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

so representative louie gohmert responded to vice president pence's opposition to the lawsuit.t did he say? >> reporter: yeah, he is not happy with the response we saw from the justice department attorneys that were representing the vice president here, asking the federal judge to reject this lawsuit, basically saying louie gohmert and company are suing the wrong defendant here. you're right, we have a response from gohmert, he is a close ally of the president. this 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 p

what a shame that louie gohmert or any other republican knowing full well as mitt romney from utah isaying, as pat toomey from pennsylvania is saying, as other -- as mcconnell said in congratulating biden for his election, the courts have ruled, contrary to what gohmert said, there have been some 60 cases all won, no evidence to show fraud that would have affected the election. it is just a tragedy that so many members of the house and the senate are undermining the confidence in our democracy. not in joe biden, but in -- not in democrats, but our democracy itself that relies on the peaceful resolution of differences through elections. it's just a sad, sad state of affairs that the republican party has come to a point where they have so many members who do not respect our democracy and our country. >> whip clyburn, i want to get your reaction to what congressman gohmert said, but i also want to read you something that he said -- congressman also said and i'm going to put this up on the screen as i read it here in this tweet. i have not encouraged and unequivocally do not advocate for

but louie gohmert already appealed to a higher court.ought to affirm that pence has the authority to discard votes in several key states when congress certifies the electoral votes next week. as kaitlan collins now reports from washington. >> reporter: president trump skipped his annual new year's eve party at mar-a-lago to 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 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 typically it's just procedural, ceremonial largely. but, of course, now the vice p

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

vice president asking a federal judge to throw out a request from texas republican congressman louie gohmert that attempts to force pence to ignore electoral votes of several key states. kaitlan collins is live at the white house with the latest. kaitlan, what else did pence's lawyers say and did it come as a surprise to the white house? >> reporter: no, we're told pat cippolone and mark meadows were aware this would be the filing coming on behalf of pence by the justice department, asking the federal judge to reject 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 fo

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

congressman louie gohmert's not giving up. his latest move. just ahead. and spread germs e. nothing kills more viruses, including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. >>> a federal judge has thrown out, yet, another desperate lawsuit aimed at throwing out joe biden's victory. now, stay with me here. they sought to force pence to ignore some electoral votes, when congress meets, next week, to certify the election. the judge said the republicans lacked standing to sue. 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

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

so what this is doing is louie gohmert, who is a texas lawmaker and a close ally of the president, he 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 for weeks after. here too, it will be mike pence, the losing vice president, who has to certify joe biden and kamala harris as the next team to take over in the white house. this is awkward certainly, but it is expected to go forward. not as normal, but to still result with biden getting the finalization that the country fully expects. what it will do is we expect that these objections from senator hawley of missouri, from a number of house members, what happens there is state by

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

one specific congressman, louie gohmert from texas, filing a lawsuit trying to force vice president mike pence essentially to deny the electoral college results from several states. yesterday, we got a response from pence's legal team. here is one portion of that. they where, quote, a suit to establish that the vice president has discretion over the count fimd against the vice president is a walking legal contradiction. they go on, plaintiffs have presented this court with an emergency motion, raising a host of weighty legal issues about the matter in which the electoral votes for president are to be counted, but the plaintiff sued is not a proper vehicle for addressing those issues, because the plaintiffs have sued the wrong defendant. 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 wh

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

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 another leader from doing the same when he or she doesn't like the results of an election in. 2 years or 4 years 25 years how do we make sure that things like this don't happen in the future. >>well, i mean that's exactly right. that's why i think that that fire has forced to pence has to look at is his oath of office, the oath of office he took 4 years ago to protect and defend the constitution and look at the man in the oval office who is doing exactly the opposite and invoke the 25th

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

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a federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by texas congressman louie gohmert and several arizona reblicanst sought to force vice president mike pence to help tip the ection to president trump. the judge, a trump appointee, ruled late yesterday that gohmert and the others lacked standing to sue. the lawsuit was filed ahead of wednesday's congr sional vote certify president-elect joe biden's victory in the electoral college. vice president peho thehat only constitution requires to preside over e certification, has the authority to decide whether some of ben's electoral votes should be rejected. election law exper have widely rejected gohmert's arguments. president 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 yesterda

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

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

a 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

of 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

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

"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

a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit from representative louie gohmert of texas who attempted to give mike pence the power to choose which votes count when he presides over wednesday's session of congress to formally count the votes. of course, joe biden is set to be declared the winner after his electoral college win over president trump. let's bring in former u.s. attorney joyce vance, msnbc contributor. joyce, good to see you. i want to ask you about something they cite, the republican senators, they cite in the request for the audit an 1877 election. is that a proper precedent to cite for the election audit? >> well, it might be precedent, but might be a bad example to use. this comes from the hayes tilden election, comes in the context of allegations of racial animous because we had an increasing number of black voters in the country, so probably not the kind of precedent ted cruz wants to cite, but what it's really talking about and what this letter from the senators fails to come to grips with is that they have no actual allegations of voter fraud. and every time lawyers got in

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

court delivered a blow to some of these efforts tossing out a case raised by texas congressman louie gohmert that had been suing vice president pence to compel him to make changes during the electoral college count to toss out some is states, enough to flip the election to president trump. willie >> all right kelly o'donnell at the white house, thank you very much. >>> chuck todd is nbc's political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning, good to see you, happy new year so we're rolling into the new year with this process that's going to play out on wednesday usually a formality counting the electoral votes here, but ted cruz and a group of senators are going to stage this objection. what are they up to exactly beyond pleasing the president of the united states and what do you see as the cost of all this? >> willie, there's no other actually there's no other motivation beyond this, you know none of them have come up with any allegations an none of them will explain why they think the election, all sort of loosely basing this on my constituents are raising concerns, they're r

the same time, anna, you have another whole drama going on on the side, you have representative louie gohmert of texas who is now suing the vice president, vice president pence, saying, look, as the president of the senate, the president overseeing this certification, ratification process, you are the one who should step in and overturn this election. as we know and as the constitution dictates it is a ceremonial role by the vice president, it is not one because he has the envelope and makes the announcement that he can actually choose and pick the winner, so, therefore, pence now is fighting back himself asking a federal judge what is the situation here? what's going on? can you please make this go away. ana. >> i do think it's really important to note that this effort really is not going to amount to anything. joe biden will be the president on january 20th. suzanne malveaux, thank you for that update. >>> joining us now is republican congressman-elect carlos gimenez of florida. congressman-elect, technically you are not congressman yet but i want to be as respectful as possible. happy new

meantime, one congressman that is expected to object to the results, congressman louie gohmert of texas, filing a lawsuit against vice president mike pence trying to force pence who oversees that certification on january 6 to throw out the results from states that were given to biden, pence's legal team responding yesterday, here is part of what they write, quote, a suit to establish that the vice president has discretion over the count filed against the vice president is a walking legal contradiction. 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 t

republicans go along with the house republicans because they the house house republicans led by louie gohmert who infamously is the person you on many things says he contracted covid. when he actually a warm asking his famous for not wearing a mask at all say it's going check the 5 states basically the 5 republican legislative states arizona. with george up wisconsin, michigan. and he's and he's basically and can cancel dania and he's going to f ing find a senator to object with him to each of those 5 states. and you have up to 2 hours of debate 5 different times and you could have 10 hours at least of debate and then the votes and then this could drag on a night starts at 10:00am our time. on wednesday for all those who really want to make should get get tuned in and watch. but it could go well into the late evening. our by the time actually gets done. and it is going to be you know it and that is going to be going up against by the way. a backdrop of what could be some very violent protests in washington dc that day the president as encouraged he's talked about making making making trouble.

districts of all these republican members of congress, devin nunes, elise stefanik, jim jordan, louie gohmert, madison cawthorn, they're all getting those billboards in their district, telling them that the u.s. capitol attack is on them and they should resign. the same group is also going to start running this ad on "fox & friends" and during fox news prime time shows in the home districts and home states of all of those republicans i just named. >> there was fraud. >> rampant fraud. >> fraud. >> fraud. >> dominion machines that were problematic. >> i blame dough minute dough minute dominion. >> you have to go to the streets and be violent. >> let's have trial by combat. >> today american patriots start kicking ass. >> you did this. hold them accountable. there's been a lot of media attention, particularly this week, on a couple of individual members of republican congress and congress, members who are really extreme, who have threatened their colleagues, promoted outlandish conspiracy theories. that attention is warranted. and there's also a former president and lots of members of congress

if josh hawley and ted cruz and that go along with crazy louie louie gohmert attempt in the house, the challenge 5 different states. there would not have been a platform that we're not because lake to stand out. but they decided for their own political benefit. go along with with the massive misinformation deception lie fraud campaign by the president of the united states to appease him and pieces supporters 44 there political ambitions in 2024 and josh hawley didn't really back off and let you saw 6 senators yesterday when they came back safe. we are withdrawing our objection because they understood what those objections had match legit but all in crews never back down the number the house and even cure mccarthy they didn't back down. there are people who need to be held accountable and not just every single person who stormed the u.s. capitol. but the president of the united states need to be held accountable huge heap the president let's put it in plain english the president the united states mash to do with the terrorists of 9.11 could not do attack the u.s. capitol. >>so as to how

republicans are going to bring challenges which we learned this week, but in a separate move congressman louie gohmert, a republican from texas, sought to change the role that the vice president would play in this. but now lawyers for mike pence are responding asking a judge to toss that out, saying essentially saying his role should not be altered, nor should the vice president have control in terms of what he can do next week on capitol hill. and when it comes to this, again, something that normally would only take an hour during other cycles but that this time is expected to take as long as potentially 24 hours. it could even stretch on longer than that because now we're going to see this process prolonged. though again we can't express enough to viewers we don't expect any kind of outcome to change. it's really more just an opportunity for republicans to object, to continue to make baseless claims of voter fraud when there is no widespread evidence of that. so what we're learning a little bit more though and insight into that the vice president does plan to take on this ceremonial role and not any

if josh hawley and ted cruz and that go along with crazy louie louie gohmert attempt in the house, thefferent states. there would not have been a platform that we're not because lake to stand out. but they decided for their own political benefit. go along with with the massive misinformation deception lie fraud campaign by the president of the united states to appease him and pieces supporters 44 there political ambitions in 2024 and josh hawley didn't really back off and let you saw 6 senators yesterday when they came back safe. we are withdrawing our objections because they understood what those objections that match legit but all in crews never back down the number the house and even joe mccarthy made it back though there are people who need to be held accountable. i'm not just every single person who stormed the u.s. capitol. but the president of the united states needs to be held accountable huge heap the president let's put in plain english the president the united states mash to do with the terrorists of 9.11 could not do attack the u.s. capitol. >>so as to how so how is going t

and all of a sudden, louie gohmert goes, hold my beer, i'm going to put in a lawsuit and call for violence. this is like the hold my beer caucus and it's unbelievable because that gets very dangerous and that's the -- that's the allegations you're talking about, ana. that's exactly what you're talking about. mcenany saying nsa infiltered voting machines. that's ludicrous. we're saying the u.s. army attacked a bar racks or a building in germany. fantasy. i just feel like this is, you know, this is not about alien abductions. we're talking about the united states of america and the constitution. if we keep doing this, if we keep saying, hold my beer, what's the republican party going to be at the end of all this? i don't know where it goes from here. what do we do next time? that's what scares me about this. and i'm sick of false equivalencies. i'm sick of people saying there's evidence of this somewhere. my goodness, there's some of the evidence i've seen has been a few people who voted illegally for donald trump. so, what are we going to do here? are we going to start standing up and sayin

also last night, a federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit from texas congressman louie gohmert that sought to change mike pence's role from a counter of the electoral college votes to a role that would allow him to hand trump the election. 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 nov

that some 140 house republicans are set to object to these results, including texas republican louie gohmert who actually filed a lawsuit against vice president mike pence, trying to force him to not certify the results from certain states that went for joe biden. the vice president's legal team responding to this lawsuit, and they write, in part, a suit to establish that the vice president has discretion over the count filed against the vice president is a walking legal contradiction. 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

a political party, you know, that has marjorie taylor green and lauren bobit and bob gates and louie gohmert cruz and ron johnson and tommy tubberville. this will be a very hard party for joe biden to do, but he certainly set the right tone. we've only used the term normalcy, but what i was struck by was watching that press briefing today and there was actual news being made because you have an actual -- an actual functioning government with a president who is engaged on the level of policy which we have not experienced in so long. keep in mind you have the american people watching this while the republican party continues to obsess about its own base and still remarkably cowering before a defeated, disgraced, twice impeached, ex-president who has basically been reduced to being fat elvis in florida right now, but he still has the whip of the republican party. >> it is strange, and i wonder, patrick, to put it back on your political director hat is how do you deal that? there is a divide and conquer strategy where they find a couple of mitt romneys and we'll peel them off and ignore the rest

giulianis and the trumps, and i would put into that category the josh hawleys, the ted cruzes and the louie gohmertshey have trouble -- what they were advocating came from a stance of fraud, a false claim that the election had been stolen from the american people, and that resonated with donald trump's base, that false claim. those false claims frame everything else that happened. if these were legitimate claims of a fraudulent election, we would be making entirely different legal arguments, so that's why these men who advocated this insurrection, this riot, and it turned deadly, they are going to have real potential criminal liability when there's a law-enforcing attorney general like merrick garland in place. >> wow, all right. >> glenn kirschner, you have explained it in a way i have not yet heard. thank you so much for your time this morning. >> i really appreciate it. >>> coming up, a former homeland security official under trump warned back in april that the president was creating the conditions for domestic extremism. she was right, and she's talking to us. s right, and she's talking to us. s

declaring he thinks the vice president, louie gohmert of texas, the sole discretion to decide who the electors are representing states. think about that. that would make such a mockery of democracy if we put it in the hands of one person. the sitting president of united states. rolled that tape back, 1961, do you think vice president richard mixing having lost to jack kennedy would accept electorates from illinois and texas and give the election to kennedy? what about al gore? >> dana: i'm going to stop you there for a moment because we have some breaking news. we want to bring in chad pergram as this is developing right now. i understand the capital is now on lockdown. >> they have annunciator's, these u.s. capitol police devices which are stationed around the building. it went off a couple of moments ago. they're locking down the capitol complex, no one is allowed in or out. they locked down, evacuated the cannon house office building. junior members have their offices and across the street from that they have evacuated the madison library. they then reopen that building, the cannon

overturning the electoral vote and inciting the violence or maybe at a minimum, maybe mo brooks and louie gohmert there. they're talking about the 14th amendment, which speaker pelosi also added in her memo. let me read you what this says. no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elector of vice president or vice president or hold any office civil or military under the united states or any other state who have previously taken an oath as a member of congress or an officer of the u.s. or any member of the state legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the constitution in the united states -- and this is the key part -- having engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. this came after the civil war and the purpose of this was to keep confederate members of the confederate congress out of the u.s. congress, charlie. but what do you think of the possibility of using this against people who spoke in support or people who spoke before the mob went to the capitol? >> i would be very concerne