lou: fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram in washington and back on the broadcast.derstand an announcement has just been made on the loudspeakers on capitol hill at the capitol. tell us about that. >> reporter: they came on the loudspeakers here that can be heard internally inside the building and also outside that this curfew hits in washington, d.c. at 6:00 eastern time. and if you're still on the capitol grounds at that point, you're going to be arrested. they're saying you have to leave, you have to get out of here. this is part of this effort over the past couple of hours by u.s. capitol police and other federal authorities to secure the building which we believe that they have done so here in just the past half hour or so and then, secondarily, clear the grounds. we are being told that the intent so far is for the house and senate to come back into session later tonight. ostensibly, to finish the process. now, liz cheney, who is the chair of the house republican conference, and hakim jeffries, democratic chair, he indicated, and i'm going to read you this stat

with more on the impeachment process that we may behold, let's turn to fox news congressional correspondentd pergram. good evening, chad. >> reporter: good evening, lou. well, the start of the trial is monday. this is when the house of representatives is going to send the article, just one article, singular this time, over to the senate. they've been waiting for about a week and a half since that vote to impeach president trump in the house of representatives. you might remember that house speaker nancy pelosi held the articles of impeachment in late 2019 and early 2020 for 28 days. they're going to send this over on monday. here is republican senator lindsey graham. >> and my hope is we will do this quickly if the articles come over. this shouldn't be drug out. there's not a whole lot of facts to be discussed. >> reporter: now on monday the house impeachment managers, the prosecutors will walk the article of impeachment over to the senate. at that point the acting senate sergeant at arms, jennifer hemingway, informs the senate that, quote, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain o

let's get right to fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram in washington for the latest onhe article of impeachment that could be delivered to the senate this hour? chad, what's going on? reporter: that's right, liz. good evening. in about an your's time with h we'll have the house impeachment managers, nine of them, walk a single article much impeachment to the united states senate, the article of impeachment, the charge is incitement of insurrection. there were two articles of impeachment last year. so what you will see are these nine house managers, the prosecutors, they will walk the articles of impeachment over to the senate. that is where the trial will formally begin. it will look a little bit different from what we saw a year ago. jamie raskin, democratic congressman from maryland, he is the lead impeachment manager. he will be escorted by cheryl johnson the clerk of the house and also timothy blodget. he is the acting house sergeant-at-arms. he succeed paul erving who escorted managers. he was relieved of his duties after the melee that happened at capitol. julie a

let's get the latest on all of this, fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram joins us now.afternoon. house speaker nancy pelosi returns to the speaker suite. she narrowly won election to the speakership but touchstone of nancy pelosi's career winning tight votes both in leadership races and legislation like obamacare. this will likely be pelosi's last term as the house speaker and watch for jockeying to begin to succeed here and will president-elect joe biden play the role of queen or king-maker in the house of representatives over the next two years, connell. connell: a lot of questions, chad. there are some new rules in store for the house as well, right? reporter: that's right. the house of representatives is voting on that right now. unlike in the senate rules don't carry over from one congress to the next in the house of representatives. so you have to vote on them again. republican tom cole doesn't how like the new rules impede the minority from killing legislation. >> this package stinks. it is deeply cynical, deeply shortsighted. it tramples on minority rights. it i

for more on all of this, we turn to fox news chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel in washingtonmike. >> reporter: lou, good evening. after that action by house republicans that's leading to a quick pivot to an impeachment vote accusing president trump of incitement of an insurrection likely wednesday. >> i know there are some people who think, oh, the president's leaving in ten days, let's just overlook it. look, we took an oath to defend and protect the constitution and our democracy. that responsibility falls to us. we have no other choice. >> reporter: a house impeachment vote could come a week before joe biden's inauguration. a key senate republican says that's too late. >> i don't think there's time to do an impeachment. there's ten days left before the president leaves anyway. i think the best thing would be a resignation. >> reporter: with majority leader mitch mcconnell saying due to pro forma sessions, the senate could not take up impeachment until around joe biden's enaugust ration day -- inauguration day, a top democrat suggested pelosi could hold it until spring. >>

fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram has latest from washington t was a squeakser for theer, right? reporter: it was narrow win for nancy pelosi and will likely be her last term. she won re-election by seven votes. she could only lose six votes and become speaker. winning tight votes that is nancy pelosi's hallmark, a testament why she is regarded as the best vote counter in congress. >> every morning in this chamber we take a pledge, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all, every day the congress must live up to that pledge. reporter: house minority leader kevin mccarthy presented pelosi with the gavel but not before delivering a blistering attack on his california colleague. mccarthy criticized remote voting and accused pelosi dragging her feet on coronavirus aid. it wasn't just mccarthy. broad sides came from don young. he is the most senior member of the house. young swore in the speaker. >> i will be honest i do not like what i see. it is time we hold hands to talk to one another. reporter: young said pelosi is the speaker of the house, not j

for the latest on that, we turn to fox news chief congressional correspondent with the latest, mike emmanuel>> reporter: some democrats are concerned the battle could slow down confirmation of the biden team, and leading republicans say it would also delay healing. >> at the end of the day, you know, you saw a lot of members who just said this is enough. i mean, let's focus on turning the page. let's focus on moving on, and that's going to happen next week on the 20th when joe biden's sworn in as president. you know, this is only going to make matters worse in a country that's deeply, deeply divided right now. >> reporter: president-elect biden saying last night, quote: i hope that the senate leadership will find a way to deal with their constitutional responsibilities on impeachment while also working on the urgent business of this nation. it's not clear if the senate rules will allow that, so some democrats are suggesting putting the trial on the back burner. >> if we can't, then maybe we delay the trial for a while so that we can actually get president biden's nominees and cabinet up and

lou: for more on the day's developments, we turn now to fox news chief congressional correspondent mikeanuel. mike. >> reporter: lou, good evening. 222 democrats and 10 republicans voting to impeach president trump. house speaker nancy pelosi making the case president trump must go. >> the president must be impeached, and i believe the president must be convicted by the senate, a constitutional remedy that will insure that the republic if will be safe from this man who is so resolutely determined to tear down the things that we with hold dear and that hold us together. >> reporter: house republican leader kevin mccarthy criticized president trump but stopped short of impeachment. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump except to share responsibility. >> reporter: other republicans saying this impeachment coming exactly one week after the capitol riot is being rushed and is unfair. >> if it continues, it won'

for the latest on that, we turn to fox news' chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel.porter: good evening. a key house judiciary committee democrat urged his colleagues to urge vice president pence to use the 25th amendment. >> come guys, can we get it together to act as a rules committee together as a congress to tell the vice president simply to acknowledge what's obvious which is this president is not up to the job for the next eight days and a lot of danger still faces us. >> reporter: a close white house ally says vice president pence isn't going to react to pressure from house democrats. >> the vice president is, as a defender of the constitution, he said he is not going to invoke the 25th amendment. he's said that. mike pence is a good guy, i trust him. i think the country trusts him. i think the president trusts him. >> reporter: after tonight's vote, house democrats are expected to pivot to impeachment tomorrow. house republican conference chairwoman liz cheney told her colleagues on a call last night that it will be a vote of conscience. today president trump

howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend," susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent and leslie marshall, a fox news contributor. what's your take on the media coverage of the house impeaching president trump again, especially with those 10 republicans joining every house democrat in saying that trump incited violence. >> not much light, a lot of heat. that would be my analysis of most media coverage. forgive me if i don't buy nancy pelosi's crocodile tears about how broken hearted she is. she's been on the hunt for president trump for quite some time. you know, when i say that we need light, i would suggest this. i heard alan dershowitz on maria bartiromo's sunday morning futures show, tom cotton pointed out he will be a private citizen by the time this takes place. if you can impeach a private citizen, you're opening a pandora's box of political retribution. the purpose of impeachment is to remove a sitting official from his office. president trump will no longer be in office. he will be a private citizen. and dershowitz's point, is if that's possible,

. ♪ ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. congressionaltect the boxes holding the electoral ballots as the violent mob breaches the capitol and todd piro joins us live with the latest. todd? >> ainsley, despite the chaos that left four people dead he congress was able to certify the election result this morning after a six hour delay congress continued the count certifying joe biden's electoral victory at 4:30 a.m. congressional aides now being thanked for making that possible. that's because when protesters first struntd the vote count a number of quick-thinking senate aides grabbed the mahogany wood boxes carrying the electoral parking lots. while copies do exist congress would not have been able to get the certification done as quickly if they did not take swift action. jeff if you are if i tweeting this picture of the ballot with the caption if our capable floor staff hadn't of grabbed them they would have been burned by the mob. brian mast praised their decisive action when he joined us earlier. >> that's an important piece of our his

we turn to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. there were a lot of congressionaln evidence this week but not by accident. >> that's right. some of this it probably comes from the 3 democratic members who complained they caught covid from their peers not wearing masks. nancy pelosi ran through a bill to fine members up to $2,500 each time they failed to wear a mask in the house. everyone complied sort of. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> laura: that last one. he pulled his mask down to cough in his hand and touch everything around him but doesn't get find. >> that's right. he aprovided the fine. it's a good day. she has to fine people who remove the mask or for each tug. >> laura: that's a new c-span drinking game. imagine if you had a shot every time you touch your mask. a lot of drunk people around the united states. tell us about biden's inauguration flans. -- plans. the theme is america united. will that include all of america? >> we will see. with americans disinvited due to covid or security it will be odd. biden will be sworn in before a military audience. there are

fox news team coverage. mark meredith in washington. first, we go to congressional correspondent chad pergram. let's start with the senate. what happens there? >> reporter: the senate comes into session. the senate is a continuing body, vice president mike pence is president of the senate and he is presiding and he will swear in 32 new senators. i say 32 new senators because you have two-thirds of the senate, their terms continue, one-third of the senate has to be sworn in to start the new congress. among them, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. we will also have new faces like cynthia lumus, republican from way onlying -- wyoming. also tommy tubberville, they have to be signed in today. there is one vacancy. kelly loeffler, she continues as a senator because she is fulfilling the unexpired term of johnnijohnnie isakson who he red a year and-a-half bag because of health concerns. david perdue, his term ended a kim minutes ago. he is not a senator. he might be returning. right now, the senate is 51-48 in favor of the republicans, molly. eric: i'll take it here. that's pretty complicat

congressional certification. the moment he's done, he heads overseas for six days. ray bogan, ktvu, fox 2 newsvu fox 2 news at 5:00 starts now. >>> if you were hoping the start of 2021 would look different than the end of 2020, you'll be disappointed. the new year will begin with extended stay at home orders, a growing number of covid cases, and hospitals and icus becoming overrun with patients. good evening to you. >> today san francisco officially extended the stay at home order and travel restrictions, and it will stay that way until covid numbers start to come down. >> this is not the way anyone wanted to start the new year, but had you been health leaders say it's simply too important to make sure that there weren't bad outcomes coming from christmas and new year's going into the new year. >> reporter: san francisco's hope for a better 2021 is already being saddled with the lingering effects from 2020. the city's acting health officer explained that san francisco's stay at home order and travel quarantine imposed this month, following the post-thanksgiving surge and set to expire as soon

their second impeachment trial in less than two years, but some congressional republicans are at odds over whether it is constitutional. fox news christina coleman has more. former president trump's second impeachment trial doesn't officially start until february, but the process moves forward monday when the house sends its impeachment article to the senate. trump is charged with incitement of insurrection for the capital riot, which took place earlier this month. senate majority leader chuck schumer laying out a time line for the trial, the house managers will come to the articles of impeachment. at 7 p.m. on monday after that, both the house managers and the president's defense will stay and have a period of time to draft their legal briefs. that's once trial will be historic. no president has been impeached twice or been tried by the senate after he's left office. senator mitt romney, who voted to convict trump during his first impeachment trial, says it's necessary to hold the former president accountable over the last year or so. there has been an effort to corrupt the election in the united states. he said it was not by

former supervisory special agent for the secret service, fox news contributor steve hilton, john, and we are going to bring in our top congressional correspondent as well, check program. chad, i want to start with you because we are now in the middle of this debate over pennsylvania and its electors. they had to have a house objective. they had many of them, they had to have a senator, they got josh hawley, so what is playing out now? >> so we have double barrel action right now. jonah goose, a democratic second term member from colorado making the case to certify pennsylvania. he is on the house floor right now. on the senate floor, the senate has just reconvened individually and mike pence has just retaken his position on the dais as president of the senate, residing there and bringing before the senate the petition basically that josh hawley leveled saying okay, i don't agree with what pennsylvania has done here, let's debate. again, everybody gets up to 5 minutes to debate this in both the house and senate. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, is on the floor right now and we should expect some debate from josh hawley

big story this morning, fox news is learning that the fbi is reviewing congressional requests for investigationsites january 6 carolyn maloney calling for bureau to investigate only parler as potential facilitator of violence. >> if democrats request for investigationss of just parler called a political ploy against conservatives called for maloney's request amended to twitter, facebook would also be investigated. joining me now one of the authorize ken congressman oversight reform committee rankinging member james, welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me one talking about the pushback why you think she is only targeting parler and not looking at facebook and twitter. >> a great question, oversight democrats showed bias sented letter to fbi requesting the fbi probe parler, for all outbreak of the rights on january 6th. and what we all know from intelligence reports that we've received, is they were as many people, communicating on facebook and twitter as parler but obviously, parler is choice of conservatives conservatives prefer parler overwhelmingly over twitter and facebook democrats aga

fox news channel members of the president's party gave mixed reaction. >> i didn't hear anything that the president hasn't already said for weeks now. >> this call was not a helpful call. >> reporter: congressional republicans are also split over plans by dozens of gop lawmakers to object to wednesday's counting of electoral college votes. ohio senator rob portman is one of the latest republicans to come out against the plan saying in a statement i cannot support allowing congress to thwart the will of the voters. the objections are expected to temporarily delay but not overturn certification of the results. >> joe biden will be the next president of the united states of america notwithstanding the delusional fantasies of some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. >> president trump lashed out at republicans who refused to challenge the results on twitter calling them the, quote, surrender caucus. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," georgia lieutenant governor jeff duncan talks about the president's phone call, his state senate races and tomorrow's certification of the electoral college results. >>> new york state reported its first case of the new coronavirus strain that's believed to b

fox team coverage from capitol hill. john roberts is at the white house with that new reaction from president trump, but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel with eight historic day one week after the right on capitol hill. >> in this historic day of debate over impeachment, some republicans are critical saying he should have taken action to call off the mob rushing the capital one week ago, a week after that attack the president was impeached by congress. >> the resolution is adopted. >> democrats and ten republican voted to impeach president trum for the second time. >> he must go he must he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love. >> the house republican leader says the president bears was once ability for last week attack, but offered an alternative to impeachment. >> at think a fact-finding commission in the center resolution would be approved. unfortunately, that is not wher we are today. >> ohio republican congressman jim jordan counter the impeachment argument saying thi would only further divide the country. >> we should be focused on bringing the nation together instead democrats ar

fox news? the elite so insultingly claim this. come on, they see what is happened to our voting system and the election was a two month and yet we still have today congressionalaces without a result and they have not finished counting. what kind of banana republic dysfunction is that? about harvesting. it is supposed to be one person, one vote. not one union activist 156 votes and what kind of banana republic corruption is that? no voting system that has legalized ellet harvesting will ever be trusted. we should not allow it for any election, anywhere but instead we now get to the heart of the distrust and the democrats have been pushing ballot harvesting everywhere. they use the virus as an excuse to bend the voting rules in their favor. we know that because they push those exact changes long before the virus and pelosi's notorious hr one bill back at the start of 2019 we were warned repeatedly not the least by "the wall street journal" but the democrats multiple late changes to the rules would cause massive legitimacy problems especially in the event of a close election. it was close 43000 votes in three states. 30000 according to the national reviews andy

also be talking about the congressional certification vote due tomorrow. .. live georgia have spoken and fox newsecting rafael warnock has unseated kelly leffler. the other race remains too close to call. kelly left for has not conceded. control of the senate remains uncertain for now. i'm john scott in new york. shannon: we have continuing live coverage of the senate runoff, the most consequential senate race in recent history. rafael warknock will be representing a state that hasn't elected a democratic senator in over two decades but that is not the only race that might put the nation on a new path. at this hour democrat john ossoff is locked in in the battle for the other senate seat held by republican david perdue. if both democrats ultimately prevail it will flip the senate. and gain control of congress allowing president-elect joe biden to make some major headway on his agenda. john: this political drama reaching a climax is congress will meet later today for the final count of the electoral college votes, the last step in confirming joe biden is the next president of the united states but

fox coverage. john roberts standing by at the white house. first, let's get to chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live in washington. what is the chart house democrats are making in this new article of impeachment against president trump? >> julie, good afternoon. democrats are charging president trump with inciting and insurrection. the impeachment resolution says, "president trump gravely endangered the security of the united states and its institutions of government. he threatens the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and impaled a coequal branch of government. he thereby betrayed his trust as president to the manifest industry of the united states." there's a back-and-forth of impeachment. >> these domestic terrorists attempted to disrupt that proceeding, incited by the president to do so, and in the hopes that they would keep the president in power and prevent the orderly and peaceful transition of power. we cannot allow that kind of attack on our democracy and attempted coup d'etat to occur without consequence. >> i honestly don't think impeachment is the smart move, because i think it victimizes donald trump again.

congressional offices about voting irregularities already. dagen: what did the republicans get wrong? terms of turning out the vote because just looking at the voter analysis, the fox newser analysis and that of say dave from nonpartisan cook political report, it was that the dems -- it was the same biden coalition that came out for ossoff and warnock, ossoff trailed joe biden by a hundred thousand votes in terms of voter turnout but the big reason black voters came out and suburban whites came out, those are two huge voting blocking and in some way if you look at the analysis, ossoff took as percentage, one more black voters and warnock won more black voters than even joe biden did in november. 88% for both ossoff and warnock. >> right, you have to give credit where credit is due. democrats did good job of getting voters out. there's no question about that. the republicans are on our side. razer-thin margin here and both sides understood the importance. let me say this, raphael warnock is not your father's democrat. raphael warnock is a radical and he's dangerous. i will tell you that this is something that we've got to keep an eye on in the state of georgia, someone w

fox news host judge jeaniene pirro delivered this strong opening statement condemning the capitol hill riots just watch this. >> did anyone stop to think that with this foolhardy effort to disrupt the congressionalyou have smeared 75 million of us? you have tarnished all the good that has been done over the last four years because of this senseless lunacy. ashley: franz liszt lunacy. what does she think about democrats who are prepping for another impeachment? i will ask for that question when she joins me in the next hour and democrats control of the senate creates a path to repeal last-minute term policies, so what is the most at risk? steve ford this year on that very issue in our 11:00 o'clock hour. we will be right back. ♪ my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it, lowering my blood sugar from the first dose. once-weekly trulicity responds when my body needs it, 24/7. trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. it isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocri