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the mob that stormed the u.s. capitol last week leaving 5 people dead did so with the urging of the u.s. president violence stoked by donald trump that is why u.s. lawmakers plan to impeach the president this week tonight the trump presidency headed for a disgraceful and deadly end next week trump will leave the white house for good but his a re army they aren't going anywhere i'm bord off in berlin this is the day. i democracy is 46 days and i don't think there's time to do an impeachment the president needs us no choice but to act i think the best thing would be a resignation the president has engaged in things that our undermining our national security and jeopardize the intensity of the election does not look as though.

there is the will or the consensus to exercise the 25th amendment option. also coming up she is the only woman sitting on america's federal death row on tuesday lisa montgomery will be executed a convicted murderer her attorneys say that she's mentally ill reason enough for president trump to spare her life but he won't i think it's revenge i think it's a product of hard heartedness by our leaders who are just trying to make a political point instead of being. human about it. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you the world welcome we begin the day beginning

yet another impeachment proceeding against the u.s. president this week don't trump a set. become the 1st us president to ever be impeached twice this time around support for impeachment is broader and bipartisan the accusation against drum that much graver today democrats in the u.s. house of representatives introduced an article of impeachment accusing trump of inciting violence against the u.s. government the mob that marched to capitol hill last week they did so on behalf of donald trump in today's motion lawmakers also attended and made him aimed at u.s. vice president mike pence either he moves to declare trump unfit for office or congress will impeach but republicans they blocked that take a listen house resolution 21 resolution calling on vice president michael our pants to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th amendment to declare president donald j.

trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting president for what purpose does the gentleman from west virginia right i object objection is heard per se i want to section 5 a one being the house resolution the house stands adjourned 2 now i am tomorrow. all right let's talk about that i'm joined tonight by professor marion ziegler she's a legal historian and a professor of law at florida state university professor it's good to have you back on the day this week president trump he could be impeached again or he could be on his way out thanks to his vice president and the 25th amendment what do you say it's going to be impeachment isn't. yeah i think you teach and it's much more likely a place president senses me pretty clear that he doesn't want to in tokyo 25th

amendment and i think there's there's been a kind of balancing act here between republicans who i think understand the threat to democracy that's at issue here and understands who was trying to spin a threat to their personal safety that's especially true but who also want to redeem some kind of loyalty or at least toleration on the part of top supporters and the 25th amendment option would put responsibility for chumps exit squarely on taxes shoulders and you might not want well i mean why not the fast route here why not invoke the 25th amendment in strip trump of his powers and vice president pence as you said you know he has reason enough to make this happen doesn't. he certainly does i think that vice president. like many of his republican colleagues is position himself for presidential run in 2024 and assuming perhaps naively that even donald trump a place for me that there is there will necessarily be a democracy in an election in 2024 but meeting all of those assumptions i think fans who use it would be politically costly for donald trump's exit to be on his

hands if you go to be his response ability and he would like as much as possible to shift the blame from the standpoint of trump's face to people in congress and away from the white house and from his own office you know there's only about 89 days left in the trump presidency why is it so important for the house of representatives to impeach truck. well i think part of it just immediately legal effect is that a trump is impeached and convicted in the senate he would no longer be able to run for any public office and that would automatically be hit and miss 2024 presidential aspirations which may or may not be real but it was certainly will that ever i think there's also evidence that in other countries for their spin attempted insurrections like this it's good for the law and for congress and for other branches of government to send a pretty firm message that this kind of thing will stand so that other people are

not encouraged to try again right to have another insurrection that might be more successful this temporary see signs in the united states that they'll be more protests on an occupation day on the day that the house is clearly teach even over weekends for the inauguration so sending a message that this will no 'd longer be tolerated it certainly seems important that's a very good point you make the f.b.i. is saying that all 50 us state capitals have been put on high alert for i'm inauguration day for possible violence a former california governor arnold schwarzenegger he is a republican he posted a video condemning trump and those lawmakers who have enabled him which take a listen to part of what he said i believe a shaken as you have of the events of recent days we will come out stronger because we now understand what can be lost minidress forms of course so that this never happens again we need to hold a cow that we're the people that brought us to this unforgivable point and we need

to look past ourselves our partisan disagreements and put our democracy thrusts but the democracy 1st but also consequences how likely do you think it is that we are going to see senators expelled from congress i'm thinking of ted cruz from texas and i'm thinking of josh holly from missouri. that's hard to save he certainly wants you not in till the democrats have the search slim 50 percent majority might not see it that you there because it is senate will be equally divided at that time with qualifiers breaking the tie and i don't know if the president bite will president elect biden will want to expend political capital getting rid of them there are other forms of accountability that were ironically in the american corporate world just how he has already lost a lot of corporate donors have announced that they're no longer going to donate to his senate campaigns there are

a variety of factors find ultimately accountable but holly interest me will stay in the senate even if there are 'd a lot of other actors in american public life trying to hold them to account yet that is amazing that they probably as you say they will keep their political careers trump being impeached again if that enough to ensure that this attempt to override the will of the people will never happen again to me do you think that the guard rails of the us constitution are they going to hold moving forward. well i think what really preserves the democracy in united states and this is a lesson i think for every country isn't really institutions i'm going to get pretty good argument that congress buckled over and over again to eat people in the republican party but certainly ahead of the democracy numerous times most notably when trump lost the election people deny that reality what i think saved the democracy is that are our relevant actor said internalize the rule of law and when that phone call came from president trump just for the election he refused even

republicans so i think that renewing kind of civic education about those norms and reinforcing that is really important in the united states and in our other democracies because there's nothing i think in any institution that would prevent the end of a democracy if it can happen to me not in states which just sort of been a model for democracy so little it really can happen anywhere and i think that's a lesson i mean of course there was a sort of an effort in germany rachel right to rush the right side so i mean there this isn't a problem just in the united states and i think that's another important lesson that it behooves all 'd of us not to wait until the crisis point to think about the places that are democracies and give us a very good point you make of all around the world people thinking if it can happen in the u.s. it can happen anywhere professor mary ziegler legal historian a professor of law at florida state university professor as always we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you.

but we haven't heard much from the outgoing u.s. presidents in the past few days have his accounts on social media platforms especially twitter and facebook they've been suspended permanently trunk's reaction he calls the site's radical left wing propaganda tools to limit free speech but today the president found a very unexpected ally of sorts right here in german chancellor angela merkel says that the suspension of trump's accounts is problematic here's merkel's spokesman stephens i to school of the basic right to freedom of speech is a fundamental importance it is possible to infringe on that right but only in accordance with the law and within the framework defined by the legislature not by the management of social media platforms on the dot aspect the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the us president have now been permanently

blocked. all right i want to bring in now matthew feeney of the cato institute in washington he's the director of creatives project on emerging technology it's good to have you on the day so what do you think has the president president has had his freedom of speech has it been curtailed or violated he. i would say you know this might be a very i suppose american view but the freedom of speech is most an entitlement to a certain platform or newspaper the freedom of speech is a value you enjoy when the government is restraint and president trump is not entitled to a twitter account even though he is no longer on twitter he still has access to a lot of press corps that i'm sure would be happy to interview him will fill many of his statements the fact is that although the president was very fond all announcing his thoughts on twitter he never had

a right to that account and virtue of being the president of the united states i don't think that is freedom of speech has been curtailed at all yeah you're right he could hold a press conference the white house press corps is there but he's not doing that is . no he's not and i think one of the features of true that i really appealed to the president of course i don't know the 1st 10 but i imagine it's twisted like other social media companies allows users to thump a terms of when they engage who they have to engage with and press conferences are not like that and nor are traditional interviews with with journalists so i don't think it's a surprise that since his ban the president has decided to to keep quiet but i don't think that because a private company has decided to sever aleisha ship with the president that it necessarily means that his freedom of speech has been curtailed yeah and you're right it's a private company they have the right to do what they please this decision of the

social media platforms to mute trump is it motivated by a concern for democracy or are they just worried that they're going to be regulated by a joe biden presidency especially now that the democrats have won control of both houses of congress. yeah i don't think those are mutually exclusive fun i think there are certainly probably people who work outs in california who saw what happened last week with justifiable horror and felt like they had to act at the same time we should remember that although the president and his allies constantly attacked the these companies it's true that the democrats have their own complaint about silicon valley and how it's been treating especially politically cream it's news and i think that the the attack on the capitol building will only reinforce many democratic lawyers in that big to amend legislation or increase regulation there's been widespread concern about extremism on twitter and facebook and other social

media sites that we saw this in the wake of the pittsburgh shooting and the shooting and in christchurch new zealand so i think if anyone thinks that these companies have nothing to fear under a democratic congress they are mistaken but there's a good argument to be made for regulation when you consider what's happened on these platforms the past 4 or 5 years with the president and now seeing that his accounts have been suspended permanently it's almost admission of guilt of being an accomplice to this isn't it. it's a difficult position for these companies to be in because they are in the an enviable position of having to moderate content most of which is legal and you know a lot of the 6 tree missed speech which is you know the. spread all the political ideas and many people find repulsive and they like the old school speech but it is legal under the american 1st amendment and i think anyone interested in in

regulating be these companies for that reason will want to find themselves up against the 1st amendment which is a pretty robust more in the united states but secondly they will have to figure out a way to i think regulate this this industry in a way that doesn't become anticompetitive we should remember that google and facebook are very powerful marketing companies and i hope that we don't have an environment where powerful marketing companies manage to solidify that position yeah i mean it's all about power isn't it i mean think about this you've got apple google you know threatening to cut off apps which do not meet their definition of responsible moderation i'm thinking of parlor for example it at the end of the day who gets to decide what is responsible behavior and what isn't is it the mark zuckerberg of the world. well mark talk about so they get to decide what counts as reasonable on facebook he owns it it's his company's but the internet is much larger than facebook or twitter and there is there are many platforms around the

internet where people can post this legal speech what what i hope happens in the next couple of years is that debates about social media get out of this centralized view of how social media should work we're all very used to these companies coming up with their own rules and stick taking from top down what kind of content should be allowed but we should keep in mind that that's not. a feature of axiom of history that that has to be the case there are people around the world working on decentralized social media platforms and other models and so i think we need good thinking about the kind of content people concerned about we should be thinking about the governance all these companies not just not just the speech not just the specie can find them you know very good point good governance certainly wouldn't hurt matthew finney with the cato institute matthew as always we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you. for having me.

the united states federal government is scheduled to execute the convicted murderer lisa montgomery tomorrow to say if it goes ahead she will be the 1st woman to be executed by the federal government in almost 70 years now her attorneys say the montgomery is severely mentally ill and that her life should be spare the only person who can intervene now is u.s. president donald trump and he does not appear to be interest. her crime was horrific but lisa montgomery supporters say she doesn't deserve to die in 2004 she gruesomely murdered a pregnant woman and took her unborn child who survived it was an act of violence by a woman who experienced much herself starting from her childhood in an oklahoma trailer one gone murray's lawyers say she suffered incest gang rape and brain damage from domestic violence requiring heavy medication people have to understand

that children that go through childhood abuse it's changes who they are i went through that any trick me years and years to overcome it but i also had a good foundation that helped me over to meet leesa did not have them. and she was broken montgomery's shuttle to die by lethal injection supporters are campaigning for her to be spared due to her mental state and poor legal representation multiple courts have rejected her appeals now only outgoing u.s. presidents donald trump can intervene. but under trump the u.s. has restarted the federal executions for the 1st time in almost 2 decades. 10 prisoners have been killed since july. i think it's revenge i think it's a product of hard heartedness by our leaders who are just trying to make

a political point instead of being. instead of being human about it. it's a political message to kill people montgomery is being held in a federal prison in indiana she's one of 3 inmates should jewel to die before trump's term and his successor joe biden once supported the death penalty but has now pledged to end its use. well for more on this i want to bring in sandra babcock she is a clinical professor of law at cornell wall school and if the new york state she's also an attorney on the case it's good to have you on the program what options are still open to you at this late hour to prevent the execution of your calling. well thank you for having me we are still fighting in the courts we are going to the courts arguing that lisa montgomery is does no

longer has a grip on reality she is so mentally ill that she lacks an understanding of why she is to be executed and under those circumstances our constitution does not permit us to carry out an execution we are asking the courts to grant her a stay of execution so that her mental health can be taken into account before she is put to death of course we are in a global pandemic and it has never been worse in the united states and the idea that the government will push forward with this execution at a time when mental health experts cannot even go to visit lisa they cannot see her and take a mental health examination because the risk of contracting coated is so great we are also asking president trump to commute her sentence to life imprisonment or at

at least to give her a reprieve so that these these considerations can be taken into account under no circumstances should a woman who has been subjected to the kind of sexual torture and rape that lisa montgomery endured be put to death without careful reflection and consideration you bring up for a while the valid points there and i think the fact that lisa montgomery the fact that she killed bobbie jo stinnett that is not disputed has she expressed remorse for what she did admit you said that she doesn't really understand why she's going to be put to death i mean if she's sorry for killing someone. lisa was psychotic when she was arrested for this crime she was brought into jail she was put on anti-psychotic medications she has been held in a special medical unit and placed on suicide watch there is no dispute about her

mental illness like all mentally ill people she is not psychotic 24 hours a day she has moments of lucidity and when she realized what she did she was immediately remorseful she offered to plead guilty to this crime she has never asked not to be punished for the crime she was willing to accept a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release and the government refuse to accept that life imprisonment would be a sufficient punishment for her crime if the things that you that you have brought up a belt what happened to her before the crime occurred were all of these things these horrific things in her life were they allowed to be brought into the court room and as given as evidence for her defense. one of the tragedies of this case is that lisa montgomery would not be on death row had she received

quality's legal representation she was represented by 2 defense lawyers both men who did not ask her the right questions to elicit this information about her traumatic past they did not ask her sister diane whom you heard from at the beginning of the segment about diane who witnessed the sexual abuse that took place who was herself a victim of rape in her family home as a result the jury who convicted lisa montgomery and sentenced her to die never knew about the scope of the sexual torture that she endured and its impact on her mental functioning that is the real tragedy of this case we are now hoping that the president and the justice department will take the time to consider this evidence that the jury never had access to and we believe that anyone who looks at the facts

of this case would recognize that despite the severity of the crime it is simply not necessary to execute lisa montgomery and that given her history of trauma and rape and child sex trafficking that it is more than a severe it's more than enough punishment to him to keep her in prison for the rest of her life. got about one minute left here based on what you're saying it sounds like that the conviction and the sentence to the death was based on a court case a defense where there was legal malpractise in the gym we say that her attorneys just did not do the job they were supposed to do. what we call that is is ineffective assistance of counsel and it is a violation of our constitution it's a violation of human rights when we talk about the death penalty we should have in place heightened procedures that guarantee that the people that we are sentencing

to death are truly the most praised the most sadistic killers lisa montgomery is not that person had she perceived the due process to which she was entitled under human rights law under the constitution she would have the jury would have understood the jury would have received this evidence and would have would have understood that her crime was a product of her mental illness and her trauma she should not be sentenced to death this is not the kind of person who deserves to be exterminated from the human race and we hope that press trump agrees with us said the babcock we appreciate your time we appreciate you sharing your views with us tonight it's very important the world hears this thank you thank you so much. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either g w news you can follow me at brant goss t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is. another day.

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