gohmert that has been one who did quite a few events with dr.ing, one of the things that we always believed in was that you just did not advocate, but you practice what you preach. so i would say to mr. gohmert if he is such an advocate of the teachings of martin luther king jr., practice what he has talked and that's not what he's doing. he is once again mouthing words, but not demonstrating in deeds that he does adhere to those teachings. >> congressman clyburn, real fast, yes or no answer. will nancy pelosi be reelected as speaker of the house today? >> yes. yes. >> and with that, congressman steny hoyer and congressman jim clyburn, thank you both very much for coming on sunday show. >> thank you very much, jonathan. >> thank you. >>> meanwhile, donald trump has been calling for his supporters to come to washington, d.c. on wednesday to protest the electoral college vote, promising it, quote, will be wild. joining me now is the mayor of the district of columbia, mayor muriel bowser. mayor, thank you very much for coming on the show. >> thank

gohmert knows it.official in the republican party has an obligation to call him out for doing this. otherwise, there's likely to be blood on his hands. >> joyce, before we let you go, we know the justice department has been accused in the president's administration of doing things for his bidding but in the gohmert lawsuit, the justice department which represented pence called the suit a walking legal contradiction and meritless assault on long-standing processes. is this a sign there are safeguards for democracy? >> there are some safeguards for democracy and they're the career people at doj, now the political leash the trump administration put on them has begun to slip are lining up, showing they're willing to do the right thing. in this case although ultimately it was dismissed on standing grounds, the judge told gohmert if you want to file a lawsuit, you need to sue congress. they're the people who wrote this law, not mike pence. so the case is dismissed on the procedural ground. doj laid out a cle

you're right, we have a response from gohmert, he is a close ally of the president.s is notably pitting the vice president against one of the president's top allies in the house. they say the vice president, the glorified envelope opener in chief has no authority to decide anything of substance or even to count votes in the weighty envelopes, he is only the envelope opener. what he is arguing in the lawsuit is the vice president did have authority to change the outcome of the election. if this federal judge rules that, of course as noted, pence's role is procedural, it could take some heat off him, given that we know the president himself has taken a heightened interest in what vice president mike pence is going to do next week when congress does meet. we know what the house is going to do, we now know what some republican senators are going to do, we still don't know what the vice president himself is going to do because of course. the president is looking for him to do more politically and he's got his own political ambitions. >> we will be following this. thanks v

how seriously should anyone take louie gohmert? >> i think generally the answer to that is not very. it's interesting that we're talking about louie gohmert. i was talking to a republican official a few moments ago about josh hawley and what he's doing and how establishment republicans view what he's doing right now. and this person said, including, he's not some moron like louie gohmert, and the reason why people are being harsher in how they're assessing what josh hawley is doing is because it seems so much more cynical, whereas in washington, at least, among establishment republicans, louie gohmert has always been viewed and pretty much is still viewed as a joke. >> mckay, i want you to hear what was said this morning and get your reaction. >> pretty much i haven't seen anything, but a lot of the argument is a lot of evidence has never been brought to court. the courts have basically shot down these challenges due to procedural grounds. there are so many things that i saw from other states that shouldn't have happened that lead

election law exper have widely rejected gohmert's arguments.sident trump and his ales have filed some 50 lawsuits s;hallenging election resu nearly all have been dismissed or dropped. iran announced today that it intends to expand its enrichment of uranium. the he of iranilian nuclear program said the country ncrease production to 20 purity "as soon as possible." the united nations' international atomic energy agency said iran had informed its inspectors of the decisi in a letter received yesterday. iran has reached thileveof enrichment before, but stopped after the country agreed to the 2015 joint comprehensive plan of action kno as the iran nuclear deal. president trump withdrew the u.s. from that agreement in 2018. 20% purity is well below the 90% purity needed for weapons, but it far exceedshe limits by the 2015 deal. the announcement comes one day ofore the first anniversa the assassination of iranian general qassem soleimani, which sihas raised ts between washington and tehran. on hill: for the latest na and international news, visit www.

the judge said gohmert lacks the standing to sue. gohmert has appealed to a higher court. >>> iran says it plans to enrich uranium to 20% purity. that's up from the current 4% level and far above the cap imposed in the 2017 nuclear deal. iran told the international atomic energy agency about its decision on thursday. the new enrichment level is far below the 90% considered weapons grade and iran has repeatedly denied plans to build nuclear bombs. last month the iranian parliament called for the increased levels following the killing of its top nuclear scientist in november. and the u.s. and iran have been rattling sabres with implied threats in the persian gulf as well. sunday marks the first anniversary of the death of general suleimani in a drone strike and the potential of an attack from iran is the highest since his death. the u.s. has flown nuclear capable b52 bombers twice in the past month as a show of force. >>> still ahead on cnn, field hospitals are on standby in england as the nation struggles to contain the new variant of

late tonight a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by texas congressman louie gohmert who claimede president mike pence has the sole power to decide the outcome of the election, which is not true. gohmert also said more than 140 housemembers have pledged to objection to president-elect joe biden's victory. republican josh hawley is so far the only senator who has said he plans to do the same. cbs news has learned senate majority leader mitch mcconnell held a conference call on thursday, asking hawley to lay out his plans, but hawley was not on it. meanwhile, georgia g.o.p. senator david perdue is fighting to keep his seat in a runoff election on tuesday, but he's quarantining after someone on his campaign tested positive for covid 19. >> we have been testing our team regularly. >> reporter: the georgia runoffs will determine control of the u.s. senate. with stakes so high, today, vice president pence announced he will campaign there on monday in addition to a rally president trump is holding. president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris also plan to hold events in georgia

ted cruz louis gohmert and others and there's a way to deal with that politically you know who knows what happened there states and maybe people hold them accountable. but certainly these are all people who was fired in leadership. they all aspire to to be active in politics people like out there. good. republicans democrats independents, don't do what they want most which is don't give them any money cut them off. i think that i think that that that speaker pelosi has the power to. work with the like-minded members of the republican caucus, and the sign people like louie gohmert either too our list or no comey's at all i think that senator schumer should work with senator mcconnell and do the same thing to josh hawley and the ted cruz and to show that to show them that what they did encouraging this attack our democracy cannot be tolerated. >>you mentioned former transportation secretary chao to be clear she is married to mitch mcconnell, but michael yes, the that i think a lot of people have is if you don't punished somehow the president for inflaming the situation. what is to stop

that wases designed to force -- so what did gohmert say in response? >> reporter: he's kind of taking a jab at the vice president here, referring to the role he's going to take next weeks when congress does meet an as envelope opener, saying in the statement he just put out, in response to what the justice department said to these attorneys asking this federal court to reject this lawsuit, and louis gohmert said -- they say the vice president, the glorified envelope opener in chief has no priority to preside over anything else, to pry side anything of substance and not even to count the votes. he's kind of making the point that the vice president only has a sermonian role next week, so despite what the president and his allying have been implying, he won't be able to do anything to change the outcome of the election. increasingly you've seen people start to look too the vice president in this lawsuit, for example, where it's pitting the president's republican allies against the justice department and the vice president here. so what actually happens? w

sara carter, let's start with louie gohmert.own words which would, by the definition that she's applies at least as best we can tell because there haven't been hearings, there's not been any dialogue outside the leadership of the radical dems, it would be absolutely incitement by her standard. because the president of the united states said nothing even close that would close arely approach -- closely approach those words. >> correct. lou: your thoughts. >> you're right, lou. they use impeachment as a political weapon, and i think congressman gohmert did a great job of pointing that out. even if you look at maxine waters. remember, this has come from the very beginning. jim jordan was absolutely right. within minutes after president trump was elected in 2016, within minutes they were already calling for his impeachment. this was a weapon from the left. but mind you this, it's not so much about president trump. this is a lesson for every single american. they are sending a message to all the 75 million americans that voted for pr

gohmert and the other plaintiffs have now appealed that ruling. kaitlan collins has more from the white house. >> reporter: president trump skipped his annual new year's eve party at mar-a-lago to cut his vacation short and come back to washington early. though, the white house never publicly explained exactly why the president was doing that. but many sources believed, it was ahead of that showdown that's expected on capitol hill next week when the house and senate do meet to certify joe biden's win as the president of the united states. given that several of the president's republican allies are preparing to dispute that. but, of course, as that is coming, the president is, also, looking to his vice president, mike pence, and what his role is going to be in that. because typically, it's just procedural. ceremonial, largely. but, of course, now, the vice president has found himself at odds with some of the president's allies, including congressman louie gohmert, who filed that lawsuit against the vice president, that many thought was frivolous, a

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the vice president's team essentially saying that gohmert is barking up the wrong tree, that he should take this up with the house and senate and not sue the vice president. of course, we should point out the vice president's role in all of this is largely ceremonial, he simply is an observer. he doesn't actually have the power to overturn the results of the election, something that we're hearing that the president has been recently discussing with aides and having a hard time wrapping his head around. allison. >> cnn's boris sanchez, thank you. >> thanks. >>> joining me now margaret at that will he be cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor at axios. >> happy new year. >> we are learning at cnn that two gop lawmakers say at least 140 house republicans will vote to tall length joe biden's win. talk to me about what this says about the republican party, about what it does for its future and firstly of course will this challenge go anywhere? >> yeah, look, this is just a sign of the huge internal pull that lawmakers, republican lawmakers, are facing about, you know, how

it said texas congressman louie gohmert had no standing in his effort to put the presidential election outcome in the hands of the vice president. on saturday the biden campaign weighed in, quote, this stunt won't change the fact that president-elect biden will be sworn in on january 20 and these baseless claims have already been examined and dismissed by trump's own attorney general, dozens of courts, and election officials from both parties, end quote. look, let's be real about this. democrats and pretty much everyone else can see right through this ploy. republicans just don't want to louis. the qanon white problem issist nationalist racist supporters that hold donald trump so dear. this is literally the epitome of voter suppression has they try to overturn results of joints with largely black and brown populations. what republicans are trying to do now is reprehensible morally and politically. i said in the last hour, i'll say it again, no one is forcing you to do this. are you really that afraid of the president that you're willing to hang your entire political career and your rep

gohmert's suit has been called a walking contradiction.rom the new court filing and any reaction from the president? >> well, the president has not reacted and he's eager to have any tool box through legal challenges or the work of his supporters in congress to try to avert what is coming next week which would be the certification of the electoral college, giving the election finally after all this time to joe biden. so what this is doing is louie gohmert, who is a texas lawmaker and a close ally of the president, he and 11 arizonians who would have been the electors for president trump, he should have the right to throw out states that he does not believe properly carried out their elections. typically, this is a ceremonial function that is not even getting much attention in normal presidential years. this time it is getting a lot of attention and we will see what will be awkward and it has been awkward before when al gore as vice president had to certify george w. bush as president after their contentious fight on the campaign trail and

so the vice president's legal defendant saying gohmert should take this case up with the house and the senate, not with the vice president. we should point out, in recent days we've learned that the president himself sat down with vice president pence to talk about the future. unclear if this came up, exactly. but we have heard from sources here at the white house that the president has had a difficult time with aides discussing mike pence's role on january 6th. the vice president plays largely just a ceremonial role, overseeing the vote, not actually weighing in on whether to certify it or not. alison? >> interesting. we turned a calendar year, but the election for 2020 still not quite in the rearview. boris sanchez, thanks so much. >>> joining me now, margaret talev, a cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor at axios. good morning to you and happy new year. >> good morning, alison, happy new year. >> let's first let's get to what's happening in a few days. the two georgia runoffs will decide control of the u.s. and there's a lot of focus on that. let me first doveta

the vice president's legal team essentially saying here that gohmert is barking up the wrong tree. that he should focus on the senate and house and not the vice president. alison, we should note that we've learned that president trump recently had a meeting with vice president mike pence here at the white house about the future. unclear if this specific instance came up, but what we're hearing from sources inside the white house that the president h has had a very difficult time with the idea that in this process on january 26th, the vice president is really just observing. it's a ceremony role, and he doesn't actually have the power to overturn the election, alison. >> joining me now, margaret talev, cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor at axios. good morning and happy new year. >> thanks, alison, happy new year. so cnn, we are learning here at cnn that two gop lawmakers say that at least 140 house republicans will vote to challenge joe biden's win. talk to me about what this says about the republican party, about what it does for its future and, you know, fir

gohmert lacks the standing to sue. he has just appealed to the higher court. and the senate delivered a rare rebuke to trump to override the defense authorization act. the tally was 81-13. the house voted to override the president. the defense bill has pay raises for the american soldiers and updating equipment. the first override of trump's presidency. we have more on the override and what to look for when congress certifies the election. phil. >> reporter: as the 116th congress comes to an end, the president with a pretty sharp rebuke from republicans and democrats. that doesn't mean the relations with congress are over. the republicans are more than 140 in the house and one in the senate, perhaps more, lining up behind the president this time around when it comes to trying to overthrow or overturn the u.s. election. let's make something very, very clear. on january 6th, with the joint session convenes to count the electors, biden will be confirmed to be the next president of the united states of america. how long it takes to get to that point? those republi

how embarrassing for louie gohmert. what was that all about? >> the reality. it is the reality, okay. they're continuing with process right now. but i have to tell you -- >> none of what he said was true, by the way. >> all right, fine. we'll go back and listen, but i have to tell you, everything you're about to hear is something you really shouldn't listen to. but here's what gohmert wanted to make. >> and it appears therefrom that donald j. trump of the state of florida received three votes for president, and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received three votes for vice president. >> are there any objections to counting the certificate of the vote of the state of wyoming that the teller has verified and appears to be regular in form and authentic? hearing none. the chair advises members of congress the certificates having been read, the tellers will ascertain and deliver the result to the president of the senate. >> the undersigned roy blunt and amy klobuchar, tellers on the part of the senator, zoe lofgren and rodney davis, tellers on the part of t

representative louie gohmert filed a lawsuit that would really empower mr.ctoral votes of key states when congress meets to count those votes, on january the 6th. in their response, the vice president's lawyers note, if successful, gohmert's lawsuit would undermine his own position in congress, stripping him of his right to object to the vote count. republican senator david perdue who is days away from a tight, runoff election, is now in quarantine after being exposed to someone with covid-19. his campaign says he's tested negative for the virus. the election for his seat is next tuesday. it will determine whether democrats or republicans control the senate. something we have been discussing all week here, on cnn. news of perdue's quarantine broke while his campaign event was going on. as you can see, few attendees were actually wearing masks. >>> out with the old and in with the new. britain rang in the new year with a divorce from the eu. but some details still need to be ironed out. we have the details from paris, as well as spain, coming up. for over 25

gotten so ridiculous, a federal judge was forced to take up and reject the republican attempt led by gohmert to throw out the federal court's 1887 law laying out how congress handles vote counting with the goal of giving vice president pence power to overturn the results of the presidential election. this ridiculous lawsuit sought to give sole power of the united states president to one man who could reject the will of the people and decide who he wants to lead the country. these republicans are trying to rewrite the rules because their candidate lost. this is a coup attempt. it continues to come during the out of control pandemic for a wanna-be dictator where we are losing thousands of americans every day. 349,000 americans are now dead from covid-19. a number that gets worse every day. december was the deadliest month of the pandemic by a long shot. with more than 77,000 dead just last month alone. 77,000. the number of americans who died in december more than doubled from the month before. there were more deaths in december than october and november combined. the country surpassed 20 mill

this lawsuit, basically invalidating the argument by the president's own republican allies, louie gohmert and others that filed suit against the vice president. in this argument they're basically saying you've got the wrong defendant. you should be suing the house and senate if you're trying to make this argument here. what we could see with the justice department filing, depending what the judge does, it could alleviate pressure you see building on the vice president from the president and his republican allies. the president we are told by sources, alison, has taken outside focus on the vice president's role, so if they come back and the federal judge says no, his role is purely procedural as we have noted here and ceremonial, he can't actually change the outcome of this, it could help pence be able to shift to that court ruling and not necessarily let it fall to him. that's something that is an active conversation inside the white house now about what it is he is going to do next week. we are told the president has been complaining pence isn't doing enough to fight for him, and is expe

but texas congressman louis gohmert and a group of arizona trump electors sued pence to surge him to reject votes and flip the race for trump. pence's lawyers mocked them for suing, ironically, the very person whose power they seek to promote. congressman gohmert's lawyers blasted pence as the envelope opener in chief who has know authority to preside over anything. a federal judge in texas appointed by president trump decided that case would be dismissed saying that gohmert and those other trump loyalists did not have legal standing. so this wednesday pence will be in the chair presiding and there bill be protests and demonstrations and debate, but in the end it is expected that the biden victory will be finally affirmed. kristen. >> it's expected to be a very long day, that's for sure. kelly, of course we are tracking another election coming up, the georgia senate runoffs on tuesday, which will determine who controls theays a figurativ rematch between trump and biden. kristen. >> a good way to look at it. kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you. >>> meanwhile this morning we

i don't want louie gohmert to be -- he went on national television. the friday before that, after he lost his lawsuit where he was trying to overturn a legitimate election, and prevent joe biden and kamala harris from being inaugurated, and suggested on national television that violence was the only option for people who wanted to block president trump from leaving office. and then mo brooks went in front of the crowd and had thousands of angry trump supporters who he said should go down to the capitol and start kicking ass and taking names. an that is exactly what they did. these two individuals and likely more incited the crowd, urged them on and they at least deserve to be shamed in the well of the house of representatives as far as expulsion, i proposed censure because censure required a majority and it was -- i think expulsion is a bar that is not spg that will likely reach. i didn't want to distract from our ability to make sure that the shame that these -- that lowy gohmert and mo brooks brought on themselves and the office and the danger they

i would like to listen to what one of your political colleagues, louie gohmert, said on saturday. let's listen. >> the bottom line is, the court is saying, we're not going to touch this, you have no remedy. basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you have to go to the streets and be as violent as antifa and blm. >> that's pretty chilling. what do you make of that? considering the proud boys are one of the groups planning to be on d.c. streets on wednesday. >> that's what i really want to emphasize here. you've got the ted cruzes and the josh hawleys, you try to dress this up as some sort of electoral challenge. this is ant electoral challenge. we have a process in place for electoral challenges. we have recounts, we have lawsuits, we have an endless array of things in place to look at legitimate questions about ballots that may have been missed or miscast. that has been done over and over and over again in all of the states. this election has been certified, this election is clear. i mean, i guess what louie is doing, he's just being honest, okay? he's just saying what they

on friday a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit from republican congressman louie gohmert asking pencethe vice president, to interfere in the electoral college count. and also on friday, the senate voted to override trump's veto of the defense authorization act. cnn's sarah westwood joining me from the white house. there's a lot on the plate here. first, i want to talk to you about this information just in. a gop source telling our jake tapper that now about a dozen senators might object to biden's win? what more do we know about this? >> fred, a source tells jake that as you mentioned, roughly a dozen gop senators are considering joining senator josh hawley who is the first and so far only senator to come out and confirm he will object in the efforts to overturn the election results on wednesday when a joint session of congress will occur and vice president pence will preside over the certification of those electoral college results. now some of the names on the list of those considering joining this effort are fierce defenders of the president like senator marsha blackburn, senator t

now, texas congressman, louie gohmert, and other republican lawmakers filed suit hoping to really force the vice president mike pence, to ignore some electoral votes when congress meets next week to certify the election. the judge said the republicans lacked standing to sue. that, though, is now being appealed. kaitlan collins has more from the white house. >> reporter: president trump skipped his annual new year's eve party at mar-a-lago, and come back to washington early. though, the white house never publicly explained exactly why the president was doing that. many sources believed it was ahead of that showdown that's expected on capitol hill, next week, when the house and the senate do meet to certify joe biden's win as the next president of the united states. something that we know the outcome will not be any different. but how we get there might, given that several of the president's republican allies are preparing to dispute that. but, of course, as that is coming, the president is, also, looking to his vice president, mike pence, and what his role is going to be in that. because

gohmert was rejected twice in two days on the same matter. thank god for the third branch of government for not going along with this charade. checks and balances, baby! all right, let's review the entire premise of republicans' objection to the election results. it's based on a complete farce, a farce propagated by the highest levels of government, coming from the oval office. the entire effort is steeped in lies. there was no widespread voter fraud. we know it and congressional republicans know it. that's why they can't and they won't provide any evidence to support their claims. did they forget that every state certified its own election results last month in which they ruled out the notion of widespread voter fraud? several states did so after undergoing lengthy audits and hand counts at the behest of the trump campaign. in the weeks since november 3rd, the trump campaign filed about 50 lawsuits challenging the election results of multiple counties across the nation. almost every last one has been denied, dismissed, or withdrawn. even the

they park where ever as texas congressman louie gohmert notoriously demonstrated when he hollered at a police officer who had ticketed his car they also park free at reagan national airport their health care plan subsidized is great and appropriated settlement funds are to resolve me too and other problems from 1997 to 2018275 settlements totaling 17600000 represented an average payout of 60 $4000.00 members of congress get up to $195.00 days off each year when congress is not in session so who is working for whom you can download this entire report free at open the books dot com coming up 20202021 were challenging enough for us grownups to sort out how does this all play to children this is the big picture on our view america. so let's not pretend for a change of traits or that you're being silenced steve just your take is are popular with me struck all the fun in that fight go find your own audience to complain when they're all stupid racists. so we lose this newsrooms he's. going to name chris mccallum the new movie. many of. them on those he just can't stand forever of what they

late last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuits filed by texas congressman louie gohmert, who falselyimed vice president mike pence has the power to decide the winner of the election. today in georgia, cruz did not mention his effort as he campaigned for two g.o.p. colleagues fighting to keep their seats in runoff races on their seats in runoff races on tuesday. >> the forces that are seeking to tear this country down have set their targets on the state of georgia. >> reporter: high-profile members of both parties are crisscrossing the state. the results will determine control of the u.s. senate. last night, president trump falsely claimed that the special elections are invalid and illegal, but this morning, he urged people to vote in them while promoting a rally he plans to hold in dalton, georgia, on monday. adriana. >> diaz: weijia jiang at the white house, thank you. now to the coronavirus crisis. the latest tally of vaccinations is three million doses administered. that's nowhere near the 20 million vaccination goal set by operation warp speed for the end of 2020. and u.s. infect

gohmert: here's a quote. i just don't even know why there aren't more -- aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be. or, sadly the domestic enemies of our voting system in honoring our constitution are right at 100 pennsylvania avenue with their allies in congress of the united states. we were called enemies of the state. those were our quotes from our speaker. now, on our side, we didn't take those to be impeachable because we didn't believe she surely meant that. but by the democrats taking this action, you're telling me, no, when we say those, we actually mean to incite violence. that's what this action is saying. look, i just looked on the history channel. it says, these words, if the judiciary committee, talking about impeachment, finds sufficient grounds, its members write and pass articles of impeachment which then go to the full house for a vote. half of all the impeachments ever conducted, ever voted for, occurred under this speaker. you're setting a precedent that says very clear

we saw i think so many of them and some of them are true believers some of them i think like louis gohmert and others are just true believers but i think that's what we saw last night my sense is mike pence stood up he did what was expected of him constitutionally and but this is that something we should be applauding well i mean 1st of all i'm glad that the vice president did what he did that he followed constitutional duties but i'm left thinking that that's such a that's that's the very minimum that you can expect in a democracy that's what somebody is supposed to do so i'm glad that he did i'm encouraged that that the person who's in the office of the vice president vice presidency is following the constitution but it's also a very low bar for our democracy. and i think what was striking also about yesterday you talk about. who's in charge of government the decision to send up the national guard apparently at least based on reporting was not done in consultation with the president of the united states it was done at the direction of the vice president even though you had a sitting full

paul, louie gohmert has been at the front of many legal challenges, one of them to have pence rejectral college votes. he's been walking back statements talking about violence in the streets. but what are you expecting in the streets this week? >> i'm expecting to try to be inside here in the u.s. capitol safe and sound, protected by the capitol police. i don't know what it will be like outside. i know that in the past, protests, trump-led protests, the afternoons have generally tended to be very peaceful, and then later into the evening, as people go to various pubs and taverns around town, that's when things started to turn violent. i sure hope we don't have any violence whatsoever, but that's been the recent timeline of how things have gone. fairly peaceful afternoon, then disruptive nighttime activities. let's hope it doesn't come to you. >> all right, thank you for spending time with us today. >>> still ahead, the biden campaign reacting to the phone call between president trump and the georgia secretary state. stay with us. y state. stay with us vicks vapopatch. easy to wear wi

gohmert also said congress is set for a showdown on january 6th with over $140,000 house members. josh holly is so far the only senator who says he plans to object to the certification of the election results. he's also standing by president trump's push to increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 a person, taking a swipe at gop senate colleagues who have not offered support. >> with all due respect, this doesn't seem to me to be a republicans versus democrats issue. this seems to be the senate versus the united states of america. >> in georgia, two republican senators are fighting to keep their seat in run-off elections on tuesday. but senator david purdue is in guarantee after someone on his campaigne campaign tested positive for covid-19. >> the georgia runoffs will determine control of the u.s. senate. last night president trump tweeted that the races are illegal and invalid, which is not true. despite making that false claim, both me and vice president pence plan to campaign on behalf of the republicans in georgia on monday, the eve of election day. dana? >> thank you. >>

censure resolution or disciplinary action for congressman mo brooks who we just heard from, louie gohmerts, your name is on that list of well. your reaction? >> democrats have been trying to shut me up in congress for the last four years, i think democracy and the public work best when the voters select the representatives not the other people in washington, d.c., i am proud of the substitutes arguments we advance regarding the changes in election law in pennsylvania, the bizarre circumstances of the tcs center in detroit, michigan, the mistreatment of observers in arizona, the people voting after they left the state in nevada, these are relevant factual items to discuss in the fact the democrats want to expel us and prosecute us and suntrust shows they might not be willing to actually debate us and engage in the substantive reforms that have broader confidence in our election system, i think that will help all americans. jon: big temps is century the president and some others in the decommissioning of president trump twitter account for instance. >> there are many of us who have been war

then saturday, a federal appeals court dismissed representative louie gohmert's appeal of a case he lost just the day before. he and other republicans have filed suit against vice president pence. they were seeking to force pence to interfere in next week's vote count. but some republican lawmakers are against all of this, and it's causing chaos within the party. boris sanchez reports from the white house. >> reporter: president trump getting welcome news on saturday after confirmation that at least a dozen republican senators are planning to object to the results of the electoral college when they are certified by congress on january 6th. the president had been campaigning for this publicly for some time, and now these dozen republican senators, led by ted cruz, are essentially saying they want to look at the allegations of widespread election fraud, even though the president and his team haven't been able to provide any. here's a portion of the statement from cruz and crew, "we are not naive, we fully expect most if not all democrats and a few republicans to vote otherwise, but support

this, the radical dems are calling for the censure of congressman mo brooks and congressman louie gohmertor daring to question the integrity of the election. at this point it might be good to point out that these democrats challenged the electoral college certification of recent elections. 43 of them have done so since the 2000 election victory of george w. bush, all without receiving vicious, venomous calls for retribution, censure, censoring or in any way retaliation. here's just one example. left-wing congresswoman maxine waters was objecting to president trump's victory in 2017. >> i do not wish to debate, i wish to ask is there one united states senator who will join me in this letter of -- >> there is no debate. there's no debate. gentlewoman will suspend. lou: oh, what was, what happened to her for that? nothing, it turns out. and it goes on. the pga, we have learned, taking away the championship tournament in 2022 from trump's bedminster golf club for, quote, inciting a riot. again, where are the pga's facts to back up the charge? or is the radical left-wing narrative so strong, s

gohmert: here's a quote. i just don't even know why there aren't more -- aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be. or, sadly the domestic enemies of our voting system in honoring our constitution are right at 100 pennsylvania avenue with their allies in congress of the united states. we were called enemies of the state. those were our quotes from our speaker. now, on our side, we didn't take those to be impeachable because we didn't believe she surely meant that. but by the democrats taking this action, you're telling me, no, when we say those, we actually mean to incite violence. that's what this action is saying. look, i just looked on the history channel. it says, these words, if the judiciary committee, talking about impeachment, finds sufficient grounds, its members write and pass articles of impeachment which then go to the full house for a vote. half of all the impeachments ever conducted, ever voted for, occurred under this speaker. you're setting a precedent that says very clear

"democrats still want to sanction mo brooks and louie gohmert of texas for instigating insurgents.s one thing for lawmakers to disagree over policy, it's another thing for division to fester this deeply. can't really work on this trade bill if you think the other side is out to get you. >> shannon: americans across the political spectrum have joined together in condemnation of last week's attack on the capital, a unity not seen since last summer, it wasn't seen last summer for some democrats in congress when they refused to condemn the costly and deadly violence that we witnessed in major cities all across the country. we'll talk about what it means from a law enforcement perspective with former secret service special agent charles marino and retired lieutenant. great to have you back. i want to play something that jim jordan said in defense of the president. on the house floor today as they were going through impeachment. >> democrats can say there needs to be unrest in the streets while there is unrest in the streets but they are going to impeach the president for saying peaceful

on saturday, an appeals court rejected a lawsuit filed by representative louie gohmert and other republicansr a federal court threw it out, just the day before. now, they were seeking to force, if you can believe this, vice president mike pence to interfere in wednesday's electoral-vote count. but, courts, elected leaders, various officials, and, of course, the american people, have spoken. biden will be sworn in, as president, on january 20th. still, you can guarantee this. expect the lead-up to inauguration day to be chaotic. cnn's boris sanchez has more, now, from the white house. >> reporter: president trump getting welcome news, on saturday, after confirmation that at least a dozen republican senators are planning to reject to the results of the electoral college, when they are certified by congress on january 6th. the president had been campaigning for this, publicly, for some time. and now, these dozen republican senators, led by ted cruz, are essentially saying that they want to look at the allegations of widespread-election fraud, even though the president and his team haven't been

gohmert: it is in writing. signed by a member, but not a ned and objected to by senator. vice president pence: the objection cannot be entertained. his certificate from wyoming the parliamentarian's advised me is the only certificate of vote from that state that purpors to be a return from the state, has annexed to it a certificate of authority from the state purporting to appoint or scertain electors. mr. blunt: the electoral vote of the state of wyoming is in form and authentic and donald j. trump received three votes for president and michael r. pence from the state of indiana received three votes for vice president. vice president pence: are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote from the state of wyoming that the teller has verified appears to be regular in form and authentic? earing none, the chair advises members of congress that the certificates having been read, the tellers will ascertain and deliver the result to the president of the senate. >> the undersigned roy plunt and amy klobuchar tellers on the part of the senate, zoe lofgren and rodney

a handful of those republicans led by congressman gohmert did file the lawsuit that was focused on challengingence's role in counting those votes. but that was tossed out in court and pence had remained silent about the lawsuit for days. however, he did respond in a filing asking the court to toss it out because he said he did not have the authority to discard electoral college votes. and meanwhile, that is not the only setback that the president has faced just in the last day. congress voted overwhelmingly to reject his veto of the defense spending bill. it's the first veto override of his presidency. trump had vetoed the bill because he wanted them to include protections for social media companies and republicans refused to do so, in yet another sign that his influence over congressional republicans may be waning, he has so far been unable to convince senate republicans to take up his push to increase the amount in those stimulus relief checks to $2,000, fred. >> so, sarah, let me ask you about this new year celebration at mar-a-lago, even though the president wasn't there. he was supposed t

he clearly has rejected the most extreme interpretation that's been offered by this gohmert, cruz, hawley caucus. that's why i think we're not going to see him exercise any kind of independent judgment and i think that's excellent news. and i think the rest of it is just him recognizing that there's an orderly process that has been outlined both in the constitution and in the federal law that was passed after the sort of debacle of the haze, tilden contested election of 1876. so i think all of this is excellent news, and unlikely hopefully to result in what the framers really feared, which is a process by which cabal, intrigue and corruption led to the -- >> we just talked earlier is mike pence political going to have much of a political career after today inside the republican party. he's going to get praised in "the wall street journal" editorial page, national review, i don't want to put words in your mouth. very much the constitution wing of the republican party, what remains of that will praise him. does it save him? >> now it's going to be very awkward for him in the trump wing of t