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another turbulent day in washington politics for the scene donald trump changed the attack on the capitol no more we love you you are very special instead talking about lawlessness and mayhem so what has brought about this extraordinary about face and what will republicans do now i'm feeling this is the day. we will never give up we will never. happen a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th we love you very special you do not represent our country our country. we will not take. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation i know that everyone here will be

marching all over the capitol building like all americans i am outraged by the violence. and mayhem. welcome to that day well today the world saw a different donald trump to the president who incited his supporters to march on capitol hill 2 days ago for the 1st time since his election defeat to joe biden in november donald trump finally conceded and knowledge that by will move into the white house in less than 2 weeks he also condemned those behind wednesday's violence after initially saying he loved them and calling them special but for many he's well it's too little too late as calls for his immediate resignation or remove will grow your the highlights from his speech. i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the united states capitol like all americans i am outraged by the violence lawlessness and mayhem the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol

have defiled the seat of american democracy to those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction you do not represent to our country and to those who broke the law you will pay my campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote in so doing i was fighting to defend american democracy now congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and seamless transition of power this moment calls for healing and reconciliation to the citizens of our country serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime and to all of my wonderful supporters i know you are disappointed but i also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just

beginning let's take a closer look at this with how lamberts who is an investment banker proud pro trump republican a former chair of ted cruz's national finance company welcome to tea to you which version of the of the president's thoughts about wednesday's attack is do you adhere to a do you love them are they very special do they represent the country. when present from said he loved them he was talking about the people that were peacefully protesting obviously wasn't talking about those that broke into the capitol and clearly you know i think in hindsight i think it probably should have finished the speech that day before they went over the cattle saying look nobody go in the capitol building nobody follow the security rules do not attack anything and i think if you had done that it probably wouldn't have happened but there were a few people that did this and it's very unfortunate and it's obviously tragic some people died over this so i think it's good that he came out obviously more clearly

and said look that's not what we're about and those people are not what we're about ok i mean and again though what do you think of those people on those attacks on the complex want to be clear the way you stand on those attacks oh absolutely reprehensible you cannot go into a capital and demand to see people demand to do things break in break the law none of that should have happened should not have happened that way and it's really a bad idea for that to happen i think those people should be arrested that did that and be prosecuted. what do you think come to this remarkable change of tone from the president he started off as a site we love you go home it was all very collegiate and today he was talking about reprehensible behavior he was talking about the transfer of power what prompted that shift. i don't know but i suspect he probably got more

information when he gave the 1st speech i think it was it was still happening at the time and he was telling people to go home i think after there'd been a day to see what the damage wasn't to see the people actually die i think he probably saw a lot more of what happened and realized how reprehensible it was on the capital that we can only speculate but when i have the holes i say in that augment that the president elect some of the same thing i made a 7 minute speech in which a cold for common for all 'd this to stop the presidents seeing the same saying the same saints said we love you maybe you should go home and there was no element of condemnation bait the he knew what was going on well now now wait a minute most of the people of the vast majority of people were not doing those reprehensible things are ok that's the 1st part the 2nd part is those war trump

supporters if they had been b.l.m. or m.t.v. joe biden was an out condemning those groups when they were doing what they were doing so it's it's not exactly a fair comparison to say that one political party didn't condemn their own and the other did not have people of insight into how that beta blocker lives matter protests that bet have been more bloodshed and it wouldn't protest as would have been killed by police that have been more police on the straight and that have been more more a protest that's taken out. yeah i've heard that argument i'm not sure that comes from i really don't think there should be race i don't think this should be a racial issue number one number 2 i don't believe there's been any black lives matter protesters killed by police in d.c. during when they were doing the burning and writing in full in d.c. so i'm not sure where that comes from and you know they simple they didn't use tear gas on the people at the capitol there was tear gas you can clearly see that in the

video so they didn't have shields there were officers with shields so it was certainly disorganized and not handled well by the capitol police i think everyone agrees on that the chief of the capitol police i believe resigned so it's that was certainly not done the right way and you see video where it looks like in some areas they actually let people in the building they open the doors and let them in it's very odd i don't i don't know what the police were doing that day but it certainly did not secure the building and we can't have that well ok now despite the presence change of tone the calls for his removal appear to be growing as here in just a few but i believe the president is dangerous. and should not hold office one day longer. he may have only 13 days left as president but yesterday demonstrated that each and every one of those days is that threat to democracy so long as he is in power the president is on vet and the president is on. and the president must

now we wish control the executive branch voluntary were involved here a very dangerous person who should not continue and often this is urgent this is the american face of the high if not in it to. so we heard from chuck schumer that adam kinzinger and. pelosi poll that we included a republican within that what do you think should the president be removed for inciting this violence well i don't think that they have a peaceful offense has there been that already of peace some once they're trying to talk about doing it again i don't see it happening i don't see it going anywhere there's not enough time for them to do it 1st of all i think part of this is political to try and divide the republican party further i think that's i think that's really what that's about and you know it certainly talks to their base as well so you know i think i think it's ultimately

a political move on their part yeah but what does it say that you have republicans calling for him to go well i haven't heard any republicans calling for him to be impeached there's certainly those that are that are upset about it and everyone's upset that people broke into the capitol breached the capitol street term all and people lost their lives i mean i don't know anyone that's not upset about that the question is you know everyone is saying that it's president trump's fault i think i think that's too simplistic i think there's a lot of blame to go around and you know you look out and see the elections that happen in november and there's a lot of people that believe that those were fraudulent in in many of the states they don't feel that they're it's been correctly educated you had the protests in the summer that people watched and there didn't seem to be a lot of consequences to it so there's just i think there's a whole number of reasons for this and it happened that way and we've got it we've

we can't operate as a country this way we can't have violent protests or or protests that have violence at all ongoing for we just can't operate as a country both you said there's lots of blame to go around how much about blame should fall on president shoulders. well as a sitter earlier i think i think president trump in hindsight us should have ended his speech on saturday by saying look do not enter the capitol building and let me let me let me just interrupt you there because i think you've missed him so where i'm going with that so what we're hearing is the that this is just the culmination of a series of nods and winks of the president has given to his to his followers that the trashing of the election results the continual down talking down of the american and that total system that lets much capital do you see none of that as of the president having some part to play in what happened on wednesday well you

could are the argument could be made that as the leader of the republican party and as the president united states anything that happens on his watch he goes up to him so that could certainly be made did he incite people to do that i don't know that that argument is valid i mean i think he's been saying the same thing he said on saturday been saying for the past month which was that he felt that the election was unfair and that there was fraud in the election the fact that people were going down to march on the capitol 'd that's perfectly ok to do as well to march and go out there and have your voices heard what should have happened was breaching the security and going into the capitol that should have happened i don't know how many people did it looks like a 100 or so people did that out of the thousands that were there and those people should be prosecuted. is the is the trumpet public in posse a fog right i ask not only because of the support that you get from white

supremacists but also because republican congresswoman mary miller felt comfortable about quoting one of her rallies though she has since apologized. kind of here so we were having a technical that issues that. can you hear me so i. can hear you knocking. oh right so it's going to have a composite under president trump is it a foreign policy no it's a populist party i mean if you look at the trump the base of which is now the republican party base it's very blue collar it is a people of all walks of life look he got more votes from hispanics than anyone i think since reagan he got more votes from blacks than anyone since reagan also he actually did much better with minorities in 2020 than previous presidential

elections so i don't say that there doesn't seem to be the minority community screaming out same trumps a white supremacist i think that's you know the media's been doing that about a lot of his base but that's because he's had a lot of the bases turned out in places like pennsylvania and wisconsin and michigan that had previously been more blue collar democrats we talk about georgia what happened there why did your posse lose georgia staunch conservative state. i think we lost georgia because of mail in ballots and if we're going to if we're going to have mass mail in ballots and you have that happen in these states that are going to be very difficult for republicans a so i think you can't there's not security around that it's very opaque and look i've seen the data the raw data before people say that there was 0 voter fraud is simply not accurate so just to be clear you know i'm such an interrupt you said the

problem they enjoyed it was maybe about as are you saying that the mail in ballot system was fraudulent but that it was hacked that there was something wrong with the vote is that what you say. i'm saying that when you have mail and ballots and you don't have security around the mail in ballots and you don't know if the people that turn in those mail in ballots are actually who they are and actually residents of georgia then i think you're right for potential fraud and i think it creates uncertainty around the election it's not healthy it's not the way to operate you need to be able to verify the people that are voting are indeed those people and that they're allowed to vote so i'd have to press you on this so are you saying the republicans lost georgia because they election was rigged. when you're saying riggs let me just let me just be very clear ok i've seen the raw data i have not seen a single media outlet do any investigation on the data have you i haven't seen anyone do it all i've seen them do is say there wasn't any i haven't had data

analysts look at the data ok insurance a there were people that voted in georgia who's registered address was a u.p.s. office that was in a strip shopping center and whose mailing address was outside the state by the thousands so how did you and it has your job so have you that full asked for inquiries into the georgia runoff races if you believe i'm a to have been hacked in this way have you asked for official inquiries what you're using the word hacked but i'm not suggesting or some sort of computer hack i'm suggesting that there were ballots that were unsecured that went out to people that were not eligible to vote in the state of georgia and see how us now quietly into the way they the the mail in ballots one handled. the campaign a present truck did that and it went nowhere. might that be because

there was no effort to go because the they've actually election was fine because when you when you look again when you look at the record of challenges that have begun no one has been upheld it's easy to say well we was rome's but where's your proof well i get it i get it well let me ask you this has there been any media an analysis of this do you know then we don't need that to be meta analysis if you want to be like it is if there's been days of it the election was false and the result was false you take your your proof your evidence and your take it to be an election authorities have you done that and what have they said you said you did it and they said no it's fine to the judges i look i didn't follow what the judges said closely but my understanding is that the judges in many of these places they weren't in allies in whether there was was fraud or not they were simply dismissing cases they weren't they weren't doing any kind of analysis on any of it there

weren't trials they didn't do trials on the stuff they dismissed the cases so look i think if the if the media you're saying the media's job is not to analyze any of this even though there's no you'll say i said i didn't say that let's move on well it's so you would agree that the media should do that i would agree that i'm here to ask you questions and i'm trying to get some straight and says let's let's talk about the state of the republican party because it seems like a lot of america them quite fractured do you expect the report what do you expect what is the republican party going to be without donald trump well there's not going to be a courage of donald trump from the republican party so there's an aspect of your hallo. well they're going to have to figure out what to do i mean he had 7475000000 people vote for him if you if you looked at it in 4 and said well it let's say 10000000 of those people decided they're no longer going to vote because they're

upset about presents from the republicans won't win any more races so they can't afford to lose 10 to 15000000 of the trump supported voters yet if they're going to have to be a way to figure out now that i find that really interesting the way that you talk about it is as though it's a separate entity the way the valet are going to have to deal with his over to sort of republican potties. well i think right now there could be i mean i hope there's not a split in the republican party you're seeing on some of the social media you're seeing people talk about the patriot party and that's of course the democrats would love to see that they would love to see a split and have kind of you know say let's what you'd call establishment republicans on one side and trumped patriot republicans on the other side and and that would of course secure democrat elections from here on out so i that that shouldn't happen and that can't happen if the republican party wants to move

forward so there's going to have to be you know the the emotions are high right now on both sides i think i think in a few months when things calm down some others can have to be a determination on where where do things go but i can tell you present trump is still the look what gives power to politicians the power of politicians comes from their ability to mobilize voters that's the same thing with with organizations the n.r.a. if you can mobilize voters you can have power present trump mobilizes voters and so as long as he's able to do that he's going to have to be they're going to have to be talking and working with president dropped and soon to be former president trump he's not going to go away so i think ultimately he is going to be a factor in the party and that's that's just going to be the case fos that's a good talking to thank you so much for joining us the how long but thank you. here in germany 3 potential successes i'm going to battle faced off in

a televised debate today a week before her conservative c.d.u. party is due to elect a new leader is the last time all of the candidates will clash before 1000 are wrong delegates a vote and a virtual party conference next saturday the future leader of the c.d.u. will be hold position to succeed with a man as the next conservative candidate for chancellor i know an alternate means. his 9 let's have a look at the runners and riders with the w.'s chief political editor behind she's been watching tonight's debate welcome michela so who came out on top and who's most likely to follow chancellor merkel's footsteps quests and welcome to german politics in stark contrast to u.s. politics where forming coalitions is a staple for those politicians also entering the race to succeed angle of machall

so there was a 4th party in the room this evening and that was the green party who are tipped as likely coalition partner but let's 1st dip into international politics but that also played a role in tonight's debate and this is what 2 of the contenders had to say on the rather tricky issue of how to deal with an ever emboldening china. he. and he for china generally only sticks to contracts when they're in it's own interests ruthlessly breaks them when it suits china's interests hong kong is just one example so we should be a lot tougher we should reduce the dependence of the german economy on the chinese market german companies won't be successful there in the long run anyway because they won't be needed one day. and we should use the opportunity of the change of administration in washington to develop a transatlantic strategy on how to deal with china especially in all international

institutions its. strength only comes through unity so we need a european china strategy and that also means that germany can no longer simply say that china is an important market. also market and i also call for a transatlantic china strategy that is now becoming possible again under the new administration. seen as a former magical adversary who altogether left politics over losing an election to her and then from no but what can who leads the parliamentary group on foreign affairs here in the german parliament china played a large role that can also be seen as a legacy of those trump he is calling on europeans and specifically germans to remember where true north is when it comes to dealing with china and europe trying

to avoid being caught in the middle of that standoff but i must tell you that international politics didn't really play a large role apart from those issues europe and how to deal with china and almost caught in the middle of that debate was i mean last set to seen somewhat of a male angle americal who's seen as the man who would most likely continue the legacy of the machall years of that stability politics he's the only one who holds a regional state office the state premier of north rhine-westphalia he's the one who stressed how important china is as a market for those european for those german companies and that's also why he was a lot more down to earth when he pitched for himself to become the one to succeed and the americal potentially as the next chancellor candidate this is what he said

. i bring to the table experience in government as the leader of a large state i can also interests. and i have actually already won an election which might be useful next elections are just. the future of our country. so more than a hint that those other 2 weren't seen as natural election win is because they haven't been in the past with fried fish mats calling for a much more conservative conservative c.d.u. party and nobody to ask in trying to have much more of a geostrategic angle of the state of play but i can't really tell you who of those will come out top when those 1001 delegates meet in just a week's time from now because of course everybody wants to know who is going to be

jobless next chancellor. yes and when it comes to him who could potentially become that candidate for the conservatives all of those 3 don't really seem to play as muscles of role as someone who's not in the race to become c.d.u. leader and that's the bavarian state prime yet here's the latest polling that just came out here and money and that sees ma course in the lead from the bavarian system party of america all's c.d.u. he could in the end become the dark horse candidate to take over at that last moment it looks like we're not going to learn that until at the very least after easter with marcos still firmly sitting on the fence how interested exactly he is but if those polls continue on the reject tree there are just seeing then now these

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