further incitement of violence it made the move after trump supporters stormed the capitol on wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets calling his supporters patriots amounted to glorification of violence in response traffic used twitter of trying to silence him the company's decision comes amid concern about the president's supporters making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden. well to talk about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter hart a doll from our us elections team hello to you peter king so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a it's a big blow i mean president is increasingly find himself isolated after wednesday's bands and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook org thursday also announced that it was. temporarily banning his account and threatening also to do that permanently huge stupid streaming platform twitch threatening similar steps now why does this matter

further incitement of violence made the move after trump supporters stormed the capital last wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets calling his supporters patriots amounted to glorification of violence in response trump accused twitter of trying to silence him the company's decision comes amid growing concerns about the president's orders making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden. well to talk about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter dahl from our us elections team hello to you peter so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a it's a big blow i mean president is increasingly finding himself isolated after wednesday's a band and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook on the thursday also announced that it was. temporarily banning his account and threatening also to do that permanently you tube and streaming platform twitch threatening similar steps now why does this matte

further incitement of violence it made the move after trump's supporters storms in the capital on wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets calling his supporters patriots amounted to glorification of violence in response trump accused twitter of trying to silence him company's decision comes amid concerns about the president's supporters making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden. well to talk about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter doll from our us elections team hello to you peter to people so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a big blow i mean president is increasing finding himself isolated after wednesday's band and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook org thursday also announced that it was. temporarily banning his account and threatening also to do that permanently you tube and streaming platform twitch threatening similar steps now why does matter it matters beca

account citing the risk of further incitement to violence after the assault on the capital on wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets to his $88000000.00 followers amounted to glorification of violence and concern about the president's supporters making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden the company's move comes after it suspended trump's account for 12 hours on the night of the capitol attack. well to talk more about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter of arda down from our us elections team hello to you peter and to be with you know just how much of a blow is it to donald trump to be now permanently banned from twitter i think it's a big blow if you were looking at a president who is increasingly finding themselves isolated you know after the events that we saw on wednesday also comes after facebook on thursday that was that it was suspending trump's account indefinitely at least until after inauguration you tube and the streaming platform twitch have taken simila

twitter has locked the president's account on wednesday after violence broke out at the capitol where at the time it suspended his account and required him to delete tweets that violated the company's policies and also threatened a permanent ban if he violated more rules. >> i think what twitter and facebook are realizing is that this a is a loaded gun. it is something that is not just mouthing off on the internet. and it went off on wednesday. there's so much stuff that's reprehensible. we all agree that it's reprehensible. and i think that what happened on wednesday forced twitter to really reevaluate why are we waiting another couple of weeks? and also why did we allow this in the first place? i think it's going to really force a rethink of how we treat social media and how we treat powerful people in social media. >> now, to put this into perspective twitter resisted taking action against trump for years saying a world leader should be able to speak to the citizens. twitter was arguably trump's biggest platform for getting his message out to those 88 million followers. meantime on

he was previously suspended from twitter for 12 hours on wednesday after hundreds of people stormed theitol building in washington. our north america correspondent, david willis, reports. the most powerful man in the world no longer has access to one of his most valued assets — twitter. donald trump's preferred platform for picking fights, settling scores and promoting conspiracy theories has blocked him for good, citing what the company called: "the risk of further incitement of violence". president trump has been blamed for fomenting the protest that led to the death of five people at the us capital on wednesday and twitter believes his continued use of its platform could stoke further violence in the run—up tojoe biden‘s inauguration in 11 days‘ time. the president's son donjunior on his twitter account said: "free speech no longer exists in america". and called the ban "orwellian". in a tweet swiftly deleted from his official white house account, mr trump said he was now looking into the possibility of creating his own social media platform. facebook, having already banned donald tr

blamed for fomenting the protest that led to the death of five people at the us capital on wednesday and twitterthe run—up tojoe biden‘s inauguration in 11 days' time. the president's son donjr on his twitter account said: "free speech no longer exists in america". and called the ban "orwellian". in a tweet swiftly deleted from his official white house account, mr trump said he was now looking into the possibility of creating his own social media platform. facebook, having already banned donald trump for the remainder of his term in office, the president is looking increasingly isolated. facing multiple resignations and with members of his own party deserting him, some are concerned about what he might do next. he said one thing he won't be doing is attending his successor swearing in, breaking with a tradition stretching back more than 150 years. joe biden said he was fine with that and called mr trump a national embarrassment. he has been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world, not worthy to hold that office. there are those who believe the president should also be de

blamed for fomenting the protests that led to the deaths of five people at the us capitol on wednesday, and twitterfurther violence in the run—up tojoe biden's inauguration in 11 days' time. facebook having already banned donald trump for the remainder of his term in office, the president is looking increasingly isolated, facing multiple resignations, and with members of his own party deserting him, some are concerned about what he might do next. in the final tweet before his account was closed, he said one thing he won't be doing is attending his successor‘s swearing in, breaking with a tradition stretching back more than 150 years. joe biden said he was fine with that, and called mr trump a "national embarrassment." he has been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world. not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. there are those who believe the president should also be denied access to the nuclear button. the house speaker nancy pelosi is actively seeking his removal. democrats plan to introduce an impeachment resolution on monday. sadly, the person that's running the execu

capitol on wednesday. twitter has permanently banned mr.suspended the use of the account used by his campaign. more on all of this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. president trump has been banned from twitter amid concerns that he was encouraging his nearly 89 million supporters and followers to engage in violence. now, he responded to this move by moving a different official twitter account that he has access to at potus. and he tweeted a lengthy statement where he declared we will not be violenced. but twitter did silence him saying that going forward use of that account will be limited. the president is using his primary code of communication as house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for him to immediately resign or move forward with 25th legislation and a motion for impeachment. the gop lawmakers are increasingly under pressure to get behind this effort and respond to this unprecedented attack on their institution. but the senate does not return until january 19th, so that's the earliest that any senate impeachment trial c

twitter account to fo meant violence and spread lies. including to advertise the quote wild rally that took place turning into a siege on wednesday. trump has in the past said that in the 2017 he said without the tweets i wouldn't be here. i have over 100 million followers between facebook, twitter and instagram. over 100 million. i have don't have to go to the fake media. he got around people like yo. what you make of the fact he is permanently suspended? what does the white house think? >> as someone in trumps inner circle put it to me, that this losing his twitter account probably hurts him more than his impeachment. this was indeed uniquely him. and i don't think can be overstated how parent twitter was and still is. was to his rise and is to his presidency. he has over 88 million followers. he used it to get around the mainstream media. more than that he used it to as a messaging tool for his supporters. he used it as policy. he announced wild policies by twitter and firings. cabinet member dismissal. by twitter. he attacked mebs of his party. on twitter. he got into international incidents on twitter. this was of the life blo

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twitter and instagram have locked president trump's accounts. we spoke with analysts to explain why. >> reporter: on wednesday, president trump suspended from twitter for 12 hours, banned from instagram and facebook for the next 24. >> in some sense, what president trump did today was he incited that violence that we saw on the capitol. >> reporter: matt cabin is professor of public relations, says it was the right thing to do. >> when we use social media as the primary tool for important information, then these companies do have a big responsibility. >> you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> reporter: this is the tough ens stance these social media plaintiffs have taken against the president. among the videos deleted was trump's address to supporters to storm the capitol. he says they shouldn't be in the business of policing free speech, but they had to act. >> they can get away with just saying this is misinformation. but when that misinformation incites people to violence, i think the right thing to do is lock down those accounts. >> continuing to press violent or unconstitutional or illegal activity like this off of the main platf

twitter and instagram have locked president trump's accounts. we spoke with analysts to explain why. >> reporter: on wednesday, president trump suspended from twitteror 12 hours, banned from instagram and facebook for the next 24. >> in some sense, what president trump did today was he incited that violence that we saw on the capitol. >> reporter: matt cabin is professor of public relations, says it was the right thing to do. >> when we use social media as the primary tool for important information, then these companies do have a big responsibility. >> you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> reporter: this is the tough ens stance these social media plaintiffs have taken against the president. among the videos deleted was trump's address to supporters to storm the capitol. he says they shouldn't be in the business of policing free speech, but they had to act. >> they can get away with just saying this is misinformation. but when that misinformation incites people to violence, i think the right thing to do is lock down those accounts. >> continuing to press violent or unconstitutional or illegal activity like this off of the main platfor

on wednesday, facebook, twitter, snapchat, and youtube began taking steps to limit trump's posts on theirtforms after he continued to make false claims about the results of the 2020 u.s. presidential election. meanwhile, twitter lifted their suspension yesterday, and trump marked his return to social media by tweeting a 2-minute, 41-second video in which he said he would support a peaceful transition of power. he lost the election back in november and it took until this happened for that acknowledgment to come through. >>> meanwhile, president-elect joe biden continues to build out his cabinet ahead of inauguration day. biden on thursday announced rhode island governor and former venture capitalist gina roamedo as his choice for secretary of commerce and boston mayor marty walsh, a self-described lifelong champion of working people as his choice for cabinet labor secretary. the two are expected to, perhaps, balance each other out. raimondo has often been at odds with labor unions, whereas walsh, a union member, has seen strong support from the major unions. >>> and speaking yesterday in d

>> 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 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. president-elect biden accused the rioters being treated better than the protesters in washington last year. treating the mob more lenient man the "black lives matter" protesters who protested in

. >> and here's another consequence of wednesday's mayhem. twitter has now permanently suspended president trump's account after 50,000 tweets, this is what @realdonaldtrump's profile looks like this morning. meanwhile, lawmakers are calling for a thorough investigation into the security lapses that allowed scores of rioters to breach the capitol building. some calling it a massive security failure. >> and authorities across the country are rounding up suspects to face federal charges for their alleged roles in that attack. we have team coverage, first, let's go to abc's rachel scott at the white house with president trump's social media suspension, which he tried multiple times to subvert leading to even more bans. good morning to you, rachel. >> reporter: eva, good morning, and this is how the president's final days in office are playing out. he is facing growing calls to resign, threats of impeachment and now he is permanently suspended from twitter. days after a violent mob stormed the u.s. capitol, the president of the united states is now perma

it to basically say whatever he wanted, yet the equivalent of a digital gun and on wednesday it went off. >>> twitter is not just taking action against the president come today the company also purged the accounts promoting conspiracy theories. that includes the accounts of high-profile trump supporters like michael flynn, and sidney powell. >>> the latest from washington. democrats are working toward impeaching the president. they plan to introduce a resolution as early as monday. lisa murkowski became the first publican senator to call for president trump's resignation. and the president said he will not be attending joe biden's inauguration. also this evening, to high- profile arrest in the capital, including a man in the style photo with his feet up and speaking nancy pelosi's office. six-year-old arkansas resident identified himself to the new york times, claimant he took a letter from speaker pelosi's office. and the west virginia state lawmaker is also arrested. he lives in terms of storming the capital. republican derek evans is now facing criminal charges of entering a restricted area of the

now, this is as the president tack to twitter wednesday to say that watching the channel is almost asfake news cnn. >> we have a lot of support. you would be amazed. we have a lot of support. so many people we have as supporters outside of just, you know, our -- our fox news, which, you know, i have my own little -- i have my own little difficulties with, if you want to know the truth. now, fox is very disappointing. that fox puts on this -- this would not have happened with roger ailes, i've got to tell you that. >> trevor: i have to be honest, so weird to see trump turn on fox news because they were so loyal to him. they put their necks on the line for him again and again, even when they didn't have much neck to begin with. but now, it looks like this love affair is over, and even though trump's been married three times, this might be the big tion breakup overhis life, and we can't wait for the croom drama that this is going to inspire. >> they were the perfect match, but the love didn't last. this year, get ready for the divorce trial of the century. ( gavel pounding ) >> all right

wednesday's attack. including newly elected alabama congressman barry moore posted this to his twitter account on friday. wow, we have more arrested for stealing a podium than a election on november 3rd. that is from a sitting member of congress. and you didn't stop there. he also posted this. i understand there was a black officer that shot the white female veteran. you know that doesn't fit the narrative. a veteran capitol hill journalist jamie dupree, he spotted this and he called it out and thank you to him for that. twitter suspected congressman moore's account and he deleted the account altogether because he regretted what he wrote. no. it does not appear so. when we asked for comment, a spokesperson said this, twitter suspended the account and then he decided to deactivate his account because of the censorship of conservative voices he saw happening. let that set in. also on friday, nevada nye county republican party posted

starting to bother twitter a lot but clearly it was according to twitter also very much the tipping point was the riots at the capital on wednesday that in a statement from twitter they said that it was trump's partially trump's tweets at least that help and site that and that's why they shut down that account but then trump posted to the potest account that's an account to p o t us president of the united states account with a little over 30000000 followers and then then twitter immediately. deleted those tweets and just locked that account didn't didn't shut it but just locked it that's the official president's account the president had states that accounts run by the u.s. government but trump has access to it and then that will be turned over to joe biden on january 20th after that trump posted to team trump twitter account with about 3000000 followers that's his one of his campaign twitter accounts and then after he posted a message there twitter immediately shut down that account completely well you're following all that i mean it's basic been a cat and mouse game between twitter and trump all night bottom line here is trump

wednesday's deadly siege of the u.s. capitol on monday by a pro trump mob. meanwhile, twitter took the extraordinary step of permanently suspending the president's account for fears he would use it to insight more hate. congressional democrats would prefer the president resign immediately. neither is considered likely, so impeachment is the most probable next move as jim acosta now explains. >> days after he incited a siege at the u.s. capitol, donald trump is facing being impeached twice. his sudden commitment to an orderly transition may be too little too late. >> a new administration will be you inauguraled on january 20th. my focus moves to a seamless transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. >> house speaker nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats are now moving toward impeachment proceedings against the president, all the while making sure mr. trump doesn't do anything drastic. i spoke to the chairman chiefs of staff mark millie to discuss precautions for preventing an unstable president from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear st

twitter locked president trump's account for 12 hours beginning on wednesday and deleted three of his tweets after he incited violence at the capitol. twitter cited trump's "repeated and severe violations" of its policies. facebook followed suit later wednesday, blocking trump from posting for 24 hours on its main platform and on instagram. buzzfeed news reports earlier wednesday facebook managers silenced comments on an internal message board where employees discussed removing trump from the social media site. world leaders reacted in horror over the storming of the u.s. capitol. u.n. secretary general antonio guterres called on u.s. political leaders to demand their followers refrain from violence. leaders of the u.k., new zealand, australia, canada, india, japan, france, germany, nato, and the european council called for a peaceful transfer of power to joe biden. in a statement, venezuela's government condemned political polarization and the spiral of violence, adding -- "with this unfortunate episode, the united states is experiencing what it has generated in other countries with

twitter and facebook suspending the president's accounts for 12 hours and 24 hours respectively citing violations against platform guidelines. the social media companies indicating that the president's messages on wednesday encouraged additional violence as his supporters stormed the capitol. twitter, the first to take decisive action against the dangerous rhetoric. >> today was st first time that they took the offended tweets down entirely, locked his account for 12 hours and then said, if you break this rule again, you're going to get kicked off. so we're in kind of different territory. >> this is, by far, the strongest action taken by social media companies since early summer when they first hid the president's tweets starting with this one. >> that was the first time twitter did something more than slapping the label, they shielded the tweet, stopped people from liking or anything like that. that was the pivotal moment in the arc of content information on social media. >> flagging the posts containing misinformation about covid-19 and baseless claims about election fraud. but those claims deliver a major blow to the president who relies on social media not only to correlate with his loyalists but set

twitter in particular did a betterjob after the election when they started tagging his tweets as containing false information on making false claims about the election, and i think by the time wednesdaymedia companies just made the decision that they had simply had enough, it was simply not worth it to them to have him behaving the way he had been doing. it has been very interesting talking to you this morning. thank you for your time. that was drew wilson, formerly senator sergeant of arms up until 2015, and that job incorporates, as he explained, a lot of the security around those buildings. so that is very interesting. can i be slightly frivolous? i was distracted by his christmas tree in the background.” saw that too. i thought, given what we we re saw that too. i thought, given what we were talking about, it wasn't the moment the saying anything, it was quite dark and not lit up but it was still up, on january nine.” quite dark and not lit up but it was still up, on january nine. i was on a call last night with a friend also still has her tree up. notjust a few very light, the entire thing. maybe traditions are different in the us, i don't know. she is in bristol, so, i don't kn

wednesday changed everything >> twitter has banned president trump for life the social need yeah giant says after reviewing the president's recent tweets, it took the move to, quote, reduce the risk of inciting violence. facebook and instagram he's blocked for at least the next two weeks. >>> the u.s. economy saw its first monthly job losses since april with nonfarm payrolls falling by 14,000 in december. virus-sensitive industries such as hospitality continued to be the worst hit. unemployment remains steady at 6.7%, in line with expectations. china'sfactory prices fell at their slowest pace as china's manufacturing sector continues to recover from the pandemic the producer price index fell by 0.4% year-on-year which was less than expected while consumer prices returned to growth after an unexpected fall in november to talk markets, the head of global equities at aviva investors joins me now great to have you on the program. we're opening up this week after a record close for wall street on friday. european markets advancing as strongly last week with the stoxx 600 gaining about 3% wi

twitter. the social media company banned him last night amid this larger fallout from wednesday's deadly attackthe capitol. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> reporter: late friday, twitter banned the president due to the risk of further incitement of violence. the move came as extremists are planning another proposed attack on washington and state capitols on january 17. republican senator ben sasse: >> as this was unfolding on television, donald trump was walking around the white house, confused about why other people on his team weren't as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against capitol police trying to get into the building. as this was happening, he was delighted. >> reporter: twitter was the president's preferred method of communication and a way for him to retain the bully pulpit after he leaves the white house. house speaker nancy pelosi called for president trump to resign or she will pursue 25th amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment. the draft article of impeachment, incitement of insurrection, alleges that president trump's conduct on wednesday g

. >> we spend a lot of time on wednesday evening on twitter listening and reading about how other teachersandle, and there are some teach that's said, i can't talk about this with my students. in some cases there are school districts that have put into place basically restrictions on having these kinds of conversations. they don't think it's appropriate. >> reporter: he teaches american history to high school students in colorado springs, colorado. the siege happening during his class. he decided to abandon his original plan and instead watched the riots unfold with his students. his goal -- to bring some context leaving space for his diverse student body. >> we have to listen to what they have to say, and i was also pretty cognizant of knowing the fact that my kids are multiracial, that i wanted to be really careful about providing a safe space for students. >> and this past year has thrown so much at students and teachers that morris says she believes it's important for parents and care givers to find ways to talk about these events with your kids even when it feels uncomfortable, becaus

. >> reporter: president trump facing growing outrage following wednesday's attack on the capitol building. twitter cutting off the president's account. democrats threatening to impeach the president for a second time, accusing him of, quote, willfully inciting violence against the government. house speaker nancy pelosi speaking out with "60 minutes". >> sadly the person that's running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. >> president-elect joe biden leaving the decision up to congress. >> the quickest way that that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th. >> reporter: even some in the president's own party calling for his resignation. lisa murkowski saying, i want him out. he has caused enough damage. others calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked. >> all indications is that the president has become unmoored not just from his duty or his oath but from reality. >> reporter: police receiving thousands of tips after receiving bolo posters. >> there are a myri

the thing that caused twitter to take action was the ability to make a direct link with what happened on the capital on wednesdayd how the president uses twitter. >> that's right. people inside of twitter said this is enough. there's a massive meeting yesterday morning at twitter where employees said it is hard to work here right now. one of them said in an internal slack we got access to -- i think the coup is a hard line we can draw for the policy. that is the conversation that was going on within twitter. they thought they were using their platform explicitly to start a coup or insurrection. that is why they acted. >> ben, thanks as always. we will talk to you through the course of the show. ben collins. covering all things on the dark web. >>> donald trump has reduced the department of justice to nothing but a corrupt institution. bending it to his whim. the president-elect is going do the best to restore the department of justice. he is sending a clear message to officials about what their future holds. that's next. >> i want to be clear to those who lead this department who you will serve. you are not the

twitter account for a very long time. clearly this reached a whole new level, what we saw on wednesday on capitol hill. at is twitter saying to those who were critical of the social media platform is to the timing of why they would show this restraint of his account now and not before. >> well, to be frank with you, i think twitter and other platforms have been making up the rules as they have gone along. over the past two years they've been confronted by a series of really difficult decisions. these companies don't want to be in the business of making editorial judgments or content moderation judgments. they desperately do not want to be in that business. that's an expensive and hard business to be in. however, they've been given no choice because of the use of their platforms, the abuse of their platforms, to incite violence. this is the first time a world leader has been removed from twitter in this way. it wasn't a dictator in some far-off land, it was the united states president that was removed. twitter has been under tremendous pressure from its own staff to take this step. and frankly, it's a lo

wednesday. in a video on twitter, she told people across the us that she would remember them.has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as first lady of the united states. i have been inspired by incredible americans across our country, who lift up our communities through their kindness and courage, goodness and grace. the past four years have been unforgettable. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we speak to the former british special forces officer who led nepalese mountaineers to a place in history. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states. he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first. america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him - the butcher of lyon. klaus altman is being held. on a fraud charge in bolivia. the west germans want i to extradite him for crimes commi

wednesday. she posted a message on twitter thanking her california constituents. >> hi, everybody. i just wanted to let you know how honored i've been to serve as a united states senator from the place of my birth, the great state of california. >> harris says she's proud of her team's work in the senate, including getting help from fema during the catastrophic wildfires and securing benefits for veterans. alex padilla will take harris' seat in the senate. he resigned as california's secretary of state, he will become california's first latino senator. on twitter, padilla says, quote, i am humbled and honored to serve as california's next senator. thank you gavin newsom. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. the weather is so strange today, unusual. we've got the wind. it's warm, but also we've got the high surf danger as we're seeing unfold right now in half moon bay. >> we really do. very high surf out there, 10-20 feet. we're tracking that extreme fire danger. i want to instruct our crew at the station to roll my backup weather. we're having power issues here at h

twitter and facebook are realizing is that this is a loaded gun. it is something that is not just mouthing off on the internet and it went off on wednesday. >> the president issued a statement tonight saying twitter trying to silence them, suggesting he may build his own platform. facebook and instagram beganed the president's account as long as he is in office. apple gave parlor 24 hours to start moderating the content, or it could face expuls ion from te apple store. abc news reporter andrew dimberg reports from washington, it comes as the nation mourns the death of a police officer that died in the chaos at the capitol. >> the flag over the capitol flying at half-staff, the officer that died in the riot. a 12 year veteran on the force. mike condolens condolenscond condolenses is, the republican reporter, telling -- >> the oath of office. lisa murkowski more direct. i want him to resign. i want him out. with 12 days left in office before president elect joe biden takes over, democrats appear to be moving forward with impeachment. they have written an impeachment resolution, a single article charging inciting insurrection. >> we are going to walk down an

wednesday. this after reports that a former opd officer jerell snider march today the capitol and wept on twitter to post a defense of the pro-trump loyalists who forced their way into the building. some former and current officers reportedly liked snider's post. opd condemned those posts and says it will investigate. in a statement the department added opd will not allow any members to engage in or support this time of content and will root out this conduct. hate speech and offensive conduct will not be tolerated. >> well, amid all the political turmoil one thing has remained constant. the coronavirus keeps spreading. today alone california added more than 52,000 cases. that's 2% higher than yesterday. 695 people died in the last 24 hours, the most ever for one day in california. hospitals are stretched thin. legts talk about standard icu availability here in the bay area. overall it's at 3%. most of the bay area in the red zone. many counties in single digits like san mateo, santa clara, contra costa, solano. napa, it's at zero. the new patients may have to go to surge facilities. >> with bay a

by his supporters, the president spent weeks on twitter telling his supporters that they needed to come to washington, d.c. on january 6th, on wednesday of this week. he was hyping that if they came to washington, there would be something they could do in washington that would result in them overturning the election results and keeping him in power. he promised his supporters that he would be there with them if they came to washington on january 6th, that he would be in attendance at their show of force. he promised them that it, quote,

twitter and facebook are realizing is that this is a loaded gun. it is something that is not just mouthing off on the internet and it went off on wednesday. >> the president issued a statement tonight saying twitter trying to silence them, suggesting he may build his own platform. facebook and instagram beganed the president's account as long as he is in office. apple gave parlor 24 hours to start moderating the content, or it could face expuls ion from te apple store. abc news reporter andrew dimberg reports from washington, it comes as the nation mourns the death of a police officer that died in the chaos at the capitol. >> the flag over the capitol flying at half-staff, the officer that died in the riot. a 12 year veteran on the force. mike condolens condolenscond condolenses is, the republican reporter, telling -- >> the oath of office. lisa murkowski more direct. i want him to resign. i want him out. with 12 days left in office before president elect joe biden takes over, democrats appear to be moving forward with impeachment. they have written an impeachment resolution, a single article charging inciting insurrection. >> we are going to walk down an

now, up to wednesday, social media platforms like twitter, like facebook, had to either take him down specific tweets or posts from the president or labeled them as inaccurate or having within them a statement that was disputed. the first time we have seen a temporary ban from a social media platform was following wednesday, and cynics point to the timing of all of this, just after president-elect joe biden was confirmed by congress and unfortunately, of course, after those violent scenes we saw on the capitol. perhaps more could have been done. it's not just silicon valley that are acting and speaking out. >> we lost anna stewart there, but i think we got the gist of it all. thanks for your company, everyone. we're out of time anyway. we didn't do that deliberately to anna there. i'm michael holmes, "early start" is coming up next. you're watching cnn. is scientifically proven to break down waste. maintain your septic tank with rid-x. kisave it slimeball.ting her congestion. i've upgraded to mucinex. we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move!

wednesday president trump continued attacks on the election. >> we will never give up. we will never concede. >> reporter: his twitter was

further incitement of violence that this comes as more than 300 twitter employees signed a petition calling for the permanent ban. on wednesday, the president's account was locked for 12 hours following tweets he made about the u. s capitol riots in a block post. twitter said quote. plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating and on on and off twitter now, including a proposed secondary attack on the u. s. capitol. and state capitol buildings on january. 17th facebook and instagram have also locked the president's accounts and definitely snapchat and twitch also locked the president out of his account, and just about 30. minutes ago, it appears the president resumed tweeting from the potus account. he accused a twitter of quote, banning free speech and silencing him now. within minutes, the tweets appeared to be removed. house speaker nancy pelosi ordered flags at the u. s capitol but to be flown at half staff following the death of a capitol police officer, officer brian sick. nick was a 15 year veteran of the department. the 42 year old died yesterday in the hospital after trying to stop rioters from br

details. >> reporter: president trump permanently suspended from twitter, the social network says it's because of remarks over wednesday's could further incite violence. the president reacted to the decision in a statement saying he will not be silenced, teasing a new platform. twitter's move follows facebook and instagram which also suspended the president's accounts, those bans are indefinite, lasting at least through the inauguration. the american civil liberties union expressing concern saying although the president can turn to other media outlets, those less fortunate won't have the same opportunity. it's calling for transparency saying the rules should be applied equally to everyone. five people died in wednesday's rioting, including one police officer just hours after the president held a rally and urged his supporters to march to the capitol. and with more than a week left in office democrats appear to be moving forward with impeachment. already drawing up an impeachment resolution. president-elect biden says that's up to congress, but adding there is an alternative. >> the quickest way that that will happen is u