the senate. edward lawrence on capitol hill for us. thank you. >> thanks, dana. >> dana: thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. i'll see you on "the five." as i promised, 12 minutes ago, here i'll bill hemmer. >> bill: we'll see you at 5:00. good afternoon. back in new york, i'm bill hemmer. the assault on the u.s. capitol bringing questions about what we do next as a nation. the riots were the most significant breach of a government institution since the british burned the capitol during the war of 1812. this time the aggressors were american citizens. numerous questions about security. the instigators were all over the internet warning washington that they were coming weeks ago. no problem. capitol police say four people died. they arrested 68 so far and more

than a dozen for unlawful entry. more than 50 officers were hurt. some seriously. today crews are putting fencing around the capitol complex. an officer on scene telling fox news, this is the new norm that we'll see daily. all of this raising questions. what are the next steps for the president. the republican party, the u.s. congress and the country. ahead this hour, we'll get reaction from lawmakers from both parties and a variety of voices to fill the next 60 minutes. we begin with bret baier and former whitewater independent counsel. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, bill. obviously the big news this afternoon from the cabinet that elaine chao, the transportation secretary resigning saying she could no longer sit by after what happened yesterday. calling it tragic and avoidable.

i think you may stop seeing those key resignations because i talked to a couple of senior officials saying that the consensus now in the cabinet is that they want to stay and be in the positions to steer the next 12 1/2 days if possible. there is the sense of uncertainty about those 12 1/2 days. but talk of the 25th amendment being used or launched with the vice president, that would take a majority of the cabinet and the vice president. it is not in the card, i'm being told, neither is impeachment as an option for disaffected people on capitol hill saying the president should be out of office immediately. >> bill: you cover politician for a living. i'm looking at this populous movement.

miranda divine writes the following. she hits the nail on the head on this. the footage of yesterday's capitol break-in will be played on eternal trump hating media, that the movement that propelled trump to power was a dangerous aberration that must never be allowed to rise again. you think about that and how that will be captured by democrats and liberals in d.c. about this. the populous movement and suffering because there's tens of millions of people characterized as crazy because of what a few people did. >> you're exactly right, bill. there's a lot of concern about that. one of the places it's hitting hardest, the rnc meeting in amelia island, georgia. nikki haley says she's going to speak there. they have hard truths in her words to deal with. what comes out of that republican meeting will tell us a lot. remember, the rnc was deeply

tied into donald trump. i think if you start seeing that breakage there, i don't see the political future. they're going to try to separate the man, donald trump, from the ideas and the thoughts and the policies that came out of the last 3 1/2 to 4 years. >> bill: lindsey graham is talking on the hill. i want to play you a clip that we cut a moment ago. >> i'm not worried about the next election. i'm worried about getting through the next 14 days. we'll talk about 2022 and 2024. let's get vice president biden sworn in january the 20th and i'll make an observation politically. if you're a republican, it's been a tough couple weeks. we lost georgia. two good candidates fell short. i'm confident from what i hear, the democrats are going to overreach. if we can regroup, rebuild ourselves, get away from the

fiery rhetoric and the conspiracy theories that we'll have a chance in 2022 to take back the senate and take back the house. but it's going to require us to go back to the blocking and tackling. >> bill: so that is from a moment ago. listen, this is a guy that plays golf with the president. he's saying what i can care about is getting through the next 14 days. getting joe biden in office. that's a man that is walking with caution, bret. >> yeah. obviously critics saying what took you so long, all of that. the bottom line is yet changed a lot of things. both politically and in washington as far as getting to the next 12 1/2, 13 days. again, i talked to senior officials inside the administration. the top levels. there is concern. and they do see this as a dangerous time not only domestically and what could

happen inside, but also foreign policy. what country is looking at america see. if they see vulnerability to attack in the next 12 1/2 days. >> bill: thank you, bret. want to bring there ken starr. there's breaking news open the hill. nancy pelosi is saying she asked for the resignation of capitol police. now she says she received that. he will be submitting his resignation. what do you think of all the calls for the 25th amendment, the impeachment movement, what do you make of that so far? >> i think everybody needs to return to abraham lincoln and the first inaugural and put a stop to this. and to appeal to the higher angels of our being as mr. lincoln said. everyone that articulates the 25th amendment knows full well that it cannot happen as a practical matter. so it's political rhetoric that is just adding further heat.

no illumination. this is very unfortunate. perhaps reading martin luther king jr.'s letter from a jail will be helpful. it's going nowhere, should go nowhere. i would say shame on those invoking both of them. let's get through the next 12 1/2, 13 days. >> why is joe biden coming out attacking the president at this moment? i did not hear a nod at least from what we covered to the certification of his presidency in the middle of the night, ken. >> yes, i was surprised to be honest and disappointed. those of us that try to study history and the history hoff this country and sweet land of liberty knows there's times for leaders to rise up and to appeal to those higher angels of our being. vice president biden didn't do that. in fact, to the contrary. he was adding fuel to the fire

including stoking some old embers that long ago should have been died out including russian interference. >> bill: ken starr, thanks for your time and your thoughts. we'll talk with you later in the week as well. some social media companies talking action against president trump. facebook and instagram has suspended his accounts through inauguration day. twitter locked his counts and said he could be suspended permanently. susan li with more. >> it's the first time ever that the social media companies have blocked president trump's accounts and they've been hesitant to do so because he's a world leader and think that post and tweets are akin to public policy. they want to protect the first amendment rights. facebook setting a precedenprec which will be interesting to see. let's bring up mark zuckerberg.

he said we want to ensure a peaceful transition of power. president of twitter's account -- the president's twitter account is still looked at this hour although he removed three tweets that violated the platform rules. we have twitch, a popular gaming platform, millions of users suspending the president's account and shopify. they were terminating all business with all affiliated counts with the president, that eninclude campaign avenue counts that sell his campaign goods. >> bill: and shopify is the second largest for amazon for what they do. what is -- >> that means you cannot go online to buy a maga hat or anything affiliated with president trump and his campaign anymore. >> bill: they won't sell it. >> it won't be using shopify's technology. maybe you can find it elsewhere but they're not getting involved. >> bill: we'll see what the social media companies to

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>> bill: we've learned more about one of the people that was killed in the riot. ashley babbott was shot and killed. the chief officer will be on leave while the shooting is investigated. babbott was an air force veteran and supporter of president trump. >> she loved her country and doing what she thought was right to support her country and joining up with people, like-minded people that also love their president and their

country. you know, she was voicing her opinion and she got killed for it. >> at least three others tied for what police say were medical emergencies. this from the d.c. mayor. >> obviously it was a failure or you wouldn't have had police lines breached and people enter the capitol building but breaking windows and terrorizing the people, the members of congress. clearlythere was a failure there. >> bill: that's the mayor of washington d.c. calling for congress to create a nonpartisan commission to figure out what went wrong with capitol security. the army says 850 national guard members are there today. dozens of more across the city. in the past year, we've seen the national guard deployed to cities around the country from portland to kenosha to new york. we're going to bring in retired general jack keane. general, can you understand that? >> in what terms?

>> bill: why they weren't ready. >> well, yes and no. first of all, it was an open secret that this was going to be a very large demonstration, hundreds of thousands of people coming to washington d.c. it was misguided by the president and his supporters to have such a rally because the reason for the rally, bill, was that the constitutional duty of the joint members of congress were executing it to ratify the electoral college vote. it was also well understood that agitators and demonstrators would be likely protest and try to enter the capitol. given that the intelligence was out there and well understood by many people, it's mystifying to me why the leadership of the capitol police department conduct a massive interagency effort and be prepared properly with barriers, fences going up

now and also cordons of additional interagency police and federal troops to protect the building. to do that, you have to set the cordon outside the perimeter of the capitol itself. nobody should have been permitted to enter the capitol grounds much less enter the building. so i think what we're going to find out is that yes, there's a failure there in the planning of this. i think i the intelligence was pretty obvious that this -- there was huge potential for what we saw taking place. >> bill: general, they were throwing up flares online for weeks as we mentioned a moment ago. nancy pelosi says the chief of capitol police will resign. continue, general. >> well, that's probably appropriate. but you know, the other irony, bill, washington d.c. with the metropolitan police force

usually in the lead handles large demonstrations. they're one of the best in the world in doing it. the best in the united states in doing it. like the inauguration is coming up. it will be an interagency effort led by the secret service, the metropolitan police will play a huge effort in doing that. this should have been an enter agency effort. a command and control center should have set up. we'll get to it. there's a huge leadership failure that took place. the good news is, the capitol police protected their members. that's a good thing. they should be honored for that. >> bill: no doubt. >> the other thing that happened here that is very good, the intent of this american mob was not just to enter the capitol, but it was to disrupt the constitutional process that was taking place there. they did not succeed in that. they delayed it. thankfully vice president pence

and the democratic republican leadership in both houses, even though they knew their members were shaken by what took place and let's say that that is very understandable, they brought their members back, to the desecrated building and fulfilled their constitutional duties and they should be commanded for that. >> bill: general, i have about 30 second left. i know you pay attention to events. "washington post" reads this. china is having a field day with the u.k. capitol chaos. i don't know if you saw it, but there's a lot of talk out of china how messed up the u.s. is as a result. >> listen, americans are friends and allies are horrified by what took place. china, iran, russia, venezuela, they're all talking out of both sides of their mouth now and rejoicing and thriving on this. they're hitting us where our sweet spot is, as a core, as a people. here hitting us over democracy.

they're saying the americans are hypocrites. they criticize for what the takes place in our country but look what is taking place in theirs. the beacon of democracy has been shattered by what has taken place. but yes, this is temporary what they're doing and they will rejoice over it to be sure and there will be a lot of follow-on articles and disinformation campaigns to support what they're doing. but we'll get past that with our adversaries, believe me. >> bill: jack keane, nice to get your thoughts. we'll speak soon. president trump no longer speaking at today's rnc meeting after the chaos at the capitol. that is the beginning of the fall out from within the white house. first, can lawmakers work together after confirming joe biden as the next president? debbie dingell will weigh-in on that coming up next. >> i hope that they change the course of history. i hope this day unites one another. can we respect the differences

of opinion? that is the uniqueness of who we are. that is why we're the beacon of freedom for the rest of the world. today was not that day. we can be and should be.

>> i think it's an important time for our country to come together. we have political differences. we celebrate our differences. we don't resort to violence to do that. let's come back together, let's tone down the rhetoric. we're not all going to agree on everything. that's not who america is either. how we do it says a lot about it. >> steve scalise there talking about unity. debbie dingell out of michigan talks about unity a lot. happy to see you're okay. thanks for coming back to our

program. i mentioned this to ken starr. what did joe biden gain by going after the president last hour? didn't seem to be a message of unity. it was more like get out of there already. what was that? >> i think there's real concern about what can happen during the next 13 days, bill. nobody -- he really did encourage people to go down and storm the capitol. you know, somebody did a piece yesterday that stuck in my heard. he doesn't have access to twitter but has access. he report that people are in fear. his behavior is just -- >> bill: when you say he encouraged them to storm the capitol, i didn't hear that yesterday. >> at the rally yesterday, he told people to go down -- there's a video tape --

>> bill: just to be clear, going down to the capitol is one thing. to stay "storming the capitol" is a different matter. >> well, i have been told he used that world with some people. i'm also going to tell you that i do believe that he has encourag encourag encouraged people -- i agree with steve scalise when he talks about coming together. we can agree to disagree, but on the other hand, we have to listen to republicans. there's a group of people that scared me yesterday when you saw them in the capitol. there's a lot of people that voted for donald trump that we're not hearing and not listening to. >> bill: millions. millions and millions. and they live in your home state of michigan. but now you hear this talk about 25th amendment and encouragement

for impeachment. i don't know how we benefit from that. >> i think the people -- i am very concerned about what he could do in the next 13 days. and there are -- there are people that are at the white house that are in the administration that are communicating to people that they are concerned about the things he's saying, what he's doing. >> bill: congresswoman, we'll keep it safe for now. i appreciate you coming back today. debbie dingell from michigan. we'll hear from the other side in a few moments. fall-out continues after the deadly riots from an ugly day yesterday. what is happening in the white house, who is staying, who is leaving and what is happening with president trump and the vice president at the moment. john roberts has answers on that. we'll talk to him momentarily. riots keep happening. it's been a tough year. geraldo and leo will take on that coming up next. some people say our trade-in

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>> bill: new questions about what was going on inside the west wing after a stunning 24 hours. inside the white house, john roberts reporting that several officials have resigned. others say they will stay until the bitter end to make sure there's a smooth transition in the next administration. john roberts joins me from the north lawn. good afternoon. what are you seeing today and what are you hearing? >> bill, good afternoon. the transportation secretary who happens to be mitch mcconnell's wife, elaine chao, the highest ranking official to say that they're stepping down there the wake of what happened yesterday. in a statement, she said "questioned our country earns intoed a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the president stormed the capitol building following a rally he addressed. it's deeply troubled me in a way that i cannot set aside." chao joins a growing list of officials that are stepping down, including mick mulvaney,

stephanie grisham, the first lady's chief of staff, mat pott, sarah matthews and ricky nase a nasetta, john costello. no word from the president since this morning in a statement that was released. the president did have an event today. he presented the medal of freedom to gary player and anika sorenstam. cameras were not allowed in. certainly hearing a lot from people that were close to the administration and the president. he's former attorney general, bill barr, tearing a strip off of the president today in a statement saying "orchestrating a mob to pressure congress is inexcusable. the president's conduct was a

betrayal of his office and supporters." even the president's staunch supporter, lindsey graham pulling the rip cord on their relationship last night. listen here. >> trump and i have had a hell of a journey. i hate it to end this way. oh, my god i hate it. count me out. when it's over, it's over. i've tried to be helpful. when it's over, it's over. >> a lot of senior staff members are wrestling with whether to resign or stay on to help ensure an orderly transition of power. chad wolf from the dhs secretary says he will stay on until the end of the administration and imploring the president to do more. he said what happened yesterday was tragic and sickening. i implore the president and all elected officials to condemn the violence. a short time after that statement was released, the white house put out an announcement that wolf's nomination to the senate to be

the full secretary of homeland security had been withdrawn. i'm told that that was just coincidental. the deputy press secretary, judd dear, there a statement to fox news saying the withdrawal occurred yesterday. it was not related to wednesday's events or the acting secretary's comments, acting secretary wolf remains the acting secretary and continuing to perform his duties. the president was supposed to address the rnc tonight. i'm told that won't happen. the sources on the ground in florida says the president still does have a large measure of support from the committee. >> bill: a quick question. you know these people well, actually. do any of these resignations surprise you or is there one that does? >> you know, i think the one that surprised me the most is sarah matthews. pottinger wanted to leave after the election but i was convinced by the national security adviser to stay. sarah matthews, you know, i got

to know her over the last couple years. she's a person who is committed to doing the business of a nation. she's a veteran of the halls of congress. i saw her yesterday afternoon. she looked like she was shocked. absolutely shocked by what had happened. all the color drained out of her face. really affected her deeply. it was quite surprising when she called me to say that she just wanted to let me know she was stepping down because of this. >> bill: thanks, john. more to you if there is more. from the white house with geraldo rivera and leo terrell. gentlemen, good day to you. geraldo, you speak to the president a lot. when did you talk to him last? >> i haven't spoken to him since friday, the 13th of november, bill. it was ten days after the election. he was seeking advice, kind of. he was disappointed by the

results. he was nowhere near the militant that he became. i think the attorney general is exactly right, bill. donald trump incited that grotesque attack on the capitol building yesterday. he bears responsibility. as his friend, i'm deeply ashamed for him and for all of us. i think what happened was appalling. ultimately the four people that died, that blood is on the hands of the president and don jr. and rudy guliani and all of those that helped inspire and excite that mob and sent them to the capitol building as if it was a scene from le miz. it's something i will never forget. this is a deep scar. the president now owes it to history and to the american people to try to calm things down. the attorney general barr is exactly right. this is the time now, the president must man up. he lost this election. it's over. now he has to help calm this

country before it really spins out of control. just was a preview of what could happen. for goodness sake, we have to have the courage to talk to our friends and say, listen, we speak to you out of love, mr. president. what you are doing now is destructive. calm down. this is reckless narcissism. this is -- >> bill: we has 13 days to make it public, to get the house in order. leo, go ahead. >> how dare you, geraldo. that sounds like democratic talking points. bill, i heard you talk to debbie dingell. all trump said is go down to the capitol billing. >> leo -- >> let me say this. i listened to the democratic kool-aid. you heard joe biden today, mural bowser. they are using this for democratic talking points. all president trump did and he has the first amendment right -- you can shake your head all you

want -- to express his disappointment. he did not order those individuals to go down there -- may i finish, please? there were criminals that invaded the capitol building and they should be prosecuted. the democrats found their and this summer rioters destroyed democratic cities. one last point. for joe biden to play the race card today, say there was a different treatment for black protesters, those are criminals, criminals should be treated one way. >> bill: leo, to your point about dingell, she said she was told he said that. >> fine. >> bill: it's not fine. she said she was told. storming the capitol never came out of his mouth. >> i know he didn't. it never came -- >> you say -- you say to that crowd, go down there and don jr. says go down there, let's go. rudy guliani says -- >> come on. >> what the hell do you think is

going to happen when they get there? >> you can't prosecute anybody for that. you're a lawyer. you -- >> and you have a stick of dynamite and it blows it, it's your possibility -- >> and you go -- >> bill: hang on. leo, continue. come on. i'm a lawyer for 30 years. if you say go down to the capitol building and express your disappointment, that is not a criminal act. you know that, geraldo. what those people did, go inside the building, damage to property, that is criminal activity. donald trump never recommended, suggested or told those people to go in and break and enter the capitol. >> bill: gentlemen, here's what we know. we're going to bring the temperature down a touch here. capitol police, the chief of that police force, apparently is turning in his resignation.

geraldo, i don't know if you support that or not. that i were sending signals online going back weeks that they were on their way to washington. this was a security failure as well and an intelligence failure on this. the d.c. mayor he has admitted that today. go ahead. >> as much as i believe the responsibility is ultimately in the president's hands and that the blood of those four people is on his hands, i think that it would have taken a rookie cop to understand when you bring hundreds of thousands of angry people together, you need to beef up your police force. you need to protect the capitol of the united states of america. i'm not sure if they knew the capitol was going to be targeted by the president and by his son and by his lawyers -- >> bill: you know that washington has protests 12 monthses out of the year. sometimes 100,000 people at a time, this is a city that is used to seeing crowds. and they weren't prepped. leo, wrap it up.

>> this is unbelievable. you're putting the responsibility of hundreds of thousands of people on the shoulders of donald trump because -- >> i am. i loved him. >> and let me finish my point. and mural bowser, bill, last year, she opened the door to black lives matter and let them destroy the city without prosecution. she comes on with talking points again, attacking the president, blaming him for what happened yesterday. >> bill: she did say -- >> donald trump did not cause that. >> bill: -- a more robust presence at the capitol would have prevented access. thanks, gentlemen. it's a tough time to geraldo and leo, thank you. where do the republicans go next? i'll talk to an ally of the president, andy biggs from arizona is coming up next after this. ♪ you must go and i must bide

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or call during business hours. >> they said there's 66,000 people in georgia under 18 voted. how many people believe that? i ask, give me ten. i hadn't had one. they said 8,000 felons in prison in arizona voted. give me ten. i haven't gotten one. i don't buy it. enough is enough. we have to end it. >> lindsey graham on the floor of the senate. a passionate speech to certified the election for joe biden. breaking with fellow republicans, challenging the results. the effort failed. andy biggs from arizona supported the challenge. good day to you. thanks for your time. >> thanks, bill. >> i think you expected half a dozen more senators to continue to fight. they conceded after the events of yet.

what did you think about that? >> no, that's right, bill. we had commitments on a number of states. once there was the breach of the capitol and the violence and the evacuations took place, when we finally reconvened and there was discussion going on, there was contact made, some of them felt that they didn't want to go on any further. >> bill: what do you make of that? did that give you additional pause? you went forward. >> yeah, no, the -- i didn't really understand the argument. didn't change the constitutional question that we were trying to press. the process, by the way, that has happened three times previous to yesterday, every time by democrats in this century alone. so didn't really change the constitutionality or the questions we wanted addressed

that dealt with electoral integrity. i respect their position. that's what they decided on. >> bill: your positions is the courts went around the legislators and changed the rules. you made the case that tens of thousands more votes came in in arizona than other wise. if that's true, that could have changed the way the stay turned out. that's a heavy claim. can you back that up? >> what my claim was and what is backed up by documentary proof but the additional time to register votes, we have in maricopa county alone more than 32,000 voters registered. around the state we don't have the full tally yet, but believe me, those tens of thousands of people registering to vote in those last extended times, they were unlawful voters. we just received, believe it or not -- >> bill: so you're saying those are illegal votes to this day?

>> oh, absolutely they are. >> bill: maricopa county is phoenix, the largest county in your state. that's where your win and lose elections in arizona. >> that's right. two aspects of it. we have not received all of the voter records to see who voted to compare with those documents until just a few days ago. so we asked for more time and we were never given more time. >> bill: i know what your position is. joe biden will be the president in 13 days. there's this call for unity. do you believe that americans will be satisfied at some point that the election system in the u.s. will be built out of confidence? or do you believe in a democratic system, this is just the way it is every four years? >> well, with i don't want it to be this way every four years. but until we actually can have more transparency in elections, until we say look, let's audit

some of these elections and see what went on, you'll have millions, tens of millions of people will view this with some skepticism. don't forget, you have roughly 30% of democrats and independence as well that say, you know, they view it with a certain pause. so if that's the case, there's things that should be done and the states really need to get a handle on it. >> bill: we have some work to do. florida straightened it out, ohio, texas. we have some work to do. when we get progress, we'll bring him back. andy biggs from arizona. thanks for coming in today. have you gotten your shot? it's sticky. the states have a message about speeding up vaccinations. dr. marc siegel will tell you about that coming up next. it's a new day for veteran homeowners. home mortgage rates are at record lows. which is great news for veterans with va loans. that's me. now's the time to use your va streamline refi benefit you earned with your service

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obser >> bill: the question now, how about the shot? 3,865 covid infections

yesterday. how to sort it out, dr. marc siegel with some knowledge. here's the issue. the state level, the vaccinations have been sticky. cdc says we're up to about seven million. that is well under the number we were told by the end of december. what is the issue? >> well, first of all, there are not enough vaccine centers. that is starting to change and more and more portable vaccine centers are being held, more money from the federal level. too much variance from state to stay. governor cuomo says firefighters, cops, not yet. jersey, governor murphy saying firefighters and cops now. let me tell you what the problem is. if you set the line at healthcare workers and say i'm going to vaccinate healthcare workers right now, you wind up with healthcare workers that don't show up or noncompliant or giving to it too many administrators. if you widen the net and say let's get it to nursing homes, let's get it to everybody over

the age of 65 the way governor desantis is florida is doing. cops and firefighters are on the front line. get them vaccinated. the more you broaden it, the more vaccines in people's arms. six million have been given so far. that's not near enough. the supply will open up. we're giving about half a million doses a day. we have to get to a million doses a day especially with the spread like this. >> bill: you speak to members of operation warp speed all the time. could the feds help give better guidance to states? if they could, what would they tell them? how could you make this better? >> yes, i do speak to them all the time, by the way. i interviewed dr. hahn, head of fda this week. i interviewed dr. adams, surgeon general who has his heart in the right place. the states don't always follow their guidance. cdc has a careful map of what gets what went.

i have a problem with that map. i like what florida and texas are saying, which is give it to everyone over the age of 65 first and healthcare workers. bill, you know why? over 80% of the deaths from covid-19 are those over the age of 65. it doesn't stop at 75 or stop at the nursing home door. we have to give all of our elderly and then we have to give our workers on the front lines. that includes cops, firefighters, healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel. >> bill: do you still sense resistance to getting the vaccination from some? >> much more than i want to see. bill, think of it this way. glass half full. we've given this vaccine to six million people. the media would be all over this like insects at a picnic if there were a ton of side effects. this is a safe vaccine, both the pfizer and the moderna. a huge success story in terms of safety and effectiveness. everybody needs to take it as

soon as possible. >> bill: coming from a doctor that has been vaccinated. we'll see if we get it worked out soon. thanks, marc siegel. here every day monday through friday. set the dvr. good to be back in new york. we'll see what we get tonight and tomorrow. here's neil. >> neil: all right. the not so calm off the storm i should say. after yesterday's riots development, the push right now to get donald trump out of office not in 13 days when it's up, try now. we're following that in the fast moving developments on the same day, eight key administration officials including one cabinet member have opted to resign. we don't know what is next or who is next. what we do know is that it's a busy day on capitol hill, trying to cement something to prevent this from ever happening again. we'll talk to adam kinsinger, e