wife. of the president the vice president. i think what the president was asking of the vice president was not constitutionally a wild he had people who say that he could do the fault was i think was some of the legal advice around it you've heard people in his legal team make claims are just beyond the pale the president's frustrated he thought he was cheated nobody's ever going to convince him that he was listening to every public and senator lindsey graham there answering questions crucially he had been asked if more republicans

and spoken out when trump started telling untruths would that have made a difference is going to patty culhane live for us from capitol hill also listening to that what did you make of his answer and generally what have you been making of what he's been saying. well couple of points i want to make here if you had any doubts about where the winds of public opinion might be going and lindsey graham thinks they're going against donald trump let's keep in mind who senator lindsey graham is he said donald trump was dangerous he had horrible names to call him before he become president when he became president he became his best friend and he said basically just now i've spoken out when i thought i needed to that's not true he has literally not spoken out against president trump once that i can recall he's justifying why he had such a close relationship with that he said it's because that i could call him up and trying to influence policy so you're seeing lindsey graham trying to reframe the narrative of the last 4 years and his behavior i also want to point out something

that is going around in conservative media circles what you're seeing them because how do you justify what we saw yesterday trump flags trump supporters the mega hats overtaking the u.s. capitol doing some serious vandalism vandalization and stealing things so how do you justify that well in some conservative media they're saying pretty much you know what lindsey graham just said hey it's no worse than black lives matter ok black lives matter did not take over the people's house the u.s. capitol there was rioting in some cases there was looting but in most cases it was a peaceful protest so not sure how you can equate the 2 but conservative media is trying to say hey it's no worse than black guys matter protests and riots and they're also now starting to say ridiculously that and he was actually behind it when obviously those who are trying fanatics. get the other thing this shows you where republicans are afraid this is going to go so he's walking this line to say

we shouldn't get rid of the 25th the present through the 25th amendment and then he's trying to frame the people who've been around the president saying you don't know what a service they have done this is the cliche in washington that you can. excuse for betty in helping the president with some of his most destructive policies as long as you can say cocktail parties but look at what all the things i tried to prevent from happening so lindsey graham is continuing to set that narrative i think it's important to point out what he just said about al gore the democrats the media the nest democrats if al gore was in fact the president or george bush and al gore and george bush were locked in a recount in florida the election came down to more than 500 votes so what they're trying to say is look this happens all the time no this doesn't happen all the time there was literally no evidence of widespread election fraud in the selection so comparing it to a race that ended up ending when the supreme court decided to

a race with more than a 7000000 vote difference and absolutely no evidence of voter fraud is ridiculous and patty briefly before the end of the program if we actually heard from the vice president mike pence i mean i know we did yesterday and obviously he spoke in the house but today as we heard from him. no no not that i'm aware of but we have heard from senators who say they've spoken to the vice president and they say that he feels completely betrayed by donald trump he feels says that you know he has been there for the president this entire time he's been loyal he asked him to do something he couldn't possibly do so this is the situation the president often finds himself in the very person he needs to protect him right now from facing the 25th amendment is the person that he is now in salt. political lane with the latest that they have on capitol hill for the moment past that is 8 please do stay with us we're going to have more developments and reaction out of washington d.c.

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a region of trash so. why not trash it what's in a name hillbilly a witness documentary on al-jazeera. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here and i just see it or we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. the. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera calls for president trying to be removed from office have grown following wednesday's violent unrest that the u.s. capitol in the past hour u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has called on the vice president to begin the process to remove trump from office the gleeful desecration of the u.s. capitol which is the temple of america of our american democracy and the violence

targeting congress our harz that will forever stain our nation's history instigated by the president of the night.