president trump's former chief of staff mick mulvaney is quitting his current post. l envoy to northern ireland, he told cmb say he cannot stay and expect others to follow. mulvaney said those who stay now are doing so because they are afraid the president might put someone worse in. on air and on quicktake. i'm ritika gupta, this is bloomberg. ♪ >> what happened today in -- we believe in the strength of our democracy. strength ofn the american democracy. yesterday was a disgraceful act and it must be vigorously condemned. i have no doubt that american democracy will prevail. it always has. happened in the united states is terribly distressing. one of the world's greatest democracies. i have no doubt that will prevail. lisa: world leaders weighing in on what we have seen in .ashington dc emmanuel macron, benjamin ofanyahu, and scott morrison australia. we have seen a change in terms of what is expected for the year ahead with democrat seizing control of the senate. we are seeing a lift and markets. coming up on the open we will be talking about all of this as well as

as we just reported, former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney just resigned as a special envoy to northern ireland moments ago. >> let me just read you some of the things he said because they're rather stunning. he said i called mike pompeo to let him know that i would be resigning from that. i just -- i can't do it. i can't stay mulvaney said. he said i wouldn't be surprised to see more of my friends resign over the course of the next 24 hours. so buckle up. sources tell cnn that during the deadly insurrection the president was, quote, borderline enthusiastic about the attempted coup. he did not want to condemn his supporters. he said to be so furious with vice president mike pence now that he banned the vp's chief of staff mark short from the west wing. mark short might be on this list of resignations we're seeing. a former white house official tells cnn the president is out of his mind. this morning four people are dead from this event yesterday including one woman who was shot inside the capitol. obviously these images simply shocking to see. the armed standoff on the house

, i believe, fourth resignation. >> the former chief of staff mick mulvaney.s, ball is in your court. how are you going to handle it this morning? mike pence, how are you going to handle is this? national security adviser o'brien, how are you going to handle it? >>> right now we want to take a moment to update you on the other deadly crisis facing the united states, the worsening coronavirus virus, 3,875 deaths were reported on wednesday alone, that's a new record, more than 132,000 people wake up in the hospital this morning with coronavirus, that's also a record. vaccinations are not meeting the promises the administration made for 12 -- sorry, for 20 million people plus. only 5.3 million americans have been vaccinated, only 30% of the total doses distributed have been administered. >>> and "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and good morning, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." it is a new day. it is an important day. this morning we can report that the inc

>> mick mulvaney, we've been friends, i talked to him twice since he was in the administration.uring the obama administration, i was running a bill at 1:00 a.m. in the morning on the appropriations for the veterans administration. and he came down to the floor, i had my hand over the microphone he said i need to talk to you immediately. he had an amendment to make it easier to display the confederate flag at a veterans cemetery. he asked if i would support it, i said this is problematic. i was getting cranky. he said i can't believe you won't support me. i said, no, it's a problem. he went to the leadership. they said you told mick you didn't need his vote. i said it's going to pass. he came back and said i can't believe you're going to help me. i said, i'm from pennsylvania we won that war, no. this is the kind of stuff, i see the confederate flag going through the capitol, near the plaque, where there's a bust of abraham lincoln. it's dedicated to the folks in allentown who responded to the call to defend. i looked at that and said this is not the america i believe in and that

so did the president's envoy in northern ireland and former chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> i called mike pompeo last night, let him know, tell him i'd be resigning. i can't do t i can't stay. we didn't sign up for what you saw last night. we signed up for making america great again. we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation. the president has a long list of successes that we can be froupr of. for example, you can go and talk about the lowest in i in history. talk about the fact he's the first president in recent memory not to start a war overseas during his term. there are great successes there we can take pride in. all of that went away yesterday. i think you're right to ask the question as to how did it happen? >> yeah. gosh, how did it happen? mr. mulvaney? perhaps you should look in the mirror because whenever the

happen even if there was a reason. >> joining me now is president trump's former chief of staff, mick mulvaney who himself just resigned as special envoy to northern ireland as a result of wednesday's riot. mr. mulvaney, welcome back to "meet the press." to viewers and yourself, yes, i have a rough voice. a lot of broadcasting during the week and a lot of hot water and lemon this weekend. mr. mulvaney, let me start with -- you worked with him very closely. what is his state of mind right now? >> chuck, thanks very much for having me. sorry you're feeling under the weather. i don't know. i know what it would have been like eight months, a year ago, i have seen the president in similar circumstances, certainly nothing of this gravity. i've not told folks this story before about how we had an incident duringthe impeachment wh he was accused in social media or bysome politicians of interfering with a witness while she was testifying. i know a little bit about witness intimidation, didn't think it was a legal problem, but we knew it was a political problem. i went to him privately, closed the door

well we've had a lot of talk a lot of speculation but as you say very little action mick mulvaney he used to be chief of staff to the president cunningly he was a special envoy to northern ireland as of the last couple of hours he is no longer handed in his resignation said he simply couldn't 7 the trumpet ministration any longer also we saw the resignation on wednesday night of stephanie grisham she was the press secretary for donald trump for some time distinguished herself in that role by never holding a briefing in the briefing room she then moved on to become chief of staff to parsley the malani a trump she quit as did a couple of junior staffers but there's been speculation that others are going to go including cabinet secretaries like elaine chao who's also a mad aide to mitch mcconnell the leader of the republicans in the senate rubber o'brien the national security advisor his deputy but they haven't made any move certainly it's been more speculation elbow a lot of chatter about that in washington but no one else has joined mick mulvaney by handing in their resignation there

we had mick mulvaney resign, as you mentioned. staff,st lady's chief of also the former white house press secretary, resigned as well. the deputy press secretary resigned. and the national security advisor, robert o'brien, considered resigning before he was persuaded to stay on. if that is any indication, there's great consternation in the white house amongst the staff about whether to stay on for the last two weeks of the administration. alix: there was great reporting out of bloomberg as to what went on in donald trump's mind of the last 12 hours. take us through the psychology and what the frame of mind is currently. mario: we know that the president had been pushing this up substantiated claim that mike pence had the ability to reject the electoral college results, essentially helping him to overturn the election. we know that mike pence, who has been quite loyal to the president, extremely loyal to the president over these last four years, broke with him because he felt he did not have the constitutional authority to enact th

lady a maloney a trump she quit and there was a couple of others in the white house who resigned mick mulvaney is a former chief of staff former head of the office of management and administration and no this special envoy to northern ireland he's gone he called might pompey or in the last couple of hours and said he couldn't stay because of what he saw yesterday and so he has gone and there are others apparently are considering resignation including robert o'brien who's the national security advisor and his deputy however in instances like this and you remember after charlottesville there were people who talked about resigning but never actually did so mick mulvaney is actually followed through be interesting to see if there's more before the end of the day as for invoking the 25th amendment which involves replacing the president there has been some talk of it partly it's all been an informal nothing official but it would take mike pence the vice president really to make the most significant moving get together members of the cabinet and with the majority of the cabinet suggest that the presi

and joining us now, mick mulvaney, president trump's former chief of staff who resigned this week as the administration's special envoy to northern ireland. mick, after all of the controversial things that donald trump did over the last four years, why was this week the final straw? why now, say that you could no longer be part of this administration? >> chris, good morning, thanks for having me. i think everybody recognizes that what happened on wednesday is different. you could go down the long litany of things that people complained about with donald trump, and i could probably defend many of them, many were styleistic differences. wednesday was different. it struck to the heart of what it means to be an american and it was wrong and i think it was important for those of us who used to be on the inner circle -- i mean, you and i have been doing this for years. i came in in 2010, the tea party, i started the freedom caucus with mark meadow, i was the chief of staff. i thought it was important for somebody who is not establishment, who is not a never-trumper to come out and say, it w

mick mulvaney, mr.rump's former chief of staff, left his diplomatic post. >> i just, i can't do it. i can't stay. >> reporter: wednesday's violence prompted twitter to suspend the president's account and facebook and instagram to block him until after the inauguration. a trump ally a trump ally who's in close touch with the white house tells cbs news, cutting off mr.trump's ability to vent means he's almost more dangerous now. today, the president's former chief of staff, general john kelly, said if he were still a member of the cabinet, he would support invoking the 25th amendment, and former attorney general william barr said the president's conduct was a betrayal of his office and supporters. norah. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang, thank you. president-elect joe biden today denounced the rioters who stormed the capitol, and blamed president trump for inciting them. mr. biden also accused authorities of treating the pro- trump mob more leniently than anti-racism demonstrators who protested in washington la

my phone lit up because, for the last year, while mick mulvaney has been the special envoy to northern ireland, his day job has had nothing to do with this administration. he's been out there trying to raise a hedge fund. he's never even been a professional investor and his pitch for that hedge fund, a lot of it had to do with his ties to the trump administration. so now with 14 days to go and after yesterday's debacle saying, i can't do it, it's not like he's not showing up for work today. he wasn't doing it for quite some time. leigh ann, tell us what it's like in the capitol this morning. >> stephanie, i just want to say how heartbreaking it is to walk through the capitol this morning and see the remnants of the damage that was done yesterday. we spend so much time in this building, and to see it in the state that it is now. first of all, there's a thick film throughout the entire capitol that's a mixture of dust, seems like leftover tear gas, that it's going to be very difficult to clean up. in addition, on the house side, where the woman was shot is in this -- what they call the s

mick mulvaney resigning from the administration.e more. i think support for the president within the republican party and the administration is crumbling. would you disagree with that? >> look i think the resignations are very notable. it is very unusual. i think these individuals are worried it looks like they were some how complicit with call to kind of invade the capitol hill police and capital. looking at yesterday, i bet i had thousands of friends who were at this rally right here at the white house. i know they always intended to go to the capitol. the people i know and people who i talked to last night and corresponded with never had any intention of taking kind of violent steps against cops but unfortunately this were some terrible actors, criminal actors, who were there. they did terrible things. i look at the these pictures, videos, like all of us i feel sick. we can't condone it but i don't believe anybody in the white house, including the president condones that or wanted that to happen. i don't think it would be fair un

that's mick mulvaney, who was the budget director for president trump. had previously been a republican south carolina member of congress, so someone who knows what it is to run for office and take that oath. he has stepped away from his current position, which is the envoy to northern ireland. so he reached out to secretary pompeo to say he would be leaving. he broke this news to cnbc and here's how mick mulvaney described his thought process. >> i called mike pompeo last night, left him a note, told him i would be reresigni ireresigni. i can't do it. i can't stay. those who choose to stay are choosing to stay because they are concerned that the president might put someone to replace them that could make things even worse. >> and of course, one of the contrasts right there with mulvaney is he has written an op-ed that he believed that donald trump would graciously accept defeat if he were to lose the election. and so that didn't hold up very well. there have been others who have come forward to say they are leaving the administration, as well. two promi

the white house social secretary, sarah matthews and mick mulvaney former chief of staff and man who as the u.s. special envoy for northern ireland. here is what mulvaney had to say about his resignation earlier today. >> i called mike last night to let him know i would be resigning. i can't do it and stay. it is a nothing thing. it doesn't affect the outcome or transition but it is what i've got, right? it's a position i enjoyed doing but you can't do it. i wouldn't be surprised to see more of my friends resign over the course of the next 24 to 48 hours and be completely understandable if they did. >> i mentioned the white house deputy press secretary sarah matthews. a veteran of the white house and congress called me last night to say she was resigning because of the events. in a statement saying i was honored to serve in the trump administration and proud of the policies we enacted. i was deeply disturbed by what i saw today and i'll be stepping down from my role effective immediately. our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power. twitter locked out the president's twitter account

resigned ranging from former white house chief of staff current and would in northern ireland mick mulvaney the 1st lady's chief of staff is also resigned in protest the transportation secretary and also most notably the education secretary device that we heard about there in that report in her resignation letter she really late the blame squarely at donald trump's feet saying there's no mistaking the impact trump's rhetoric had on the situation she then goes on to say that impressionable children are watching this and that we have a moral obligation to model the behavior that we hope that they would emulate you know for a lot of people these words do sound pretty hollow though i mean for the past 4 years we've seen trump and his administration frankly walk all over a lot of these norms deval still chose to stay in office when mike and children were locked in cages when you know trump refused is this insult from right wing extremist or when he's been calling well for terri and so many see this really as a last ditch attempt to you know abandon the sinking ship and try to save face you know

one is that this mick mulvaney not notwithstanding, was imminently foreseeable.n what he was going to do after the election, which is to claim it was rigged. and there is an element that cannot be ignored here of self-preservation and wanting to be hired by people who will pay nice consulting fees and be invited to nice cocktail parties when we get to go to cocktail parties again. let's be realistic about it. >> charles? >> well, i think this is one of the reasons that i always say that i don't really trust any politicians. politics is a dirty business. it's about power. some politicians are much better, ethically moral than others. there are people who truly get into pilts because they want to change things but you have to shake a lot of dirty hands to raise enough money to do it. the people who are involved in politics are often there because they are chasing that thirst for power. what you see with these people is the exact same thing. a thirst for power, a desire not to have it snatched away from them. as ruth said, the ability to continue to have some power,

joining us right now is mick mulvaney, former white house chief of staff and john hope bryant on two and debate what's needed to get small business going i want to start with the issue of taxes, and in particular, the issue of the minimum wage. because i think both of you gentlemen deliver on what it may take to get there. mick >> yeah, good morning, andrew. thanks for having me i welcome this discussion. we've had it many times in the past i saw senator warner on here a couple minutes ago saying we needed a $15 an hour minimum wage we had full employment we've had as many folks working as we have in the past under the trump administration without forcing a minimum wage plus, i think the senator will be the first to admit a federal minimum wage makes absolutely zero sense the cost of living in new york is different than montana. we have a system where states can set and do set minimum wages. it makes great political sense i understand where my democratic friends are coming from this and makes economic sense and maybe the economic sense will be to lower the level of unemployment >> jo

mick mulvaney, you may remember, was once the president's chief of staff. he is now special envoy to northern ireland. he apparently called the vice president last night and offered resignation saying i can't stay. i can't do it. another live look at the white house, white house staffers releasing a statement from the president moments after joe biden's presidency was certified overnight, it said though the president disagrees with the outcome of the election he's promised an orderly transition on january 20th. the president adding i've always said we would continue our fight to ensure only legal votes were counted. while this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to make america great again. no tweets this morning from the president because he has been banned from twitter for 12 hours. that started yesterday. so presumably he will be getting his privileges back any hour now and we'll keep you posted. back to you. >>> this morning, we have obtained a letter sent by 18 members of congress

mick mulvaney left his position as special envoy to ireland. >> i can't do it. i can't stay. >> reporter: cnn has learned vice president mike pence was with his family on capitol hill during the violence yet the president and top aides did little to check on their safety. a source close to pence said was he concerned at all that an angry mob that he ordered to march on the capitol might injure the vice president or his family? engineered a coup to keep him in power, something he refused to do. >> those who wreaked havoc in our capitol today, you did not win. violence never wins. >> reporter: as one republican senator said of the vice president, i've never seen mike pence as angry as he was today. it's now a soul searching moment for the gop, after leading figures in their own party fueled an attack on american democracy. >> and if we're wrong, we will be made fools of. but if we're right, a lot of them will go to jail. so, let's have trial by combat! >> reporter: there was combat. in a sign that the vice president's family added to, daughter charlotte pence twee

i want you to take a listen to what mick mulvaney, donald trump's former chief of staff said just thismeet the press." ta take a listen. >> the rhetoric was high and fiery. you and i know that american politicians do this on a regular basis. i could pull you similar clips of maxine waters telling you to take to the streets. it's different as you said in your entry that people took him literally. i never thought i'd see that. i never thought i'd see a day where people from any side of the political spectrum would storm the capitol in order to intentionally stop the constitutional transfer of power. >> secretary, why are republican legislatures and cabinet members unwilling to admit that trump's own words directly led to horrific events and are they culpable? >> well, i think they have different reasons. for some of them they are still trying to curry favor with trump's base. i put folks like josh hawley and ted cruz and the other senators who continue to object to the certification of the election in that camp. some of them know that it would indict them. people like mick mulvaney who s

among the others who have also left include mick mulvaney it was the president's acting chief of staff, but most recently is now serving. it was as of this week serving as a special envoy to northern ireland. mulvaney says that he contacted secretary of state mike pompeo to let him know that he cannot continue in the wake of what happened. we have a complete list of those resigning on our website at kron 4 dot com. the head of the u.s. capitol police has also stepped down chief stevenson says police had planned for a free speech demonstration and did not expect the violence that broke out on wednesday despite discussions about those plans online. he says it was unlike anything he's experienced in his 30 years in law enforcement. his resignation takes effect january 16th. we'll take a break here for 11 coming up on the kron 00:00am morning news, a former employee with the oakland police department was among those at the riots in washington dc and defends those trying to overtake the u.s. capitol. >>we'll tell you how the department is responding. plus a grim picture inside south bay hos

mike: stick around for "fox news sunday," chris wallace has an interview with mick mulvaney and housewhip jim clyburn. that's all coming up after our show. >>> president-elect joe biden says president trump is not fit for office but has yet to comment on whether he thinks mr. trump should be impeached. jacqui heinrich's reporting live from wilmington, delaware. good afternoon. >> reporter: hey there, good afternoon, mike. well, the president-elect resisted pushing congress one way or another while also reiterating his feeling that president trump is unfit for office. because of timing constraints, this impeachment, if it moves forward, would play out most likely in the opening days of his presidency just as he's trying to get his cabinet confirmed and also push major legislation addressing the pandemic and the economic crisis. but biden made clear his feelings about president trump. >> he has clearly demonstrated, he's exceeded even my worst notions about him. he's been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world. not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. >> rep

mick mulvaney resigned in protest of what happened yesterday.f and currently the special envoy to northern ireland. here's what he said on cnbc this morning. "i can't do it. i can't stay." he's joining a growing list of white house staffers calling it quits including trump's national deputy adviser, stephanie grisham, and white house deputy press secretary, sarah matthews. >>> some lawmakers are talking about invoking the 25th amendment which could remove president trump from office, but how realistic is that? it says if the president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the vice president shall immediately assume the responsibility. >> he basically mobilized militia groups to act in violation of the law and to endanger the lives and property of other people. >> more than three dozen democratic congressmen and women are calling for the president's impeachment. >>> we want to hear from you to get a read of how the chaos at the capitol was being viewed here at home. amy hollyfield is live for us in walnut creek. amy? >> good

. >>> mick mulvaney has resigned in protest of what happened yesterday. he is the president's former chief of staff and current special envoy to northern ireland. more on another set of resignations from the trump administration in a few minutes. >>> here's a live look at what washington looks like. much calmer as you can see this morning. >>> good morning on this thursday, january 7th. despite everything that happened yesterday, same result. in just 13 more days president-elect joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the u.s. >> that became official overnight after congress confirmed this election victory. jobina, it was after a full day of chaos and violence. >>> absolutely. joe biden will deliver his first remarks in wilmington, delaware later this morning. this comes hours after congress completed the electoral vote count. president trump is finally it looks like declaring that he accepts that defeat. overnight he released a statement saying that there will be an orderly transition on january 20th. it comes a day after a day of chaos when

earlier nbc's "meet the press" saw former chief of staff mick mulvaney saying people took him literally i never thought i'd see that. eugene, i want my director -- rob, put up the tweet eugene posted today saying that's because the seriously versus literally schtick was a talking point not based on the reality of how trump supporters actually view the president. explain that. >> there was always this kind of idea, especially from people who consider themselves not a republican but conservative people who worked for president trump and apologized for him in a lot of these moments that we're talking about that we took him too literally but that was never the case. if you talk to trump supporters, it meant what they expected them to do. when he told, you know, the -- to stand back and stand back and standby, that they took that as a calling. they should do that. and i think when, you know, people like mick mulvaney are coming to realize these things, that reporters have been telling them for years as we have talked to trump supporters that something that -- it's surprising to us they're ju

lower ranking administration officials, including the former white house checkups chief of staff mick mulvaney. i am elizabeth cook. >> right now on the kpix 5 news is 7:00, and streaming on cbsn bay area live, d platforming the president. donald trump has been and from several social media sites until her there notice. twitter is not one of them. he posted this new message to america just hours ago. >>> we have just been through an intense election, and emotions are high. now, tempers must be cooled. call needs to be restored. >>> i reported joins us, live from twitter headquarters. >> reporter: the president could be back on the platform, but his feature on social media is looking pretty uncertain.>> reporter: the twitter band for donald trump lasted around 12 hours. other platforms, including facebook, say the band could be indefinite. >> like all americans, i am outraged by the violence and mayhem. >> reporter: back on twitter after a 12 hour freeze after the armed insurrection of the capital, president donald trump released this video. >> to those that engaged in the acts of violence and

he will interview mick mulvaney who just resigned a couple days ago following wednesday's violence atfter this newscast. we hope you stick here. >>> coming up in 30 minutes from now, we'll talk to our own nbc bay area analyst and take a deeper look at the attack on congress and president trump's final days in office. >>> we're going to return to our other top news, our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. it's another sign that the pandemic is hitting businesses big and small. the warriors laid off nearly 10% of their full time employees. the layoffs impacted those mostly in ticket sales and game presentation. no one on the basketball side of operations lost their jobs. the organization released a statement saying they had hoped this day would never come and they tried everything in their creative powers to avoid it. >>> now to foothills park in palo alto. it's more difficult to visit because of too many visitors. the city is closing the entrance gate on weekends and holidays. palo alto will consider other restrictions like charging a parking fee and lowering capacity. the

mick mulvaney saying this weekend that people took him literally. i never thought i would see that. and roy blunt also saying why he doesn't support impeachment is that the president touched a hot stove is how he put it. on wednesday, he said he's unlikely to touch it again. i heard that and thought, really? are you hearing that same naive response out of the republicans? >> not as much in private. and you're probably have the same experience. but in public, it really is unbelievable. i mean how many hot stoves does have the president to v to touch to be locked out of the kitchen. enough already. and this wasn't just touching a hot stove. this is lighting a match and lighting the house on fire. i mean, that is what the president did. period. and now that we are learning so much more about the plans in place by these rioters, by these people who considered themselves revolutionaries, they considered themselves that because they were being egged on by the president of the united states. we saw all of that in plain sight. and for people not to understand that his words have consequence

so did former chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> i called mike pompeo, last night. left a note telling i'd be resigning for that. i -- i can't do it. i can't stay. we signed up for making america great again. we signed up for lower taxes and less regulation. the president has a long list of successes that we can be proud of. for example, you can go and talk about the lowest unemployment rate for african-americans in history. we can talk about the fact he is the first president, in recent memory, not to start a war overseas during his term. there's great successes there that we can take pride in but all of that went away, yesterday. and i think you are right to ask the question as to how did it happen? >> yeah, gosh, how did it happen, mr. mulvaney? perhaps, you should look in the mirror. because, whenever the president said or did something beyond the pail, he had people, like you, mick mulvaney, to back him up and help him. >> the president is a fighter, there is no question about it. and you will see him fighting down, to the very last. the end of that process, jo

among others who mick mulvaney he was the president's acting chief of staff but was most recently servingthe u.s. special envoy to northern ireland. mulvaney announced today that he's calling it quits. he says that he contacted secretary of state mike pompeo last night to let him know that he just can not continue in the wake of what happened. other white house staffers who quit or deputy national security adviser matthew pot injure house sergeant at arms, paul irving deputy press secretary sarah matthews and the first lady's chief of staff stephanie grisham and anna a setup. she served as the white house social secretary. we have a complete list of those who are resigning in washington yesterday's violence on our website at kron 4 dot com. >>tonight we can confirm the u.s. capitol police officer has been taken off life support and has died after being injured in the violent riots yesterday, somebody who breached the capital hit that officer in the head with a fire extinguisher 4 other people have died including a woman from san diego. a demonstrator who was shot and killed by police insi

say they've had enough, includin his special envoy to northern ireland, former chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> i can't stay here not after yesterday. you can't look at that yesterday and think i want to be a part of that in any way, shape or form. >> reporter: now the first cabinet member resigned, transportation secretary elaine chao, all of it following the overnight departure of first lady's chief of staf and the deputy national security adviser. and then there's the condemnation from one-time allies, including former attorney general bill barr, blasting the president's conduct as a betrayal of his office and supporters. and from senator lindsey graham >> all i can say is count me out enough is enough i've tried to be helpful. >> reporter: this morning hours after praising the rioters, who ransacked the capitol, a shift i tone from the president who released a statement through a spokesperson with twitter and facebook suspending his accounts the president saying, quote, even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election nevertheless there will be an orderly transition o jan

mick mulvaney said, i can't stay here he was most recently as a special envoy to northern ireland. >> transportation secretary elaine chao became the first to leave in transportation. she said she was deeply troubled by what happened. >> five political appointees also. >> over night education secretary betsy devos became the second cabinet secretary to resign announcing her last day will be today. the president of the federation of teachers union responded to her leaving by a two word statement. good riddance. >> the capitol police chief is also resigneding chief steven sund's resignation will go into effect on january 16th. >> and the senate sergeant-at-arms is stepping down >> confronts with unrelenting pressure over the chaotic siege at the capitol and the destruction left in its wake, president trump is publicly admitting for the first time he is leaving office in 12 days our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joining us now with more it only took a deadly siege for the president to change his tune. >> yes not only changing his tone but acknowledging for the first time joe bi

situation and it is the inflection point for me meanwhile, the president's former chief of staff mick mulvaney here. he resigned from his special envoy post to northern ireland. he says he contacted secretary of state mike pompeo last night to let him know he cannot continue in the wake of what happened. other white house staffers who quit or deputy national security adviser, matthew pottinger deputy press secretary sarah matthews and the first lady's chief of staff, stephanie grisham as well as at the scene who served as the white house social secretary. >>the white house police chief is also resigning after what happened at the building that he's in charge of protecting house speaker pelosi publicly calling on chief stephenson to step down earlier today son defended himself and his officers saying that they were attacked with metal pipes discharged a chemical irritants and other weapons. he said the attack was unlike anything he had experienced in his 30 years in law enforcement and earlier tonight there were several reports saying that a capitol police officer had died as a result of the ri

former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney joins chuck todd to discuss the turmoil in our nation's capital. you can watch "meet the press" tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., right after "today in the bay." >>> turning to our other top story, the continued fight against covid-19. it is a truly somber day in the pandemic. today california reported more than 52,000 new cases. but most staggering here is 695 californians sadly lost their lives to the virus. that's the most ever in a single day in california. it's an extremely stark reminder of just how dangerous the spread of the virus is right now. the news comes within hours of the state's decision to officially extend our stay-at-home order. now, this was expected. that's because our icu availability is still well below the 15% needed for it to be lifted. >>> newsom mentioned our icu availability remains low. you can see it is at 3% in the bay area. that's the lowest it's been since our state-mandated stay-at-home order went in place. most of the bay area is in red. that means less than 15% of standard icu beds are open. counties in the single

mick mulvaney is with us, former chief of staff to president trump.president is signing these executive orders because he doesn't think and get his stuff through congress? >> there is certainly a piece of that and there's also a piece of it that says the biden administration understand how the executive branch works and there is a system to what they are trying to do, which the messaging of publicly and his unity and can't we all just get along and bipartisanship and then behind the scenes they're really laying laying down quite progressive agenda and i think a lot of folks including the markets are missing that. some of the stuff is coming out as i wrote about the "wall street journal" today on regulation is more progressive than even president obama was, so some of the stuff happening behind the scenes, the real stuff, not the stuff that makes the headlines, but the other stuff. stuart: give me an example of a really left wing executive order or behind-the-scenes action which you can point to from president biden. >> he put out a presidential memo s

saw former white house chief of staff who is now serving as a special envoy to north of ireland mick mulvaney resigning saying that he simply could not do it anymore and thursday we saw transportation secretary elaine chao who is also the wife of the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and notably we saw secretary that's a divorce resigning saying i'm going to read this in her resignation later saying it was unconscionable for our country is what she called events on wednesday and she also went i have to lay the blame squarely at donald trump's feet saying there's no mistaking the impact his rhetoric has had on the situation calling it an inflection point for him saying that you know that impressionable children are watching all of this and that they're learning from us and that we each have a moral obligation to model that behavior we hope they would emulate you know for a lot of people these words ring very very hollow i mean where was all this when kids were locked in cages when trump refused to distance himself from right wing extremists when he caught old authoritarians i think a lot

mick mulvaney resigning thursday we saw 1st of 1st lady maloney a trance chief of staff resigning then we saw the transportation secretary elaine chao resign and then education secretary but sort of awesome she wrote in her resignation letter that the events that we saw on wednesday were censored simply unconscionable for our country see late the blame squarely at don't trump speak and say there is no mistaking the impact that his rhetoric on the situation and called it an inflection point for her she then went on to say that you know impressionable children are watching all of this in there that they're learning from this and that they have a moral obligation to essentially model the behavior that we would like these children to emulate you know for a lot of people i think these words ring fairly hollow considering that this is not the 1st time that we have seen trump really challenge the norms and even the constitution throughout his 4 year tenure we have seen you know him. better to remain in office when. the trauma ministration locked up kids in cages when trump refused to descend

elaine chao, wife of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and special envoy to northern ireland, mick mulvaney. >> i can't stay here, not after yesterday. >> reporter: former attorney general william barr accused the president of, quote, orchestrating a mob to pressure congress, calling it a betrayal. with inauguration day now less than two weeks away, there are growing concerns about how to safeguard that ceremony and also the peaceful transfer of power. we'll send it back to you, raj and janelle. >> okay. thanks so much, alice. >>> we are getting a firsthand account tonight from a bay area woman who consequent went to th capital to protest the results of the election. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez just spoke to her about the demonstration and the moment that protest turned into a riot. >> there was a whole bunch of kids, families, people singing anthem, people shaking hands. i mean praying, all kinds of peaceful. nobody was drunk. nobody had any weapons. everybody was peaceful, normal. >> reporter: that's how maria rutenberg described the seen at the nation's capitol before things went side

. ♪ ♪ former white house chief of staff to president trump, mick mulvaney, is resigning as i shall envoyreland. he joins other officials in quitting after the president encouraged road test that led to violence at the u.s. capitol. he spoke to bloomberg's david westin about the power of the president's words. was different yesterday was that people actually took it to heart in a way that manifested itself as illegal activity, and a violent illegal activity. that is where the underestimation was. people of a lot of this country, maybe not a lot, but certainly enough yesterday, to break the law, to try and frustrate our constitutional processes. that is shocking to me. because if the president ever walked into my office when i was chief of staff and said, i would like you to do something illegal, i would have looked at him as though he were nuts. we have it -- we would have quit if he was serious about it. didn't think ordinary, rank-and-file citizens would think, yeah, this is a great idea for us to break into the capital with guns and other circumstances and break the place up. that is w

the cabinet having announced their resignations along with the former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney resigning his role as an envoy as well as several other deputy positions in the white house also doing this likely seeing as how the calls for an earlier terminations to his presidency are mounting as well. also heard from none super lazy coding for the 25th amendment to be invoked is that likely to gain traction. well that all depends on how vice president like pence responds we know the democrats are in support of the 25th amendment which would terminate the presidency because he's incapable of performing his duty but the vice president has already hinted at that and not wanting to do that just 13 days before this term is already set to expire fearing that it would only unleash more chaos in washington and so pelosi has said that the next order of business would be congress possibly moving forward with impeaching president trump again there is very little time left on the calendar for that to take pace and nearly impossible task in fact so that pushes us into the realm of the unknow

close allies have shunned him after the attack on the capitol former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney step down a special envoy to northern ireland he said wednesday was one of those things that struck to the very heart of what it means to be an american and it was wrong trump's longtime friend former new jersey governor chris christie said trump's incitement is an impeachable offense senator lisa murkowski threatened to resign from the republican party if trump didn't quit and betsy dumbass who resigned as education secretary american media quoted her resignation letter to trump saying there's no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation. where joe watkins is a republican political strategist and former white house aide earlier he spoke about the issue of impeachment as well as calls for the resignation of republican senators ted cruz and josh holy. their speeches were felt by many to egg on the crowd that descended on capitol hill on the capitol building and so right now there are members of the senate that are talking about the possibility of censoring them . some of

that's right mick mulvaney who was the special envoy to northern ireland former chief of staff to donald trump has resigned said he can't 7 the administration and the more after what he saw over the last 24 hours set that note to a secular state might prompt you who is in fact his boss we also saw the resignation of stephanie grisham she used to be the press secretary she actually left that post without holding one single briefing she moved on to become the chief of staff to 1st lady malani a trump she quit eyes did another cup a couple of junior staffers there as well but we're hearing that there's going to be other resignations but no one's actually put pen to paper yet on those resignation letters we're told that rubber o'brien who is the national security adviser is considering his position as is as is his deputy but nothing from them yet and also a name a keep hearing is elaine chao she's the transport secretary now she's been involved with the administration from the very adly days and interestingly is also married to mitch mcconnell who is the leader of the republican in the senat

of regular resignations now to cabinet members as well as a former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney resigning from his on boy status and several deputy members of the white house team as well the pressure is certainly on for trump to do more than just this video or face an earlier terminations from office or hardly think so that's how did you custer the washington d.c. let's hear now from richard goodstein who's the democratic political consultant and he says the troops apparent concession is just too tittle too late to save his reputation. 2 months past election day and the trump still can't say biden won and i lost and now we're having a peaceful transition that's nonsense so great i don't even he was not going to be president as of noon on january 20th no matter what he tried to do we be like an intruder in the white house at the state and he wasn't going to do that so again i don't assign weight to what he says is the image of the united states and a capitol under attack by the president's supporters with the flags and the hats that won't go away for years and that will be hung

mick mulvaney, mr. trump's former chief of staff, left his diplomatic post. >> i can't do it. i can't stay. >> reporter: and acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf pleaded with the president to condemn yesterday's violence, which he has not done. but in an overnight statement, mr. trump said, "even though i totally disagree with the outcome, there will be an orderly transition on january 20." >> u.s.a! >> reporter: wednesday's violence prompted twitter to suspend the president's account and facebook and instagram to block him until after the inauguration. c.e.o. mark zuckerberg said, "we believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great." a trump ally who is in close touch with the white house tells cbs news cutting off mr. trump's trump's ability to vent means he's almost more dangerous now. today, the president's former chief of staff, general john kelly, said if he were still a member of the cabinet, he would support invoking the 25th amendment. and former attorney general william barr said the presid