with regards to the filibuster and the nuclear option, chuck schumer is in a difficult spot. if you look at the rhetoric su surrounding the georgia election on both sides -- >> life commission governor gretchen whitmer on her states response to the coronavirus pandemic. you are watching

chuck schumer couldn't have a smaller majority. and that's why he had to struggle with what is normally the routine vote, the organiing resolution of the united states senate which assigned committee chairmanships and committee membership, mitch mcconnell was forced to drop his demand just in the last hour to that organizing resolution of the senate which in mitch mcconnell's version would have forbidden the democrats to change the filibuster rule in any way. that's what he had to drop. that demand. and he did drop it. meanwhile, the senate is slowly but surely confirming biden cabinet members. janet yellen was confirmed as secretary of the treasury today by a vote of 84-15. many of the republican presidential candidates voted against her, of course, including senators hawley, cruz, rand paul, mike lee, and today, the vice president of the united states had an official swearing in of the secretary of defense, lloyd austin. that's a historic picture in many ways. today, president biden was asked if he might give up on bipartisan com

es importante destacar el discurso que acabamos de oír de chuck schumer y mitch mcconnell.que no iban a intimidar al senado. chuck schumer dice que este día va a pasar a la historia de la infamia de estados unidos, que atacaron el corazón de la democracia, palabras bastante fuertes. y aunque estamos viendo este ambiente, y que va a seguir este debate, vamos a ver las grietas de los 14 días que le quedan al presidente donald trump, y que se hacen más profundas. uno de los seguidores más importantes del presidente dice en un comunicado que dice que se le ha pasado equipo para aceptar los resultados, que deje de engañar al pueblo estadounidense y repudie la violencia de las turbas. la congresista silvia garcía pide invocar a la enmienda 25, que es la enmienda que permite retirar del gobierno al presidente que no está apto para mantenerse en funciones. críticas y quejas cada vez más fuertes en el capitolio. >> muchísimas gracias. acabamos de ver a una de las más acérrimos aliadas del presidente que acaba de perder supuesto en el senado de georgia. congresista ¿dónde está? >> en

mcconnell making news there as we heard on the heels of chuck schumer just a moment ago. to talk about that i want to bring in the number two democrat in the senate under leader schumer, majority whip dick durbin. thank you for being on the show. good morning. >> thanks, hallie. >> so let me rip up all the questions i was going to ask you and let me get to you react to some of what we've heard now. senator schumer saying nancy pelosi plans to send the article of impeachment to the senate on monday. does that mean the trial will start on tuesday? >> there will be an impeachment trial but i don't think a final decision has been made as to when it will start. hallie, we have our hands full, president biden needs his team, particularly his national security team, a few of them are making it across the finish line in the senate, we're going to try to move as many as quickly as possible so that the nation's security will never be at risk in the process of transition. secondly, we have a covid relief plan. you know, president biden has made that his highest priority to move on th

democratic senator chuck schumer. taking the top job for the first time ever as democrats now control the white house and the united states senate and the united states house. on the night the article of impeachment was conveyed from the house to the senate, the majority leader not only encouraging tonight in this interview a conviction of the president but saying he's potentially open to criminal charges as well. also discussing his plans to open up more seats on the federal courts. potentially to include the united states supreme court as democrats confront a judicial branch quite thoroughly stacked with republican appointees. that is the legacy of mitch mcconnell's time as majority leader. he has now been ousted from that post. now with the house and senate, will they investigate potentially corruption of trump's last wave of maluderous last minute pardons and commutations? senator schumer addressing that possibility for the first time tonight as well. stay tuned. lots to get to tonight. stay with us. when you have

senate majority leader, chuck schumer, threatening something, promising something, to end the standoff, in which republicans have effectively stopped the new democratic majority from taking over in the senate. literally, while that was running, i spoke with senator schumer this afternoon. we just aired that right now and while we were airing that, you were watching it. republican minority leader, mitch mcconnell put out a statement that he is folding on this. he's apparently now going to agree to go forward with what senator schumer told him he must do with letting the democratic majority take over and install committee chairman and all the rest, using the rules we had in place the last time the senate was in a 50/50 split, which was in 2001 and he'll agree to that, as of tonight, without any extraneus demands about the filibuster or anything else. since we've been airing the interview, senator mitch mcconnell has caved and senator schumer has won that fight. that was quick. lelt see what else we can do. more from my interview is ahead, including him making additional news by asking pr

. >> chuck schumer will be the majority leader in the senate and it was last week before the attack on the capital when he was talking with reporters and asked several questions about the senate agenda what he will do as a leader of the chamber i want to play a minute of chuck schumer from early wednesday last week. >> are you envisioning a larger package. >> as i told you is one of the first things that we want to do the georgia senators campaigned in our caucuses strongly for we think the american people need it. >> how does this change the calendar, how does it change the way forward. >> obviously with democratic control, the ability of joe biden to move nominations forward will be easier, the calendar i have not began to look at yet. >> last one. >> can you tell us a little bit when you found out you would be the majority leader and progressives are really pushing you to use the legislative filibuster, can you make that promise right now? >> we senate democrats know we face one of the greatest crises americans have, were united in wanting change and we will sit down as a caucus and

the new democratic leader of the senate as this all is happening is chuck schumer. the impeachment, the urgent covid relief bill, the confirmation of president biden's new cabinet, all of these things all need to be done all at once. they have all landed in his lap all on day one. not to mention, responsibility for passing all the legislation that the new congress and the new administration are pursuing. but it's interesting. senator schumer is taking over in the senate right now with the republicans, newly ousted from power, with them trying to pretend like they're still in charge, like they're still the ones who get to say what happens in the senate and what doesn't happen in the senate. literally, republicans tonight are still chairing all the committees in the senate, even though they're in the minority now. republicans are simply refusing to allow the new democratic majority to take over, even though the republicans were voted out. from day one, they are already pushing it to crisis. i spoke with majority leader chuck schumer about it all today at the lbj room

>>that's one of our top stories tonight senate majority leader chuck schumer announcing late today that the latest impeachment trial will not be starting until early february other a lot of reasons why the democrats decided to push the trial back to find out to the reasoning behind that we go to our washington dc correspondent anna wiernicki she is live with more hi anna. >>hey good evening. i that's absolutely right center public and actually wanted to push the start of this trial. the for several weeks and just about an hour ago as senate majority leader chuck schumer agreed to the delay. he says that this gives senate now time to tackle other priorities for president biden. senate majority leader chuck schumer says the senate will start president trump's impeachment trial next month once the briefs are drafted. >>presentation by the parties will commence the week of february the 8th schumer says the senate will receive the article of impeachment from the house on monday at 07:00pm but make no mistake. trial will be held in the united states senate and there will be a vote whether to

this is all to syria these are the top stories top democrat chuck schumer has told the u.s. senate to expect an impeachment article on monday against former president donald trump republicans wanted to delay impeachment proceedings until february.

chuck schumer now speaking. we'll listen. >> now mr. president, we have made good progress in our efforts to determine the timing and structure of the impeachment trial of donald j. trump. for the information of all senators, the house managers will come to read the article of impeachment at 7:00 p.m. on monday, january 25th. members will then be sworn in the next day, tuesday, january 26th. after that, both the house managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal briefs just as they did in previous trials. during that period, the senate will continue to do other business for the american people such as cabinet nominations and the covid relief bill which would provide relief for millions of americans who are suffering during this pandemic. then once the briefs are drafted, presentation by the parties will commence the week of february 8th. the january 6th insurrection at the capitol incited by donald j. trump was a day none of us will ever forget. we all want to put this awful chapter in our nation's history be

in this case, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell. prior to the november elections, senate republicans spent a bulk of their time processing judicial nominees supported by democrats overwhelmingly and had a majority of republicans opposed to them. the rhetoric surrounding the nominations process does not match up with reality. i expect that process to continue to be fairly agreeable. you will have hot button controversial supreme court nominee seats and maybe an appellate seat every now and then. almost 80% of the judicial nominations, i expect to see cooperation. with regards to the filibuster and the nuclear option, chuck schumer is in a difficult spot. if you look at the rhetoric surrounding the georgia election on both sides, somehow it means the difference between lightness and dark between the republic falling into the ocean and not, the civil fact is that is not the case. the expectations are that because democrats have the majority they can do a whole lot of stuff that they, quite frankly, aren't going to be able to do because

headlines from senate democratic leader chuck schumer.

this is something that has given chuck schumer a -- chuck schumer, nancy pelosi encouragement to ground jon ossoff the next winter. we have not called that, but it looks very good for jon ossoff to become the next senator from georgia. david: thank you so much for that great reporting throughout this runoff race. what we are seeing, vice president pence conferring with speaker pelosi in the house chamber as they begin to get formalities underway. they are going to be some formalities before they get to the tallying of the vote counts. the vote continues to be counted in georgia but it is not too late to review what we think happened yesterday and there is no one better to do that then frank luntz. thanks for being back with us after a late night last night. give us your take on what is happening. are you confident that both of these seats will end up going to democrats? >> yes, i am. and it was closed, it was expected to be close, and of the republicans will regret forever their post showing -- their poor showing in the suburbs, you cannot get 50% by doing well in communities, you have

what chuck schumer has said, he will defend our military by 25%, raphael warnock, jon ossoff will beubberstamped for defunding the military, the police, raising taxes, ushering in government run healthcare, weakening our second amendment rights, opposing religious freedom, that is on the ballot on georgia january 5 that's what i'm fighting for preserve the future of our country. bret: the campaigning is important and you say how important this election is on january 5, obviously georgia is a big defense state current and former military, defense business here, how would you have voted had you voted on the vito override? >> i voted to support the ndaa, the bill that came out of conference was very different from what we've been promised. i don't know, i was here in georgia irking across the state and i will continue to stand with our men and women in the military, raphael warnock will not stand for our military he has attacked and said you cannot serve god and serve in the military. bret: you would've sustained the vito on the ndaa? >> what's at stake is our military inner freedom, i'

we are hearing from chuck schumer that the trial is going to happen in the senate the week of februarypeople together. >> no, in fact, it will bring back all that negativity and all that division i didn't realize until you just told me that that's the day that it's been scheduled. god help us because it is impossible to get people to be civil when you raise the issue of impeachment when talk about what happened on january 6th, we all agree that what happened was horrific. people need to be held accountable, but the raising of that topic, the raising of the election, bringing bactrim versus biden is guaranteed to bring back that ugliness that we experience with the last two months and for most of the last four years. >> bret: you experience this talking to these voters. he was one place where it starts to turn testing. take a listen. >> i have worked for the g.o.p. i have never in my life not voted straight party ticket and i voted for joe biden for the first time. >> did you go and listen to the georgia hearing? >> stop. everybody. >> any of the georgia hearing? >> stop or i will disco

as you say, it means chuck schumer controls what goes on the floor, including joe biden's nominationhis cabinet and to the judiciary. >> dana: when you think about legislation, we know they're thinking about another stimulus bill, do you think the agenda could still be stymied because you have some moderate democratic senators such as joe manchin from west virginia. >> i put those into categories by the way. there is legislation they can do simply with 50 votes and nobody should forget that. they can do budget resolutions, they can raise taxes and i think the pressure, even on guys like joe manchin to exceed two joe biden's tax increases, potentially more won't go along. they can also use things like the congressional review act with only 51 votes to get rid of regulations that happen in the last 60 legislative days of the trump administration. then you get to the question, the rest of the legislation which would need to be for a filibuster. that is where i think things get more complicated. chuck schumer would need to pull over some republicans to go along with pieces of legislation

i agree with chuck schumer and with mitch mcconnell.eyond support and he ginned up the folks at the rally that charge the capital and that was beneath the dignity of an american president. is this something that has been long in the making? i was there today and speaking to people who spoke very strongly that the election had been stolen from them when in fact there is no evidence of that and it is something that the president has promoted. so is this something that is the result of yea rs of something that is the result of years of the president construct thing and alternate reality and ultimately refusing to a cce pt reality and ultimately refusing to accept that he lost? if we are looking to construct something that took years to get here, the american media, specifically cable television is also to blame. everybody is to blame for the chaos in washington today. but i think the president's actions are unique. i think it isjust his inability to acknowledge his loss this november. we have spoken about it before. some people feel he has

chuck schumer is calling for mr. pence and the trump cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment, saying the president should not be "president for one day longer." adam kinzinger, a staunch trump called for the president's removal. the defense department has formally activated more than 6000 members of the national guard from six northeastern states to help support the capitol police and other law enforcement in washington after yesterday's deadly riot. defense officials say guard members will help secure the capital and the surrounding area through the january 20th inauguration of president-elect biden. the guard will not be armed, but will have riot gear and protective bullets. top u.s. officials are acknowledging the human's asia rollout has been slower than immunization rollout has been slower than expected. health and human services -- alex azar,a pointed the finger at poorly detailed state plans. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in m

chuck schumer will be the senate majority leader in a couple days. and paul irving on the house side has told her that he will submit his resignation after what happened yesterday. neil? >> chad pergram, thanks very much. democrats are saying get out and get out now. it's another one when a republican says that. adam kinsinger has been invoking the 25th amendment that would force the issue. good to have you, congressman. why now? he has 13 days. why not wait it out? >> if you think about when the 25th amendment has been invoked, all voluntarily, george w. bush for a couple hours was under aesthetic and transferred powers to vice president cheney because having the government unmanned for an hour or 2 poses a massive threat. after what we saw yesterday, both the incitement of the rally, i think as importantly his last tweet where he basically said this is what you get. it does not seem like anybody is really manning the executive branch. it pains me to do it. it is a huge burden, but the top thing that we have to swear in to do is to protect the peopl

state of the house the senate chuck schumer just giving a very very short briefing about. the impeachment and mitch mcconnell is now speaking that's listen national guard including more than 300 kentucky guards are on local and federal law enforcement to help supplement our very own capitol police in the wake of january the 6th year of congress on your country appreciate all you've done to secure the capitol and the inauguration later today all of the are meeting a number of mock kentucky and who've been helping out here at the capitol it's going to be the highlight of my. in the near future congress needs to smartly transition toward a more sustainable security presence keeping a gap will save cannot and will not require huge numbers of uniformed troops and vast systems of emergency expensing to remain in place forever but the inauguration behind us we should find the right middle ground between the unacceptable lapses 3 weeks ago and the extraordinary legal short term measures that have been put in place sunset time and in the main town we need to make darn sure that we

>> senator loeffler: we know what chuck schumer said.s going to take georgia and change america. he's told us exactly what he's going to do. he's going to make d.c. a state, would have to go democrat senators, it would be impossible for republicans to win the majority again, he would abolish the filibuster anti-electoral college. he would structurally change the country, packed the supreme court. my opponent radical liberal raphael warnock refused to answer questions about court packing because we know that he would pack the court with liberal justices so it would overturn the constitution and the rule of law. it would illuminate our religious freedom, free speech. everything that's under attack right now by the left. so we know what's at stake here in georgia. if we lose this election, we won't get a second chance. >> bret: senator, as a senator, you deal with a lot of different things. this is an issue that is today. today is the one-year anniversary of the u.s. killing iran's most powerful general, the head of iran's militias inside i

mike what's the latest on the investigation into the capital riots and what are we to make of chuck schumer's revokes that the threat of violent extremism groups remains high. well senator schumer is not the only one expressing that particular fear the mayor of d.c. meriel pouncer as actually approached the acting secretary of homeland security and asked him to cancel all permits that have been issued for demonstrations over the last 10 days he says that there is a very real threat of further violence and there must be a great degree of planning than there was on wednesday with the period to be very little planning at all in terms of dealing with these threats of violence now also we heard from a congressman jason crowe who says in a conversation with the acting secretary of defense he's been informed that at least 25 cases of domestic terrorism are being investigated with regard to wednesday's events now the secretary of defense would be involved because he would have been responsible for the deployment of the national guard during that ongoing siege of the capital so certainly there are gre

you just have to listen to what chuck schumer said. night after night, take georgia change america. heard a clip about aoc not wanting to compromise and negotiate. what schumer will do you is change the voting real so he ca do whatever he wants with 51 votes. 50 in the senate and the vice president if they get their. they will have the majority and they will have two states, for democratic seats. they will stack the courts can absolutely try to change the electoral college. this is what i see coming, defund the police is only for starts. they want illegal immigrants to vote. they want to cut our military again which is what obama did i clinton did. i think the people in georgia have awakened to this absolute hypocrisy they are trying to perpetrate because they want to offend any of these policies that are in the democratic platform. we see this all over the state. we need to make sure they want to get out and vote. if they want to help us go to perdue senate.com. this is last line of defense here in georgia. >> senator, i cannot i mean for the people of georgia, your country needs yo

that's chuck schumer leading that cause.he more important figures in the united states senate, swing vote from west virginia saying on this issue no matter what course of action is taken against president trump in 13 days joe biden will be sworn in as president of the united states. until then, i urge the good men and women serving in the federal government to please stay at their posts for the protection of our democracy. the actions of a rogue president will not and should not reflect on you. instead, your patriotism and economy. s to the greater good of our -- commitment to the greater good of our country will be rewarded. we'll get that into, but i want to get into this with alice, the hill reporter -- alex. this move on the part of chuck schumer and others to see the president removed if not impeached right now, the latter would prevent him, i guess, from running for office again. i don't know how true that is, but what do you make of it all? >> yeah. good to see you, neil. so that's exactly right. this is not just a so

i got another message for chuck schumer. we are going to keep georgia. and we are going to save america. cheers and applause] and i mentioned president trump will be in georgia later today. and i heard joe biden is going to hold a little rally of his own. [laughter] mr. pence: joe biden was in georgia, you may have heard about it. he actually said that georgia, these are his words, georgia doesn't need two senators, quote, that are just going to get in the way. well, georgia, that's exactly what we need in the united states' senate. cheers and applause] mr. pence: we need the senators to get in the way of the radical of washington d.c. we need david perdue and kelly offler to get in the way and georgia needs two senators that ll get in the way of the democratic party and fight for eorgia's values every day. that's why we need georgia to say no to osoff and warnock and see to david perdue and kelly loffler tomorrow, january 5. to keep america great. to preserve all the progress we made to protect our values and protect our cherished liberties. i need you

this is all to save these are the top stories top democrat chuck schumer has told the u.s. senate to expect an.

we begin in the united states where senate democratic leader chuck schumer is warning that the threat of violent extremism remains high after the storming of congress by supporters of president trump he's told the head of the f.b.i. to relentlessly pursue those responsible to avoid any on rest ahead of joe biden's inauguration in 10 days it comes as the democrats continue to draft new articles of impeachment against trump al-jazeera as patty culhane reports now from washington. this video obtained by the washington post shows just how few police officers there were to keep rioters some armed with restraints and weapons from getting to members of congress or the. members say when they were trying to get out the last available exit there were only 3 officers holding the line trying to give them enough time to escape when they stepped aside as a window was broken a writer was shot by the representatives and their staff escaped this video was captured by a reporter for the huffington post rioters looking for the senate he says if they had turned right they would have entered the chambers

i want no violence. >> reporter: this afternoon senate democratic leader chuck schumer criticized the>> what trump did today, blaming others for what he caused, is a pathological technique used by the worst of dictators. trump causes the anger, he causes the divisiveness, he foments the violence and blames others for it. that is despicable. >> reporter: that impeachment vote in the house expected tomorrow. lou? lou: mike, thank you. if i didn't want know better -- i didn't know better, i'd think that chuck schumer was blaming the president. >>> president trump made his first public appearance today since last wednesday. the president inspecting newry-built border -- newly-built border wall in texas. he addressed violence in washington last week, and once again he called for peace and for calm. >> millions of our citizens watched on wednesday as a mob stormed the capitol and trashed the halls of government. as i have consistently said throughout my administration, we believe in respecting america's history and traditions, not tearing them down. we believe in the rule of law, not in vio

trump's term ends that each day the president is a danger to the country and as you heard from chuck schumerthe democratic minority leader of the senate he says that those words of incitement continue to be a threat schumer was saying that those who stormed the capitol on wednesday of last week and were allowed to leave have been have been caught saying that they actually are planning to return to the capitol and that armed protests both here and across the country are planned leading to the inauguration and you heard schumer just make a call out to national security to the f.b.i. saying that everyone who had entered breech the capitol building should be put on the f.b.i. no fly list so that they may be prevented from returning here to wreak more violence all of this of course happening with the backdrop of congress indeed racing toward a likely 2nd impeachment of president trump the house of representatives is preparing for a significant vote on that tomorrow if democrats unite as they signify they will they have the numbers joined by possibly a handful of republicans up to a dozen members

chuck schumer and the new democrats. eugene is exactly right. mcconnell does not care about tradition. he cares about power. and he is very, very, very good at wielding it. the problem, and i have said this before is that democrats have always cared more about process. republicans care about power. democrats care about process. and the problem is republicans wield that power and abuse that power for the people, for the benefit of the people in our country who wield an abuse power and privilege, whereas democrats, democrats have always been the ones who they work hard and they act decent, and yet they never get what they can done for hardworking, decent people in this country. now i'm not saying that democrats should go become jerks now, but i do think we have to stop being suckers. >> you're saying something i think a lot of viewers can understand. it's been on display in national politics. you and gene hit on the point there may be times we're honoring traditions. some traditions have its place. but honoring traditions when mitch mcconnell used

majority leader chuck schumer is calling for an investigation.consequences could the former president face with this new reporting? >> so this fits into the impeachment theory which is the president of the united states embarked on a months' long effort to undermine the election of joe biden and that by doing so he abused the powers of his office and he violated various criminal and other moral sort of statutes and behavior patterns that are expected of an elected officer. in terms of the criminal law, there are federal statutes and there are georgia state statutes that make it illegal for you to interfere with elections, so he faces possible investigation for criminal law violations and this buttresses the theory of the managers of the house's case that this was a months' long effort that culminated on january 6 but which took place over a long period of time. >> there was some speculation about how the president's attorneys are going to defend him, maybe bringing up the baseless allegations of fraud, again, trying to relitigate those, but what

compare it to what chuck schumer said just a couple months ago in front of the u.s. supreme court building and take a look at chuck. kind of threatening the supreme court justices. take a look. >> i want to tell you such, i want to tell you cavanaugh, you've released the whirlwind ad you will pay the price. [cheers and applause] you won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. >> sean: you will pay the price. you won't know what hit you. chuck schumer now facing impeachment? should we set a date? and by their standards, they want to consider impeaching squad member congresswoman pressley. this summer, remember violent riots ripping through every major city in the country. if she goes on propaganda, msdnc. calling for unrest as long as there's unrest in our lives. sounds like an impeachable statement. listen. >> there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives and i'm forcing them to go around. >> i have no retort to that congress moment, that's certainly accurate. >> sean: clear incitement of violence, accordi

you look at chuck schumer, he has aoc there.d her don't go after mr. assume orer. do you think she's going to heed that? so all these guys are going to have these progressives over their shoulder who have more strength in primaries. i think the direction of the party is a different direction from the nation. paul: so, mary, if the votes come in on the two races still undecided for the republicans, and they're ahead in both, that would mean it's a 222-213 majority for pelosi. that's a very, very narrow majority. and it's easy for democrats in the house to say i'm not going to vote for the speaker if their votes don't matter. it's much harder if, in fact, it could cost her the speakership. [laughter] what do you make of some of these democrats who are saying i'll vote against her, well, maybe not? >> yeah, i think that -- i agree with bill that they want to take the party much more to the left, but i also think that they're smart enough to know they have to pick their spots. i mean, aoc wanted to get on the energy and commerce com

you mean chuck schumer? _ come on give evidence? you mean chuck schumer?ifornia state assembly. thank you for sharing your expertise with us tonight. in everything that we've heard from the fbi yesterday and from the district attorney of of columbia. what are your concerns of a former secret service agent for the protection of the inauguration? i take myself back to 2005 standing on the _ i take myself back to 2005 standing on the front steps of the capitol hill and — on the front steps of the capitol hill and protection of vice president dick cheney and president bush _ president dick cheney and president bush at _ president dick cheney and president bush. at the inauguration. and seeing — bush. at the inauguration. and seeing the events unfold on january six live _ seeing the events unfold on january six live in— seeing the events unfold on january six live in person and action with friends _ six live in person and action with friends at — six live in person and action with friends at the capitol who were part of the _ friends at the capitol who were par

chuck schumer lived through the 13 days. they will never forget them. they don't want to take the risk of living through another 13 days of donald trump. today they went public with the results of the conversation they began yesterday. >> yesterday the president of the united states incited an armed insurrection against america. the gleeful desecration of the u.s. capitol which is the temple of our american democracy and the violence targeting congress are horrors that will forever stain our nation's history. instigated by the president of the united states. that is why it is such a stain. in calling for the seditious act the president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and on our people. i join the senate democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment. if the vice president and cabinet do not act, the congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment. that is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus. >> impeach, defeated, impeach, gone. i say that i pray for

that's what chuck schumer said on the floor as well. while you continually hear joe biden talk about a bipartisan deal, while his team will try to reach a bipartisan deal, they are still trying to reach out to republicans getting them information about the $1.9 trillion proposal. i think reality is setting in, and the reason why democrats are in this position right now, and democrats in the white house, too, particularly the economic team, john, they look at the numbers. jobless claims over the course of the last several weeks, and they remember 2009. they remember their stimulus efforts in 2009 that they blame for the recession dragging on even longer than they should have. but they undershot, they didn't overshoot, they went too low. and they also remember the affordable care act that dragged on with no resolution on a bipartisan basis. that's driving the democrats' desire to move forward and move forward quickly. and while the president is still trying to reach some bipartisan agreement, the reality in capitol hill and the white hous

senator chuck schumer actually broke the news that the articles will be walked to the senate side. is is important because mitch mcconnell and senator schumer reached a deal that even though the articles are going to be walked on monday. they actually won't hold a trial until two weeks after. he wanted the second week of february. it's going to be the first week of february. there was a compromise there. but, see, both sides win with this situation. chuck schumer wanted biden's nomination to be cleared through the senate. this has allowed time for that help. mitch mcconnell wanted time to build a defense for the former president. that's going to happen as well. and of course, the covid-19 package the senate also wants to pass that is a priority or the administration. both sides of this chamber are winning with this date. >> daniella diaz, good to see you, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> so, while the senate is moving closer to the impeachment trial the biden administration is trying to focus on the agenda. >> jasmine wright is with us now. jasmine, the biden administration is p

. >> reporter: chuck schumer saying the former president must be held accountable. >> his act on the 6th was the most despicable thing any president has ever done, and he is the worst president ever. and you cannot just -- let's move on. >> president biden upping the go americans in 100 days by 50%.

. >> overnight majority leader chuck schumer saying the former president must be held accountable. >> his act on the 6th was the most despicable thing any president has ever done and he is the worst president ever. and you cannot just, let's move on. >> reporter: so the preparations begin now. most of the details of the trial

chuck schumer gets to decide, assuming ossoff wins, chuck schumer gets to decide what comes to the senate floor. and we can use that, i think, to build big bipartisan, even progressive wins in a lot of different areas. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, i really appreciate you coming on. i think today is going to be quite the spectacle. and we'll be here -- >> amateur theatrics turned poisonous, chuck. >> there we go. senator, thanks very much. geoff bennett is of course covering the biden transition. we have a little breaking news, it looks like the president-elect has decided on an attorney general and it's a familiar name, particular to washington, d.c. folk. >> reporter: you're right about that, chuck, two sources familiar tell my colleague mike memoli and me that president-elect biden has chosen merrick garland for his attorney general. he considered garland, outgoing senator doug jones of alabama, and former deputy attorney general in the trump administration sally yates. the conventional wisdom had been that the easiest of those to confirm who have been doug jones, who enjoys lots of c