merkley. mr. moran, ms. murkowski, mr. murphy, mrs. murray. [inaudible conversations] mr. ossoff, mr. padilla, mr. paul, mr.. peters. [inaudible conversations] mr. portman, mr. reid, mr. risch, mr. romney. ms. rosen, mr. rounds, mr. rubio, mr. sanders. [inaudible conversations] mr. sasse, mr. schatz, mr. schumer, mr. scott of florida. [inaudible conversations] mr. scott of south carolina, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby, ms. anna mom -- sinema. >> ms. smith, ms. stabenow, mr. sullivan, mr. tester. [inaudible conversations] mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. toomey, mr. tuberville. [inaudible conversations] mr. van hollen, mr. warner, mr. warnock, ms. warren. [inaudible conversations] mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. biden, mr. young. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> the senate will be in order. the senate will be in order. the sergeant-at-arms will make the proclamation. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye all persons are commanded to keep silent while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states and article of impeachment agains

merkley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, when we have a new administration, lots of changes take place, changes in offices, changes in committee assignments, but for all of us here in the senate, perhaps the most challenging change is when members of our team decide to open new chapters in their lives and we celebrate those new chapters and wish them well but we will also miss them greatly. i come to the floor to talk about three of my team members who are headed to a new chapter in each of their lives. scott mcguire has been a central part of our team since day one. he's my good friend, valued team member who is preparing a new chapter in his life in the form of well-deserved retirement. as of yesterday, january 26, he completed 12 years on our u.s. senate team as our state operations director. the boy scouts of america have a motto, be prepared. they also have a solicitor -- sa good turn daily. these are attributes that i have always held dear and it's qualities i look for when i build a team to serve the state

merkley, mr. pierce. trent >> please raise your right hand.you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? to bear true faith and allegiance to the same? do you take thisy obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion? and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? >> i do. >> i do. >> congratulations senator. [applause] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] >> clerk will call the names of the next pair. >> mr. reed mr. risch. >> [silence] >> please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear they will support and defend the constitution of the f united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? do you bear true faithyo and allegiance to the same? do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion? and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter so help you

senator merkley, it is -- thank you for coming on. let me start with what we should be looking for tomorrow. what do you expect, and do you think anything that happens in georgia tonight could turn the temperature down tomorrow? >> well, let's start with what we're expecting tomorrow is that since the states will go in alphabetical order in terms of examining the electors who have been certified by their secretary of state, we'll probably see arizona be the first test. and we don't know if the senators have decided -- the republican senators have decided if they're going to contest all six states or pick out a couple of them. perhaps georgia, arizona, so forth. but let's say arizona is the first. well, when they object, just one senator objects, and now we anticipate several will as indicated by the letter that cruz read. then we'll find ourselves in that debate in the senate and there are only two standards under the law for rejecting a slate of electors. one standard is that the electors were not properly certified under state autho

let's get some insight from democratic senator jeff merkley.chris. >> hawley and cruz, what do you think about the first move by the senate in terms of accountability for this, moving to censure them for this? >> yes, the two senators responsible for moving the big lie forward for those two. so they share tremendously for this assault on the capitol. >> what should be the best step forward? you have a lot of bad stuff to deal with, and other than the longshot that you get a two-thirds vote, you get 17 of them to cross lines in the senate, and get a second vote where you get a majority saying you want to ban him from office, that's a longshot. do you have any hesitation about this playing out? >> none at all, chris. this has to go forward. first, the constitution lays out the pattern. the senate has to vote, it's not optional. second of all, normally when the senate comes in, it only operates three days a week, from monday afternoon to thursday afternoon. we need to be operating six days a week, all day long. and we need to be taking and doing e

joining ing us is democratic sr from oregon jeff merkley. the breaking news we also learned from the biden mrgss, the white house says they came into office inheriting no plan for distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. no plan they say, they have to start from scratch. your reaction? >> well, that certainly fits with our understanding because the plan was, let the states figure it out. and so we had no national plan. and then we found out that the administration was essentially lying to the states when they said they had a large reserve for the second shots that could now be distributed because they had a sufficient supply chain support and there was no reserve. it had already been distributed. so there wasn't transparency. there wasn't honesty and there wasn't a plan. this is an affirmation or confirmation of that. and it just tells you how important it is now to have a seriously competent team at work to get these vaccinations into the arms of americans. >> how much desire do you have are go kind of investigation into what happened at th

merkley. >> mr. moran, ms. murkowski, mr. >> mr. ossoff, mr. padilla, mr.. mr. portman, mr. reed, mr. risc. >> ms. rosen, mr. rounds, mr. r. >> mr. sasse, mr. schatz, mr. s. >> mr. scott of south carolina,i nema. >> ms. smith, ms. stabenow, mr.. >> mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. t. >> mr. van hollen, mr. warner, . >> mr. whitehose, mr. wicker, m. [background sounds] [background sounds] >> the senate will be in order. be in order. the acting sergeant at arms make the proclamation. >> hear ye, , hear ye, hear ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent on payment imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states an article of impeachment against donald john trump former president of the united states. >> mr. president? >> the senator from kentucky. >> article to section four of the constitution says the president, vice president and all fellow officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for an conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. article one section three clause six state

senator merkley, what, if anything, do you think should happen now with regard to president trump? time we have. we need to have our energy going into preparing for a very successful coming administration with joe biden we have a lot of work to do to address the issues, the foundations for families to thrive, to repair our democracy. i mean, we just had this situation where president trump has said, "look at all the problems we have." there were problems, but those were gerrymandering, voter suppression, and dark money. that's why we should be spending our time now preparing, hopefully in a bipartisan way, to pass the for the people act to improve our electoral process. >> senator klobuchar, to you, what do you think of some of these proposals from democrats, your colleagues in the house what do you think should happen? >> well, i would support them, because i think what this president has done is basically engage in insurrection but i also want to note that it is only 13 days away from the moment that joe and kamala will be sworn in. a lot of our work, as jeff mentioned, is we hav

merkley. mr. peters. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? the senators: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next pair. the clerk: mr. reed. mr. risch. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are ab

joining me now to talk about that is senator jeff merkley of oregon.kbuster report in "the washington post" nah michael flynn's brother was in the room and despite the fact that the army denied the, lieutenant general charles flynn, he confirmed that he was in the room during a tense january 6th phone call during which the capitol police and d.c. officials pleaded with the pentagon to dispatch the national guard urgencely and they expressed concern about having the guard at the capitol. is this something to which we should expect hearings and what is your reaction to the news? >> my reaction that simply being in the room is not up expected. there had to be army authorities of high level in the room. the question is what was said and why is it that the army lied to the american public, lied to congress about general flynn being a part of that meeting? i'll tell you that anyone who instructed the army to lie to congress and the american people, that is conduct unbecoming an officer and that should have consequences, and certainly it raises the question o

. >> where is senator merkley. >> it's completely your call they have been doing masks on or masks off. >> and captures them all. >> please raise your right hand. >> you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and bear true faith and allegiance to the same. take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of invasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which are about to enter. so help me god. >> i do. >> thank you. >> my great honor. >> my honor. >> will take a forward picture. >> and again, three, two, one. >> thank you. >> take care. >> senator. >> vice president. >> congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> it's a great day. >> raise your right hand. >> do solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. do you bear true faith and allegiance to do the same, take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well

to do his best effort at it in the end i would place my money on reconciliation. >> senator jeff merkley, democrat from oregon, i know this is an extraordinarily busy hour for us to be making this request. i appreciate you multitasking for us, thank you, sir. >> you're very welcome, thank you. >>> up next, the next phase of the disinformation crisis in this country. with president biden now in office and qanon followers are losing faith, but where will they turn? plus the stunning statistic about how much less misinformation is out there. now that president trump has been deplatformed. we'll be right back. re-entering data that employees could enter themselves? that's why i get up in the morning! i have a secret method for remembering all my hr passwords. my boss doesn't remember approving my time off. let's just... find that email. the old way of doing business slows everyone down. with paycom, employees enter and manage their own hr data in one easy-to-use software. visit paycom.com for a free demo. at fidelity, you get personalized wealth planning and unmatched overall value. together

senator jeff merkley tweeting this video of his ransacked office and we are also learning more about the woman who was shot and killed by capitol police ashley babbott seen here with a pro trump group heading to the capitol in this video obtained by tmz. she was a decorated air force veteran who served in iraq and afghanistan. the officer who shot her has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. meanwhile, members o congress are now demanding answers about the massive security failure with crowds able to overrun what's supposed to be one of the country's most secure buildings. >> if this had been a military operation the commanders would be instantly relieved of duty >> savannah, it is so striking the hear from military veterans in congress about their experiences. >> reporter: there are a lot of recent veterans who are now members of congress who found themselves in that combat mind-set today one told us today i thought could i grab the marine sword in my office battle mode in the last place they ever expected, lester >> yeah. all right. savannah guthrie in wash

jeff merkley, senator from oregon was on our show yesterday, and we put up the picture of the 16 senatormeet with brian deese over the weekend to try to hammer out some greet on the $1.9 trillion in the relief package, and the first thing merkley said, there's no progressives here. that's all centrists and i'm not sure i like the idea that this new white house is going to say, hey, we're just going to work with the middle. >> i think that's a really important point. biden is very focused on the middle, but the reality is that the democratic party is quite divided. and he does need to take care of liberals and progressives. there was something of a truce during the general election where liberals, you know, biden was not their first choice and liberals say, look, you're certainly better for us than donald trump. so we're not going to keep taking shots at you throughout this general election. that's going to change. if they feel like their agenda is getting lift on the sidelines. if they feel like biden isn't going far enough. he is going to hear from them. so, yes, he does need to focus o

merkley. mr. peters. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? the senators: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next pair. the clerk: mr. reed. mr. risch. the vice president: please raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are ab

merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon is is recognized. mr. merkley: mr. president, i invite all of my colleagues to cast your eyes upon these three boxes sitting on the table in front of the dais. these three boxes contain the certified results from every state in our union regarding how that state voted, how their electors have voted for the president of the united states of america. you know, you cast your eyes on these three boxes, and you know that there's something special. you see that there are straps on them holding the top on and straps around the side, and they're engraved, beautiful handle, beautiful ledger work. crafted in the cabinet shop of our very senate. to say that the would recalled that their cargo is -- to say that the would recalled that their cargo -- to saithe the world that their -- to say to the world that their cargo is precious. so many states were celebrating this process that they started to use very large forms, very large envelopes,

democrat senator jeff merkley of oregon showing a picture of electoral college ballots.ued from the senate floor today before the chaos broke out. republican senator mike brawn among those objecting to the electors today. late today then saying what happened should not be tolerated. and senator joe manchin tonight a democrat telling reporters that, "we are going to finish this tonight." i want to bring in trish turner, who was excellent with her reporting today. and do we expect the dozen or so senators to fight this certification in the hours ahead? what have you learned? se rorte ems kell this cos and drama as served to do the exact opposite of what the protesters have wanted, and that's the unify lawmakers. chuck schumer came out and said the senate chamber will meet at 8:00 tonight. they have to vote down the arizona objection, the joint session will then resume and lawmakers are determined they will finish this tonight. unclear if there are two other objections on pennsylvania and georgia, but it does not look like it right now. >> all right, trish turner with us to

where's senator merkley. >> it's completely your call. they've been doing and masks on and off. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, both foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations. we will take a picture. and again. three, two, one. [inaudible conversations] congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, both foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which

or merkley, thank you for your time today. good luck going forward. good luck getting back to work it appears that at least on one side of the capitol, much calmer now what's happening where you stand? >> we just saw bus loads of national guard head into the capitol grounds, george. there have been 1,100 d.c. national guard called up and 600 national guard from virginia. we see fbi officers actually just inches from us here, walking down constitution ave e avenue. we'll just follow them here. let me get out of the way. but those bus loads are there, we assume they're going to clear out the last of the crowd, because, george, it's not 6:00 p.m., there's a curfew in effect and they've announced that anybody who is not out of there will be arrested and there is so much lawn enforcement -- hang on. hang on. we've got some more vehicles coming here, let's get out of the way. we saw those arrests earlier. we have armored police vehicles going down here. if you look down constitution avenue, it is all law enforcement coming up this way, going down that way,

. >> where is senator merkley. >> it's completely your call they have been doing masks on or masks off. >> and captures them all. >> please raise your right hand. >> you solemnly swear you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. and bear true faith and allegiance to the same. take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of invasion and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which are about to enter. so help me god. >> i do. >> thank you. >> my great honor. >> my honor. >> will take a forward picture. >> and again, three, two, one. >> thank you. >> take care. >> senator. >> vice president. >> congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> it's a great day. >> raise your right hand. >> do solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. do you bear true faith and allegiance to do the same, take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well

merkley. mr. murphy? mrs. murray? mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. port man. mr. reid? mr. rich? mr. romney. miss rosens. mr. brown. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. [inaudible]. mr. shots. mr. schumer? mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. sheheen. mr. shelby? miss smith? [inaudible]. mr. sullivan? mr. [inaudible]. mr. thune? mr. tillis? mr. tubberville? mr. warner? miss warren? mr. whitehouse? mr. whicker? mr. widen? mr. young? >> [silence]. >> [silence continues]. >> [silence]. >> [no audible conversations]. >> laura: the senate is voting on the objection to the arizona election results. chad pergram has breaking news. tell us what you just learned about why congress might be here late into the night? >> it's going to take a while because hawley the republican from missouri who announced first he would object to the electoral votes indicated he would continue his objection to the state of pennsylvania. that's next in the mix. this is the vote whether or not to certify arizona. the house of representatives across the building is still debating arizona. they will take a vot

you're a senator, i spoke to your colleague senator jeff merkley just a little while ago.ks the impeachment trial potentially could be very quick, maybe even two or three days. do you agree, or are you worried it could drag out, bog down the incoming administration's agenda? >> well, we're hoping to move it quickly. of course there's only one count, one article of impeachment here that the president incited the insurrection. what we don't know, wolf, is what kind of defense the president intends to put on. he's entitled to put on a defense. right now apparently they're having trouble finding people who want to conduct that defense for him. so the timeline depends partly on that. we are working very hard to double track our activity in the senate, so that we can proceed with nominees for the biden administration. hearings will start on tuesday, the day before the inauguration, for some of the key national security posts. but we're hopping to double track this so we can do two things at once. >> because under the normally rules, i don't know if there will be normal rules, fo

in 20192020 and american political science association congressional fellow in the office of jeff merkleyof oregon and a long-time proponent of the filibuster reform i will begin with opening statements from carlos and then rich followed by responses from each which they will be welcome to pose questions to the other and from there i will offer questions which each will respond and then we will turn to questions from the audience. viewers you can submit questions for the speakers either by e-mailing events at brookings.edu or twitter using the handle brookings inc. by using the # filibuster reform. again thank you all for joining us and carlos i will ask you to begin with your opening statement. >> thank you for joining us, think yet molly at brookings for putting this together and thank you rich for a great conversation regarding the future of the filibuster. the way and i approach as a political scientist it is really understanding the fundamental nature of the united states senate and to understand that nature it is impossible to escape the notion that if you were to design democratic

i am told senator merkley is with us. >> i mnd. greetings everyone and thank you so much for your testimony. the advantage of coming out and i can discuss to some degree perhaps more in depth starting with new start. one of the questions is how long does does it extend new start and how that might play into possibly launching negotiations in some of the evolving threats. >> thank you senator. in the first instance for all of the challenges we have seen an arms control agreements with russia burt yuli imf as well as to some extent open skies based on what i've seen based on what the trump administration reporter when it comes to new start russia would make good on its obligations and new start is not some kind of thing we get to the russians that is manifestly in our self-interest in terms of giving us a predictable on the core of russia's nuclear arsenal as well as giving us tremendous access to data and inspections that we otherwise wouldn't have. in our judgment it is certainly in the national interest to extend it. we discussed

joining us now, democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon.ittee. senator, i was so struck by congressman raskin's comments that this isn't a trial that will result in anybody going to jail. it's a process meant to protect us, to protect the country, and i wonder if that won't be the emphasis to your republican colleagues in the senate. >> yeah, jamie raskin was absolutely right. it does two things. protects it in two ways. one is that if a person has engaged in insurrection or inciting insurrection, they should never hold a position of trust in the future so that certainly is one way of protecting the united states. the second is it sends a message to future leaders that if you engage in this type of conduct, there will be consequences. there will be accountability. and that's a very important message for us to send. and i must say, having just come from the floor a little while ago and the vote that was taken as to whether to proceed with this trial, i'm afraid we do not have our republican colleagues firmly supporting the vision of our cons

where this guy was streaming live as he occupied jeff merkley's office and sort of messed around with the phone, interviewed other rioters. and it was in fact a guy i used to work with at buzzfeed who was a social media editor basically, a guy who had kind of come to prominence on the old video platform of mine where he had poured gallons of buckets of milk on his head. and it was somebody who, and i called some of our old colleagues. i didn't know him well then. to say what was his deal? and really their impression was he was somebody who had just kind of followed the signal of the internet wherever it led and found himself getting engagement by being an anti-semite. he followed that and it led him here. >> and what does that tell you? bedroom watching msnbc -- watching, you know, videos and getting radicalized. watching youtube videos that push him toward al qaeda or toward the alt right. and this is a situation. this is different. this is someone who got radicalized by performing. like he was -- he had an audience for this stuff and he was really reflecting back to this audience wh

merkley? >> no. >> mr. moran? >> no. >> ms. murkowski? >> no. >> mr. murphy? >> no. >> mrs. murray? >> no. >> mr. paul? >> no. >> mr. peters? >> no. >> mr. portman? >> no. >> mr. reid? >> no. >> mr. ricsh? >> no. >> mr. romney? >> no. >> ms. rosen? >> no. >> mr. rounds? >> no. >> mr. rubio? >> no. >> mr. sanders? >> no. >> mr. sasse? >> no. >> mr. shots? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> no. >> mr. scott of florida? >> no. >> mr. scott of south carolina? >> no. >> mrs. shaheen? >> no. >> mr. shelby? >> no. >> ms. sinema? >> no. >> ms. smith? >> no. >> ms. stabenow? >> no. >> mr. sullivan? >> no. >> mr. tester? >> no. >> mr. thune? >> no. >> mr. tillis? >> no. >> mr. toomey? >> no. >> mr. tubberville? >> aye. >> mr. van holland? >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> ms. warren? >> no. >> mr. white house? >> no. >> mr. wicker? >> no. >> mr. wyden? >> no. >> mr. young? >> no. . >> what we just saw was senators vote down the first objection to joe biden's electoral vote tally in arizona. then they're going to proceed to the house to continue on with this process. by the way, a process that was interr

merkley. >> no. >> mr. moran. >> no. >> ms. murkowski. >> no. >> mr. murphy. >> no. >> mrs. murray. >> no. >> mr. paul. >> no. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> no. >> mr. reed. >> no. >> mr. risch. >> no. >> mr. romney. >> no. >> ms. rosen. >> no. >> mr. rounds. >> no. >> mr. rubio. >> no. >> mr. sanders. >> no. >> mr. sasse. >> no. >> mr. shotz. >> no. >> mr. schumer. >> no. >> mr. scott of florida. >> no. >> mr. scott of south carolina. >> no. >> mrs. shaheen. >> no. >> mr. shelby. >> [ inaudible ]. >> miss sinema. >> no. >> miss smith. >> no. >> miss stabenow. >> no. >> mr. sullivan. >> no. >> mr. tester. >> no. >> mr. thune. >> no. >> mr. tillis. >> no. >> mr. toomey. >> no. >> mr. tuberville. >> aye. >> mr. van hollen. >> no. >> mr. warner. >> no. >> ms. warren. >> no. >> mr. whitehouse. >> no. >> mr. ricker. >> no. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> no. >> what's happening is they are just tallying the votes that were just voted by the u.s. senators. you saw all of the senators, we believe are in the chamber. they voted orally. it's being tabulated by the cl

up next, jeff merkley from oregon. this is your state.tted heads with republicans for years. and yet now this is the formal position of the republican party of the entire state of oregon. and what do you say to this? this is nonsensical. >> it is so profoundly disturbing. it is like the executive committee that's leading the party has gone down the conspiracy sinkhole. surrounded by trump media that's just, they breathe it in continuously, it is on their cable television, it is on their talk radio, getting it in social media, and somehow they just become completely detached from reality. to call this a false flag operation, make excuses for inciting insurrection, making excuses for the insurrection itself, they went even further in this statement by the party. they called those republican members of congress who voted to impeach trump, they called those members benedict arnolds. labeling them as traitors, endangering their lives. this isn't just oregon. this is happening around the country. and we see it in arizona where the party is atta

. >> senator merkley tweet out, electoral college ballots were rescued from the senate floor. capable for staff hadn't grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob. the electoral college votes brought in in mahogany boxes from the state. you saw the proceedings at the beginning of the joint session in the house chamber with the vice president, mike pence presiding over the electoral college was taken out, given to the vice president and then passing along to the tellers house republican and democrats and senate republican and democrat reading out loud those votes. happened next very early on in the process was an objection to arizona's 11 electoral college votes. they gaveled down in joint session, the senate went back to the chamber and began debates. that's when the protesters went to capitol hill, breached security there, went past police and into the actual building itself what do you make of all this? [laughter] >> thanks for having me on. i do watch it pretty often, a national treasure but i want to ask you a question. can you imagine, where are capital police? i

i want to go to jeff merkley. there are calls for senator cruz and senator hawley to resign over their roles and all of this. president-elect biden said voters should be the one to remove them from office. what do you fall on this? >> i think for them to resign is appropriate. there were two insurrections this week. one was a mob outside the capitol trying to disrupt the process and they could have gotten their hands- on the electoral ballots, they would have burned them. they voted to burn the ballots of pennsylvania and they did not comply with the constitutional role of counting the ballots. they made no case that indeed there were some great flaw in the election. they said simply because there is a mob that's upset, we should listen to them and do what they want and interrupt this process. that's not a stature of a u.s. senator. that's not the way to show leadership. they should have said to the mob you were wrong, the president is wrong. the election was valid. that's how we sustain the institutions that have

senator merkley takes us inside his office following the riot showing what the group did on wednesdayligans who attacked the capitol smashed the door virtually off its hinges tore things off the wall, including this chinese scroll that a very good friend of mine had made by renounce artist. left a flag. the trump flag here to mark their presence. stole the laptop that was sitting on the table next to the telephone. todd: merkley has not confirmed what may have been on his laptop or whether it was able to be remotely wiped. his office was not the only one targeted. rioters causing damage to speaker nancy pelosi's office one even posing for a picture behind her desk. the washington, d.c. police department along with the fbi are asking for help identifying the suspects. they are offering up to a $1,000 reward for tips that lead to an indictment. back to you. brian brine thanks, todd, i'm sure there are other stories like that we will be hearing about. meanwhile, 18 minutes before the top of the hour. let's bring in sean duffy, fox news contributor, used to work in that very building, con

merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon is is recognized. mr. merkley: mr. president, i invite all of my colleagues to cast your eyes upon these three boxes sitting on the table in front of the dais. these three boxes contain the certified results from every state in our union regarding how that state voted, how their electors have voted for the president of the united states of america. you know, you cast your eyes on these three boxes, and you know that there's something special. you see that there are straps on them holding the top on and straps around the side, and they're engraved, beautiful handle, beautiful ledger work. crafted in the cabinet shop of our very senate. to say that the would recalled that their cargo is -- to say that the would recalled that their cargo -- to saithe the world that their -- to say to the world that their cargo is precious. so many states were celebrating this process that they started to use very large forms, very large envelopes,

senator jeff merkley tweets out, electric thunderstorm college ballots were rescued electoral college ballots were rescued from the floor. if they hasn't been saved they would have been burned. those were brought in in those boxes from the states. you saw the proceedings at the beginning of the joint session in the house chamber with the vice president, mike pence, presiding over the electric thunderstorm college votes take electoral college votes taken. what happened next or very early on in the process was an objection to arizona's 11 electoral college votes. they gaveled down that joint session. the senate went back to their chamber and they began debate and then that is when the protesters went to capitol hill , breached the security there, went past the capitol police and into the actual building itself. pete in florida. what do you make of all of his? caller: thanks for having me on, i don't think i've ever watched c-span live, i d watch it pretty often, you guys are a national treasure. you know, let me ask you a question. have you -- can you imagine, where are the capitol poli

i want to thank my cosponsors in this effort, senator sanders, reed, cardin, merkley and leahy. we're joined by congressman garcia. three quarters of a century ago much of the world laid in ruins as a result of global war. the united states made an unprecedented commitment to help the nations of the world rise from the ashes of world war ii and rebuild. we did so because it was in keeping with our moral beliefs and it served our political and economic interests. the marshall plan and other international aid efforts by the u.s. helped make america the most powerful nation on earth politically and economically. this global crisis, covid-19, gives us another opportunity to strengthen america as we help repair a damaged world. of course our first priority is american families, and this effort would not take a single dollar away from buying the vaccines that are necessary to keep our nation safe. but by using these special drawing rights, we provide resources to some of the poorest nations around the world so that they too can start vaccinating their population. this world got sick,

joining me now to try to answer that question is caton dawson, republican strategist at merkley publica gop chair. very happy to have you with me. we have quite a lot to get to and not a lot of time. but i want to ask you in 2012 when the gop did an autopsy and talked about the challenges and shortcomings appealing to voters of color, the righting majorities in this country, i think we can agree it's time for another autopsy. you know how people look at the republican party. southern white men of a certain age. there are determinations made that donald trump punctuated. what is your autopsy now of the gop now in a post-donald trump party? and what responsibility as a member of the gop do you take in hoping to unite this country? >> you cover a lot of issues there but what donald trump did, tiffany, is bring 9 billion new people into the last election. we didn't wit but we had a lot of successes at the state level, like my home state of south carolina. >> do you want those people? a lot of those people were like qanon supporters and white supremacists. are those the people you want in t

. >> thank you, senator merkley. senator booker. thank you for your usual patience.s yours. >> i appreciate that, chairman, and so good to see you here. >> thank you. >> today. i watched the whole hearing on my television in my office and was real appreciative of the generous spirit on both sides of the aisle and the substance of the question. i did hear one colleague though refer to biden administration's nominees as embracing china. i think that was the exact wording, and i found that just patently unfair and untrue, and then i heard one speech being taken in a way that was patently offensive to me in a moment that we just had a siege on the capitol, and i would actually say that of all the members here of this committee there's not one that doesn't have something in a speech in their past that they regret doing as this person has said, especially at a time when we see people whipped up to storm a capitol and the perpetuation of baseless lies that an election that was won by 7 million votes was a fraud, and so i'm -- i'm particularly galled that in the spirit of bi

. >> senator merkley are you with us virtually?he floor is yours. >> greetings and thank you for your testimony today. i want to start by asking about the security council itself. at the same time china and russia stymie action, the security council's increasingly representative of the geopolitical landscape with key powers like india, germany, japan. having posed the question of the security council how do you consider that perhaps it needs to be reformed and how do you believe it can be made more effective and functional? >> i think there is general agreement across the board that reforms are needed on the security council and how those will be implemented i think remains to be decided. but changing the number of members that have been removed from 11 to 15 some years ago. and there are efforts to push for more permanent members and those discussions are ongoing do you think india, germany, japan should be members? >> i think there's been discussions about them being members of the security council and there were some strong argu

senator merkley is with us. >> i am indeed, thank you so much for your testimony.the advantage of coming near the end is discussing at some degree, invite you to this floor perhaps a little more starting with newstar, how one extends the advantages in a short period or longer period and how that might play in 2 watching negotiations to evolving threats. >> in the first instance for all the challenges in arms control agreements particularly with inf, based on what we have seen in the trump administration reported russia was making good on its obligations. it is not some kind of gift we give to the russians. it is manifestly in self-interest in terms of giving us a predictable on the core of russia's nuclear arsenal giving tremendous access to data and inspections we otherwise wouldn't have. in our judgment it is in the national interest to extend it. we discussed earlier because of focus on making sure we respect, when the president-elect becomes president, we will engage quickly. it would be our intention to come immediately to this committee or other committees to