for more on this let's bring in peter mathews he's a professor of political science at cypress college in california mr matthews good to have you with us a clear change of tone there from wednesday when donald trump called those involved in the storming of the capitol very special and said he loved them to him now speaking out against the violence and saying they'll be an orderly transition tell us how did this u. turn come about it's typical donald trump he's got so many times in the last 4 years he'll say one thing or a verse themself universe the tone it's all about himself he wants to protect himself he doesn't want to be the 1st president to remove the 25th and the 25th amendment which was the bound to happen the way things are going and he just wanted to cover himself i decided to go and be nice i don't trust him one bit in terms of the change of tone and i don't trust the people that follow him into the capitol or you decided to go to capitol new much of you have got a speaking engagement here from thousands he told me go in there go to the capitol and he said we've been cheated

now let's bring in peter mathews he's a professor of political science at cypress college and joins us from los angeles professor out there what do you make of the assault by violent trump supporters on capitol hill it was horrendous constitutionally and his friends with him in terms as well because this was not a riot this was an insurrection it was attacked and actually they stopped the procedure of a presidential president elect getting actually confirm they were blocking a government from being able to take its position in the legitimate government as joe biden's administration by not allowing it to be certified this was a physical act of violence to stop the government from working its insurrection and has to be dealt with very firmly so people get the message that this can't be tolerated in a democracy that's what you mentioned insurrection the president elect joe biden described it as bordering on sedition how much responsibility do you think president donald trump himself bears for what happened. tremendous responsibility he's been provoking these people inciting let's break wi

let's join peter mathews he's a professor of political science at cypress college joins me live from los angeles in california good to have you on the program mr matthew as always. heidi just said you know a major departure of proceedings perhaps is an understatement for what we've witnessed in the last sort of 12 hours but while the debate continues in the house over objections to the pennsylvania vote can we safely say that sort of where we're at the end of the sort of procedure and the inevitable confirmation of biden as the $46.00 president it will happen be later than planned. i think so i think it will definitely happen i think this the horrendous uprising that was actually an insurrection of these violent protesters trump supporters has hasten the end of the deliberate process and it should be very soon before we will know that will be official count of 306 electoral votes for biden and 232 i believe for truck and by will be the next president will be announced officially very slow with less a sort of 2 weeks to go before the inauguration what should we make of the role of the