mike hanna live for us now in washington d.c. and mike not just a day of celebration for the new president but getting straight down to business joe biden very much so he promised that he would hit the deck running and certainly he has done so his 1st act on walking into the oval office signing a flurry of executive orders now views covered to berati of subjects of basically rolling back or beginning to roll back donald trump's policy legacy the executive orders signed in to the ban on travel from muslims from majority muslim countries. to the u.s. departure from the paris climate accord from the world health organization these are major steps which along as well with legislation that has already been submitted to congress 'd concerning immigration reform concerning a new 1.9 trillion dollars coronavirus released package certainly is he's hit the ground running but his major policy his major aim to combat the coronavirus pandemic and this is something that he stated repeatedly it was the 1st executive order he signed a mosque man

threats of the pandemic as well as security fears we have 2 correspondents following the story mike hanna is in washington d.c. and castro is also in washington d.c. but 1st party kohei and reports. they climbed the steps were just 2 weeks ago riders stormed the capitol walked the halls where they spread fear ladies and gentlemen the president elect of the united states joseph robinette biden jr and dr jill biden and took the oath of office where they try to overturn democracy the riot now forgotten in this us presidential inauguration like no other 2 weeks ago when an angry violent mob stage an insurrection and desecrated this temple of our democracy it awakened us to our responsibilities as americans protected by tens of thousands of soldiers and police a pandemic raging the thousands of usual spectators replaced by flags the dignitaries spaced out history was made the 1st african-american of south asian descent and the 1st woman to become vice president. and then just before noon joe biden that became the new president of the united states oh my god congratulations mr president. the ch

strategy on covert 90 and executive actions to be to spend demi from our plan let's bring in mike hanna who's running us on washington d.c. so what marketing tell us about the take away messages and also any reaction to biden's plan. well it's an incredibly wide ranging plan contained in a series of executive orders that he passed in the course of the day these range from establishing a testing panel to ensure that testing is being conducted throughout the country improvement of sex scene lines of distribution which president biden say was absolutely desperate when his administration took over and this is one of the marks that we've heard from several biden officials is that there has been no federal strategy behind combating the pandemic one insider saying that when the previous sessions were asked for their strategic plan there simply was not one so this is obviously a major issue in terms of conducting the ongoing pandemic but a lot of executive orders dealing for example with safety in workplaces safety in schools how to open them safely and expanding on that national mosque mandate

not a bar we heard from our correspondent mike hanna about the minority leader in the house saying that directly that he is not going to guy other republicans in the house about how to vote we're also getting word from several media organizations in the us that mitch mcconnell is perhaps warming up to the potential of an impeachment of the president now or in the future how how how problematic is this now becoming for the republican party for the g.o.p. how fractious fractious is this becoming internally. very fracturing a program how many of my friends and colleagues who work and they know who work in politics are all at a loss what we're seeing really aren't we're actually liz cheney the number 3 in the house the house here she really committed her leadership making a huge there out there and leading with what hopefully is going to be the future of the republican party in this associate from. the. president in the senate you know mitch mcconnell is on record. not ignoring the president and i think that he is there for each one that there are. conviction aswell. i think it's a lot of n

he said no, hanna, it's brad. nancy's still not back. >> reporter: now brad was worried. >> i really started to panic. >> reporter: especially when she learned nancy had also stood up another of their friends. they called the local hospital. no sign of nancy. they called nancy's twin sister christa up in canada. >> have you talked to nancy today? she went for a run and she hasn't returned yet and we're very worried about her. can you call us back. >> you know about this kind of stuff? >> you would think. >> reporter: krista calls her older brother jeff, who is a police officer in edmonton, alberta. >> my first reaction, okay, she's somewhere. she just needs some space or time. she'll turn up. >> reporter: when nancy's parents, gary and donna, heard she was missing, they were gripped by something dark and cold. >> gary said to me, donna, this story is not going to have a happy ending. >> reporter: by afternoon the cary police were involved. >> all i was told on the phone it was a missing persons. >> reporter: when

let's get some analysis from mike hanna who has been listening in along with us. what do you make of what we have heard? mike: it's as expected, and the positions are generally expected. you've had a number of republicans objecting to the rule. this is the measure by which the vote will take place in the coming hour or hours. generally, there's been massive support in the house for this whole process to go forward, democrats in control of the house, both what is needed for the vote on the rule, and when the vote is taken on the actual motion, that is likely to be votes counted. clearly, the house majority is in favor of calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and gather the cabinet and vote by two thirds to eject president trump from his position. the arguments we were hearing from various individuals in the house are likely to be repeated when the vote takes place. once again, we are seeing a clear majority in the house for this motion to be passed in the next hour or so. >> earlier in the day, president trump said there is zero risk vic

almost 12 hours in hanna rives that the lever your check point and now every 2nd counts she's solely responsible for feeding the dogs the pack up emitted to take on nourishment but outside the checkpoint. the foster manages to feed the dogs and get them wrapped up for the night. be able to get some shuteye has so for an hour or 2 it's a routine hannah has practiced dozens of times we rested 2 hours. on the thrill it's not. a lot of snow but it. is a lot of. almost 2 hours later ben also reaches the 1st checkpoint with some bad news. one of his best stall sprained his shoulder after stepping into a hole. if more than 8 of the 14 strong failed to finish the race it's game over and the early loss of you is a bit of a setback for ben. unfortunately you have all the other teams breaking which creates do that. and then you have a dilemma. if you want to help the dog lots of braids but then get the portrayal for. whatever. i do for. 10 minutes later ben sets out again from the checkpoint he prefers to catch a couple of hours now in his sleeping bag out on the trail away from the hustle and

almost 12 hours in hanna arrives at the lever your check point and now every 2nd counts she's solely responsible for feeding the ducks the pack up emitted to take on nourishment but outside the checkpoint the foster manages to feed the dogs and get them wrapped up for the night the good be able to get some shuteye has settled for an hour or 2. it's a routine hunter has practiced dozens of times we rested 2 hours. on the trail it's not. a lot of snow but it was a slog. almost 2 hours later then also reaches the 1st checkpoint with some bad news. one of his best stall sprained his shoulder after stepping into a hole. if more than 8 of the 14 a strong team failed to finish the race it's game over and the early loss of you is a bit of a setback for ben. unfortunately you have all the other teams breaking which creates divots. and then you have a dilemma. you want to help the dogs with lots of braids but then give the floor a trail and happens whatever. i do for. 10 minutes later ben sets out again from the checkpoint he prefers to catch a couple of hours now in his sleeping bag out on th

most prestigious stages of the finn mark race from here they only have 250 kilometers to the finish hanna has overtaken another 2 teams and is now in 6th place it's close to half a meter of snow so we have to go through and my dogs have been. running in that deep snow for around 9 hours 10 hours and i've been working and running in kicking and. coming down from the mountain i call my mom and. my guy and they're maybe half an hour to a checkpoint and they can get ready. really really bad news and my 1st thought was ok maybe with a dog has died or something like that. on march the 12th everything changed in no way even here in the isolated north of the country due to the spread of the corona virus the fed mark grace has had to be called off immediately. a shock for all involved you know we have the wars going on. now. and the prime minister and. said everything has to go to the quick. it's dreadful news for tina a little hectic to her daughter has got just a few hours' sleep over the last few days trina is worried that a weakened hannah will be devastated by the development. and i just crie

out zero's mike hanna reporting live there from washington mike will be back with you in a few moments for the moment many thanks indeed it is a little off a 100 hours g.m.t. just after 8 pm in washington where politicians in the u.s. house of representatives pushing ahead with efforts to make president on the trump accountable for last week's on president and assault on the capitol building members from both sides of the aisle have been debating before they vote on a resolution calling on vice president by pence to remove trump from office the motion his plans to invoke the 25th amendment of the constitution declaring the president unfit to hold office but as you've been hearing mike pence has already ruled that out saying that invoking the amendment would set in his words a terrible precedent here's how the debate has played out so far in the house the rule is for the bill that says we should tell the vice president ited states to work to remove the president of the united states i've been here 14 years i've never seen anything like this and i do not know where this ends no president

on a scale not seen since the civil war mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the u.s. is expected to have its troop levels in afghanistan to 2500 this month incoming administration will oversee the lowest military presence in what span america's longest war but with uncertainty over peace talks and an increase in violence there are fears the move could further destabilize afghanistan contre 40 reports from kabul. it's america's longest war longer even than vietnam but it could now be approaching him and for afghanistan however it could just be the beginning of even more uncertain times the pullout of u.s. troops has raised fears that without a peace deal between the taliban and the afghan government in place there will be even more violence you already reaps he defines there because as we speak there is fighting going on inside kandahar city district 8 or 9 so the taliban are now moving from rural areas to urban warfare and that means the african forces are now fighting the taliban in fact the city is now or the city outskirts the american soldiers who remain in afghan

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. jocelyn sage mitchell is an assistant professor at northwestern university in qatar she says is a major change in the political calculus for the republican party. although mitch mcconnell has not made public statements about this this is indeed being reported that he is pleased about this impeachment process and that shows how different this impeachment process is from the last impeachment process that we saw we should expect a swift and bipartisan impeachment in the house today wednesday so the real question is what happens in the senate will 17 republicans join with the democrats to officially convict president trump and then subsequently they can that they can then do other things such as bar him from holding future office we should not see this as an example of moral courage by the republicans this is an example of the political calculus changing the president has lost his reelection after january 20th he has no more formal power but he is also rapidly losing his informal power ri

mike hanna washington while another break with the trumpet ministration the country's top infectious disease expert has announced the u.s. will reengage with the world health organization donald trump informed the agency he planned to pull the u.s. out but dr anthony fauci says that will not happen he says the u.s. will continue funding the agency and join the global effort to make vaccines available to everyone or as gaston is the o'neill professor of global health law at georgetown university he says a national and unified plan is what's needed to combat the pandemic. it's so heartening to hear that we're rejoining the community of nations by rejoining the world health organization that we're going to lead in science and that there's actually going to be and it is a federal plan is not going to just be a free for all. at the state and local government without any funding any planning or any coordination so i feel like we are in a position now where the roll ups event in the room. and we've got a strategy and we're going to follow it and it will be a long time but i do believe we'll

to the deaths of 5 people more than 80 people have already been charged over the violence or mike hanna is joining us now from washington d.c. in the past night night where we've been covering inaugurations there's usually by this point some sort of spirit of cheer and some degree of optimism that at least changes in the air but the words coming from nancy pelosi and from the mayor of washington d.c. very very serious. yes indeed the threat of violence in the days leading up to the inauguration and maybe even beyond certainly very real of coding to security officials here in washington d.c. now you heard nancy pelosi saying that it would be investigated whether some members of congress assisted those who stormed the capitol last wednesday now the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the mass the sergeants of arms of the senate and the house asking for them to investigate how many people were brought into the capitol the day before the siege a by republican lawmakers they want to investigate the visitor's log to see exactly how many of trump's supporter

on a scale not seen since the civil war mike hanna al-jazeera washington. u.s. prosecutors are alleging that some rioters who stormed the capitol last week intended to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona for this man right there jacob chen's the to be arrested the memo has details of an f.b.i. investigation into him and it reveals that he warned it in notes for us vice president mike pence it's only a matter of time justice is coming chance these lawyers say he doesn't feel at fault and has asked for a presidential pardon let's bring in alan fischer he's joining us from washington d.c. so al that in past inaugurations obviously there's always a security presence in d.c. but the beefed up security this year is quite unprecedented dozens it's. large parts of the city are shut down and this far away from the inauguration even around here the white house that blockage goes back several city blocks and of course we see it have the same on capitol hill as well on inauguration day the mall will be closed and that is almost on the

shortly which are expected to help those who've been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic mike hanna joins me now from the white house or what do we expect from these latest executive orders that he is due to sign this evening. well president biden has signed a large number of executive orders dealing with combating the pandemic the order set who are expecting to see in the course of coming hours is to combat the results of the pandemic infect the economic and social results on america's citizens in monkey orders it is expected does a series of things very importantly he's asked the agricultural department to review food assistance to impoverished families he's also asked for the assistance to being given to children who studying virtually who are not getting free meals at school to get a 15 percent increase in their budget for free meals so he's actually looking at the nuts and bolts of the issue here of families who do not get enough food he's also for example looking at the issue of workers' protections workers who are laid off because they do not want to work in a corona affected

trying to put in place on some majority muslim countries to travel to the united states where mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. . the president had made it clear that he was going to get on to these issues straight away another key one is rejoining the world health organization of course being in the middle of a pandemic what did you make of the 1st words and actions of the president inside the oval office. when it was interesting that the very 1st executive order he signed was a mosque where. mandate in federal facilities now this is a clear indication of what his priority is the 1st priority he stated through the campaign and he stated since his election and he is now putting into action is to combat the ongoing pandemic the other executive order that we saw him sign there among the numerous ones he's going to be signing or has been signing rejoining the paris climate accord now that's a signal to the u.s. allies around the world that it is going back to business as usual as it were remembering that donald trump pulled the united states out of the paris climate accord c

life out of washington as soon as mike hanna is with us mike what's happening in the house now given mike pence is a letter to nancy pelosi saying that he's not going to go through with invoking article with amendment to the 25th amendment i mean even going to finish the debate . while it appears so they're continuing to play the rule under which the motion will be passed so all indications are is that despite mike pence his letter the vote will go ahead although this may well prove to be a futile exercise given mike pence a statement mike pence said to lead to the speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying that invoking the 25th amendment would be a terrible precedent as he put it he argued as well that constitutionally the 25th amendment could not be used for such a purpose it cannot be used as a weapon of punishment he insisted that the force article of the 25th amendment is intended to replace a president to is incapacitated temporarily or not it was invoked when george bush went under and it's easier number of years ago. mike pence arguing on a constitutional basis as well as argu

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. all right let's bring in our guests in washington we have rena shah founder of republican women for biden and if iran and morocco is arm a sorry associate professor of international studies at the university and also in the united states in atlanta jill cartwright writer and george organizer at southerners on new ground power welcome to the program let me start with you today in his inaugural address president biden made a sweeping call for unity he said we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue rural versus urban conservative versus liberal with america being as divided as it is right now do you believe this is possible. i believe it's absolutely possible the american experiment hinges on that very thing is that we are very different nation we are one that is diverse in so many ways whether you talk about the g. geography you talk about different demographics of course much has been made about the new americans people who look like myself people who are the kids of immi

guard that have been deployed to the nation's capital on a scale not seen since the civil war mike hanna al-jazeera washington. u.s. prosecutors say summarises who stormed the capital last week had intentions to capture and assassinate elected officials court papers submitted in arizona are asking for this man jacob chancy to be arrested the memo has details of an f.b.i. investigation into chancy it reveals he left a note for u.s. vice president mike pence with a warning saying it's only a matter of time justice is coming chances lawyers say he has asked for a presidential pardon. got to model has more than $0.20 soldiers along its border with honduras a group of migrants is heading its way hoping to make it to the u.s. and for a warmer welcome under the biden administration john heilemann reports. a couple of 100 people gathered in some pedro sula honduras in the early hours of thursday morning to start their journey to an improbable destination the united states. it's a far cry from the thousands in the caravans of 201819 who hoped that by sheer force of numbers they could make it to t

in a senate trial he could be forbidden from ever holding a federal office again al-jazeera smike hanna reporting live from washington mike many thanks indeed to want kansas republican political strategist and former white house aide to george w. bush he joins us now via skype from some adelphia good to have you with us again joe where do you stand on whether or not president trump should be impeached. well i think that the letter of the law should. be allowed to play out we have a peter for reason in the united states and clearly. what happened today was not acceptable to every american we don't believe in mob ballance we are a nation of laws and so seeing that mob approach capitol hill and then over to capitol building by force and really discreet building was was not acceptable to americans watching that and so there is an appetite right now in the senate and also in the house more importantly in the house and certainly stronger now than it is in the senate but that there's an appetite in the house solely to impeach the president in the next 3 days and it's not unlikely that the sena

to day in our national strategy on career 19 executive actions to be to spend let's bring in mike hanna has joining us from washington d.c. to tell us more about the executive actions taken by the president or what this is made clear is that there was no national strategy in place at all joe biden are signing a large number of executive orders to try and build up a strategy the executive orders aimed at combating the coronavirus and demick they range through a lot of issues safety in schools how to open schools safety safety in the workplace the improving the chain of distribution of vaccine establishing a testing board to spread out testing so a whole host of measures being announced by joe biden in the course of the day he also expanded on the mosque a mandate which he introduced in his 1st executive order on the 1st day in office and that includes now what his mask wearing at federal airports so he's expanding this and trying to put clothes on to the bones of the initial idea but the concept around all of this is a stablish being a nationwide strategy to take the pressure off the sta

duties of office but even before the vote was passed ben said he wouldn't move against trump mike hanna has the latest from washington the resolution is that that without jack should the motion to reconsider is laid on the table ultimately this appeared to be an exercise in futility as expected given the democrat majority in the house the motion was passed but there's only after the vice president stated he would not invoke the 25th amendment and remove president trump from office in a letter to the speaker of the house the vice president said and i quote i do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our nation or consistent with our constitution he added under our constitution the 25th amendment is not a means of punishment or usurpation invoking the 25th amendment in such a manner would set a terrible precedent. the debate did serve to indicate the arguments that are likely to be used in the impeachment process that will now begin in the house on wednesday the president was hell bent on trying to challenge undermine and overturn the results of the election i

speeding up the response to the pandemic which has claimed the lives of more than 400000 americans mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . this you're surely day 2 of the biden presidency and another flurry of executive orders 24 hours after the u.s. recorded the worst single day coronavirus death toll focus don't come back to the pandemic. the measures ranging from getting more vaccines to more people to improving safety in schools and work spaces we can give to dismiss overnight it's could take months to turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat this pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be clear stand this point help is on the way one of the new things in this administration is if you know the answer don't guess just say you don't know the answer yet familiar face returning to the white house briefing podium sidelined for many months stuck to antony found she is a central figure in the new pandemic task group and he made clear reference to the difficulties he experienced as a scientist and the president there were things that were s

warned that there could be further violence particularly around joe biden's inauguration so here's mike hanna wrapping up all those developments from washington d.c. . the speaker of the house nancy pelosi has sent a letter to lawmakers outlining what will be happening over the next few days or what she wants to happen firstly she wants a motion passed in the house monday by unanimous consent that means there is no vote and that it means that the entire house agrees now this motion would call on the vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and remove president trump from office in order to do those pence has to convene his cabinet and get a vote of 2 thirds of cabinet members saying that president trump is incapable of carrying out the duties of office pelosi says that if this does not happen by unanimous consent on tuesday she will convene a formal vote calling on pens to invoke the 25th amendment and then if he does not within 24 hours she says the process of impeachment will begin immediately so she in visions a an impeachment process taking place sometime during the week now

mike hanna washington. the top republican in the u.s. senate says he wants forward president donald trump's impeachment to be delayed until mid february mitch mcconnell said it would give trying to weeks to get ready for the proceedings once the charges presented house speaker nancy pelosi has rejected demands to drop the trial trump was impeached just days before the end of his term accused of inciting a riot at capitol hill that left 5 people dead you don't say to our president do whatever you want in the last months of your lowest ration you're going to get a just get out of jail card free because because people think we should make nice life and forget the people die here on. that the attempt to undermine our election to undermine our democracy to dishonor our constitution no i don't see that i think that would be harmful to unity. the european union is considering putting in place time to travel restrictions in the blocks coronavirus hotspots areas will be labeled dark red zones and travelers from there will have to be tested underg

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. for les speak to peter matthews about all this he's a professor of political science at cypress college and his eyes kite from the scientists very good to have you with us mr matthews so mike pence is refusal to go along with invoking the 25th amendment means that democrats will now proceed to an impeachment vote to what extent do you think the political calculus is changing for republican leaders in congress to the point where they would actually back impeaching trump and actually convict him do you get a sense that things are different from the 1st impeachment trial they really are different i can tell you why the numbers bear them out it looks like about 24 republicans are going to join democrats tomorrow in the vote and vote for impeachment and they cannot avoid it i mean 24 out of still or a couple of 100 of them so it's a large number of republicans in the in the context and they do say they found too that it's important for to send a message that what president from did was tot

mike hanna out to sea or washington. biden's climate envoy john kerry says the u.s. will need to significantly ramp up measures to tackle climate change it ministration is aiming to achieve net 0 emissions by 2050 and one of biden's face acts as president was rejoining the parents of cold there are challenges reynolds reports now from los angeles but working on that right now i don't want to get ahead of a lot but i want rejoining the paris accords is one step in president joe biden strategy to fight global warming biden plans to spend $1.00 trillion dollars on rapidly deploying clean energy technology around the country with an enforcement mechanism to reach 1st stage goals by 2025 and the final goal of 0 emissions by 2050 biden says he'll pay for that by repealing some of the trump era tax cuts for corporations scientists say biden must also work hard to dispel climate change skepticism and convince people to act the basic answers to the problem or not in technological change there and changing human behavior i've been should do everything possible working with soc

trial which is unique as it's the 1st time it involves a president who no longer holds office mike hanna reports from washington. past manages to walk articles of impeachment through the corridors of the capitol to the senate this was a little over a year ago but for the 1st time in american history this ritual is to be repeated against the same man. this marked the beginning of the chain of events that led to impeachment joe biden declares victory in the november election but his opponent donald trump refused to acknowledge it and declined to concede if you count the legal votes easily when instead a sitting president mounted to the real in campaign against the result deeming the process fraudulent and contesting it in dozens of courts all in pain the supreme court including 3 of trump's picks simply ignored repeated requests to take up any of the cases and an increasingly frustrated president focused in on preventing the vote being certified in congress and pressing his vice president to abandon his constitutional duty and prevent certification once again in vain let's get back to work

national guard is deploying up to 15000 troops let's go live now to washington now to serious mike hanna is there for us mike talk us through what happened in congress today well adrian the democrats had been hoping that there would be no objection to a motion asking my pence to invoke the 25th amendment however there was an objection from a republican and therefore the democrats will now formally vote on the motion tomorrow evening demanding that mike pence call together as cabinet and invoke the 25th amendment removing trump from office however they are still going to go ahead to wednesday with a vote on end pietschmann so that will happen in the course of wednesday so basically house democrats making very clear that they want to move very quickly on this and it would appear as well that they may be sending the articles of impeachment should it be voted on to the senate immediately rather than holding it back though that is not confirmed at this particular point adrian there's been another resignation from the president's cabinet of the f.b.i. mike warning of possible further violence

mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. so mike and historic moment very much so and nancy pelosi the speaker of the house will be holding what is called an in grossman ceremony in a barn 45 minutes time at which we may get further indication as to what she is going to do with this article of impeachment that the house is just voted on immediately the figure that leaps out from the result of that vote 10 republicans voted with their democratic colleagues across the aisle now we did know that a number of republicans were going to support the motion to impeach however it was nowhere near that figure so a number of republicans changed their minds during that debate and registered vote so this is a very significant matter indeed because now this is essentially a bipartisan vote and that is something that democrats in the chamber really want to to happen to remove the specter of a impeachment being regarded as a political act or to support what donald trump claims is a political witch and now they have got a form of bipartisan v

certainly impeachment is a very real possibility certainly by the end of this week al-jazeera as mike hanna live for us in washington for the moment mike many thanks indeed is faculty director of the center for ethics of the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she joins us now by skype from philadelphia good to have you with us again so the motion is going to pass but mike pence the vice president won't follow through on it. that's correct mike pence has indicated that he is not sympathetic to the 25th amendment and regardless of what you take to the 25th amendment his involvement is necessary so that it's possible for mike pence and a majority of the existing cabinets to vote in favor of invoking the 25th amendment or for congress to pass a law specifying a different group that could vote by majority to invoke the 25th amendment but either way mike pence is involvement is necessary and he is very firmly indicated that he will not side with this effort so this is one more symbolic what we're about to see in the next few hours i do think it serves primarily a symbolic function and

rage louder hi joe castro al-jazeera washington let's go live now to washington and a serious mike hanna is with us mike the president and vice president have met for the 1st time since the attack on the capital yes indeed it's understood that the vice president my expense spent about an hour in the oval office with the president sources say that the conversation was good and so you say it is the 1st time that they've met since the violence in the capital last wednesday and since then mike pence refused to follow the president's instructions and insisted on carrying out his constitutional duty to recognize the electoral college vote so certainly it does appear that there is something of a bridging of differences between the 2 men but one thing that it does indicate to is that my parents has no indication of actually applying the 25th amendment as has been demanded by house democrats like there's been another resignation from president trump's cabinet at a leaked f.b.i. memo is warning of possible further violence and not just in washington ahead of the inauguration. indeed yes well the a

fundraise for it and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world ok i speak to mike hanna who's joining us now from washington d.c. mike the democrats the stressing that this is bipartisan the republicans are saying that this is just an act of revenge just walk us through for those viewers who are just joining us what's been happening in the last few hours. well robert the result was a foregone conclusion given the democratic majority in the house because the vote is conducted on a simple majority that being said there was something surprising there and that is the number of republicans who joined their compact across the aisle in voting for impeachment now there had been a number who had publicly stated before that they would vote in favor of impeachment but eventually 10 republicans actually cause their votes along with their fellow democrats this is a very important point because this now turns into a bi partisan vote unlike the previous impeachment which was solidly a democrat vote with no republicans whatsoever so the democrats now have the defense that this vote was

death of 5 people or than 80 people have already been charged over the violence let's talk to mike hanna he's joining us from washington d.c. mike if things weren't so on but enough about this incident the fact that nancy pelosi is now suggesting that there are rumors that there are members of congress who good be linked to what happened on capitol hill. well indeed yes the background to this is that more than 30 lawmakers have sent a letter to the sergeant at arms of the senate and of the house asking them to investigate the visitor's log the day before the siege took place at the capitol the allegation is that some lawmakers republicans hosted a large number of tours of trump's supporters on the day before the violence took place now the lawmakers have now asked the sergeant at arms to investigate this and find out whether there was a direct collusion between these lawmakers who invited the groups into the capitol also remembering too that all tours are banned at the moment because of covert regulations also that lawmakers are asking about why some republican lawmakers still insist on

that within the next few days there will be impeachment proceedings in the house how serious mike hanna reporting live from washington might be any thanks indeed well joe watkins is a republican political strategist and former white house aide earlier we discussed the issue of impeachment as well as calls for the resignation or sense of republican senators ted cruz joins surely. their speeches were felt by many to egg on the crowd that descended on capitol hill on the capitol building and so right now there are members of the senate that are talking about the possibility of censoring them some of the newspapers in their 'd respective states have already called on them to resign their seats in the u.s. senate but we have yet to see what they'll do there is no pressure to listen to what the newspaper suggests but the possibility of centuries certainly very serious and it doesn't happen very often and it has diminished the careers of people in the past who have been censored the most notable probably joe mccarthy it was censored by the u.s. senate back in the 1950 s. who was well his way t

the debate on whether to invoke the 25th amendment let's get some analysis from our listeners mike hanna who's been listening in along with us he's in washington d.c. mike what do you make of what we've heard. well it is expected then their positions are generally expected you've had a number of republicans who are objecting to the rule that says the measures by which the vote will take place in the coming hour or coming hours. generally there has been massive support in the house for this whole process to go forward the democrats remembering control the house what is needed both in the vote on the rule which you heard there got an easy majority simply by a voice vote when the vote is taken on the actual motion that the house will pass that is likely to be seeing votes counted but very clearly the house majority is in favor of passing this motion of calling on the vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to call together his cabinet get 2 thirds of them to vote to reject or egypt a president trump from his position as president so what do you arguments that we were hearing

and by various organizations even before those events took place at the capital al-jazeera as mike hanna reporting live there from washington and he thanks to mike. as a political strategist and founder of republican women for biden she says that even president trump's closest allies questioning his recent behavior. i think this is the moment where obviously one's loyalty to party and country were questioned i'm a longtime country over party voter myself and i must say not having voted for president trump in either election 2016 or 2020 made me the culprit in today's republican party people in the republican party label folks like myself as never trampers that was a label i never wanted i didn't want to identify myself as having had anything to do with this president but that was a label given to us they also said we had trumped arrangements and drum every time we war and about what violence in the future and we weren't about the threat to the constitution what we saw happen last week in real time was people finding their morals finding their principles and remembering the very american

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capitol building last week that left 5 people dead 10 republicans joined democrats to back the move mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the result was a foregone conclusion given the democratic majority in the house because the vote is conducted on a simple majority that being said there was something surprising there and that is the number of republicans who joined their compact across the aisle in voting for impeachment now there had been a number who had publicly stated before that they would vote in favor of impeachment but eventually 10 republicans actually cause their votes along with their fellow democrats this is a very important point because this now turns into a bi partisan vote unlike the previous impeachment which was solidly a democrat vote with no republicans whatsoever so the democrats now have the defense that this vote was conducted on a bipartisan basis it made no mention of his impeachment in a video message on twitter released soon after the proceedings but it is a change of tone he condemned last week's violence and send those involved will face justice i want to be

executive orders on wearing masks and quarantine for international travelers let's go live to mike hanna in washington d.c. quite clearly the biden administration focusing again on covert as we were just saying but this time the impact of the of coverage on the economy what more do we know about the bills that he's been signing. well he's done a whole slew of this be executive orders in terms of combating the pandemic and now he's attempting to introduce some orders combating the effects of the pandemic on the american public these orders contain we understand things like a minimum wage of $15.00 an hour for federal contract workers essentially building up feeding schemes for 'd the underprivileged within the country and also articles like for example providing food assistance in food grants to children who are studying virtually because the schools are closed a 15 percent increase in these food programs so there's a whole slew of aspects including to add protections for workers who are threatened with losing their jobs if they refuse to work for example during a covert period so he is n