with the election behind us will the republican party dump trucks the fuel weiqi take on us politics and society that's the bottom line because context these are different storytelling around the biggest issues we've done but we've had to do is a do it again. order. if you buy a car from a half demonstrate that no one is a far from alone not even the president of the. house of representatives votes to impeach donald trump for inciting an insurrection making him the 1st us president to be teached twice. i'm about this and this is all to

a live from doha 10 republicans cross the political aisle to support trump's impeachment but most argued the vote is divisive. this is all about madam speaker the hatred of this president. there is never a justification for violence no excuses no exceptions trump remain silent on the impeachment but calls on americans to avoid violence and that concern about more demonstrations. donald trump has made history by becoming the 1st u.s. president to be impeached twice in the last couple of hours the house of representatives formally charged him with inciting an insurrection that south to capitol hill was overrun by his supporters some of whom were armed on wednesday the crowd was attempting to stop joe biden being certified as the next president 5

people were killed in a remarkable result in the house 10 republicans back to democrats to vote in favor of the impeachment john's time ends in a week but democrats say he is unfit to hold office. today in a bipartisan way the house demonstrated that no one is evolved along not even the president of the united states. that donald trump is a clear and present danger to our country. and that once again we are now at the office to protect and defend the constitution of the not only way to help with clock and now. i think adding them with their high fro can over what this means tax country of a president who is insurrection. but now i'm being well spent of the article i think you. are joining the impeachment debate in the house some

republicans said the charges a baseless and a form of revenge the speaker said to us just moments ago words matter but apparently those words don't matter when they're uttered by democrats when the gentle lady from massachusetts calls for unrest in the streets when the gentle lady from california brazenly brags that she called for people to get in the faces of those who serve and support the president i denounce political violence from all ends of the spectrum but make no mistake the left in america has incited far more political violence than the right for months our cities burned police stations burned our businesses were shattered and they said nothing or they're cheering led for it and they fundraise for it and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world ok i speak to mike hanna who's joining us now from washington d.c. mike the democrats the stressing that this is bipartisan the republicans are saying

that this is just an act of revenge just walk us through for those viewers who are just joining us what's been happening in the last few hours. well robert the result was a foregone conclusion given the democratic majority in the house because the vote is conducted on a simple majority that being said there was something surprising there and that is the number of republicans who joined their compact across the aisle in voting for impeachment now there had been a number who had publicly stated before that they would vote in favor of impeachment but eventually 10 republicans actually cause their votes along with their fellow democrats this is a very important point because this now turns into a bi partisan vote unlike the previous impeachment which was solidly a democrat vote with no republicans whatsoever so the democrats now have the defense that this vote was conducted on a bipartisan basis indicating that there's no political vindictiveness involved

that it is in fact a vote taken on the character of the president rather than with any political intent an interesting note though as well is that you heard nancy pelosi the speaker of the house conducting the engrossment ceremony at which the article of impeachment is formally signed she did so at the podium which had been removed from the house by demonstrators by rioters last week ago so once again a little touch there in terms of reminding people exactly what happened last wednesday one of the linchpins in all of this is the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell because he has been in some respects quite vague about this this vote just talk us through what he's been saying through all of this. well mitch mcconnell has made it clear it would appear that he is giving no directive as to how the senate should vote when it comes to trial before them he

says and he says so in a letter to fellow republicans that he wants to see the evidence and hear the trial before making up his mind this is a very different position from what he took in the last impeachment all of that being said the another factor has changed and that is that mitch mcconnell may no longer be the senate majority leader when the article of impeachment comes before the senate for trial that's because 2 democrats will be sworn in in coming days the exact time when they'll be sworn in depends on the certification status of the vote in georgia so 2 new senators which will give the vice president having a casting vote will give the democrats a majority in the senate now in order to impeach for the senate to confirm impeachment in the trial they do need a 2 thirds majority so mitch mcconnell's was a very important in that he can guide his fellow republicans as to how to vote but what does appear to be the case at this point is that he's not going to whip votes

against impeachment as he did last time and we've been hearing of course from donald trump what's he been saying. well we heard a taped message from president trump which was released on the white house page given that president trump social all be frozen in that he said that all violence is completely inexcusable he called for calm that we did not hear from him any expression whatsoever of contrition about the events of last week we also did not hear from him any direct reaction to the vote that happened in the senate incidentally he had passed a message earlier in the day during the process of that vote where republican representative jim jordan who was given the middle of on a day by president trump on monday read a statement from the president calling for an end to violence and calling for calm

this is what president trump had to say i want to be very clear i unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement making america great again has always been about defending the rule of law supporting the men and women of law enforcement and upholding our nation's most sacred traditions and values mob violence goes against everything i believe in and everything our movement stands for no true supporter of mine could ever indorse political violence no true supporter of mine could ever disrespect law enforcement or our great american flag no true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow americans if you do any of these things you are not supporting our movement you're

attacking it and you are attacking our country we can not tolerate it. in a week from today there will be a new president sitting in the white house and the days leading to joe biden's inauguration will be very tense indeed there is a massive security presence in the capitol as many as $20000.00 national guard soldiers will be deployed by the time of that inauguration the secret service is now in charge of all security it will coordinate the security within the capitol in the days leading to the inauguration and a few days beyond that but certainly this is a level of security within the district that has not been seen in the past mike thanks very much in the market of talking to us from washington d.c. . earlier i spoke to omar says democrats in the house of representatives and she

says she believes the impeachment is bipartisan. this act of accountability i believe will. create a cack act. truth or justice and it would allow for us to be unified again as a nation and mend our divisions you know this is a president who has not only been a threat to our democracy our government but it's he's been a president that has used rhetoric to divide our isha and once we are able to remove him we can start the process of healing. you know have to really make sure that the senators understand the gravity of what has taken place understand the gravity of the actions of accountability they

must deliver i understand the gravity of them fulfilling their oath of office as they protect our constitution and and defend our democracy and the public and i think once that is done we will have ample time to talk about what it means for us to deliver as stimulus package to fill the agenda on behalf of the american people and work with the incoming president this has been. a pipe partisan impeachment it's the 1st in our nation's history. as the president has worked in that dividing our nation in attacking the seat of government and the seat of democracy he has succeeded in uniting us. there was a clear unity in the impeachment and there is simply no unity in the country in

building him accountable and i believe there will be unity in the asphalt way. we're joined by steve clemons who's the host of al-jazeera is the bottom line and is editor at large of the hill is joining us via skype from washington d.c. steve as always good to have you with us and all jaziri thank you very much indeed and i want to talk to you 1st of all about this message from donald trump a very different tone one would almost say presidential in which it one point he says i want to be very clear i unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week how do you think his supporters feel about him. well i think his supporters who grown used to him. many who are dedicated to the track they're on and believe that you know he was framed and set in this election was stolen are going to believe that's not the authentic donald trump going to be this is another

scripted scripted moment that he doesn't really believe in we're so used to and they're so used to getting instructions and commentary from him in large capital letters over twitter that a lot of people are not going to believe this is authentic donald trump others will be frustrated with him like they were frustrated with mike pence for basically beginning to take a different track which is more constructive i mean the president's tone is definitely different he's definitely telling his people to stand down telling them that they're not his people if they take this course you know you you know sort of wish that twitter reopened his account so he could send it out but there is a there is a kind of challenge for doll jump right now that he's lost his megaphone the one that he you know used a lot across a lot of platforms and this statement from him to some degree to a lot of people looks disingenuous even those who may want to applaud him telling his people not to be violent he's just last contract with new york city companies are cutting off businesses across the board with the trump organization so donald

trump is being squeezed right now and so people may think that this is just an effort to survive this moment rather than an earnest step forward we heard it on all mother just a moment ago saying that she was convinced that this impeachment move was bipartisan it's the same phrase that was used by nancy pelosi their own as well given the fact that this is all happening at the same time of course as we're going through inauguration at a time when joe biden is still trying to put together his cabinet for which he needs senate approval how much damage do you think this could do to the ending days of the biden administration. i think it's going to be distracting i think that the republican party is splitting into in front of our eyes it's very hard to describe what the republican party is about right now liz cheney you know the cheney political franchise which has extraordinary power and connections is trying to say it's about certain key principles but others are here into the line that is

you know really about donald trump and so as that's happening that distraction no matter how it happens that battle in the republican party is going to continue to create tensions across the nation and that's going to mean donald trump is in the news every day donald trump's name is in the headlines is a day that gets in the way of joe biden being able to enact his plan to get his people through confirmation process in the senate and begin to change the narrative and push reset and the country and try and pull them together again it's a real problem when when donald trump continues to be above the full in the headlines and as far as i can tell they've just laid a plan that that's going to continue happening because they're going to put this man on trial after he's out of office in this in the senate and we're going to continue to talk about it every day that's a problem for joe biden. given the fight that most of the people who are supporting this this vote for impeachment or using the phrase though the word accountability

an awful lot in the event that it gets the senate and there is no impeachment process that it is voted down where does that leave the credibility of both congress and senate when it comes to essentially sending the message that you can do something like this and to all intents and purposes get away with it. well it's there are lots of shades of gray here and i don't want to lose the audience in describing them the fact that the president has been impeached twice is a remarkable stain on this presidency it's consequential for the republican party may say well he's not in jail he's not you know despite you know he's not able to not run again but nonetheless what happened today does matter if there is no senate trial which i'm. i'm of the view that there probably will be a trial as your previous commentator said you know chuck schumer is going to be running the show there there will be a senate trial there will be an effort to create some accountability i think it's very iffy very hard to imagine could happen that he will be convicted if he's

convicted and he can be banned from running for office again there can be consequences in that step but even if let's say for a moment they don't get 2 thirds of the senators to convict him they're going to get a majority of senators to convict him and if i am right i don't think there has been a vote over 50 votes. to convict in any case of any impeachment that does this thus far has been held so so i think that's very important member that that itself will be historic no president has been removed from office richard nixon resigned and even andrew johnson did not have a majority of votes against him to remove him from office so that in itself just getting you know 50 plus one would be historic and would be again another mark on donald trump's presidency obviously the events possibly of the last 2 weeks have been watched around the world how much damage do you think this is done to the that

the u.s. for want of a better phrase moral high ground that it takes when it comes to trying to reinforce and encourage its version of democracy in other parts of the world. look i think you know it to use your phrase any grin a moral low ground right now i think it makes it very hard you know i tweeted something out recently where i said rock you know me glass house it's very hard for americans to look at bellows today to look at you know svetlana taken ost who you know probably won the election against libya and go there and to say well we see things differently or you have to look at this moment where we've sent election monitors you know with jimmy carter the former president has made the carter center very much about trying to create election integrity around the world sending election monitors to kountry is for decades after decades i think that that role the united states has played is now over for the foreseeable future trust has to be

rebuilt and america has to somehow get back to the point where it can demonstrate that it's a healthy country again where both sides of the political equation recognize they're in the same boat and there's a basic mutual respect because that is not the case today and that makes it impossible to counsel other nations on how they should run their governments or democracies and that's going to affect things like hong kong taiwan down the road how to comment on china about. camps where where forced labor is working and so with the wheat years and so i think all of these things are going to complicate america's role in engagement on these important issues just let's take a specular look about 2 years from now how do you think the american political landscape is going to be given everything that's happened over the last 4 years. well i think that everyone is now already thinking about the the house and the

senate 2 years from now the republicans gained ground why did they gain ground is it all about donald trump is it all about this moment that doesn't make sense to me because he lost the election so you saw it's something in the way the republicans were responding at the local level and state level that was more appealing than than some of the democrats and that's why so many republicans did better than expected in what they called down ticket races might might gut feeling tells me that while we're talking about these big national trends talking about donald trump talking to that the secret to winning elections in america is seeing to your citizens and their needs in their local and state races and right now i think nancy pelosi and chuck schumer got a lesson in that and are going to try to get back into a results oriented strategy trying to deliver for americans who are feeling a lot of need right now over the covert crisis over unemployment economic anxiety

health issues and whatnot i think that they're going to have to get back into that mode because playing it everything at a national level is something that almost cost them the house of representatives in my view in a very unexpected way so i think it's going to be a very tense and tight race and the outcome 2 years from now is a real toying cos it could go either way whether donald trump's a factor or not as always really good to get your thoughts on this steve thank you very much indeed for joining us think some of those thank you or tell us moron is a republican political strategist who says the votes will do little tonight americans. i think that the bulk of the republican party is and are reflective mode and what we saw last week was clearly the culmination of what was one of the most. interesting 4 years of a presidential stray show and a ministration where democrats from day one tried to invalidate his election early

not the 1st time he was impeached me seeing with so many classified documents that the underpinning of the 1st impeachment was completely bogus and uncalled for and i knew the republican party that this place now where you know we knew and we have known for the last 2 months that there is going to be a republican party without trump. and you know that that chart or that or has yet to be charted you don't quite know the party doesn't quite know how you need. the base and the raw hole ition that donald trump brought together and you know dollar truck invariably actually brought together a larger more diverse coalition and yet for the republicans and 20162028 than barack obama to lapse in 2008 well if you look at the numbers so the republicans are really taking a step back and thinking about what you chair of the party is how you keep the movement together without the man per say yes there were a number of republicans who did prosper island but for impeachment today but we

well know and we know that dove that mitch mcconnell was not going to bring the senate back into session so a trial is not going to happen while blocked the president so the question as is and what was the point of the political theatricals today while new york city plans to cut all business contracts with the trump organization where bill de blasio announced the move in a t.v. interview he says trump incited the attack on the u.s. capitol. here to announce that the city of new york is severing all contracts with the trump organization our legal team has done the assessment the contracts make very clear if a company in the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity we have the right to sever the contract. inciting an insurrection let's be clear let's say these words again inciting an insurrection against the united states government clearly constitutes criminal activity well google is going to pose political ads

and all of its power from starting on thursday an e-mail to advertisers the company says it's a result of the violence of the u.s. capitol last week the policy will be in place until at least january 21st the day after joe biden's presidential inauguration the ban also applies to any ads referencing impeachment inauguration or protests at the capitol facebook has had a similar policy in place since november's election and it never says a senior writer at new york magazine he says losing the contacts in new york city will be a major blow for president trump it's kind of disorienting because because you've been following trump the past 5 years in seeing him over newburgh and you know getting away with figurative murder on basically a daily basis you know insulting prisoners of war they're handicapped. being caught on tape talking about his mother sexually assaulting women and still winning the

presidency and it's really just more in the past week to see it from presidency is ending in this kind of morality tale where his refusal. to accept defeat is his putting victory above everything else is costing him sort of everything that he values from his twitter platform to his position within a minute and real estate which you know growing up is a sign of a real state family that was very strong in queens because you have to break into the really you elite in manhattan you know this was always a really intimidating actually we're trying to be a big manhattan real estate presence and now that's at risk well air being there's an unsettled council all bookings in washington d.c. during inauguration week the company says its interest funds to local and federal officials asking people not to travel to washington it also says is upholding their policy to bar any guests associated with hate groups of violent activity ahead of joe biden's inauguration on january the 20th other political divisions in

washington have reached every corner of the united states some of donald trump supporters say his incitement of the capitol hill riots was a step too far while others argue impeaching the president creates more division hoda abdel-hamid the reports from west virginia. the debate is consuming the country americans wondering how to bridge deep divisions that are tearing apart their communities a conversation that morgan quality confiscate even with her customers definitely i just said to brian earlier that you know 67 years ago i wouldn't be in my business talking about politics you know either just behind the chair speaking about it but i don't want to sound extra i don't trust my government that much to be able to just the past 4 years has just been trauma for me so what i think biden can do as far as healing i think it just runs so much deeper. i'm just thankful he's in

office like maybe you can stop some of the bleeding we are in west virginia a rural state known for its small towns and country roads people here voted overwhelmingly for president donald trump in the november election but mistrust is running deep and after the rise last week on capitol hill many didn't want to talk to us shop owners in several towns said that these days voicing their opinion could affect business so i just don't remember anything like this in my life you know getting close and to the get less people to twice for trying a man he admired i do believe he does a lot of good bank 0 don't want to raid was down a lot of hers was good and i believe it's the best 4 years we had for a long time. people was what. i remember the obama times when i believe there was a lot of talk. for the poor people but lately his opinion has shifted was really

let me down there because you know you. get counted you'll get a little bit yellow and it made people do things it was pretty stupid. and i think he was behind it somewhat he should step down yeah enough enough. i never thought i'd say that. that's what i think. trump is very popular among many here who like derek hill believe the president should finish his term. so you're really going to go through all that trouble all the time all the energy all that effort all that money to impeach a president who at this point in time it goes through a process that you have maybe a day left what's the point besides just saying that you impeach president donald trump still doesn't change my opinion as it doesn't change many other red blooded american opinions but this is a country in shock exhausted by the continuous political bickering and some are

anxious that it could unravel further if it's not tamp down everybody in this country will be sanj by this fire this fire is coming the question is do we put it out on the political divisions in washington d.c. have reach every corner of the united states president elect joe biden said that healing will be a priority but in a country increasingly divided among partisan lines finding common ground would be the real challenge. in west virginia. and you can find much more on our website to see more pictures and background address for that is w w w dot com to 0 dot com. this is all to 0 these are the top stories president donald trump has become the 1st president to be impeached for

a 2nd time the house of representatives formally charged him with inciting violence after 5 people were killed last week mobs of people stormed the capitol building 10 republicans backs democrats to vote in favor of the impeachment mike hanna has more from washington d.c. foregone conclusion given the democratic majority in the house because the vote is conducted on a simple majority that being said there was something surprising there and that is the number of republicans who joined their compatriots across the aisle in voting for impeachment now there had been a number who had publicly stated before that they would vote in favor of impeachment but eventually 10 republicans actually cost their votes along with their fellow democrats this is a very important point because this now turns into a bi partisan vote unlike the previous impeachment which was solidly a democrat vote with no republicans whatsoever so the democrats now have.