the white house time to -- the whitehouse time to wake up run, farewell. the whitehouse, at least on time to wake up, out. thank you. mr. inhofe: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: before my friend leaves, i just want him to know that i relish the opportunity to be here for -- really issued the opportunity to be here for his 400th or whatever it's been, but his final speech. and i'm excited about the final speech because i've got it pretty well memorized now. and while i have to say this -- and i say this about another person who has been on the committee with me for a long period of time. while i don't agree with very much of what you say, but you say it so well. that goes with you, i say to the senator from massachusetts, because we cover a lot of issues in that committee. i think it was -- we have the new majority now. you will see some things that you will seize upon as opportunities that may make some changes. i will be there to try to keep that from happening, but nonetheless, we'll enjoy it. so there are s

senator whitehouse, thank you for joining the program. want to get your reac first of all, to nancy pelosi's call thatf president trump is not removed by the cabinet on the grounds of incapacity, that he should be impeached. >> yesterday, the predominant emotion among my colleagues, republican and democt, was probably shock and horror, and to a certain degree shame thatth should happen in the eyes of the world to our capital, in the united states of america. but very, very close behind that was an enormous anger on both sides of the aisle. and i think this may be the line trump has crossed tha i finally the step too far for his republican erstwhile supporters in the senate. i think thesss of the 25th amendment and of impeachment, they are difficult, they require the vice president or a republican majority leader of theenate to proceed, but it would be hard to overstate the fu of the senate about this incident, and the extent to which that fury was dedicated specifically, pointed specifically at donald tru. katty: senator, j biden will be

whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. biden, mr. young. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> the senate will be in order. the senate will be in order. the sergeant-at-arms will make the proclamation. >> hear ye, hear ye, hear ye all persons are commanded to keep silent while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states and article of impeachment against donald john trump former president of the united states. >> mr. president? at the senator from kentucky. >> article ii, section 4 the constitution says the president and vice president all civil officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason robbery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. article i section 3 clause six states when the president of the united states has tried the chief justice cell -- upper separatist opening yesterday donald trump holds the positions listed in the constitution briÉe private citizen. the presiding officer is not a chief justice nor does he c

whitehouse time to wake up run, farewell. whitehouse at least on time to wake up out. >> mike drop.he man, sheldon whitehouse, to play us off the air this evening. that is our wednesday night effort. with our thanks for joining us for all our part. on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> in my view we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. we can't wait any longer. >> the biden white house goes big on climate. tonight congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez help make this moment happen. >>> then, major new indictments of organizers of the capitol hill riot and major new questions about the members of congress still doing trump's bidding. >>> plus, straight talk from the covid biden team. >> right now i want to level with the public that we're facing two constraining factors. >> my exclusive interview with senior biden covid adviser andy slavitt on the reality facing americans and why it may not be all bad. >>> and the big short by the stock surge by gamestop has the attention of the white house and gl

elizabeth: senator whitehouse it should be pointed out, brent bozell's group pointed this out, too.eteering lawsuits to companies that disagreed with them on climate change. your final word, ford. >> you're absolutely right. look, do not punish your political opponents. there is a big difference between hate speech that incites violence and speech comes from people you hate. people comes from people you don't like should never be punished. because that is the first amendment. elizabeth: ford o'connell, great to see you. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, emac. elizabeth: coming up, former california republican party chairman tom del beccaro, local california reporters, journalists there, they're waking up, they're getting woke. they are now blasting california's out of control shutdown rules saying wait a second, you're slamming the economy but what you did had zero impact, no impact on the covid surge. the new push for common sense among journalists in california as reopen push gains momentum across the country. >> i think, and i don't mean to be throwing off on anyone but at some

the white house time to -- the whitehouse time to wake up run, farewell. the whitehouse, at least on time to wake up, out. thank you. mr. inhofe: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: before my friend leaves, i just want him to know that i relish the opportunity to be here for -- really issued the opportunity to be here for his 400th or whatever it's been, but his final speech. and i'm excited about the final speech because i've got it pretty well memorized now. and while i have to say this -- and i say this about another person who has been on the committee with me for a long period of time. while i don't agree with very much of what you say, but you say it so well. that goes with you, i say to the senator from massachusetts, because we cover a lot of issues in that committee. i think it was -- we have the new majority now. you will see some things that you will seize upon as opportunities that may make some changes. i will be there to try to keep that from happening, but nonetheless, we'll enjoy it. so there are s

now, in the senate, seven senate democrats led by sheldon whitehouse who i'm going to speak with in a few minutes, filed an ethics complaint against ted cruz and josh hawley for. it should result in expulsion or censure. they're right, it should. republicans have an obligation to apologize to the country to patrol their caucus and to exile the seditious faction and not just wield the power they have to obstruct and endanger american democracy. and if they will not do that, which they almost certainly will not, then democrats newly empowered with a mandate from the american people with rare control over both houses of congress and the presidency, with the president who got more votes than anyone in history, who won by 7 million votes and a senate majority derived from an improbable victory in the state of georgia, with where everyone knew the senate was on the line. they have a mandate, the democrats, to do things to improve people's lives as quickly and as much as possible and to fortify american democracy against the forces that would seek to destroy it. if that can be done in a way

whitehouse time to wake up run, farewell.u heard the man. sheldon whitehouse off of the air this evening. that is our wednesday night effort with our thanks for joining us for all of our part. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. ♪ ♪ >>> this time four years ago the ceo of exxon was starting his new job as secretary of state for america. for the united states. whose idea was that? the exxon ceo. it did not go well for him. it did not even go well for exxon which was the biggest surprise. it didn't go well for the united states of america. by the time reports surfaced that the ceo described the president as an effing moron at a meeting in the situation rm

i'm joined now by sheldon whitehouse who filed against krus and hawley. i want to start with this weird situation we find ourselves in. this impasse over the organizing resolution. can you explain what's going on here? >> i think it is early power struggle with mitch trying to find leverage for himself. to the extent that he is counting on people in the democratic caucus to oppose procedural reforms. i think he is really undermining himself, mcconnell is right now. he's making the case for procedural reforms the allow a majority to do its business. >> he's essentially, as i understand it, threatening a filibuster of the basic resolution you need to do business and there by using that threat to deny the democrats, the majority and the gavel and committee chairmanships. >> yeah. well, tech anybodily we would have the gavels but not the new members assigned to different committees. so the floor would continue to operate more or less the regular way under senate rules with chuck schumer as majority leader but the real rubber hitting the road is in the committ

sheldon whitehouse off of the air this evening. that is our wednesday night effort with our thanks for joining us for all of our part. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. ♪ ♪ >>> this time four years ago the ceo of exxon was starting his new job as secretary of state for america. for the united states. whose idea was that? the exxon ceo. it did not go well for him. it did not even go well for exxon which was the biggest surprise. it didn't go well for the united states of america. by the time reports surfaced that the ceo described the president as an effing moron at a meeting in the situation room and the secretary of state wouldn't deny he said it, it was even clear his tenure wasn't going well for the administration. his tenure of secretary of state wasn't good for the state department. it was really a bad idea all around that turned out worse than you might have thought from the initial badness of the bad idea. one of the things that happened at the state department over the past four year

senator whitehouse said the nation needs to fight to make can caleb's dreams come true.a few months ago while asking to make a bill to fund. >>> slowly warming up. low 60s tomorrow. more kouds moving in. slight chance of rain to the north. going into the end of the week and into the weekend, expect slightly warmer temperatures, feeling more like spring by saturday. scott? >> thank you, kari. thank you for joining us. our next newscast is at 5:00. in 30 minutes, governor newsom will provide an update to california's response to the pandemic. we'll bring that to you live. have a great day. ♪ we have the power to harness california's abundant solar and wind energy, but it's not available all day long. use less energy from 4 to 9 pm for a cleaner california. for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor ev

is one of a number of leaders happy to once again have a friend in the whitehouse.

i think we have senator whitehouse next if you are with us, senator whitehouse. >> i am here with you and i thank you and senator cardin, senator brown very much. >> thanks for being here. >> the problem of where you set default with people are making choices is an important question, if i'm not mistaken, a psychologist won the nobel prize in economics a couple years ago for his work on choice and where default charset and a people make choices. i have what we call the auto ira bill which sets the default that employees are automatically enrolled in their ira plan unless they opt out as opposed to automatically not enrolled in their ira plan unless they opt in. the employee retains full choice. it's just a question of where the default is set. it exempts smaller businesses and businesses in states that already have a similar program operating at the state level. and i think it's when way to address the problem of having 25% of non-retiree adults having no retirement savings or pension at all, and only 55% of workers participating in employer-sponsored retirement plans when they have t

for the last nine years, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse has been raising an i wearness about the effects of climate change in a series of speeches from the floor. on wednesday the democratic lawmaker gave his final speech on the topic. >> i'm particularly glad to see the senior senator from new mexico presiding on for what are for me is a sentimental moment because he has been such a terrific friend and colleague and advocate in the battle about climate change. i'm here today because at last it is time to say farewell to my battered time to wake up image board here and to a run of more than 275 weekly climate speeches. it's been one of the senate's longer runs, i believe, but i think it's time to say farewell. this long run began in the dark days of 2012 after speaker pelosi had passed a serious climate bill and the senate had refused to take up anything, not even a blank bill to go to conference with and see what could be done in conference. and as some of us remember all too well, when speaker pelosi passed that bill in 2009 over on the house side, we had here in the senate

we saw the irs due before now they're trying to do it now, this is also senator sheldon whitehouse andhington post calling for the government to call for repose to people disagree about climate change. this is a trend and it's very scary where they wanted the platform everybody including fox news. you see arguments about that in the left and they want to use the power of government to go after private companies that dare stand up to them. liz: then you have house oversight carolyn melania saying let's get the fbi to look into businesses since customers were at the capital riot targeting parler but not twitter or facebook. it is continuing. john brennan is saying intelligence communities going to start getting active too. we will have you back on this story, it's good to see you, thank you for joining us. liz: coming up former california john cox there is a major upper happening right now in california. more than 50 restaurant and wineries suing the california governor gavin newsom, why, he is unconstitutional and how he handled the shutdown, he botched it. a big push to recall this gov

senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island has given a speech about climate on the senate floor every week for the past nine years. every week sheldon whitehouse gives a speech on the senate floor in which he urges that the climate is an emergency and that the u.s. government needs to do more and that we need to actually start leading the world on innovating and adapting and investing and confronting the climate disaster. every week for nine years he has been giving that speech. today he gave one of those speeches, he says, for the last time, because he says, finally, after one week in office, the u.s. government is finally actually starting to do it. and so, now he wants to be part of helping them do it. he no longer feels like he needs to hechter them every week in the senate, telling them that it's time to wake up. we're awake. joining us now is cole davenport. she writes today at "the new york times" that the forces of raid behind president biden on this effort might surprise you, that some cases, oil and gas companies and carmakers are behind what the president is trying to do. c

for the last nine years, rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse has been raising an i wearness about the effects of climate change in a series of speeches from the floor. on wednesday the democratic lawmaker gave his final speech on the topic. >> i'm particularly glad to see the senior senator from new mexico presiding on for what are for me is a sentimental moment because he has been such a terrific friend and colleague and advocate in the battle about climate change. i'm here today because at last it is time to say farewell to my battered time to wake up image board here ando

whitehouse? mr. whitehouse, no. mr. wicker? >> no. >> mr. wicker, no. mr. wyden? mr. wyden, no. mr. young? >> no. >> mr. young, no. ms. harris? ms. harris, no. mrs. gillibrand? no. mr. blumenthal? mr. blumenthal, no. ms. hirono? ms. hirono, no. mr. portman? mr. portman, no. mr. cassidy? mr. cassidy, no. mr. menendez? mr. menendez, no. mr. kaine? mr. kaine, no. >>> so, here we go. they are just waiting to announce right now, chris. >> so, what's happening right now is the parliamentarians, the people who sit in front of mike pence, if you are looking at the screen right now. you have the people who are on that top level. those are the senate parliamentarians. all right. those two rows. and they are pretty much the only ones who know the rules. so now, they are finishing the vote. and then, mike pence will record the vote. now, what has been remarkable here, so far. >> sanders. >> yeah, they are still going through the rollcall. sanders is, obviously, bernie sanders. is that, they have more yea or yes votes on this, than we anticipated. so far, we've heard seven. now, you have to reme

senator whitehouse, please come back and talk to us about that. i know you have a lot of thoughts. and we definitely want to keep the focus on that. >> at your pleasure, katy. >> in the next hundred days to four years. senator whitehouse, thank you so much. >>> and coming up, a covid travel ban canceled and then reinstated all in about 24 hours. the major shift between one administration to the next. >>> and it is his final full day in office, which means we are on pardon watch. first up, though, posing as the national guard, new reporting on what law enforcement is watching out for tomorrow. are you ok? it's just a cold. if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. choose coricidin hbp. the brand with a heart. for powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure. did you know you can go to libertymutual.com to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ sofi made it so easy to

whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. >> [inaudible] a quorum is present. majorityr.der. >> very briefly i simply want to welcome all senators on this first day of the one 117th congress. today, 60 members are joining our ranks for the first time. senators hagerty of tennessee, hicken looper of colorado, lujan of new mexico, of wyoming, marshal of kansas, tuberville of alabama, have been elected to serve the people of their home states. and of course senator kelly of arizona was sworn in a few weeks ago. we congratulate all of our new colleagues as well as their families and look forward to the ways in which they were unique experiences their ideas and their priorities will enrich this institution and strengthen our work for the nation. to say the one 117th congress convenes at a challenging time would indeed be an understatement. from political division to ao deadly pandemic to adversaries around the world the hurdles before us are many. and they are serious. but there's also plenty of reason for hope. optimisticn- for looking candice spirit is one of our most distin

the lawmakers who will be in the room where it happens, rhode island democratic senator sheldon whitehouse. all of us, senator, will have a few questions for you. i want to begin with something you wrote earlier this week. and because there's going to be a real debate about this, which is, the trump era, the so-called truth and reconciliation commission, if you will, i use that as an umbrella, and i apologize for overparaphrasing what you're calling for, but you're looking -- president obama, when he came in, decided to move on from the bush/cheney era on the iraq war, things like that. and you said you acknowledged that. you don't want to see that happen this time. explain. >> well, there are several areas where i think it's absolutely vital that we understand what took place. you can't effect a cure if you don't have a proper diagnosis. and going from small to big, the department of justice is an obvious place that needs serious restoration and repair. and i think, rather than have the entity, the new attorney general, try to fix it himself or herself, that you need to have a group that

whitehouse: i'm particularly glad to see the senior senator from new mexico presiding on what for me is a s sentimental - sentimental moment because he's been such a terrific friend and colleague and advocate in

and i'm going to put senator reed and senator whitehouse down as firm yes's on confirmation. and governor raimondo, we are delighted to have you remotely and you are recognized for five minutes. governor raimondo: thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you ranking member cantwell. special thank you to senators reed and whitehouse for your friendship, support and such kind opening remarks. thank you to both of you. it is an honor to come before this committee today as president biden's nominee for the united states secretary of commerce i've enjoyed talking with many of the members. i want to thank you this morning for your time and tell you how much i appreciated hearing your insights and perspective on the important work of the commerce department. commerce department has a simple but vital mission -- to spur good paying jobs and power entrepreneurs to innovate and grow and help american workers and businesses compete. these are the same priorities that have guided by own life and my own career. like most of you, like many of you, i was raised to appreciate the value of hard wor

whitehouse? mr. whicker? mr. widen? mr. young? >> [silence]. >> [silence continues]. >> [silence]. >> [no audible conversations]. >> laura: the senate is voting on the objection to the arizona election results. chad pergram has breaking news. tell us what you just learned about why congress might be here late into the night? >> it's going to take a while because hawley the republican from missouri who announced first he would object to the electoral votes indicated he would continue his objection to the state of pennsylvania. that's next in the mix. this is the vote whether or not to certify arizona. the house of representatives across the building is still debating arizona. they will take a vote as well. it was thought after all of the chaos earlier today maybe this would be it. people would dial back their positions and say we need to get along. let's not have objections. but they had to vote on arizona in the house and senate. rand paul thought they would call it off and approve the rest of the electoral slate. they don't got t

lengthen the time of impeachment to bring new evidence about the president's complicity but senator whitehouse points the cause of the impeachment was on live television. if you don't know what happened that day, he told colleagues you haven't been paying i know you are too. find me @scottmcgrew. >> thanks so much. it's 5:49. >>> an investigation is under way in southern california after an orange county health care worker died days after receiving his second dose of the covid vaccine. according to the "orange county register" the x-ray technician did experience an adverse effect to the pfizer vaccine. the sheriff's office is still investigating the official cause of death. an answer will take months. everyone to get vaccinated. >>> health leaders in the meantime say a man died last week several hours after getting injected with the vaccine as well, however the official cause of death has not been determined. >>> some people under the age of 65 with no realistic chance of being vaccinated for months are still on a mission to overcome the odds. this is what's happening at a lot of l.a. county v

. >> that was a sheldon whitehouse from rhode island.ouse dems have also been vocal on this issue, even hoping to revive to reform campaign finance laws to bring dark money into the light. it's interesting. it raises a question. with biden taking advantage of dark money, how can the democrats go the distance? it's a little bit like saying if the uber wealthy used tack laws to their advantage then said they wanted to dismantle the very laws that help them. it has people scratching their head. >> harris: thank you very much. leo, it's more complicated than looking a little hypocritical, right? if you need that money to win as democrats, you look at those numbers, that $145 million for biden and $28.4 million for president trump, when you look at that, it shows you that one side was clearly leaning harder than the other. what do you make of this? >> that's why i like donald trump. he didn't take that swamp money. here's the point, harris. citizen united allows dark money. let's be clear about the law. first of all, money alone, in and of it

senator sheldon whitehouse is calling for possible pickup trucks of cent -- possible punishment or censureship any similar efforts underway? >> the ethics committee in the house has not yet been reorganized for the 117th congress. i hope and expect to continue to be on that committee. and i do expect that there will be considerable review of any actions taken by members of the house that contributed to this insurrection. so i would be very, very surprised if matters are not taken up by the house ethics committee. >> one more development we learned this afternoon it was warning from the fbi that potential armed groups could be staging protests in state comments, could potentially be coming back to washington, d.c. all in an attempt on disrupt either the inauguration or the incoming administration. your thoughts and your reactions to that troubling news? >> that's something that actually was talked about on our caucus call today. and it has been the subject of constant conversation among members. a great deal of concern for security. many of our members have to fly across the country or take the

senate finance, democrat sheldon whitehouse talking about getting the irs to go after charlie kirk's having two events down in florida, for potentially spreading covid. that is not the irs's job to look after non-profits because they had an event for spreading covid. that is not what the irs is so. so you know, we've seen democrats say, giving money to comb comb's nomination. amy comey barrett. we got an open letter signed by more than 200 authors, professors, don't do book deals to anybody in the. media not creating what they like to say is a safe space to hear both side. 75 million people upset about shutdowns. riots turning main street media into a ghost town. let's hear what they're talking about unity here. let's listen to the media. >> i think the challenges that the rot is from the grassroots all the way to the presidency, to the rot, is at every layer. >> there are millions of americans, almost all white, almost all republicans who somehow need to be deprogrammed. >> the bottom line is all of america needs deprogramming because we've all been negatively influenced by donald t

the other did not happen, the fact is the biden's have had a representative that is worked with whitehouseing did not go right he got fired today. >> he was from one of the trump hotels. wanted to be a permanent member of the white house staff. and they let him go. >> he would've corrected all the changes today, presumably things went smoothly. i couldn't understand the new family wants to make their own team. kennedy: of course, do they do big security sweep when they are cleaning and all that stuff? >> sure per the secret service are always involved with anything of course that is coming from outside, into the residence. that would be a private moving truck that would've brought the biden's things to the house. but once those movers arrive at the white house doors, they do not go into the white house. then it is the white house staff to take something off the truck and moves it in its highly supervised. sue for the point but 20 seconds are there any pranks the trump administration played on the biden? >> i can't imagine they would've done that part it has happened in other administration

rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse saying, "the senate ethics committee also must consider the expulsion or censure and punishment of sentries cruz, hawley , and perhaps other." and impeachment vote kite on wednesday. >> julie: security is also tightening after the riot last week, and that continues. tell us about it. >> no doubt about it. some lawmakers are complaining that days later there still has not been a single public briefing by federal security officials, with some complaining the silence is deafening. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell notes, "the ultimate blame for wednesday lies with the unhinged criminals who broke down doors, trampled our nation's flag, thought with law enforcement, and tried to disrupt our democracy, and with those who incited them. but this fact does not and will not preclude our addressing the shocking failures in the capitol security posture and protocols." i should also note the washington monument is now closed and tours are suspended, citing credible threats, until after inauguration day. julie? >> julie: mike emanuel, thank you very much. >> yo

the impeachment trial to bring new evidence about the president's complicity, but senator sheldon whitehouseoints out the cause of the impeachment was on tv. he says, quote,ened that day, yu haven't been paying too. i like connecting with you. find me on twitter @scott mcgrew. >> it's 6:47. an investigation is under way in second quarter after an orange county health care worker died days after receiving his second dose of the covid vaccine. according to the orange county register the x-ray technician did experience an adverse effect to the pfizer vaccine. the sheriff's office is still investigating the official cause of death. an answer could take months. health leaders say as well say a man died several hours after receiving a vaccine. his cause of death has not been determined. >>> some people under 65 with no realistic chance of being vaccinated for months are still is on a mission to overcome the odds. at most l.a. county vaccine sites these second line forms extra early and remains in place until the end of the day. it's all people hoping to receive leftover vaccines that will otherwis

once joe biden is inaugurated, several accounts like @whitehouse and@potus will be transferred over.oor or making plans for the weekend. how are we looking, kari? >> looks good. even though there's this huge storm system in the pacific, we are really enjoying some quiet and warm weather. check out portland, seattle and getting wet weather and that is where it will stay. unfortunate for us ba us we need rain but it will kick up high waves and we'll see big breakers along the coastline, high surf advisory going into effect at 11:00 this morning through tomorrow evening, never turn your back to the water. we want to you stay well away from the coastline today, if you're in the peninsula and going for a hike. we are going to see temperatures in the 50s to start. low 50s throughout the morning and low 60s for the afternoon, so you'll be taking off that jacket and wearing short sleeves throughout today. we have this blocking area of high pressure once again, steering those storms to the north, keeping us from getting any chances of rain but it's been so dry and winds picking up going into

so we can tell everyone you cannot only anticipate it and i would invite everyone to just go to whitehouse .gov and take a look and you will see in a very comprehensive way what we consider the extraordinarily robust plan. it would be helpful to the whole country and every single thing we need to do but it could start. there are a few ways the state and local communities will hopefully see more in the way of support. one of them is financial land yesterday one increased the match it's the result of feedback we need the national guard but we also need support and we can't afford to pick up the tab on that right now so there is that financial support but there's also the platform in the way the president has proposed in his next package. the second thing you will see i think is an even stronger push for partnership. it's about dialogue, not a monologue and that started in part with some of the conversations the president and his team have had with governors and mayors, local and state officials and community organizations about how we can bolster the response. i think you will see more of th

whitehouse. mr. whittaker. mr. widen. mr. young. >> all right. a quick reminder of what we're watching. the senators just concluded their voting. we're waiting for the official tally to be annoyanced on the board of order presented. on the constitutionality of former president trump's impeachment trial as presented by the junior senator of kentucky, rand paul, saying that as a former private citizen, he could not be impeached in the senate. the majority leader chuck schumer saying that is not the case, saying there is both the legality, the constitutionality of it, there is precedence and em, common sense would allow the senate to continue with its trial of the former president. we have milissa murray with us. as we wait for this official tally of this announcement, i want to go back to the point which the majority leader was talking about. the second part of the provision that would render the punishment. the first was removal from office and the second part he says shows the intent of the founding fathers. that they had this second provision wh

whitehouse. >> no. >> mr. ricker. >> no. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> no. >> what's happening is they are just tallying the votes that were just voted by the u.s. senators. you saw all of the senators, we believe are in the chamber. they voted orally. it's being tabulated by the clerks there. they are discussing with parliamentary staff there and ultimately we will here, i believe, from vice president mike pence as the presiding officer here. again, no votes were votes to vote down the objection. aye votes, i hear at least three from senator cruz, hawley, and tuckerville. those would be votes to sub stain the objection to the arizona electoral college votes. but i want to let this breathe a little bit so we can watch what's happening. when there isn't sound, it's because their mics aren't on. but when they are on, you'll hear it. >> it may be that they are looking for one senator who was missing when the roll call happened. again, we are trying to discern. there is an explanation here. you see one of the parliamentary staff speaking with the r

senator whitehouse i think has had to step out. >> i'm here. >> go ahead, senator whitehouse. >> great. i'm sorry to bug you, i hope your technology improves. welcome back, good to be with you. the american political system right now is wrought with dark money, anonymous donors all over our political system, with huge contributions which have been aptly described as a tsunami of slime swirling through our country. the inconsistent statements made by some of these groups between the irs and what they report to elections officials, both statements are under a. when they are inconsistent, that raises a red flag. i just wanted to confirm that when you are confirmed, i intend to ask you, it is my belief that for a long time, the policies of the irs have been very misaligned with the statutory direction the congress gave the irs over these agencies, and that to a degree, the irs was bullied into taking these bond statutory possessions because there was so much blowback from the dark money forces when they tried to intervene. i think the problem and the extent to which anonymous money is now

i didn't discern from jo's report if the government-owned accounts he'd have access to, @whitehouse, @potus, i continue they'll be available for him to continue to put information out. one of the notable things as he came to office, he didn't relinquish @donaldtrump. barack obama used that and as a former president uses @bara @barackobama. the president wanted his voice to be his own voice and retweets to the government platforms the things he's saying in his own lane. social media has been a big part of who donald trump is, and fighting with social media is a big part of who donald trump is. >> all part of the show. let's bring in yasmin vossoughian outside the capitol. you've been there for the last two days. we learned just a short time ago that the d.c. national guard will be in place until after inauguration day. does today feel a lot different to you than yesterday? >> reporter: man, oh, man, it feels a lot different on so many levels. a couple of things i want to address before we get into the security situation and what i'm seeing on the ground. to answer your question, strai

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. >> what was it like in the whitehouse september 15 ? you get there, your leaders are, president trump is there . they serve a nice jewish delicatessen or were there selling nice delicacies after mark over they serving as food and what was it like beforeyou went out on the stage ? >> delegation angry bilateral with the president went outside to the lawn and we waitedthere for the leaders to come down and . it was just really exciting. i don't know how you felt at the time but the time did not were in the middle of creating history. i'm worried about where you're going to sit trying to take some selfie with my phone like everybody else so exciting. i'm not sure when it will be that we created history changed the dynamics in the region only we still don't understand. >> i think it's going to take years will be done on september 15 to really factor into people's houses. >> what was it like for you and? >> same thing, it was surreal. it took time for it to sink in as we look at things and how they are progressing today, i think that the bahr