>> thank you for watching us today. set your dvr for 6:00 a.m. eastern every morning to never miss a minute. have a great weekend. it's been a tough week. we'll see you monday. >> sandra: fox news alert. a capitol police officer injured in wednesday's riot has died. u.s. capitol police identifying the officer as brian sicknick a 12 year veteran of the force. the department released a statement saying he was hurt while physically engaging with protestors. police motorcade escorted his body through the streets of washington, d.c. last night. the fifth person to die in wednesday's violence. more on that developing story in moments. another fox news alert this morning. president trump last night condemning wednesday's attack on our nation's capitol and calling for healing. in his first post after twitter

temporarily locked his account. >> president trump: i'm outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. now congress has certified the results. a new administration will be inaugurated january 20th. my focus is a smooth, orderly transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. >> sandra: i'm sandra smith. welcome. hi, trace. >> trace: good morning, everyone i'm trace gallagher. education secretary betsy devos and elaine chao called out the president's role in inciting it and resigned. now chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are urging vice president pence and cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and remove president trump from office. pelosi says otherwise the house could impeach the president again. >> sandra: former white house communications director alyssa farah is standing by with her reaction.

first fox team coverage this morning. mark meredith with more on the death of a capitol hill police officer and rachel campos-duffy will join us in moments. first chief white house correspondent john roberts this morning. good morning. >> good morning to you. with that video that the president released last evening an acknowledgement from the president that the challenges to the election are over and time for him and the white house to move toward an orderly transition toward a biden administration. here is more of what the president said last night. >> president trump: we must get on with the business of america. my campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue contest the election results. my only goal was to insure the integrity of the vote. in so doing i was fighting to defend american democracy. >> there is a question this morning whether the president will finish out his term. house speaker pelosi and

schumer are gathering momentum toward another impeachment if vice president pence does not invoke the 25th amendment and remove the president. pence doesn't intend to do that. it will be up to democrats to move forward with impeachment. >> yesterday the president of the united states incited an armed insurrection against america, a very dangerous person who should not continue in office. this is urgent. this is emergency of the highest magnitude. >> the other question is if they did go down the road, house democrats of impeachment again would there be enough support among republicans in the senate to convict the president. there are early indications that there are at least a few republican senators who may be willing to vote for impeachment. at least to convict if the president were convicted he would not be able to run again for president in 2024.

meanwhile as you pointed out at the top the defections from the administration continue. education secretary betsy devos issued a scathing condemnation of the president for inciting wednesday's riots in a statement she said that behavior was unconscionable for our country. there is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric, the president's had on the situation and the inflection point for me. her resignation makes two cabinet secretaries leaving. the transportation secretary elaine chao says she will step down as of monday. a number of other administration officials have resigned as well. there may be more resignations yet to come, it appears that at least a lot of senior staff members have decided that it would be better for the country if they stayed in their positions for the next 12 days to insure that orderly transition. it would appear that what the white house wants to do right now is just get through until january 20th so that they can

make it out the other side. >> sandra: we'll have more on that with alyssa farah coming up in a moment. >> trace: u.s. capitol police say their homicide division will investigate the death of officer sicknick. he was injured in the line of duty while confronting rioters at the u.s. capitol. he died in the hospital last night. and a few hours later fellow officers honoring one of their own as a motorcade escorted his body through the streets of d.c. mark meredith is live in washington today. mark, good morning to you. how is the capital reacting? >> good morning. the entire capitol police department is offering its deepest sympathies to the officer's family. he joined the department in 2008. what's happening now on the hill i will get out of the way for a second. you can see capitol police appear to be lowering the flag to half staff in honor of this officer after he lost his life last night. he had collapsed when he got

back to the office after getting physically engaged with some of the rioters on wednesday. he had been in the hospital and then as we have been talking about he succumbed to his injuries. he served in the department's first responder unit. multiple agencies are investigating how he died and of course who should be held responsible. the major fallout from wednesday's attack on the capitol. chief of police for capitol police will step down in mid-january. house speaker nancy pelosi called for his resignation thursday. this is both the house and senate sergeant-at-arms facing enormous criticism for the chaos and they're also leaving their posts. >> we need a full investigation of everything that has happened. the dereliction of the sergeant-at-arms, the lack of security preparation, and if any capitol hill police shirked their duties. we'll get that when i become majority leader if it's not done sooner. >> already there are new

security measures coming up all around the capitol including new fencing around the capitol complex. we were there as that was getting installed yesterday. barriers we're used to seeing during inauguration. people won't be able to get over them. they were installed in lafayette park during the protests that happened during the summer. so many national guard troops stationed around washington, d.c. more expected over the next 30 days. as the city prepares for any more potential chaos closer to inauguration. trace. >> trace: mark meredith live in d.c. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in former white house communications director alyssa farah. good morning and welcome. thanks for being here this morning. you chose to leave the administration early december. why? >> well, sandra, thanks for having me. you've given me a platform many times to tout the administration's policies many of which i'm very proud of. it was clear to me shortly after the election when the race was called by many media outlets we had lost it.

it doesn't mean there weren't cases of fraud or irregularities that should be pursued. i was uncomfortable with the public message that the election was stolen. it is not fair to viewers, not fair to voters and the 74 million people who supported the president to give them a false hope. that was ultimately what drove me to step aside. >> sandra: are you suggesting in any way you saw this coming, this attack on the capitol? >> this i don't think anyone could have foreseen. it is heartbreaking, unamerican, unpatriotic. the republicans are the party of law enforcement. we stand with the men and women in blue. this is something that is so -- for me it crossed a line. i respect the president and worked for him and defended his policies and there is much to be proud of. but wednesday was a tragic day for our country. it is a breaking point.

i have spent time in fragile democracies in other parts of the world. our country looked like those countries. that's not who we are. it is not what we stand for. we have to come together as a country. >> sandra: you are a strong young republican woman. you have a strong voice in your party. what is the future of the republican party and does donald trump have a place in it? >> well sandra, you know, the morning after the election before the race was called but we had a sense of where things were going i was prepared to go out and deliver the message look, republicans have a lot to be proud of. we increased african-american voter turnout for our party. hispanic turnout, we got an unprecedented number of women, republicans elected in the house of representatives. those are things that are a direct result of economic policies that empower americans and giving them a voice and them wanting to be aligned with our vision. there is a lot to be proud of. the presidency is bigger than

any one man. there is a lot of america first policies that we'll continue to fervently fight for and to grow this party. we need to heal. in a time when the president could have called off the mob he did not decide to do so. to me that's a breaking point. >> sandra: you heard something similar from betsy devos when she handed in her resignation. the growing list of resignations from the white house after this capitol hill violence. most recently betsy devos. others elaine chao, mick mulvaney, stephanie grisham and others. nikki haley was with the administration and she is a very strong republican female voice in the party. she was speaking to the rnc last night and said this. he was wrong with his words in charlottesville and badly wrong with his words yesterday. it wasn't just his words, his actions since election day will be judged harshly by history. it deeply disappointing and a

real shame because i am one who believes our country made some truly extraordinary gains in the last four years. president trump and republicans deserve great credit for that. alisa, i'll ask you to respond to that. i asked you about the future of your party. what is the messaging? what does the republican party stand for? >> i couldn't agree with governor haley more. we're the party of economic opportunity and we believe in a strong national defense, security for our communities, educational choice. we're a pro-life party. there is so much that we stand for. this is the party of reagan and unfortunately this tragic day in our country is not representative of the republican party as a whole. we've got to come together and take the best of what president trump offered. many of these america first policies that gave a voice to people who felt voiceless in our country. we need to rebuild and we need compassion and need to not see each other as enemies but we need to try to grow who we are

reaching out to not shrink the party by purity tests and whatever it may be. >> sandra: i want to put this media montage up and important to look how we're seeing the media respond in the wake of this attack and how we saw the media respond to the violence we saw over the summer, alisa. watch. >> that ain't a riot what we're seeing now in minneapolis. what we're seeing there is frustration. >> do not get it twisted and think this is something that has not -- never happened before and this is so terrible. >> not a mob in the middle of the night >> people do what they do. >> antifa. >> that's a myth. >> show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. >> they should not let up. >> most protests, it is not generally speaking unrule but fire have been started. >> sandra: some are pointing out the hypocrisy this morning. want to get your reaction to

that. >> i spoke to that at the time. that the media refusing to cover what were violent riots over the summer. but the one thing that i would say that distinguishes this. i don't want to he quifsh indicate. this was an attack on our democracy. people misled to believe the election was stolen that attacked the symbol of our democratic republic the united states capitol. it is different but i also would implore our media to cover both fairly. some of those clips you played, there is just a different way you cover the riots over the summer than what we're seeing now. >> sandra: what's your future? >> i am consulting myself. i want to be part of regrowing this party. there is much good of trump and wonderful people who served his administration whose voices should be heard and should be part of building the future party as we go forward. >> sandra: our best to you. thank you for coming on with us this morning. >> thank you. >> sandra: trace. >> trace: tucker carlson says no matter how you feel about

president trump the media and country have an unhealthy obsession with him. watch. >> two weeks from tonight donald trump will no longer be in control or command of the federal agencies or even most likely his own twitter account. as much as all of that may up set you it is true. we cannot change it. the rest of us and this is the key, will still be here. we've got nowhere to go. we don't have foreign passports. we're staying until the end. what will life be like for us on january 21st? not many people seem to be thinking about that up to and including the people we pay to think about it. donald trump thinks almost exclusively about donald trump but so does almost every democrat in the congress and every single republican. all of them, every one of them is trump obsessed. who is you obsessed? who has your concerns top of mind? who wakes up worried about your family?

as far as we can tell, no one. >> trace: rachel campos-duffy joins me now. good morning to you. you heard tucker's argument there. what do you think? is it a compelling argument? does the country have this obsessive, unhealthy focus on president trump? >> the media certainly does. and of course the trump movement, the maga movement the make america great movement has to be bigger than just donald trump but frankly, to take on the entrenched powers in washington that he needed to take on to make the kind of changes he did. one of the most -- let me see you needed someone with that kind of ego to take it on. they threw everything and the kitchen sink at him. one of the most underreport e reported stories of his administration is that he took on big pharma. when has anybody ever taken on big pharma? it's never done in washington that's what the american people who supported donald trump love about him.

look, i appreciate your guest before alyssa farah, but i think she misses the point. the rebuilding of the rerepublican party post trump, this is not a left versus right situation anymore. when you have liz cheney from this right conservative political dynasty who aligns with establishment democrats on so many issues including war. you begin to understand that this political realignment we're looking at is not left versus right. it's insiders versus outsider. donald trump was the insider and he loved his base and he fought for middle america. people who had no power in the system and that's why they love him. they aren't involved in some hero worship whatever the media is trying to perceive this to be. they're not stupid. they just understand this guy is rich enough egotistical enough to not give a damn what's going on in washington

and fight for them. >> trace: i want to move on if i can to d.c. mayor mural bowser calling for d.c. to become a state. watch her. >> first we must get statehood on the president's desk within the first 100 days of the 117th congress. congress must immediately transfer command of the district of columbia national guard from the president of the united states and put it squarely under the command and control of the mayor. >> trace: statehood d.c. you get a couple of senators and a few congressmen sprinkled in with that. your thoughts? >> well, she is using the events from the last couple days as her excuse. it has been a democrat dream for a long time to have a 51st state in d.c. they vote 93% democrat. our founders made d.c. a neutral zone for a reason. a place where americans come to

petition their government. it is meant to be that way. d.c. gets an out by their numbers get a disproportionate number of benefits per capita than any other state anywhere. $30,000 per student in d.c. so they get a lot of government money and federal money. no, it should not be that way. what's happening now is you'll see moving forward, trace, a real push for a consolidation of power on the left and you are going to have no holds barred. >> trace: i want to put this on the screen. joe biden tweeted this back in june. he said d.c. should be a state, pass it on. looks like president elect is behind that movement. rachel campos-duffy great to see you. >> one thing. they're adding voters not winning voters. that's what this is about. >> trace: thank you so much. >> sandra: thank you. protestors confronting ted wheeler at dinner and things

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matter protesting yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol. >> joe biden facing backlash for those comments on the capitol hill riots. he claimed a double standard in the police treatment of rioters on wednesday compared to black lives matter protestors last summer. david avila is go pack chairman and richard fowler is a fox news contributor. richard, what did you make of joe biden's comments? >> i agreed with the president-elect very clearly. here is why. for the entirety of the 20th century african-americans have protested because we wanted a seat at the table. we wanted to be part of this democracy. and what we saw happen on january 6th, 2021, a day that will live in infamy we saw people incited by the president of the united states disrupt that democracy and interrupt the business of the people's

house. it was undemoatic, it was lawless, it was unamerican, and it deserves no praise nor does it deserve a comparison to black lives matter peaceful protestors only asking to have a seat at the table and to have equal justice distributed to them. >> trace: that's now how the "new york post" sees it. they think the left and joe biden are having a bit of amnesia quoting blm and antifa were coddled. portland let them set up an autonomous zone for months and police and politicians did nothing. that appears to be a proper assessment of the way it was. we covered these protests all summer long. very little resistance. your thoughts, david. >> president-elect biden could have ordered law enforcement to team up with the philadelphia eagles who know how to put a jail right on the spot of a major event and prosecute

anybody who breaks the law. and trace, that is a statement that ends with a period, not a comma to point fingers at any one group and say one group should get prosecuted and one group shouldn't. based off richard's comments, tearing down the capitol should be prosecuted, which is agreeable, but tearing down small businesses is not worth prosecuting. and what we hear from president-elect biden is he will decide to not be a uniter but instead take the political spectrum that causes him the least problems. >> trace: let me add this quickly and then you can jump in. the national review writer, four people are dead after what happened yesterday. you know what? people died last summer, too. countless businesses destroyed. this is going to david's point. people whose livelihoods set an fire and stolen.

you refused to condemn that violence. you've lost your right to moralize. go ahead, richard. >> look here, it is pretty simple. for the entirety of the month around the black lives matter protesting the death of george floyd and so many others there has been an absolute total condemnation of violence by both joe biden, the naaacp and every civil rights organization yesterday. what we saw january 6, we saw a mob of people. i will call them domestic terrorists using their political -- causing violence because of their political blefts inflict pain and harm on the entirety of our democracy. it took donald trump 24 hours to condemn the rioters. don't sit here and tell me that joe biden and the civil rights movement has lost our ability to condemn this. this is the democracy of the united states of america and nothing else. were the people arrested in the

summer for looting businesses? absolutely. hundreds of them. thousands of them. after what happened on the 6th of january 40 people were arrested. come on now. >> trace, this is not about civil rights. this is about are we going to follow the law. >> it's about the democracy and constitution and donald trump breaking it. that's what it is about. >> richard, i did not interrupt you. are you going to prosecute people that break the law? we ought to have a jail set up at inauguration and prosecute anybody who does. >> trace: david avila and richard fowler, thank you both. >> good to see you, trace. >> sandra: with democrats winning control of the senate what's the likelihood your taxes may be going up? stuart varney will take that up next. portland, far left protestors get in the mayor's face at a restaurant. what this is all about. that's next.

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>> sandra: an angry group of protestors in portland, oregon confronting mayor ted wheeler. >> you have done nothing. you will be made to feel like the scum you are. shame on you. >> sandra: that shows people approaching the mayor dining outside. they were upset over the city sweep of homeless camps. police say one person punched the mayor in the shoulder. no word of any arrests yet. >> trace: u.s. marking another grim coronavirus milestone with its most deadly day since the pandemic began. more than 4,000 deaths reported yesterday. meantime dr. anthony fauci is weighing in on the slow vaccine roll-out. david lee miller is live in new

york city. david lee, good morning. what are we hearing from dr. fauci? >> dr. fauci was speaking this week at the economic club of washington, trace. he said that the u.s. should have done a better job with the vaccine roll-out. he went on to say there is no excuse that the government failed to meet its goal of inoculating 20 million people by the end of the year. it was trying to start a new program during the holiday season. he is optimistic the rate of inoculations would increase. new york has the second highest death rate in the country after new jersey there is growing disagreement who should be eligible for the vaccine. governor andrew cuomo final say on this matter warns there are not enough doses the treat the entire top priority group. healthcare workers and nursing home residents. deblasio says unused vaccines in freezers should be used to treat police and seniors.

>> we could be reaching folks right this minute who are really vulnerable. 75 years old, 80, 85 years old right now. essential workers right now. and that's the best way to constantly use the supply of vaccine we have. >> nationally about 21 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed but so far only about 5.9 million americans have been inoculated, trace. >> trace: give us the rule. do they have to get rid of the vaccine before they get more coming into the hospitals or do we know how that procedure works? >> here in new york state i know that governor cuomo has said that they need more vaccine. there is only a supply that is sufficient for half of the healthcare workers. even though it's sitting in freezers, trace, my understanding is that the governor is now asking for more

vaccines. this again despite the fact that the current supply has not been entirely used up. trace. >> trace: david lee miller live in new york city. sandra, the whole problem with this is happening in state after state after state. all of these states are getting these vaccines and they simply have to freeze them and sometimes the freezers are breaking down, they have to get rid of them or waste them and they put their hands up saying they need more of this stuff and some of these pharmaceutical companies are saying yeah, but not yet. >> sandra: storing it is an issue in a lot of these hospitals have waiting lists for people who might not be on the front lines but standing willing and ready for the vaccine if somebody else chooses not to get it. quick look at the markets now. the dow is up 87 points eight minutes into trading on friday morning. a day after we saw the dow, the nasdaq and s&p 500 close in record territory notching their first record closes of 2021.

brand-new records as democrats take control of the senate putting into question some of these democratic policies that they have been calling for. what that means for some of these regulations that were rolled back under the trump administration. taxes that were cut under the trump administration. will your taxes go up in the new administration? that's a big question this morning. but meanwhile the markets have been shrugging off the spike in coronavirus cases that we've been seeing across the country. with those georgia runoff elections securing democratic control of the senate biden's plans to reverse the 2017 tax cuts are close tore a reality. we'll ask stuart varney anchor of varney and company on the fox business network in two seconds about that. he joins us now on simulcast. stuart, we were talking to our audience about these record gains in the stock market, brand-new record closes for the

dow, s&p and nasdaq yesterday. the first record closes of 2021 all the while democrats are taking control and people wonder will their taxes go up? >> yeah. well, i'm not going to say whether their taxes go up or not but i will try to explain why we have a stock market rally in the face of a democrat takeover of congress and turmoil within the administration and riots on capitol hill. the answer is quite simple. this market is going up because the economy is going to be flooded with a gusher of money this year. you are going to get a massive stimulus program out of congress. they will spend trillions on all kinds of things but they will push out that money big time. at the same time, the federal reserve will continue to print trillions of dollars. you add it all up and it is a mountain of money that's coming right down the pike and some of it, in fact quite a lot of it will find its way to wall street. that is the big reason why

stock prices are going up to record highs despite the turmoil in the background and despite the political change in washington, sandra. >> sandra: remember 20,000, dow 20,000 what a big deal that was, then 25,000. now it's firmly above 30,000 and this morning moving around 31,000 is something to watch. we have the brand-new numbers on the economy out this morning seeing the job loss in december the first time since april as we continue to see these virus spiking cases across the country. what are we seeing in terms of jobs recovery and how hard hit this economy really is as a result of the pandemic? >> the recovery in jobs has clearly stalled. we dropped 140,000 jobs and more to the point, if you look at the restaurant and bar industry, the food service industry as it's called they lost 498,000 jobs.

an enormous loss of jobs. you can put it all down to continuing lockdowns in the big population states. california, new york, new jersey, illinois. there is a lockdown going on there especially in the restaurant and bar business. and that's why you've got this surge in job losses in that particular sector of the economy. but again, this wall of money that is coming up wall street and coming up the economy will to some degree take care of that and it explains the market rally. >> sandra: i'll ask you the questions everyone is asking. democrats taking control of the senate. incoming democratic administration. we went through this attack of the capitol. all of this uncertainty. why does the market continue to go up like it does? a tough question to answer, really. go ahead. >> i'll try. i think that the division in congress is so narrow, you have a 50/50 split in the senate. that extremes will not go through. the socialists will really make

a lot of noise about this. they want to tax the rich and tax business, green new deal. but you can't go to those extremes when you have a narrowly divided congress. the moderates will win. the manchins of this world and the testers of this world will be powerful and they will stop any huge tax increases which would damage the economy. >> sandra: it is a really important point. always good to have you on with us. >> thanks very much. see you again. >> trace: democrats pushing president-elect joe biden on the supreme court and already putting pressure on one justice to retire early so biden can name a replacement. the impact far left progressives will have on biden's decision making plus top republicans meeting at the rnc's annual winter meeting. what they are saying about the future of the gop after president trump leaves office. with your uniquely-you sneeze.

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>> trace: less than two weeks until president-elect joe biden takes office and calls are growing already within the democratic party for the president-elect to announce his plans for the supreme court. joining us now to discuss that former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy. great to see you this morning. thanks for being here. should he start laying out his

plans? >> well, yeah, i think tried to say elections have consequences but after the result in georgia, he has a two-year window where they can pretty much get whoever they want on the bench. so there is a lot of pressure being brought to bear not just on for example justice breyer who is 82 on the supreme court, but a lot of judges who were appointed by clinton and obama who are capable at this point of taking senior status. there is a big push to try to get those people to take senior status so that the biden administration can staff the federal courts with judges who are, you know, progressive leaning and ideally in their low to mid 40s who can be on the federal bench for decades. >> sandra: you mentioned justice breyer and pressure on him to retire or to step off the bench. if we get to 50 i need justice

breyer to announce retirement and elect federal judges. just an example of what's out there. >> poor justice breyer. he loves his job and i think all these guys love their job. look, we've seen in the last five years or so, sandra, between what tragically happened with justice scalia and justice ginsburg. we're all mortal. this is very political. they have this window. i thought it was impulsive before they won in georgia for them to start putting pressure on breyer, but you have to understand the way the politics of this now work they have this two-year window. it doesn't matter how much republicans object they can get whoever they want on there. >> sandra: and this is the co-founder of a progressive group demand justice urging breyer to retire. it goes further breyer's

service will remember him if he assures the appointment of the first black woman. it would guarantee that opportunity if he retires because the window may prove a narrow one. to your point, andy. we look back at the moments in the campaign when joe biden was asked about his plans for the court. this is from a 60 minutes interview back in october when he talked about reforming the supreme court. listen. >> if elected would you move to add more justices to the supreme court? >> if elected what i will do is i'll put together a national commission of bipartisan commission of scholars, constitutional scholars, democrats, republicans, liberal, conservative and i will ask them to over 180 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it is getting out of whack. >> sandra: i'll let you tell me what you took away from that.

at the end of the day if breyer doesn't succumb to the pressures to retire what will we see? what kind of pressure will biden face to pack the court? >> i don't think much now. i think those statements were made in a different political planet that we were in at that time when they were trying to discourage amy barrett from being confirmed and we're in a very different environment now. >> sandra: andy, if i could before you go get your general thoughts. the first i've chatted with you since our country has seen so much in the last few days just finally your thoughts on where things are this morning. obviously as we turn a page we see a new administration coming in and talk about changes like this. >> well, it's going to be a very explosive two years. i really hope, sandra, the most important thing right now is let's get through the next 12 days. i really hope that the 25th amendment talk and the impeachment talk goes by the

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trump era? with spoke with senator rand paul who flew down to amelia island to persuade an ideology different from the past four years. zbliem -- >> i'm saying we need to make sure it's a home for conservatives but we won't be for the free money populism that some are promoting. >> rnc source confirms to us this morning that last night for the members to watch president trump delivered a two-minute pre-taped statement just for them to watch and listen. back to you, trace. >> trace: phil, thank you. >> sandra: fox news alert at the top of a new hour. u.s. capitol police officer injured during wednesday's riot has died. capitol police paying tribute to officer brian sicknick hit in the head while engaging with the protestors. he died last night and his death is being investigated now as a homicide. welcome to a new hour of

"america's newsroom." it's 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good morning, i'm trace gallagher. homicide investigation is just part of the intense effort to identify the rampaging rioters who attacked the capitol. the f.b.i. also offering a $50,000 reward for information on whoever is responsible for the pipe bombs planted around washington and the manhunt for rioters going nationwide. >> there is no mistake about who some of these people are. we're asking our communities to call in whether it's a community in the district of columbia or as far as the west coast it doesn't matter. call into your local f.b.i. office, identify who these individuals are and let's hold them accountable. >> trace: gillian turner is live in washington good morning. what else do we know about the officer who died? >> good morning, fox news is learning now that officer sicknick was struck in the head by a rioter with some kind of metal object at 2:00 p.m. on

january 6th and officer sicknick later collapsed inside the building at about 7:00 p.m. this is after suffering two strokes that resulted directly from the head injury he sustained. now the capitol police department chief and other congressional security officers all resigning after wednesday's breaching and now folks news can also report the defense department offered capitol police assistance from the national guard during the days leading up to january 6th but that offer was declined. capitol police said they would not be needing assistance based on federal law enforcement intelligence they had at the time. here is the pentagon on thursday. listen closely. >> we don't do domestic intel collection. we rely on capitol police and federal law enforcement to provide an assessment of the situation they foresaw and based on that assessment that they had, they believed they had sufficient personnel and did not make a request.

>> lawmakers are looking at this specific development. listen. >> what kind of intelligence gathering apparatus does the capitol hill police department and the agencies in charge of defending the capitol have? how could they fail so miserably? yesterday they could have blown the building up. they could have killed us all. >> so far d.c. metropolitan police have arrested 68 people. u.s. capitol police have arrested 14 people and 55 charges have been filed now both in d.c. and in federal court, trace. >> trace: the questions keep coming. gillian turner live in d.c. thank you. >> president trump: the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy. to those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. and to those who broke the law,

you will pay. now congress has certified the results. a new administration will be inaugurated on january 20th. my focus now turns to insuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. >> sandra: president trump condemning the violence in the capitol calling for healing and reconciliation and promising an orderly transition to the new administration. top democrats and some republicans are calling for the president's removal from office. chris wallace anchors "fox news sunday" ahead of this and he joins us live. good morning to you. what are you hearing on this? what's the next two weeks look like? >> well, let me say first of all that was donald trump not fighting for four more years in office. that was a man pleading, begging, for 12 more days in office. i'm told that he did not particularly want to make that speech and he was infect told with all the push on the 25th amendment, with all the resignations and all the talk

about impeachment and removal on capitol hill he needed to say something like that to try to damp down the outrage over the events of this week. as far as what happens the next 12 days i think that depends in terms of donald trump on donald trump. if he repeats the kind of inflammatory actions of wednesday, then i think all bets are off in terms of the 25th amendment. in terms of impeachment. but if he keeps quiet, if there are no repeats of that kind of thing, from what i hear from republicans on the hill, people in the white house, they feel that any kind of removal at this point would probably create more harm, more outrage than it would damp down. that it would solve. obviously there are millions of people who supported donald trump. there are hundreds of thousands who were on the mall who believe that this election was stolen from him. and for him to be removed from

office either from within his administration or by congress would only enrage those people further. i think that's a last resort. >> sandra: you have ben sasse saying he would consider impeachment if the house passes articles. are there more republicans that would be willing to do that? >> are there more, yes? remember, we've been through this before. in terms of impeachment, look, all nancy pelosi and the democrats need to do. they have a majority and they can file a resolution today and have a vote on it. but then are you talking about a senate trial. again, in that case you need a super majority of 67 votes. you know, there may be some outliers in the senate who would vote for it among republicans but i don't think there is a move at this point or anything like 67 votes to remove the president. everybody is just saying let's hang on, let's get through these 12 days. let's start a new administration.

>> sandra: a lot of resignations coming in. the latest betsy devos, elaine chao and others. coming up this weekend you'll speak to mick mulvaney who said i'm quoting him directly, i can't stay here, chris. so big questions, too, as to will there be more that depart the white house and leave it more empty than it already is? >> well, that's right. i will tell you that while -- there are other people not as well-known as the cabinet secretaries, matt pottinger, the deputy national security advisor, he resigned as well. i think that there is generally a feeling among some of the top people especially in the national security area like robert o'brien the national security advisor. we still have a country for 12 days. we still have an administration. i think they feel we need to have, one, we need to have a national security infrastructure in place and two, i think there is a feeling among some of them we want to

act as a guardrail in case the president decides to do something. so you have this extraordinary situation where some people in the trump administration are acting as if they feel they need to protect the country from possible further actions by the president himself. >> sandra: that conflict of helping the transition happen and the need to depart is the debate a lot of them are going through. we'll see you this weekend on "fox news sunday". you have mick mulvaney. it will be a big show after a really big week for this country. >> thanks, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> trace: simon and schuster canceled plans to public josh hawley's up coming book following criticism of his decision to have the electoral vote. hawley fired back. joe concha a columnist for the

hill. i want to play both sides of this. publisher it will be our mission to amplify voices and vow points. we take seriously "larger public responsibility as citizens and cannot support senator hawley in his role in what became a dangerous threat. hawley said this is the left looking to cancel everyone they don't approve of. i will fight this cancel culture with everything i have. we'll see you in court. and joe concha you say what? >> i say if you look at precedent here, we look back to 2005 and senator barbara boxer, democrat, california, objected to the results of the 2004 election between george w. bush and john kerry won narrowly by george w. bush by taking the state of ohio. boxer as a senator and 31 other democrats object to the result of that election citing widespread irregularities with

voting. okay. that's fair. you didn't hear a lot about that at the time. it wasn't amplified the way it is now. after that, senator barbara boxer got a book deal and that was her book called "the time to run." shortly thereafter. boxer got a book deal but hawley's is canceled. i would hope another publisher out there. it is a capitalistic society and offer them a book deal. he is writing about social media and its takeover around political discourse. >> trace: i found this quote by eric swalwell about josh hawley saying you led an effort to overthrow a peaceful transfer of power. the capitol was overtaken by your terrorist friends. people died, you should resign and never serve in office again. what do you think about eric swalwell calling on somebody else to resign? >> has eric swalwell taken any questions on his relationship

with a chinese spy five years ago and being placed on the intelligence committee? he should probably take a seat at this point. it wasn't to overthrow anything. i said this on the network, this was symbolic like it was symbolic in 2005 or 2000 as far as the objections are concerned. no one thought it was going to be successful in overthrowing anything. hawley wasn't thinking there would be this repugnant, horrible siege of the capitol where you had a police officer killed, where you had a military veteran female killed and just one of the darkest days in our history. i'm pretty sure he wasn't doing that calculation when he decided to object along with senator ted cruz and others. >> trace: the president social media account still shut down. guess whose are still active? ayatollah saying those who ordered the murder of general soleimani as well as those who carried this out should be punished. the revenge will certainly happen at the right time.

threatening to kill the president okay. the president not so much. final thoughts. >> yeah, and there is videos of maxine waters calling on people to get up in the faces of any member of the trump administration if they see them in public. those videos are everywhere. twitter doesn't have a problem with incitement there. be consistent if you'll do this or don't do it at all, trace. >> trace: always good to see you. thank you. >> sandra: the incoming administration suggesting a double standard when it comes to how police handled rioters at the capitol versus black lives matter protestors over the summer. so is that really the case? >> we witnessed two systems of justice. we know this is unacceptable. dinner with the drakes...tonight. alexa, ask buick to start my encore gx. ♪

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>> no one can tell me that had it been a group of black lives matter protesting yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol. >> we witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the united

states capitol and another that released tear gas on peaceful protestors last summer. we know this is unacceptable. >> sandra: joe biden and kamala harris are taking heat for suggesting a double standard when it comes to how police treated capitol hill rioters. let's bring in marc thiessen. a speech writer and "washington post" column shift. i'm sure you have a lot to say on this. do you see that double standard? >> you know, i was very saddened by joe biden's response to this. the reason joe biden was elected is because he promised to unite the country and put away the divisions that have plagued us for the last several years and injecting race into this isn't unifying. it is divisive. all of us today liberal and conservative agree black and white, republican and democrat were horrified by what happened on capitol hill on wednesday. and every respectable conservative i know.

i've seen them on fox and other places have laid the blame for this at the feet of donald trump for inciting the riot. we're united. we agree. and we're united in our condemnation. why would joe biden divide us by making it about race when it isn't about that. it doesn't bode well for the start of his administration and the promised healing he gave us. >> sandra: the "new york post" makes a similar statement. liberal amnesia about last summer east riot. it was a horrible insurrection but mr. biden don't try to rewrite the story of last summer's riots to suggest there is a double standard or racism at work here. marc, i want to ask you about tucker carlson last night making the point that donald trump is all the media talks about and it shouldn't be that way. watch. >> donald trump thinks almost exclusively about donald trump. but so does almost every single democrat in the congress as

well as every single republican. all of them, every one of them is trump obsessed. who is you obsessed? who has your concerns top of mind? who wakes up in the middle of the night worried about your family? as far as we can tell, no one. >> sandra: i said the media. he is saying democrats you can make the same case, marc. does he have a point? >> he does have a point but the most trump-obsessed person in washington is donald trump. and we can't skirt the fact that donald trump is responsible for what happened on wednesday. he invited this crowd to washington he incited them with lies and raised their expectations that somehow something was going to happen to overturn the election and setting them up for disappointment. blamed members of congress for not being strong enough. he said -- he told the crowd on wednesday we have to get rid of the weak members. i want you to walk down pennsylvania avenue and take

back our country. and that's what happened. they tried to do that. so yes, i agree overall that. the reality is now is not the moment to put aside our trump obsession. what's great is that so many conservatives, unlike the left during the black lives matter protests who had to be dragged into criticizing the riots, conservatives have stepped up and said this is unacceptable, we condemn this and we lay blame with the president for inciting it. i'm proud of our movement and i wish the democrats would be willing to do the same thing when it comes to the black lives matter movement and when it comes to the race riots that we saw over the summer. >> sandra: interesting analysis. marc, always good to talk with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: trace. >> trace: several republicans are ready to move on putting distance between themselves and president trump. so how much power does he have left over the gop and where does the party go from here? plus it's a feud over vaccines.

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is resigning amid criticism of the department's response to the riots at the u.s. capitol on wednesday. >> trace: f.b.i. is offering a reward of $50,000 leading to arrest and conviction in the d.c. pipe bombing investigation. authorities say the bombs were found at the republican and democratic national committee headquarters on the same day the capitol building was breached. >> sandra: vice president mike pence intends to oppose calls from both sides to invoke the 25th amendment and remove president trump from office after the u.s. capitol breach. for more on these and other top stories download the fox news app. scan the qr code on your screen or go to foxnews.com/apps. >> trace: the future of the republican party and trump's grasp on the gop in question after this week's riot at the capitol. bill mcgurn is the main street columnist at the "wall street journal" and speech writer to george w. bush and good morning

to you. a former unnamed white house official said the following here i want to put this on the screen. after four years of relative craziness that was always exaggerated he does something, meaning the president, that is as close to indefensible as you can get two weeks before he goes. the question to you, bill, is did the president lose his grip on the gop because of that? >> well, i don't know whether he lost his grip on the party. he still has a lot of followers. but i think he definitely lost a lot of his reputation. my great concern is the president if you separate his personality from his politics and policies, he accomplished some very good things. lowering taxes, deregulating, moving the embassy to jerusalem, strengthening our military. and my fear is that those go out the window. right now what i'm most concerned about is reconciling

a lot of the trump republicans not only to the rest of the party, but to the country. i thought joe biden after the election had the right note when he talked about healing but then i saw his remarks yesterday for the new attorney general and he seemed to be insulting the old attorney general. like he said merrick garland is there to clean up the corruption. merrick -- bill barr declined to appoint a special counsel for hunter biden. i think bill barr, americans owe him a debt of gratitude for his work in trying to clean up the department. i just thought it was a really discordant note and incumbent on biden the reach out, watch his rhetoric and -- they aren't going to get these people to support him and say we'll vote for president biden but perhaps he could end -- help end some of the bitterness that's now in the air.

>> trace: i think it's fair. joe biden continually talks about unity and continually contradicts himself about that. i want to play the sound bite from alyssa farah. >> we're the party of economic opportunity. we're a big tent party that believes in a strong national defense. unfortunately this tragic day in our country is not representative of the republican party as a whole. we've got to come together and take the best of what president trump offered. many of these america first policies that gave a voice to people who felt voiceless in our country. but we need to rebuild and we need compassion and we need to not see each other as enemies. >> trace: a different call from her for unity, bill. your thoughts on that. >> i agree with her. that's my fear that a lot of the good policy stuff. look, there is a definite effort to discredit the policies of donald trump along with what happened the other day, you know, the invasion of

the capitol. and i think we have to do that. look, the good part, if you wanted a good part, look at the republican convention where the way they promoted school choice and other ways in a very american and friendly way. i think and i'm hoping that is not lost as well. i think it's really a finishing mark for donald trump. he is going out on this very, very bad note. i don't think there is anything he can do but i would like to see the party try to fight for some of the principles. the president was right when he used to talk about black jobs and latino jobs and so forth. i just hope that doesn't all go out the window as well. >> trace: bill mcgurn, good insight. good to see you. >> why don't we just resolve this and give the city of new york the freedom to vaccinate high priority people as we see fit so we can speed up the

vaccination process? we understand what we can do on the ground in our own communities. sometimes the federal and state government need to stand back and let local government do what it knows how to do best. >> sandra: and that was new york city mayor bill deblasio staking his ground over vaccinations. all of this one day after new york governor andrew cuomo knocked down the mayor's announcement that 25,000 nypd officers were eligible to receive the first vaccine dose. are politics getting in the way of curing this pandemic? let's bring in our guest dr. janette nesheiwat, thank you for being here this morning. why is this the case? i'll put it on the case. andrew cuomo on the vaccine roll-out. new york city has received over 300,000 doses beginning in december through last week and administered less than half. we urge new york city and other local governments to get needles in the arms of the healthcare workers to avoid front line heroes from getting

sick and hospitals if collapsing due to increasing staff shortages. why is that the case? less than half? >> so sandra, unfortunately that's the case throughout the nation. with a few exceptions of florida and west virginia. it comes down to logistics and planning, organization, personnel. having the staff to administer the vaccine and making sure you have the storage of the vaccine in the freezers. making sure they're thawed properly and properly educating the staff how to give the vaccines. getting appointments for people to come in and get the vaccine. it is a logistical challenge. we have the vaccines. we have to get them into the arms of our new yorkers and especially our police officers, our firefighters, all of them. they're a critical component when it comes to the health and safety of our community and my patients. police officers especially. sometimes they're first on the line on the scene performing lifesaving skills and interventions and if a police

officer or firefighter picks it up they can bring it back to the precinct and spread like wildfire to their colleagues. so it's important that we use what we have and we use it quickly. let's open up yankee stadium and a high school gym and have a mass vaccination center and use up what we have. we shouldn't be waiting to distribute them. we should be waiting for more vaccines to be coming in. >> sandra: you are sitting there in your doctor's room there. you've been on the front lines of this pandemic. you watch all this play out and you look at the politics of it and you look at the governor of the state in which you practice medicine and the mayor of the city in which you practice medicine. what is your reaction to them feuding over this and not coming together on it? >> you know, i would say i understand this is a challenge logistically. we all have good intentions and want to do the right thing. let's work together and unify to get the vaccines where they

need to be. we have one of the worst states, one of the worst death rates in the country. let's now make up for that by vaccinating so we can reduce that number of almost half a million deaths that we'll have by april. so i would say let's work together, let's figure out our differences and get logistically up to par and get the vaccines where they need to be. we're now having over 4,000 deaths a day. it will get worse because of the holiday. there is no time to quarrel over these minor logistical issues. let's get the vaccines in the arms right away. >> sandra: you got the vaccine on our program. feels like a while ago. not that long ago. how are you doing? anecdotally when you talk to patients who have gotten the shot, how is it going? >> it's going good. it is important to be honest and transparent. i had no side effects the first few days. after a few days i had a little headache and nausea but it went away.

i feel more confident and feel better and safer and i'm encouraging all my patients and colleagues when it is your turn, get the vaccine. if you're a candidate, if you're eligible without delay. this is what's going to help us get back to normal. hopefully maybe later this year this thanksgiving of 2021 christmas of 2021 we'll be able to travel, we'll be able to spend time with our families and enjoy holiday christmas parties if we can reach that herd immunity and get most americans vaccinated and the entire world not just americans. what happens in other countries will affect us as well. i think we're moving in the right direction. we need to move faster. >> sandra: such an important point and a very important message coming from someone who has been battling this firsthand. thank you very much, dr. nesheiwat, appreciate it. >> have a good weekend. >> trace: one state taking action to fight riots and mob violence. the new law targeting political protests that go over the line. >> it doesn't matter what banner you are flying under.

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on mobs and violence and full support to law enforcement. chris sprowls is speaker of the florida state house. it is unlawful for a person to assembly with two or more other persons and acting with a common intent to compel or induce or attempt to compel or induce another person by force or threat of force to do any act or to assume or abandon a particular viewpoint. i certainly get the intent of the bill but how in the world under the first amendment do you one, police the bill, much less prosecute it? >> i appreciate that, trace, great to be with you. i spent the better part of a decade as a prosecutor in florida. we needed it to target the kind of conduct that happened outside the nation's cap fol the other day as well as what happened across the country this summer. a fact-based determination. if you are in that group of people and the conduct you saw at the capitol people saying

let's rush into the building and rush police officers and engage in acts of violence that hurt and injure people. that's what's covered under the bill and why it's necessary to pass it. >> trace: the first type of bill of its type across the country and clearly there will be legal challenges. are you ready for all of that? you are a former prosecutor. you know the drill. what do you say to that? >> absolutely we're ready. we've taken what is existing law in the form of rioting and added components to it to make sure if you are violent against a police officer you will be punished. if you're arrested engaging in criminal unlawful conduct. this isn't the first amendment or peaceful protest. these are individuals committing criminal acts that violate the laws and rules we all share. that will not be tolerated and shouldn't be tolerated. >> trace: florida state democrats are coming out against it saying this is nothing but a big show. they say the governor is trying to rewrite history and say his anti-protest bill is in

response to what happened at capitol hill. lies. it's scoring political points off racial tension an consenting to uneven application on law based on skin color. maybe focus on covid-19 instead? >> that's a ridiculous comment. i praise governor desantis for his leadership. the important thing is governor desantis, myself, the senate. and others filing the bill for us have been leading on this issue since this summer. it doesn't matter to us why people are doing criminal things or why they are engaging in violence or injuring like police officers who were killed in the line of duty. what we care about is the laws are followed. we do not care which viewpoint is being expressed. this is a nation of laws governed by the constitution and in the state of florida our message is very clear. that kind of conduct, that kind of activity will not be tolerated. you will go to prison. >> trace: some democrats in florida also worried that maybe you are taking your eye off the

ball here saying this, the republicans dominated florida legislature still hasn't passed a single covid-19 relief bill since the start of the pandemic. is it a fair assessment that you have bigger fish to fry and you are focusing on this bill which may or may not be approved and then held up in the courts for a long time? >> all of those things are important and we have to both enforce our laws but i'll say this. it's important we help all of our people but the fundamental promise of government. the reason government was created an exists is taupe neighborhoods safe to protect businesses and people. if we cannot fulfill that promise adequately we have failed all of our people and that can't happen. >> trace: last question. you know this. the republican controlled legislature in florida very strong but what kind of a climb is this bill actually for you, sir? >> this bill will pass the florida house of representatives. >> trace: and it will become

law governor desantis sign that and you expect it to be implemented. do you expect some pushback? what do you expect? >> every bill of course we expect to have a rigorous debate on the house floor. both myself, the senate president and the governor are committed to getting it done quickly and the message is clear to our people in florida that we intend to protect them and their property. >> trace: florida house speaker chris sprowls thank you for joining us. >> sandra: tense encounter in a restaurant. >> you have done nothing for the inner city and you'll be made to feel like the scum you are. >> sandra: protestors confronting the mayor of portland. what happened after the camera stopped recording that. dan crenshaw calling the riot at the capitol a display of frenzy and anarchy. we'll talk to him about what he

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>> sandra: fox news alert. this just in. a new tweet from the president. i will not be going to the inauguration on january 20th. for all those who have asked. the president wrote a few moments ago since he has been back on twitter. he was banned temporarily. he has tweeted a couple of times this morning. that is the latest from the president on that and this, of course, in the middle of democrats now vowing impeachment of the president before that day even happens. so this is the latest in that developing story as the president and his team have been asked repeatedly whether or not he would attend the biden inauguration.

the answer is now in with the president sayings definitively that he will not be going. >> trace: we're waiting for more on that wondering why he is not going. it was a question for a long time. people were thinking look, it is unprecedented, right? presidents go to the inauguration and hand the baton and we're waiting for on exactly what the decision is based on. is it based on the fact that he still believes the election is contested or is it based on something else? that is kind of the key here that people are focused on is the reasoning. we know he is not going and now the next step in this process is to figure out exactly why. >> sandra: i called our capitol hill producer chad pergram to ask him for historical background on last time a president did not attend an inauguration. we'll look back to see the last

time it happened. a lot of this is unprecedented territory as we continue to cover what has been a remarkable several days for this country. we'll find out what more we learn on that. trace, i said this is happening in the context of he may not make it to that day, of course, because of growing calls now from democrats and even some republicans for him to be removed from office before inauguration day. >> trace: but as john roberts made clear earlier they're running against the clock. 12 days before the inauguration. if this impeachment movement was to go forward it would have to go forward at break neck speed. you would have to get republicans on board. nancy pelosi has already said -- indicated she is willing to be on board but you have to make sure you have republicans on board otherwise you are facing the same kind of deal that they faced during the last impeachment attempt, which was you don't have the support to bring it to fruition. and you are running up against the clock. 12 days and people are also

concerned about getting some other stuff done in congress before they take this thing up. >> sandra: to give you an idea some of the things that democrats are saying about this adam schiff notably saying this morning 10:20 a.m. that donald trump is a danger to the republic and should be removed from office immediately by impeachment, resignation or invoking the 25th amendment. he said that democrats warned during trump's impeachment he would try to cheat to remain in office. he lit the fuse which exploded on wednesday at the capitol. said adam schiff a few moments ago. a frequent critic of this president. we await more information on this but trace, president trump the news just in he will not attend the inauguration. >> trace: it's interesting because we spent a lot of time on this program over the past couple of hours talking about the impact the president will have once he leaves office. you had the former national security advisor john bolton weighing in saying who was a

strong ally of the president before he became a detractor weighed in saying once the president gets back to mar-a-lago he is sitting there it is not the same thing sitting in the oval office. when the president is in mar-a-lago he won't have nearly the same influence on his party that he has right now. but then you have others saying well, some of that influence is being whittled away here because of some of the events over the past couple of days. we'll have to wait and see exactly how that transpires. >> sandra: historical precedent for this happening. john roberts sending out that president trump will be the fourth president to not attend his successor's inauguration. the others were john adams, john quincey adams and andrew johnson. not unprecedented but hasn't happened since 1873. we are trying to get john roberts at the white house for us on this breaking news, trace, as it comes in.

>> trace: you showed the picture of barack obama, the former president, and donald trump just now and you go back to the controversy involving president trump and the heat he has gotten from the media and it goes all the way back to the inauguration in 2016 when the president was talking about crowd size and from crowd size it morphed into this snowball of harsh criticism from the media. you look at the pictures of the president and joe biden. we talk about how it has been just -- it's been standard operating procedure for former presidents and vice presidents to attend the inauguration of the incoming president and you have these pictures here but if you go back and you look at the controversies involving president trump it started really, you know, in earnest on the day of the inauguration over the crowd size that he disputed. >> sandra: john roberts is with us live from the white house.

chief white house correspondent. john, also "politico" is reporting pence is expected to attend the inauguration. donald trump will not be there. but number two so far is still planning to show. so we'll see if anything changes on that front. first to the news. john. >> this was not expected. he made it official this morning but i never expected president trump would attend biden's inauguration. this only makes him the fourth president in history to not attend. the last was 1869 that didn't attend. historically it is not unprecedented but hasn't happened in a long time. mike pence, we checked with his office yesterday and said he hasn't officially been invited. we understand as well that the congressional committee on the inauguration does not issue

formal invitations to the vice president because the vice president is always invited. so it is just a matter of whether or not there have been any conversations between staff members on capitol hill and here at the white house on pence's attendance. but i expect that mike pence, given the student of history and the constitution that he is, and looking at the way that he ran the electoral college certification on wednesday into thursday morning, i would expect that he would probably attend. we do not know yet whether president trump will leave washington early, whether he will wait until the morning of the 20th to do it, or the afternoon of the 20th as is tradition, or whether he would even greet joe biden at the white house as barack obama and michelle obama did with the president and melania trump back in 2017. i would likely doubt that as well but you never know. maybe he may adhere to some

traditions. the fact that he is not going to the inauguration does not surprise me in the least, sandra. >> sandra: what are you hearing about the possibility of democrats moving forward with impeachment proceedings? i was just talking about our congressional correspondent with chad pergram who feels it could be happening next week some sort of hearing. >> you could have all the hearings and you can have all the house votes you want. it comes down to the senate and while i have indications and certainly senator ben sasse said he would consider an article of impeachment while i've heard there are some republican senators who may vote to convict the president were it to come to the senate, you have to have a super majority of 2/3 of those present. so if all 100 are present you need 67. slightly less than that if there are fewer than 100 in attendance. even given what's happened in washington in the last couple of days, that's a high bar to

clear. is it impossible that they could convict? no. but i don't know that the president has lost that much support among republican senators to that degree. i mean, if he had six months to go, maybe. but he has 12 days to go and it really is a matter of do you want to preclude -- the reason why it would happen in the first place is do you want to preclude him from running for a second term in 2024? if the answer to that question is yes among enough republican senators you might get the super majority. >> sandra: pompeo and mnuchin is being reported that these are some of the trump cabinet members discussing the 25th amendment. what are you hearing on that? >> i think the sense here, sandra, is they're just trying to use an analogy. i talked to some senior officials yesterday who say they just want to get through

it. the next 13 days, now the next 12 days and finish this administration out, see an orderly transition. if you were to take the president out using the 25th amendment you would create a whole series of potential problems and if you could just get through it for the next 12 days, get to the 20th, transition of power to the biden administration and you walk out the door and say we did it, we got through it and we didn't cause any of these lingering issues that invoking the 25th amendment would. >> trace: i just am going back to the inauguration and you say you aren't surprised the president is not attending this and i wonder why. any reasoning given to you? is it because he is disenchanted with the election process? other things at play here? antipathy for the whole system? what's at play exactly? >> the fact that when you're the purveyor and figurehead of the trump brand you never lose. and to go to his successor's

inauguration whether or not the president lost the election or believes he lost the election would be to acknowledge defeat. what he said last night in that video was further than he has ever gone. he did not concede the election. there were no words in there where he said i acknowledge that we lost the election. congratulations to president-elect biden and the next step is the inauguration. he just basically said it is over. we are going to work on a transition to the next administration. it is just not like him -- it is not in his character to stand next to the person who beat him and wish him well going forward. that's why i'm not surprised. >> sandra: john, could you bring us up to speed as far as resignations from the administration? what we've seen in the last few hours. there have been a number of them in recent days. what are we seeing? >> betsy devos was the latest

one to the ender her resignation. she unlike elaine chao who said she will be resigning as of monday because of what happened on wednesday. betsy devos had quite a scathing statement that she released directed at the president where she said what happened on wednesday that behavior was unconscionable for our country. there is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on this situation and it is the inflection point for me. the president and secretary devos always appeared to have a good relationship. so for her to now say that about the president shows you the degree of the split that there is between some members of the administration. you can survive an administration without a transportation secretary in place, without an education secretary in place. do it with acting dhs secretaries. chad wolf says he will stay. when it comes to defense

secretary. secretary of state, some of the crucial, treasury secretary, some of the key positions here in the administration, to have a change now might be something that would not facilitate a smooth transition to the next administration. so i think you are going to see people like mike pompeo, like chris miller, although miller may be somewhat more dubious and steve mnuchin and other senior staff particularly in the chief of staff's office and deputies hanging in there through the 20th to help facilitate that smooth transition to the next administration. there is some fear here that depending on what the president's mood is, if some of his senior staff were to resign, who would he put in their positions? and would those people carry out any orders even extra constitutional orders that the president might issue? again it's like they want to get some steady hands on the controls here. they want to get this thing

back on the ground, turn it over to the biden administration, and then say we did it. we got to january 20th. >> trace: speaking of hands on the controls. president has 12 days left and let's face it he may have some agenda items that have been unfulfilled. do you think he does? is there stuff he would still like to get accomplished? pardons he would like to implement, things like that in your estimation? >> there are probably some regulatory things, executive actions he would likely want to take. pardons is a big issue as well. a lot of pardons that were being worked on prior to christmas that people are hoping will come to fruition, people who are submitting these pardons who are applying for them. hope will come to fruition between now and a week wednesday. and then there is also this idea will the president issue pardons to members of his family, other people close to him, rudy giuliani, that sort

of thing, maybe even himself protectively to prevent future prosecutions. that's a big question as well. so i think there is still a lot of things the president would want to get done now if the house can put forward articles of impeachment and the senate convicts, a lot of that goes away. pressure of time for the president to do that before the house takes any action if it does. >> sandra: thank you, john and trace. chad pergram standing by on capitol hill for us. want to read this tweet from lindsey graham. as president donald trump stated last night it is team to heal and move on. speaker pelosi pushes impeachment in the last days of the trump administration it will do more harm than good. i'm hopeful president-elect biden sees the damage that would be done from such action. i'll ask you about the chances of the impeachment process happening as early as next week, chad. but first to the news the president will not be attending

the inauguration on january 20th. >> that's pretty significant. we haven't had something like that really since the 1870s. it is usually a picture. they want to demonstrate that you are having a peaceful transfer of power. even though you had kind of testy moments where harry truman and eisenhower rode to the capitol in the limousine together it was a silent ride but they were both there. the idea that you have other presidents come in. we've had president obama and we've had president george w. bush and george h.w. bush, jimmy carter. all the living presidents alive and physically able often come to the capitol for this ceremony because they want to be there but also demonstrate that this is a peaceful transfer of power. this is how we do it in the united states. so to not have the president there would be significant and again another norm that would be being broken here probably for the first time in 150 years.

>> trace: chad, i want to go into this whole idea of impeachment. the possibilities of that. you have talked about the possibility of hearings maybe as early as next week. john roberts was mentioning you can have hearings until you are blue in the face. the truth is it comes down to the senate. what's the timeline in your estimation here, chad, because you have 12 days left before the inauguration? is there enough time? is there enough senate support? things like that. what do you know? >> i'll run you through a couple of things. they're running out of track. steny hoyer the house majority leader at the end of the certification of the electoral college in the hours of thursday morning indicated the house would be out until the 20th. house speaker nancy pelosi indicated yesterday that she would if they don't invoke the 25th amendment would like to see maybe the president impeached. now again, you don't have to have hearings. you don't have to have an investigation. if somebody writes an impeachment resolution you can pretty much put it on the floor and we've had indication maybe they would do that as early as

the middle of next week. bring the house back into session. two things are going on there. first of all democrats want to be on the record about this. because they believe that the president's actions were so malignant on wednesday they want to make sure that he is held accountable and future leaders wouldn't do what he did. and that he would have this stain on his record that he would be the only two-time impeached president of the united states. the other part of this is that it is political. democrats would love to have republicans have to take a tough vote whether or not to impeach or not impeach the president after they sacked the sacking of the capitol the other day. it is very important from a political standpoint. now, what happens? do you have enough time before the 20th of january to get to an impeachment trial? when you go back to the senate impeachment rules it doesn't magically happen. a year ago we were waiting for house speaker nancy pelosi to send the articles over. you have to have a separate vote to do that and appoint

impeachment managers. people said well isn't it up to mitch mcconnell or chuck schumer which party controls the senate right now? we have the two georgia senators elect who will be coming in soon. we don't really know whether or not there will be a power sharing agreement between mitch mcconnell or chuck schumer or if chuck schumer is the defacto leader. if you look at the senate impeachment rules you have to start but it takes 2/3 of those present and voting, 2/3 of those present and voting. if there are three you need two to remove the president. >> sandra: thanks to chad and john roberts updating our stop top story this hour. president trump condemning the riot calling it a heinous attack amid a string of white house departures. welcome to a new hour of

"america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith as the news breaks fast. what a morning it has been so far as we learned a moment ago the president intends to not attend the inauguration. >> trace: first time in more than 100 plus years, sandra. good morning, i'm trace gallagher. education secretary betsy devos and secretary ciao stepping down. the resignations piling up amid a push to remove president trump from office. speaker pelosi says the house will begin impeachment proceedings unless vice president mike pence invokes the 25th amendment. the v.p. has no plans to do so. >> sandra: a growing number of conservatives are blaming the white house and some conservatives for misleading americans about the election. >> it was clear to me shortly after the election when the race was called by many media outlets we lost it.

it doesn't mean there weren't irregularities that should be pursued. i was uncomfortable with the public messaging claiming the election was stolen and would be overturned. it is not fair to viewers, it is not fair to voters, and the 74 million people who supported the president to give them a false hope. >> sandra: texas congressman dan crenshaw joins us now. good morning and welcome. thank you for being here. you are writing about just that. the false hope we're hearing about now that some of the president's supporters were given and your piece republicans' fight isn't in congress. the rioters and those challenging the electoral count misunderstands how america elects president. you write in that piece millions of americans were falsely led to believe that the final say in the election of our next president lay with congress. the belief that congress has any say whatsoever in the certification of electoral

votes has never been true. so why were so many of your colleagues putting out that false hope? >> i don't know. we've been having this debate forever. they've gone through some mental gymnastics to inform their decision here, to make you believe that the constitution says well, we certify votes. it doesn't say that. it says you count them. doesn't use the word certify. the process we've used january 6 is meant to deal with situations where a state might send you competing slates of elect tors that happened in 1886 and why they passed the 1887 law. the way it's been used this election, past elections. objections in 2005 is deeply unconstitutional. if you want to understand why, just look to what happened on wednesday. the founders were clear about this. article 2 is clear about congress's role. the founders laid out an

additional explanation, hamilton writes about this exact possibility and why they wanted a decentralized independent body of electors that could not face the kind of pressure that a single body in a single time and place would face from the president, from angry people, from stakeholders and interest groups. if you put all the pressure on one body you'll see exactly what you saw wednesday every four years. the founders knew this. they were very prophetic and why their intention was to not have congress have any say in the electoral votes. it is not that people's issues with election integrity and changing laws at the state levels are invalid. the objections that i saw are not invalid. but the remedy for those objections that congress can overturn electoral votes is deeply unconstitutional and deeply problematic. >> sandra: furthermore in your piece you say the real cause of

wednesday's unrest as we continue to watch these pictures on the screen was that many office holders and commentators misled millions of americans that the vote count was their final chance and last chance to fight for election integrity. you say republicans must champion the changes in the states with primary responsibility for conducting elections. that is where our fight is. that is the hard work and that must be our priority. so look forward for us, congressman. >> that's what we have to do. it's the hard work. the easy thing to do is to come here on one day and hope it all changed. your leaders lied to you. they lied to millions of people to tell them that. the hard work is at the state level. you have to identify what went wrong and how to fix it. guess what else? you have got to persuade your neighbors to vote for it. that's what has to happen. this is the hard stuff. make an argument and change legislation. all of the problems with election integrity are very,

very real. i have often said this. integrity of an election must be self-evident. when you look at the process. when i vote in texas that's how i feel i'm not sure i would cheat going to the voting booth. the process looks good to me. with voter i.d. signature verification, a process that works. making sure ballots aren't being sent to the wrong household. limiting mail-in ballots all together. these are the things people are expecting and we must hear them. that's what they want and they are right to want it. the right of our democracy to trust the election outcome is what they say it is. >> sandra: congressman, appreciate you coming on the program this morning. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> trace: while americans have been focused on the chaos that unfolded in washington there is concern the turmoil in the u.s. could be emboldening our foes overseas. we'll talk to congressman mike mccaul of the house foreign

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>> donald trump thinks almost exclusively by donald trump but so does almost every democrat in the congress and every single republican.

all of them, every one of them is trump obsessed. who is you obsessed and who has your concerns top of mind? who wakes up worried about your family? as far as we can tell no one. that's the main thing we need to change. >> trace: tucker carlson on america's obsession with president trump. our culture puts too much focus on a single person as opposed to policy and ideas. howard kurtz is here. do you agree with tucker's argument that the country and the media has this unhealthy obsessive obsession with donald trump? >> look, as a policy walk i would love for politics to be agrand debate about ideas and ideology. our presidents have viewed and covered as larger than life figures. roosevelt's use of radio, kennedy on television, obama's hope and change. no president more than donald trump has been able to dominate

media coverage, social media and the culture itself through the force of his personality, changing the republican party much more than on any particular issues that he is putting at the top of his agenda. yeah, i agree the media have been obsessed with everything trump does. you can't expect that to fade at a time when even some conservatives are saying he incited his supporters to conduct that awful, heartbreaking attack on the capitol and when people are resigning from his administration. >> trace: i'm guessing the media obsession will fade a little bit because he won't appear as much, that's a fair assessment? >> i think it's deeper than that. i think joe biden's style since he ran as somebody who will help heal the country will be much lower key. i don't think he will engage with the media as much. going back to the historical norm and therefore i think biden senses that people --

every family in america doesn't want to argue and upset and argue on facebook about politics all time. it will be a correction now this kind of puts the media in a bind because we have become addicted to clicks and ratings the trump presidency has brought. much less focus on one single person. it is hard to cover 535 lawmakers and why the president has always been the symbol of the country and click bait for the media. >> trace: let's talk about media hypocrisy. you talked about the riots on capitol hill a couple of days ago and play the media mon taij over the summer. it is worth watching. >> that ain't a riot what we're seeing now in minneapolis. what we're seeing there is frustration. >> do not get it twisted and think this is something that has not ever happened before and this is so terrible. >> show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. >> they should not let up. >> most of the protests, it is

not generally speaking unruly but fires have been started. >> trace: the summer of mostly peaceful protests. it is not hard to find prominent voices on the left suddenly finding lawlessness inexcusable after suggesting it was excusable if it forwarded their agenda. they used words like rebellion to glamorize unrest. you saw that and they used rebellion and mostly peaceful protests. your thoughts. >> mostly liberal commentators that you played. enormous media sympathy for all the protests after the killing of george floyd and racial indents with police and most of the reporters told us the supporters were peaceful. i don't think they played down attacks on police officers and attacks on police cars. that was part of the story. it certainly was a lot of

sympathy. now you do have -- there wasn't as much attention as i watched the heartbreaking pictures unfold during the siege of the capitol i notice that others that those went into the building and on the steps, there were a lot of people trump supporters who were standing around treating it as a big block party. it will be a mistake to paint with too broad a brush here. obviously because the protestors over the summer in their view were making a stand against racial injustice and here you had people who were inspired or egged on by the president protesting the results of a legal election and what was supposed to be the routine certification of the electoral college win by joe biden the media taking a much harsher tone particularly in light of what happened which was an a bomb nation for our country. >> trace: thank you, sir. >> thanks, trace. >> sandra: amid the chaos in the capitol this week one of

america's greatest rivals is expanding its influence around the globe. ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee republican michael mccaul of texas. good morning and thank you for being here. what is china doing right now that could undermine american power in the future? >> i think china feels emboldened now. i think they've always tried to undermine and undercut democracy. we have seen the really a strong statements coming out of president xi of the communist party and russia condemning the united states basically we are the beacon of hope, freedom and democracy and an opportunity to show their people why democracy doesn't work. in a way what happened on january 6th has undermined our high moral ground, if you will. when they see this chaos and overrun of the capitol by

insurrectionists and people who are an angry mob. it is playing right into their hands. i find it very disturbing and i think it is a national security issue. particularly as we move towards -- i'm glad the president finally said peaceful transition of power. that's what this country has always been about. without that, we're going to be weakened as a nation. when you look at the resignations of national security officials, we're taking our eye off the ball when it comes to china, when it comes to russia, iran and north korea. they'll feast upon this for years with propaganda. >> sandra: quite a message. the "washington post" has the headline this morning. china is having a field day with u.s. capitol chaos. it talks about china's official prop ghana people. if you don't allow the storming

of your own legislature how could you support it in hong kong? your response. >> they've always been -- they tell taiwan that democracy doesn't work. they tell the hong kongers fighting for freedom who have tried to run for office are being put in jail that democracy doesn't work. they persecute people, south china sea, all this plays right into their propaganda machine and i think we're all looking internally in the united states. if you look externally from a foreign policy standpoint there was great damage done on january 6. >> sandra: that's the first i've heard you respond to that, sir. furthermore get you to comment after we spoke to alyssa farah who used to be the communications director at the white house. we had her as our guest this morning and talking about her time in the white house and seeing other parts of the world and what we look like when that

was happening on wednesday. listen. >> i have spent time in fragile democracies in other parts of the world. our country looked like those countries. that is not who we are. it is not what we stand for and we have to come together as a country. >> sandra: congressman, what were your thoughts when you saw that playing out in our nation's capitol on wednesday? >> well, you know, federal prosecutor an act of terrorism clear. it needs to be prosecuted as an act of terrorism. i agree with dan crenshaw. we stood together on the floor. this was a political charade. i think our political leaders misled the people that we were somehow going to overturn the election. the angry mob was led to believe it was going to happen and showed up on january 6 and sandra, when they found out that we were not going to overturn the election, actually it was unconstitutional to even try to do that, that's when the violence erupted at the capitol.

and i feel for the capitol police and the one officer who was killed. the 50 who were injured. i was barricaded in my own office trapped between the mob and all i had was a baseball bat to protect myself. that should never have happened. and our political leaders are to blame for this. they lied to the american people and they got this frenzy all lit up. >> sandra: good to have you on this morning. glad you are okay. we'll see what the next couple of weeks look like for this president as he said he won't be attending the inauguration. thanks for coming on this morning. >> a peaceful transition of power is key for our national security. >> trace: president trump's legacy was a lifetime's worth of conservative rulings in the supreme court. have the riots on wednesday overshadowed everything else? we'll discuss that. the top cop on capitol hill is

losing his job over wednesday's tragic events and why he is taking so much heat for the chaos that unfolded.

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washington with more. >> today the f.b.i. and d.c. police joining together in the investigation trying to figure out what happened to a capitol police officer as we've talked about all morning. the officer died from his injuries overnight. he had been injured in the riots on wednesday and was in the hospital before his passing last night. we did see some video of capitol police offering up support last night with a motorcade of their patrol cars on the national mall as they were trying to show support for this first responders unit officer who had been with the department since 2008. multiple agencies are investigating what happened. house speaker nancy pelosi ordered flags to fly at half staff in honor of the officer killed. lawmakers including pelosi are praising his service and we're hearing from so many of those lawmakers today speaker pelosi writing the violent and deadly act of insurrection targeting the capitol our temple of democracy and workers was a

tragedy and stains on our nation's histories. we will never be diverted from our duty to the constitution and american people. now lawmakers are praising his service they have a lot of questions about what happened on wednesday. we know that the senate homeland security committee plans to hold hearings about what happened and they also want to know why police were not able to respond faster. capitol police chief is resigning and so are other top security officials for the house and senate. >> we need to come together as one team, one fight right now on both sides of the aisle and need to figure out what happened and how to fix it and make sure it never happens again. you're right, it is inconceivable that could happen in this country. >> we know that new security fencing has been installed around the capitol complex. right here over my shoulder. an indication of how seriously they're taking security here. national guard troops are all over this area and know the d.c. police department has received over 17,000 tips from

people saying they want to help identify the people inside the capitol. >> sandra: thank you, mark. trace. >> trace: capitol riot coming as the trump presidency draws to a close. while many supporters have brushed off his behavior in the past saying his policy goals made it worthwhile this week's violence will change that and what will it mean for his legacy. juan williams is with the five and katie pavlich is a fox news contributor. >> trace, i think that it's important to put the president's decision in context. 70 house democrats boycotted president trump's inauguration in 2017. now you have president trump who has made an argument for two months that joe biden is

not a legitimate president and for him to attend would let ij myself joe biden's win. ugly politics. a lot of people will be disappointed we won't have the president of the united states at the inauguration to have the next incoming president. he did announce last night there is a peaceful transition of power underway in terms of the logistics and again it is ugly politics but it is what it is. you know, democrats set the precedent in 2017 with 70 house members boycotting the inauguration. >> trace: juan, your thoughts. >> well i'm disappointed in the sense that, you know, just as an american i think that a peaceful transition of power is essential. essential message to the american people, to the american family. and you know, katie is right about the people who felt that president trump and what he had done in terms of his election

was based on interference and the like and withdrew. but i would note to katie that president obama, no fan of president trump, was there and, you know, even republican presidents, president george w. bush, his predecessor, obama's predecessor also was there. it doesn't matter if you like or dislike. i think it's a signal effort to acknowledge the importance of peaceful power transition in a country based on a constitution. >> trace: which is not to say the peaceful transfer of power has anything to do with the president showing up to the inauguration. the "wall street journal." the pity is that mr. trump's con fill graition will bear the higher taxes and higher cost of regulation, loss of freedoms, america became less great this week and that's fully on the guy at the top. katie.

>> yeah, it's really unfortunate that the trump presidency is ending with what we saw on wednesday. the president for the past four years has accomplished a number of things that will be successes for generations whether it's hundreds of judges being put on the federal court system. three supreme court justices. in terms of foreign policy, the abraham accord. former presidents failing to get any kind of middle east peace deals that would stick. now you have a number of them and maybe more to come. it is unfortunate that at least in the short term president trump's legacy and his accomplishments will be overshadowed by this horrific event on wednesday. based on the people who i have talked to who have been long time trump supporters both in 2016 and beyond not people who necessarily changed their minds they are disappointed that they are now being seen as what we saw play out on wednesday. they are the ones suffering from the people who decided to do this and being smeared with

the same kind of attitude and behavior. >> trace: quick final thoughts, juan. >> i think you see from the business community, from many of our military leaders, some of whom are republicans, that they are condemning what took place. so you can't say a judge's seat or judgeship is worth what we saw take place on wednesday and certainly not the death of four people and capitol hill police officer. that is too crass of a power play. and the republican party, which is the party of liberty and adherence to our nation's laws, the constitution, i think everybody as katie says feels tainted by what has taken place. >> i also don't think that people are making the argument that what happened on wednesday was worth it. they are two issues separate from each other. >> trace: thank you both. >> sandra: thank you, trace. breaking news here we just got

this in. ronna mcdaniel the republican national committee chair was unanimously reelected as rnc chair to steer the party through another two years. this came from the rnc winter meeting happening in florida. she was backed by president trump, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy and 168rnc committee members. she delivered a speech to the committee members there in florida vowing to help the party regain the house and senate majorities and had a warning saying democrats get ready. buckle your seat belts, we're coming. ronna mcdaniel reelected as the rnc chair a few moments ago. we'll take a quick break and be right back. this is the sound of an asthma attack...

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and member of senate. it is backward the way he framed it. i'm equally concerned even in the private sphere some degree of censorship and some unwillingness to let both sides speak. but it is not a first amendment issue. >> sandra: they put out a statement saying they didn't make this decision lightly. as a publisher we want to amplify voices and viewpoints but cannot support senator hawley after a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom. senator hawley did put out a statement standing by his objection to certifying the electoral vote saying i'll never apologize for giving voice to the millions of americans who have concerns about the integrity of our elections. that's my job and i will keep doing it. you are left wondering where the battle goes now. he is firing right back at the publisher. >> right. and he says he is representing

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we are getting a new image of the capitol police officer tragically killed this week. they have identified the officer as a 12 year veteran of the forest. the department released a saying that sicknick was hurt while engaging with protesters. he is the fifth person to die. fox news' hearing that a federal investigation into his death will be announced later today, as we await more details. hundreds honored the fallen capitol police officer with a moment of silence. it's a tragic, tragic outcome of wednesday's violence. >> talk about the federal investigation, some of the flags in the nation's capital and have staff. all we really know is they believe that he was hit in the head with something heavy, metal object. it may have been a fire extinguisher. very few details have been released about this

investigation, who they are looking for, do they have any surveillance videotape of potential suspects. none of that has been confirmed by the capitol police at all. yes, this will be a federal investigation into his death at a federal investigation brings the death penalty with it. brian sicknick, the capitol police officer. >> sandra: they said the entire department expresses its deepest sympathies to officer sicknick's family. mourning the loss of a friend and a colleague. anytime a law enforcement dies in the line of duty it's a reminder to all of us that they run or danger to maintain peace. >> trace: we have some more tragic news, breaking news. the manager of the dodgers just tweeted, former manager of the dodgers has passed away, he was released from the hospital a couple days ago and they said that things were looking out for

tommy lasorda. he passed away today. he was the dodgers manager from 1976 to 1996. he won two world series with the dodgers. 1981 in 1986. tommy lasorda was manager of the year a couple times. he was a legend in the los angeles area. you look about guys in the tradition of sports, tommy lasorda was the emeritus manager for the dodgers today. people talk about the great years that he had taking over in the great years the dodgers had. the dodgers repeating this year. it's been a long time, that was the last man prior to 20208 to take them to the championship back in 1986. tommy lasorda was a wonderful man. he was a great storyteller and

he was an exceptional baseball coach, baseball manager, and at one time baseball player. >> sandra: as we watch the video, you remember his enthusiasm when you think of him and you see him running out on the field and waving to the fans and a true student of the game, as you well know. moving on to coaching after years of playing. he will be remembered fondly. data 93. he was in the hospital for several weeks before returning home in early january. late october attended the dodgers game in arlington, texas. 93 years old, quite a long full life that he lived. >> trace: i was a reporter in 1986 when the dodgers won there world series after they beat the san diego padres, tommy lasorda came over and he would give me an interview. i was a nobody from a small television station and he gave me the same interview and all

the courtesy and all the grace that he gave to what was that a very new espn. he was a very dignified, very diplomatic, wasteful and exceptional man. tommy lasorda, very sad to see him pass on this day. >> sandra: we wrap what has been an unbelievable week. no one could've imagined where things would've gone when we saw the events unfold in the capital, as you mention the flag at the capitol this morning during this program was lowered to half-staff. there is a live look at the capitol this morning. we now know, you can see in the bottom right portion of your screen the fencing that's now gone up, preparations are underway for inauguration day. during this program this morning we learned through the president via a tweet that he will not attend the biden inauguration and that is a live look on capitol hill as the news continues on this friday morning.

>> trace: we still haven't heard about vice president mike pence, whether he will attend. john roberts was kind of explaining they don't really send out invitations. it's kind of just procedure. it's tradition that the president and vice president attend the inauguration. we saw the pictures of former president obama and former vice president joe biden wishing donald trump while at the inauguration back in 1996. as we pointed out earlier, the focus of the criticism about donald trump kind of began at the inauguration. it was all about crowd size. sean spicer brought into this debate about how big the crowd was for the 2016 inauguration. a kind of started from there and snowballed and it really never stopped. >> sandra: the president not attending the inauguration, as john roberts brought to us. earlier, the historical context. trump is the fourth president to not attend his successors

inauguration. john adams, john quincy adams, andreandrew jackson. it's not unprecedented. it hasn't happened since 1873 through the nose will continue -- the news will continue. >> this is a fox news alert. president trump is condemning the capitol building siege and calling for healing across the nation. as he continues to face sharp criticism over the chaos wednesday following a speech where he disputed election results. the president is calling the violence unacceptable and promising know a peaceful transition of power. watch. >> the demonstrators who infiltrated the capital have defiled the seed of american democracy. to those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. to those who broke the law, you wi