scott jennings is exactly right.incited that mob as senator mcconnell said has got to be held to account. and that's got to happen or the republican party is just going to collapse. >> scott, i mean the idea the republican party is going to collapse or -- isn't this the republican party kind of showing what way they're going to go? i mean if liz cheney as you said is now public enemy number one, you know, and mccarthy's gone down to trump. and he apparently told republicans stop attacking each other the day after matt gaetz continues to attack liz cheney and is campaigning in wyoming now to unseat her. isn't this where the republican party has decided to head because that's where -- didn't they send-up trial balloons with mcconnell and even mccarthy after the insurrection sort of saying the president's responsible, but they seem to be singing a different song now. >> yeah, i mean it's a mess. i don't know how else to describe it. it's a mess. and if the party is fighting itself, if you've got republicans trying to ta

scott jennings, you are first.r greene, should she be expelled, censured, committee appointments revoked? what's your view? >> well, first of all, i just want to say i totally reject everything she has said that's come out. i mean, it's crazy, and to call it crazy is not even adequate. it's dangerous. and so this is not the kind of person that you want to be the face of the republican party, and so i hope leader mccarthy, when he speaks to her next week, makes that clear. they've done this once before, they did it with steve king and stripped him of his committees. so i don't know ultimately, victor, what the right punishment or the right confrontation is. i just know that you have to pick something that makes it clear that this person and the views that they have espoused is not representative of the larger party. because if this person becomes, you know, your face of the party, it totally destroys anything else you're trying to do from a policy perspective and it will just eat the party alive. so i really hope th

i want to bring in now bakari sellers, scott jennings and s.e. cupp. good evening to -- i should say good morning to one and all. i want to get to everything that has happened today, but i want this new information that's come out. s.e., i'm going to go with you first on this. this is from senator inhofe. he talked to mike pence, and he says the vp is very upset with trump's criticism. james inhofe of oklahoma said he talked to mike pence about president trump's criticism of him. he called trump's comments regrettable. asked whether the situation should be escalated to this point, inhofe said, no, it should not, and it's hard to really elevate who's more responsible than anyone else because i seriously doubt that the president knew about it. however, the argument is that he inflamed a lot of people. i've not experienced anything like that before, and i've been around here for 35 years. what do you make of that? the vice president saying he's upset with the president, that his comments were regrettable. basically, i guess, saying that he should never ha

joining us now, scott jennings and good to have you. tom cotton raised an interesting question, right. allen, what do you think? it has not legally been tested before? >> no, it has not been tested. as far as the senate is concerned, the senate has the authority to conduct a trial of an impeached official who has already resigned. the obvious, well for the senate, the obvious example is from 1876 involving the secretary of war. he was -- the house began impeachment proceedings against him. he looked at the proceedings and thought goodness maybe i should get out of dodge. he went down to the white house and submitted his resignation to the president nonetheless the house continued and adopted articles of impeachment against him. sent those articles to the senate. the senate conducted a trial and voted to acquit him. >> scott jennings, sorry. [ inaudible ] you worked for years with senator mcconnell. i treat you as the mcconnell whisperer here. what do you expect to be mcconnell's play on this question? clearly joe biden wants to get star

>> so, let's ask scott jennings. scott, you wrote just in october, "donald trump deserves a second term." and yes the events of january 6th had not happened, but a lot had happened. charlottesville had happened, both sides comments, clearing of lafayette square had happened, general kelly told jake a week ago he has always been this man. when it comes to the future of your party after trump, here's my question. listen to this from georgia's lieutenant governor, also a republican, geoff duncan. here's what he told me about the party this week. >> we should never, as a party, let a person be more powerful than our party. if we don't move away from the party of trump, we will continue to lose and we will not be in the white house in 2024. >> is he right? scott, can you hear me? oh, what do you think, anna, while we see if we can get scott's shot back up? >> well, first let me say, you know, i've noticed watching him on tv and scott and i have had many an argument for the last four years. but i've noticed a level of refl

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scott jennings is with us today, former special assistant to president george w. bush and cnn commentator, ann applebon, she's a historian as well. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. ann, i want to start with you, you wrote the latest piece, history will judge the complicit, saying president trump governing in defiance. saying the overall issues were so trivial. they overlooked the lie of inauguration because it was silly. they ignored trump's appointment of the wealthiest cabinet in history and his decision to stuff his administration with former lobbyists because that's business as usual. they made excuses for ivanka trump's use of a private email account and jared kushner conflicts of interest because that's just family stuff. all of that at the capitol, they're far from trivial. where does this leave the republican party, in your opinion? >> yeah, as i wrote in that piece published last summer, i think the signs of president trump were there from the very beginning from the moment of his inaugural address when he actually attacked the american poli

. >>> perspective from cnn political commentator and former mcconnell advisor scott jennings and politicalsultant and writer stewart stevens, author of it was all a lie how the republican party became donald trump. scott, first of all, you know, what do you make of the impeachment trial timing that was agreed upon and what does it signal to you about minority leader mitch mcconnell and what he's doing in the next moves? >> he did want to stress today that, you know, an impeachment trial is going to take place and should include fairness to the person being accused, which is in this case donald trump. he fought for the head, looks like the timeline agreed to is what he asked for. for people in the republican conference he leads that want to go easier on trump or side with trump, this is something that would certainly apiece that crowd by giving the president a chance to make a case, prepare a case. on the other hand, though, he obviously didn't fight to stop the trial and we are going to have a trial and i think if the information is laid out and witnesses are called, it's going to be a pre

joining me now former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and scott jennings who has worked forlicans including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. scott, why is the former house minority leader paying a call to a twice impeached one term former president. does that make political sense to you? >> generally speaking i think the republican party has empirically reached the limits of trumpism. i mean, he lost the national popular vote twice, we didn't do well in the 2018 midterms, we don't control anything now and of course we lost the georgia runoffs as well because of his sabotage. so, you know, trump can take to you a certain level but it's not quite enough to be a national majority party. now, on the flip side of that if you're kevin mccarthy a lot of his members do exist in districts where donald trump is quite popular. as a geographical or jurisdictional matter the president is going to retain some popularity and behind all of it of course it is flatly true that donald trump has been one of the biggest drivers of small dollar fundraising for the republican party and a lo

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paul bernstein, scott jennings as well i appreciate your sentiments. i want to turn to one of the images we saw today, one of two members taking cover on the house floor as democratic protesters tried to get over. i appreciate both of you being with us after the day you have had. congressman crow you said you haven't been in a situation like that since you were an army ranger serving in iraq and afghanistan. can you take me back to the moment you realized what was going on? you were in the gallery looking over this and basically you all were trapped there. >> yeah, hi. i realized shortly after speaker pelosi and vice president pence were evacuated from the floor and then they evacuated the members on the floor from the floor and they started to move us towards the doorway. but then they stopped and they started locking the doors and barricading the doors. there was no way out for us. the rioters, the mob had deacceptd descended the house chamber. and the few remaining police officers that were in the chamber with us had their guns drawn and started sta

scott jennings and amanda carpenter. this is all very odd to me.eems like president trump, the only one worried about his legacy and future tonight. >> hawley is trying to rewrite history saying he wasn't bowing down to the mob. he was doing their bidding. he was their guy in the senate. you know, i am all for the scrutiny that josh hawley and ted cruz are going to get for objecting. i want to write a rule on the senate. number one, all of the people that told us to vote for donald trump twice. are you sorry for what happened? when it comes to the senate, do not overlook what happened in georgia and how the entire senate establishment was in on stoking the big lie. the big lie that dan orlovsky and david perd -- kelly loeffle perdue campaigned on. kelly loeffler said she was going to object. until the second those two senators lost their races, the entire senate establishment was okay with that as a campaign tactic. he is trying to say he voted to overturn the election. but he knows the fraud allegations are a lie. trump lost 60 court cases. why ca

i'm going to discuss can scott jennings, a former special assistant to george w. bush. tt, good to see you again. i hope you got some sleep after our late night this week. >> yeah, it was late, yeah. >> i know you're incensed. you blame trump for the insurrection. i guess the question is how much of the rest of your party, are they with you, or >> i heard from a lot of people other the last day that feel the way i do. they're simultaneously ashamed, enraged, embarrassed, and they all seem to understand exactly what happened here. donald trump made a terrible mistake. he caused this insurrection. not just that but he was aided and abetted by people in the u.s. capitol. it was obvious that josh hawley and ted cruz in my opinion bear quite a bit of the blame here as well. to me, the demarcation is after the insurrection was over and the capitol was open, he the a chance to go to the familiar and floor and say sorry to the american people and their colleagues and withdraw their objections, and yet they plowed forward. and i think that should never be forgotten. that was a sh

in conservative media who have encouraged this, many of the voices you were talking about with scott jennings a few minutes ago within the congress who have been fuelling this. more than 100 house members voting for these ridiculous objections, which are grounded in nothing. they were going nowhere. josh hawley and ted cruz in the senate advancing those and setting the stage for what happened when people rushed the capitol yesterday. it's quite clear that people like john kelly, jim mattis, john bolton, have said quietly or very loudly that they believe donald trump is unfit for office, but as john bolton's been saying over the last 24 hours the key question is now, how do you get out of this situation without making it worse? i think david said pack him up and get him out. that's a good way of putting it. john bolton said get him to a golf course and let him play golf for the next 12 days. get him out of a place where he could do harm to the country. i think if donald trump left the white house, went to mar-a-lago, played golf for 12 days and joe biden could come have a relatively peaceful i

i want to bring in scott jennings and s.e.ut today. we talked about the young lady who read the poem. we talked about the young man who biden has a relationship with. who sa stutterer. we're seeing excellence among young people and a first for a black woman. to be the vice president of the united states. what did you think of the day? >> it was a lot. it was very well organized. it was planned very well. i thought like chris did earlier in saying i was on edge. because of what we saw tw weeks ago in the capitol. and more troops in washington d.c. than you have in some areas over seas. it was just that level of angst. i first felt this sense of pride when i saw michelle obama get out the car. and she was wearing that hudson. it was plum. you saw george w. bush. you saw bill clinton and hillary clinton. you saw -- i don't really want to return to normalcy. there are people suffering under normalcy. >> there's a new normal. >> you saw people not trample on on the constitution. people not trample on tradition. you saw something th

listening to scott jennings. that's a good thing.ruth was the first casualty of the trump presidency. we have to come back to that. we will. you'll see a massive change. more truth and fewer lies at least from this new president coming in. you'll see more decency and less demonizing. more heart and less hate. the change will start at the top for the president. with the president. the new president tomorrow i do i live in hope. i believe the republicans will respond. some will. enough will. joe biden is the perfect person to reach out. >> i'll take a break. we're waiting on pardon news. to see if donald trump on his way out gives his party more more thing to own. a pardon of steve bannon. stealing from republican voters. what are they doing about that? we'll see together. it's inauguration day. what will it auger in for us? we'll see. i'm erin. -and i'm margo. we've always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn't going to just back down from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. psoriatic arthritis wasn't going to c

and scott jennings, as we are speaking, we're getting ready for all these executive orders, swearingng of the balance of power as manu just referred to and the formal swearing in of the people who will run the white house and chun with the country, right? the press team, the chief of staff. all of this is happening right now. you have been part of a transition like this in the white house, in these moments right now when they come out of the parade, before they come out for those formal executive orders and then the evening's events. what's happening right now? >> well, there is a pretty special moment for the white house staff. you actually put your hand up and you take an oath of office as well. you get sworn in. it's a reminder to you about exactly why you're there. and that's to serve the public and uphold the constitution. that's really a special time. up on capitol hill in the senate, of course, we are seeing a pretty momentous thing. a balance of power is changing from republican to democrat. although they haven't worked out a power-sharing agreement with what's happening up o

the south carolina house of representatives and scott jennings, former senior adviser of senate majorityl. mr. scott from your state. talk whether he will run in 2024. what do you make of this calculation? >> tim scott and my politics couldn't be further apart. at least he has good common sense. the fact is he doesn't want to play politics with this issue tomorrow. i think what we are seeing is a lot of these individuals. the list of senators who are objecting to these particular states, all this is, is a shot across the bow for 2024. whether or not it's josh hawley, ted cruz. all individuals campaigning on our dime and on the floor of the united states senate. the biggest problem, though is that they're campaigning and it's undermining our fundamental tenants of democracy. seems they don't care. rule of law does not matter for these republicans tomorrow lining up. glad there are some republicans like tim scott who i served with in the south carolina state house when a member there, who end of the day, anderson, has good common sense. >> what do you make about what they're doing? obvious

scott jennings and karen finney. karen, let me start with you. clear at this point, this isn't just one maga rally that got out of control. this is the result of years and years of lies, of sterrorism, o just blatant, unfounded conspiracy theories from president trump, culminating in these unfounded conspiracy theories about the election. >> right. i mean, jake, look, i think there are two parts that if we failed to acknowledge and accept, we will fail this moment in history. and we are all on trial as to whether or not we will step up to this moment. one is -- i mean, you can draw a straight line from donald trump placing an ad in "the new york times" against the exonerated -- the exonerated five, right, to who he is. we have known all along who he is. i hate to do the -- we told you so, but hillary clinton tried to -- she did speeches and trootried to talk about the rise of this radical white supremacist and right wing, and instead we talked about her e-mails. so there's a piece of this that is about trump and what he has done and trying to cod

scott mclellan and jake carney. you were the most recent. so how would you evaluate jen's first week? i was in the obama white house. you couldn't have a better choice honestly. she is so ready for this, so prepared. i think you saw that already this week. she is unbelievably knowledgeable and fluid in answering questions. she is sincere and conveys sincerity and she has a lot of respect for the independent free working press which reflects her boss, president biden, just as it did president obama. and i think she set a great tone. i am pleased at the roll out so far. it will not be easy, but i think they're hitting their marks really well. >> we know, scott, since you worked with a republican president, republican distrust of media, distrust of government is especially heightened. that's been true for years. it's even more dramatic now. do you think the biden white house can restore trust even among republicans perhaps? >> i do. and i think it's already started to some degree. you know, we have seen over the last four years this view and this treatment of the press as the enemy of th

thanks so much welcome to the halftime report i'm scott wapner whether your check will get a reality check. jim lebenthal is with us, steve weiss, jenningur capital management and shannon sekoesha, chief investment officer. let's go to the wall and show you wh

thanks so much welcome to the halftime report i'm scott wapner whether your check will get a reality check. jim lebenthal is with us, steve weiss, jenning harrington and portfolio manager, and decatur capital management and shannon sekoesha, chief investment officer. let's go to the wall and show you where stocks are trading at high noon. dow is down by 85 or so point, intel and ibm the obvious ways there. s&p is negative by a smidge, as is the nasdaq and the russell, as well. you get the picture of where we are and the idea of where we are looking at today is the market about to get a reality check okay valuations high. stimulus efforts from president biden getting pushback from republicans. higher taxes are they on the horizon? you have vaccine issues, as well that's the backdrop, gangings of what we're looking at. degus, jenny, pullback jim lebenthal, the market's overbought and expecting a correction any day now steve weiss, you're staying long and you're bucking this trend a little bit, huh? >> i don't know that i'm bucking a trends i've been consistently saying that a 5% or 10% pullback wouldn't bother me, but what am i going to d

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