and certainly alice services be our guest at frankfurt and board cd managed by front board the a this is a doubling news alive from pearl in the us. congress satisfies donald trump's presidential election victory. donald j. trump, of the state of florida has received 312 volts. pamela harris can funds from when at a joint session of congress, must point to public from support of stone to the capital in a visit for adventure biden's presidential election victory. also coming up canada as 5 minutes to announce a few resignations justin true. di says he'll step aside as late as a rolling liberal party, but we'll stay in office successor. it says the

method the how'd welcome to the program. the u. s. congress has formally certified donald trump's victory in november's presidential election. the house of representatives and the senate conveying for a joint session and the heavy security inside and outside the capital builder, vice president tamela harris, who lost to donald trump in the election presided the certification. mr. trump the heck is out of the office on the 20th of june. well, today is also the 4th anniversary of the storming of the us capital building when trump support has tried to stop joe biden certification as went up to 2020 election . mr. trump has promised to pub in many of those charged with criminal offenses that day. 2 weeks before mr. trump takes office again. here's

a look at what that could mean for the defendants and for democracy. january 6th, 2021 and the sold on democracy. as a mob summoned by president donald trump storms, us capital building for p among the crowd died. 5 police officers were dead within days. the vice president and leaders of the senate and house narrowly escaped as intruders realm. the halls. the biggest investigation in the history of the us justice department followed more than 1500 people were arrested on charges ranging from assaulting police to trespassing to obstructing official proceedings. more than a 1000 had pled guilty and more than 250 had been convicted in court while other trials and arrests continue. some of the writers became prominent figures like the so called q a non sham on. and the man who put his feet up on how speaker nancy pelosi is desk

. both were sentenced to years in prison. now thanks to donald trump, taking office again, they could soon be free. while others could see charges dropped. trump has promised to pardon the riders on day one, using the legal system, his constitutional power to grant pardons, to overturn efforts to hold people accountable for trying to override an election. it was even part of his campaign. as you par, what does that happen? oh, absolutely. i would you wouldn't mind if there is, i would find them. trump is called those arrested hostages. and during his campaign regularly played enhanced them by the so called january 6th prison choir. but trump has been vague about exactly who will get a pardon. he's never promised to pardon everyone who was charged that day and recently said he wouldn't pardon people who were quote, radical or crazy. trump could issue a blanket pardon for those charged with specific offenses like trespassing. but he

said he'll be looking into individual cases, which would take time it's also unclear what he'll do about the highest profile convicts leaders or far right. organizations like the oath keepers and the proud boys who were convicted for encouraging their followers to take part . trump statements have left many questions on answered, but his day one promise is clear. pardoning those who tried to keep him in office against the will of the voters is a priority. james brother's house is a presidential historian and lawyer. we asked him which of the january 6th, ron has trump is likely to pop. i think he's, he's going to do one of 2 things. he's either going to have a blanket pardon for all of them, or they're going to look at certain people who could be pardoned. and some who

cannot. i mean, some of those who are convicted were, you know, guilty of violence against police officers. and those people i think, may not be included, but it's hard to tell it he, he hasn't really said for sure which way you go. but it's going to be one of those 2 ways. and um, frankly, it, it goes back to jimmy carter who just passed away on his 1st day in office, pardon all of the people who are the bait of the draft during the vietnam war. and so there was a blanket pardon and it was within his hour just as it is within trump's power to pardon these people. for him, it is all about justifying his laws and saying these people did nothing wrong well, in fact, they did something very wrong. it was an insurrection against an election, and it was one of the great crimes of american history. so it's a, it may help him out personally to feel that he's been dictated by all this. but um

history, i don't think we'll look kindly on this kind of those adjusted for dollar has announced table resign as prime minister and as hated the liberal party. true, i said the internal party struggles had made it clear that they couldn't leave the liberals into the coming election. he said he would stay on his prime minister until the party chose his replaced. even the elements went on just intrude those side as he came out to him. now his resignation i intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects it's next leader to a robust nationwide competitive process. this country deserves a real choice in the next election. and it is become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal baffles,

i cannot be the best option. in that election scheme of those internal bustles suddenly became fall to public for to day last month. when he tried to remote his then finance minister and long time allied, christie, a freeland, she resigned instead accusing the prime minister, pursuing political gimmicks browser. and it kind of does best interest a criticism, a 100 more. i mean, nation to treat those opponents in his own policy. so it'd been pointing to months of polls showing the liberals on calls for a crushing defeat in upcoming elections for you love us any way with all 3 of position parties already promising to topple. true, does minority administration, when parliament returned from its christmas break news of his resignation, came as no surprise in onto a forklift wavering it wasn't there. he was by himself. i feel bad, but on the other hand, we need to move forward. i mean,

literally the never, i guess, i think he probably like you should have resigned over a year ago. it was very thing, but i wish you just called little action lightly. i would have been that would've been the better choice. the canadians will now have to wait for a little longer for those elections, parliament, to set to remain suspended until march, 20, full, to give true to his party time to replace the man who left the country for nearly a decade. lucy van olden bonneville is a journalist in the canadian capital of all the way i have to italy, a why true go is resigning now as well? and that's a great question because his numbers, his popularity, has been somebody for, for more than a year for, for many, many months. and by all of the occasions he was expecting to stay on until the next election, which was expected to be this coming october. but when the bombshell hit and christopher freeland step down in uh, in december about 3 weeks ago,

all the wheels seemed to came off the liberal bus. and at that moment, i think the guy was cast. and it will, he, he, it just became untenable for him to stay on as leader the calls became louder from within his own party. and so he gave us the holidays to think about it. but to day came out and, and announced what many people were expecting that he had to resign because after christopher freeland laughed, it just seems like he just could not hang on any longer. so let's say the wheels have rolled off the bus and rolled into the bushes the decision is made. now it's made. is that decision being sold as the the novel thing to do? i, what joe barton wouldn't do soon enough for the democrats in the us. i ordered some say this was him leaving his party in the time of need. oh no, i think i'm not leaving in the time of the definitely time to go. don't let the door hit you on your way out, buddy. but what they are saying,

what they're critical of is that he's left. it's so late because of all this internal fighting with the liberal party, with the looming threat of donald trump has been troll in canada. who takes office 2 weeks, 2 weeks today. he's left a mess when he probably didn't need to, if he had left much sooner and, and people are arguing that it was, it was arrogance. and a we're in a refusal to read the room that kept him there as long as he did. so that seems to be the mood right now. he has left it way too late and he's really, he's really handicapping the next liberal leader in terms of fighting the next election. so the next liberal late, the elections must be held. this is so that's very much on the horizon, but who is likely to succeed mister turnover and is perhaps most the most important skill, the ability to stand up to donald trump as well. that's going to be a very important scale because he has, he has already threatened that the camera should become the 51st state and sees the,

the prime minister as the governor. so and the looming threat of 25 percent, tara this as a whole country talking, it is very concerning. it would be a real blow to our economy if he goes through with that threat. so there are a long list surprisingly, given how low in the polls the liberals are of people who want to run to succeed adjusting trudel, a number of cabinet ministers, including christian freeland, who, who, who we've been talking about here. she's seen as one of the front runners, but another outside or who is seen as a real front runner is former bank of canada, a governor, former bank of england, a governor, mark carney. he is a, he is a canadian. obviously he is a real. he's a former investment banker and he's also a progress if you see him on your screen there. so he is, i think considered the, the leading candidate right now. a man who could stand up for a boat to donald trump, but also to canada's conservative leader peer probably as when it comes to the

economy. it was the economy ultimately that started into the road to support for don a for, for justin trio. and how he is, he has managed it, is in post pandemic. so mark carnie is the front runner, christopher freeland, and then the current finance minister don liquid law. melanie shall lee, who was the foreign affairs minister. um are seen as, as, as, as real contenders here including anita and, and who is the minister of labor right now. it's a hard thing to do, i guess, but you've had time to think about it for a while. give us the best 30 seconds on justin triggers. legacy as well. you know, it's, it's, it's a complicated thing to do because for a while he was seen as a celebrity, prime minister, he was known around the world. he was young, he was attractive. he was a great speaker, he comes from a political dynasty and canada is called or was was a, was a glamorous prime minister. he also got us through the pandemic. many people credit him with saving, saving, lives,

keeping with the economy afloat during the pandemic with other nations were really struggling. he's also really strong on climate change, so he will have a legacy. he's left to look number of progressive policies, whether it's child care, whether it's his response to, to climate change. he's seen as, as a real. he will have an impressive legacy. i think when, when the, his, when history books are written, read stuff, listen really appreciate your time generalist lucy than pleasure upon it felt inaudible thanks so much. the powerful winter storm is pummeling parts of the eastern us off the sweeping through the midwest. so many areas have seen that heavy snow full in decades and still miss been blamed for at least 3 days. the united states is being pummeled by a mass of winter storm system of ice and snow. put a deep freeze on this highway in ohio as traffic ground to a standstill for 7 hours in kansas city. elbow grease was the only way be stranded

motors could get back on the road as the snow continued to pile up, forcing the governor to send out the national guard in some regions. further south, the snowfall cause travel chaos for states not used to heavy smells like here in louisville. kentucky is airport. across the us, over 2000 flights were canceled and 20000 more delayed. and some locals have already lost patients with the near record. snowfall. couldn't be worse, and with more snow on the way it's already back to the shuffle. i got to work tomorrow, so making sure i get there. even the nation's capital was in spirit from the arctic blast. too much to the delight of this former olympian by athlete. yeah, we're so happy to be here and we're so grateful that we have this beautiful public

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