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one representative blocking unanimous consent for resolution i would urge vice president pence to invoke the 2050 minute and remove president trump from office. that resolution -- the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office. leader hoyer announced that vote will be at 7:30 p.m. at the earliest in the u.s. house. then the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. to consider a resolution to impeach president from over the rights last week at the u.s. capitol. craigpitol hill producer kaplan also tweeting about potential other action in the capital him in the house, rather. democratic representatives introducing a resolution in the house today to censure alabama republican representative mo brooks for quote reciting acts of -- inciting act of insurrection. the house coming in tomorrow, wednesday 9:00. and if the house and if the
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house passes the impeachment resolution it goes to the senate and if they consider the resolution after president-elect biden is sworn in, mr. bidart is suggesting the senate spent half of the day on impeachment and half of the day on biden administration. nominations he spoke to reporters after getting his second round of the coronavirus vaccine this morning and told reporters quote i do not think president trump should be an office. . period. live coverage coming up state of the states. idaho governor brad little with his state of the state address at 3:00 eastern. then we go to arizona to here from arizona governor doug ducey a 4:00. at c-span alsore online at c-span.org and the free c-span radio app. >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. by america'seated cable television companies in 1979. today we are brought to you by
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, republicans only in the first hour of the washington journal today. as you are calling in, on the house for today in a letter to her colleagues. resolutionwith a that calls on the vice president to convene the cabinet to activate the 25th amendment and declare the president incapable of executing the duties of the office. if we do not receive unanimous consent, she writes, this plan would be brought up on the following day, tuesday. we are calling on the vice president to respond within 24 hours. we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the floor. we will act with urgency because this president represents an imminent threat. as the days go by, the horror of democracyt on our
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perpetrated by this president is intensified. when that impeachment resolution comes to the floor, expected later this week, here is one of the lead sponsors of that resolution, maryland democrat jamie wet can. leading to the armed and violent storming of the u.s. capitol, this is an intolerable crime against our constitution, he writes on twitter. only a majority needed for impeachment in the house. two thirds needed to convict in the senate. this is the headline from this morning's usa today. ublicans join cries for trump impeachment."
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pat toomey, pennsylvania senator, republican, he has called for president trump to resign in the wake of the attack on the capitol. this is pat toomey from meet the press yesterday. [video clip] forhere are calls impeachment, removal by the 25th amendment. you have said he has committed impeachable offenses. what is the most appropriate way for donald trump to exit office? >> i think the best way for our country is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible. i acknowledge that may not be likely, but i think that will be best. it does not look as though there is the will or consensus to exercise the 20 for the amendment, and i do not think -- and i do notdment, think there is time to do impeachment. ont: republican pat toomey
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meet the press. among the president's defenders on the sunday shows, ohio representative jim jordan. [video clip] >> what happened wednesday is a tragedy. everybody knows that. it is wrong. i hope the democrats do not go down this road. we do not know if they are going to. let's hope they do not do that. 75 million americans who supported the president have been called deplorable to eat at the olive garden. smellstrzok said he could the trump supporters. now the democrats are going to try to remove the president from office just seven days before he is set to leave anyway. i do not see how that unifies the country. i hope what happens is what senator graham said when he asked president-elect joe biden to give a speech to the country
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and saying we should not be pursuing impeachment and this 25th amendment. let's bring the country together and move forward and return to being america, the greatest nation ever. host: jim jordan yesterday on fox. calls, just phone republicans only, asking you whether president trump should be removed from office. one other headline focusing on overlicans, the gop split donald trump. chuck is up first out of new york. go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. really an independent, but voting independent over the years -- republican over the years. the way we are able to vote is not right because having just
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two parties does not give you a lot of choice. host: did you vote for donald trump? not.r: i did i did not this year. i felt like he never was a republican, never should have been elected. the only reason he got through the primary is because a number of other republicans, there were too many on the ballot, no different than joe biden. host: what do you think it means to be a republican? caller: i think you would stand for the principles of what the party stands for, fiscal groupint, being part of a the basically stays with general principles of the party. the fact of the matter is most when heisenfranchised
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never was a republican. host: do you think he should be removed? caller: i guess he should be, but it might create more violence. readyif people are truly or religious or not? do they believe in god or not? if christ was still on this earth today, he would walk away. he would say this is not what we want. this is not what we want. there have been a lot of elected officials who do not do the right thing. they are bought by the corporate entities of the world. that is not the way it should be. host: judith is next, republican from anchorage, alaska. good morning. caller: good morning. i do not think he should be removed. host: what do you think should happen? caller: i think he should be
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allowed -- he was elected to be the president. he should be allowed to be the president. what they call this fear of what he might do is hysterical. the biggest problem is likely to be pushed back. to take away the right of people to speak when you take away the right to be on social media or the right of many people to be on social media. host: do you think he bears any responsibility for what happened in that building over my shoulder last wednesday? bears: i don't think he nearly the responsibility that seems to be accorded. i think most of his words were peaceful.ought to be honestly, i think if he cared
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cancer, there are -- cured cancer, there are people in this country -- there is like a mass hysteria going on in this country. it terrifies me. host: it was your senator, lisa murkowski, last week, who made the statement to the anchorage daily news. "i tell you if the republican party has become nothing more than the party of trump, i question whether this is the party for me." caller: i think she is probably speaking accurately. maybe she does not want to be a republican. host: did you vote for lisa murkowski? caller: i did not. host: that is judith. of massachusetts, you are next. caller: good morning. i like your haircut and
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pinstripe. host: let's get to the question. do you think the president should be removed? caller: of course not. joke,ing is it is like a the 25th, impeaching. if there is going to be a third-party party, president trump is going to be at the head of that. we all need to respect each other, just like the two-party system. do we want to keep killing each other in the streets? host: do you think there is going to be a viable third party in this country? competeparty that will on the same level as democrats and republicans? caller: if donald trump, if our to decide to were do that, then god bless america. host: and would you go with him

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