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we're covering all of it with senator mazie hirono joining us live. as we talk about the senate it is now coming into session with a deal on the horizon. mitch mcconnell dropping a key demand for chuck schumer. why some democrats fell in line with the gop leader on this one and what it means for all of those big legislative proposals from the white house. the log jam clearly over when it comes to cabinet confirmations. senators making moves on three more of them today, on picks for commerce, along with homeland security and the state department. a big deal. plus, the action today at the white house, what we're learning about how president biden is trying to try to improve racial equity with the stroke of a pen. i'm hallie jackson in washington. here to start us off garrett haake on capitol hill, kara lee near the white house. garrett, let me start with you. a few hours until senators are sworn in for this historic trial. we have never seen this before. we've never seen senators sworn in now for the second time, right, of an impeachment trial of the sa

with me now is mazie hirono, one of the senators filing that complaint.nk you for being with us. >> good evening. >> you can explain why you and your six colleagues think it's important to bring the ethics complaint now? >> neither one of these senators have expressed any contrition for what happened and in spite of the fact that newspapers and people have been calling on them to resign, including myself, they're not going to resign and we would like to have an investigation by the senate ethics committee whether or not they engaged in conduct that would result in disciplinary action including expulsion. >> i want to quote, it says the actions of which we know demand an investigation and determination of whether disciplinary action is warranted. now as you know, each house of congress has the right with the two-thirds vote to expel a member, recommendation of expulsion hasn't happened since 1995. is that what you are potentially talking about here, expulsion? >> that's one, that could be one of the disciplinary actions. after all, you know what? these two

joining us now is democratic senator mazie hirono, one of the senators calling for the ethics probe. senator hirono, good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you want to see happen to senators hawley and cruz? >> we're asking the ethics committee of the senate to investigate their role in attempting to overturn the results of a free and fair election. in fact, going into the january 6th count, they were very proud of the leadership role they were taking in trying to overturn the free and fair results. so now we're asking for an investigation into improper conduct by these two senators leading to the insurrection in the capitol and five people dying and many people injured. >> do you have information that there was more than the fact that they just challenged and denied the election results? do you have some sort of information that they were somehow in cahoots with the insurrectionists? i know that some of the questions you're asking is, did they encourage the insurrection? did they coordinate with the organizers of the rally? did they receive donations from any of the organizers wh

joining me now, mazie hirono, a member of the judiciary committee. >> hello, don. >> thank you.ou. you're going to need 17 republicans to convict president trump. the majority leader mitch mcconnell is indicating he thinks president trump committed impeachable offenses. will the gop fall in line if he votes to convict? >> i don't think they'll all fall in line. i don't think mitch mcconnell is going to flip the caucus. so, the thing is that this impeachment trial, which is very different from the first impeachment trial is this trial, we were all there. we were there. we heard the president. we heard what he said. we saw what happened. and so, yes, we need to decide whether the president in fact incited an insurrection on another branch of government. and i say that happened. the second is to prevent the president from ever holding public office again. >> it's just stunning to me that yet your many colleagues -- some of your colleagues in the house and senate voted to try to have the election overturned. >> yes. >> are you worried about the impeachment trial taking away from pre

. >>> mazie hirono of hawaii joins me now. let's begin on the upcoming trial. >> good morning. >> thank you very much for being here. so, aside from mitt romney who made very clear in the great interview that our dana bash did with him yesterday, that he thinks a trial of a former president is constitutional. you have a number of republican senators coming out and saying they don't think it is. and then you have comments from wicker and cornyn who said a conviction, the chances are nil. you have senator brawn saying it is hard to get a handful of republicans to convict the president. i wonder if you think that any support for convicting the president among your republican colleagues is waning? >> i think that there is certainly pulling back on some of the outrage that they talked about after january 6th. so this is typical a party that does not want to take responsibility and the fact is that this trial will give the republicans a chance to, after hearing the evidence, and we all experienced this insurrection in realtime by th

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joining us now democratic senator mazie hirono. your democratic colleague in the house of representatives, james clyburn, he laid out the potential time line for this. listen to this. >> we'll take the vote in the house and she will make the determination as to when is the best time to get that vote, to get the managers appointed and move that legislation over to the senate. it just so happens that if it did go over there 100 days -- let's give president-elect biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running and maybe we'll send the articles some time after that. >> so what do you think, senator? you're a member of the judiciary committee in the senate. do you believe the house should vote to impeach the president let's say some time over the next ten days and then wait let's say 100 days or until the house sends over the actual articles of impeachment to the senate for a formal trial? >> first, i completely agree with both chuck schumer and nancy pelosi saying -- to do a resolution that formalizes a request to the vic

. >>> next on "velshi," democratic senators mazie hirono and debbie stabenow react to a bid by a groupurn the election. "velshi" starts after a quick break. on "velshi" starts after a quick break. >>> good morning. it's sunday, january 3 aeferd. i'm ali velshi. 17 days now until president-elect joe biden takes office, and we've hit a grim milestone. more than 350,000 people in this country have died from covid-19. and just yesterday, the united states reported a single-day record for new cases, and it's a big one -- 275,897. to make matters worse, a new and more contagious strain of covid is spreading throughout the united states, but all of that this morning is sadly eclipsed by the circus that has taken over capitol hill, and i'm not talking about the swearing in of new congressional members, which is set to take place later today. i'm refer

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