a.b. stoddard, at this point, if you've got a homeland security function, it's almost worse for your brandhese folks are worried about, to bail on your job in the last nine days than to just stay, no? >> nicole, there's fewer than ten days or ten days maximum left for chad wolf, who is overseas during an assault on the capitol, which he should have been involved in mitigating or preventing. because all of these -- all of these events, like the state of the union, inauguration, when a foreign leader comes and addresses an assembly of congress, the vice president spending the entire day at a capitol, that was all supposed to be a coordinated event between d.c. police, capitol police, and the federal agencies and of course dhs and fbi. there are plans for this. they intentionally did not coordinate this, so he is culpable. he was out of town, overseas for this. he is leaving before the inauguration on purpose. just think of what we do not know. just think of how frightening this is. the security crisis that you outlined in the last hour, that the fbi has now told us, because they're panicked,

a.b. stoddard, who ventured into alternate reality yesterday, just talk about the disinformation that hashe eco-system. we've got the mayor of washington, d.c. warning people about coming to the district of district of columbia on wednesday because of threats of violence. we've got -- it makes news now when republicans do their jobs, when republican secretaries of state have the courage to do their job and ratify the votes of peoples of their state as opposed to disenfranchising large numbers of them. and paul ryan, we're not going to throw him a parade on this show but has finally broken his year's long silence and spoken out against the fellow colleagues. where are we? >> it comes back as you said, it all comes back to the lies. and so the republicans were going to give credit to this week for standing up in what should be a saceremony and perfunctory role in changing, it belies the fact that they are not actually leveling with the voters. so thank you, liz cheney and mike lee and mitt romney and paul ryan and roger wicker and all of the people who are stand ing up, chip roy of texas, w

a.b. stoddard and alexi mccammen, political reporter for axios. good evening and welcome to you. all. shannon, i like to use at least one song title per broadcast so here it is. there's a kind of hush all over the world tonight in large part because donald trump's cell phone has been rendered mute. he can't use twitter. t there's reporting tonight that just to release that video, there was some consternation in the west wing what platform to use because he's been kicked off so many of them. there's additional reporting tonight that he is in self-pityh mode. i read this from the duo of parker and rucker over at "the washington post." his relationship with lawyer rudolph w. giuliani, one of his most steadfast defenders is also structuring.st trump has inspected aides not to pay giuliani's legal fees. as he watched impeachment quickly gain steam trump was upset virtually no one was defending him including kayleigh mcenany, jared kushner, economic advisor larry kudlow, national security advisor robert c. o'brien and chief of star mark meadows. shannon, there is further reporting by "the n

a.b. stoddard, thank you for hanging out with us tonight. it's been a day. we're going to dip into some of the action we're watching, again, this is the certification of the states, this is the process that the mob tried to stop, this is the process that both houses of congress made their way back into the chamber to preside over tonight. we have a very special guest, a very busy woman who has called into us and we'll talk to her first, muriel bowser, democratic mayor of the district of columbia, speaking of the day she has had. madam mayor, i went to bed last night having read that you requested a callup of national guard because you, along with all the rest of us, anticipated something akin to a possible angry dismounted mob on the move in your city. what happened, do you think, between the rally and the president's speech, the mile and a half walk they made, why was the capitol building so perilously underdefended? >> well, thank you for having me on, brian, and we certainly have been working to make sure that ghon strdemonstrations that hap the district

peter baker and msnbc political analyst is back and joining us, a.b.st stoddard and eugene robinson from "the washington post." a.bo you. susan's point is so right. the republican party abandoned all policies when the platform became just for trump and now trump is for an illegal coup. so what -- is it fair to say that you're not for trump and his illegal coup and now a deadly insurrection that results in the death of five people, you should get the hell out, lisa murkowski, it is not clear why you were there in the first place. >> i wrote about this weeks ago in the bulwark. that trump was going to have to break the republican party. he simply with his psychological needs has no choice. he's always on offense. he always has enemies and somebody always must pay a price and be blamed for usually the mistakes he's making. he doesn't lead or unite. he has no organizing principals in terms of apolicy or agenda. it is about him being in the spotlight and people submitting to him and punishing people who don't. the idea that he could go after last night's hostage video without punishing former senator bob corker or lisa