lisa murkowski, republican senator from alaska, entertaining, mr. president, why don't you go ahead and resign and save us all the trouble? chad pergram with the latest on that. >> good afternoon. lisa murkowski would be the first republican senator saying that the president should step down. that is significant. keep in mind she has broken with president before. the president threatened that maybe he should engineer a primary challenge against her. she was a write-in candidate in 2010 at apparently she's questioning her continued association with the republican party after the melee here at the capitol on wednesday and some of the things the president said which many here at the capitol believe triggered that. it significant to have a break of that nature. in the house of representatives, they are talking about may be introducing articles of impeachment next week. you can put something on the floor rather quickly and then move it over to the senate. the senate has aptly consider this. it can't be filibustered. it's of the highest privilege. it does

host: did you vote for lisa murkowski? caller: i did not. host: that is judith. of massachusetts, you are next. caller: good morning. i like your haircut and pinstripe. host: let's get to the question. do you think the president should be removed? caller: of course not. joke,ing is it is like a the 25th, impeaching. if there is going to be a third-party party, president trump is going to be at the head of that. we all need to respect each other, just like the two-party system. do we want to keep killing each other in the streets? host: do you think there is going to be a viable third party in this country? competeparty that will on the same level as democrats and republicans? caller: if donald trump, if our to decide to were do that, then god bless america. host: and would you go with him

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 myriad of federal laws that can be utilized in cases like this. firearm defenses, crossing state lines, explosives, crossing state lines. >> reporter: so far 25 people have been charged in federal court. richard barnett featuring federal charges. he's now turned himself in to authorities in arkansas. authorities are also looking for this man accused of planting pipe bombs near the rnc and dnc headquarters. >> we have just learned apple has removed the app parlor from

the others listed right there, fellow senators ben sass, lisa murkowski and representative adam kinzinger. joining us, former republican senator jeff flake of arizona. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> is it your view, is it your fear that it will be more of the same? i mean, the republican national committee just met last night and the chair, mcdaniel was unanimously re-elected to her position. president trump seems to still be the leader of that party. is it your view that very little will change after all of this? >> i think things will change. if this event has done anything, i think it did accelerate the movement away from the president and hopefully away from trumpism. this was cataclismic in terms of damage to a party. and whether the president is impeached or not, again, i hope

republican senator lisa murkowski in an interview saying, quote, i want him out. he's caused enough damage. others calling for the 25th amendment to be invoked. >> all indications are that the president has become unmoored, not just from his duty or even his health but from reality. >> reporter: law enforcement combing through all social media posts, surveillance video and cell phone data. receiving thousands of tips after receiving bolo posters. >> a myriad of federal laws that can be utilized in cases like this. crossing state lines, explosives. >> reporter: 13 people charged in federal court. richard barnett photographed with speaker pelosi's desk and unlawful entry and theft of public property. turned himself in to arkansas. authorities are also looking for this man, accused of planting pipe bombs near the rnc and

. >> senator pat tombmy joined fellow senator lisa murkowski in calling for the president's resignation. >> the best path forward, the best way to get this person in the rearview mirror for us, that could happen immediately. >> faith abubey, abc news, washington. >> our thanks to faith. >>> new overnight, the outgoing chief of the capitol police says house and senate security officials had turned down his request to have the national guard on stand by. he told "the washington post" the officials said they weren't comfortable with the optics. overnight, the fbi releasing this bulletin asking for help by a man seen carrying a confederate flag through the capitol. hundreds of local police and thousands of active duty troops will be in washington for the inauguration next week amid growing concerns that more violence could erupt. kenneth moton is in washington. >> the disturbing and graphic new video inside that angry pro trump mob at the capitol. a police officer being dragged down the stairs, beaten with poles, manhandled. after he was attacked even with an american flag, some rioters com

do you think other senators could follow lisa murkowski? >> i do, don. this week, republican party clawed its way to the bottom, with donald trump leading the way. so, the question is where does the party go from here? and we are seeing some -- the beginning of the division that's happening now with these -- people like lisa murkowski and liz cheney and others who are beginning to break from the -- the trump coalition. and so, i think we're -- i think we're going to see more of that, over the next couple days. and more of that, over the next couple years. and more of that, going into 2024. before this week, i would have said that donald trump had a stranglehold on the republican party. i don't think that's the case, anymore. i think that there is a growing division, and by the way, i think that the -- the twitter action, today, was the -- the -- maybe, the most significant act of counterterrorism during domestic -- domestically, in the whole trump administration. i talked to olive ia troy, toda who worked for mike pence, and interestingly, she said that

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trump has already called for primaries against lisa murkowski. matt gaetz put it succinctly, we aren't going back to the old republican party. those yes i men that you see there -- gentlemen that you see there represent that in high if not sophisticated fashion. he says we're not going back to the old republican party, we're not going back to losing politely with mitt romney. we're not going back to the bushs and the cheneys. this is donald trump's party, i'm a donald trump republican. we need to hear those words in the senate to match up with the delegations from those battleground states to which the electoral votes which you will be objecting. your thoughts as we conclude, congressman. >> well, again, there's a huge contrast between the house and the senate. in the house i'm quite confident that we will have a significant number of the gop conference that will vote for america's election system to try to have at some point in time -- lou: we're going to have to -- congressman, i'm sorry, we've got to interrupt you, we've got a hard out, and i'

and in a stunning development tonight, one of those republican senators, lisa murkowski, says the president should resign. house speaker nancy pelosi says she's so worried about the commander in chief having access to the nuclear codes, she's called the pentagon. in a new interview with "60 minutes," she tells our lesley stahl that president trump is "deranged, unhinged, and dangerous." tonight, there's also breaking news on the other end of pennsylvania avenue. the president has just lost his biggest megaphone. twitter permanently suspended his personal account. meantime, as we come on the air, security is being beefed up for president-elect biden's swearing-in, and investigators are poring through videos like these, stunning images showing the assault on the capitol images showing the assault on the capitol unfold. several of those rioters have already been arrested, and a manhunt for others is under way tonight. we have a lot of new reporting as the crisis continues to unfold. and our team is standing by. cbs' nancy cordes is going to lead off our coverage tonight from capitol hill. good

and lisa murkowski, among a number of republicans open to the idea. i don't see the president doing that, but what would be the advantage. i hear nancy pelosi saying you don't want him in office a day longer. i don't know what she's fearing, he'll blow up the world or something. but how likely is that? >> i would probably put that at the bottom of the likely outcome. the president is not someone who seems temperamental designed to resign. from his perspective i'm not sure what advantage he would get. i guess arguably it would help him avoid impeachment proceedings and would make vice-president pence the president and he could decide whether he would want to pardon the president in his last days in office. but i don't see the president inclined to resign the office and walk away. neil: we already know that the president will not be attending joe biden's inauguration. there are no hard and fast constitutional rules, but something we've gotten used to. going back to andrew johnson in 1859, i remember covering that, tom, he refused to go to general grant'

murkowski who told the anchorage daily news friday. i want him out he has caused enough damage. i think at this point with just a few days left. the best path forward the best way to. >>get this person in the rearview mirror every minute and every hour that he is an office represents a clear and present teen danger not just to. >>at the united states congress but frankly to the country as security is locked down ever tighter on capitol hill, the questions persist despite all the open source intelligence social media posts indicating exactly what was being planned how is washington so unprepared for this law enforcement did an excellent job considering they didn't like this match, someone else did. >>now some in the capital are questioning whether this is the end or the beginning as false allegations of election fraud continue to circulate within the republican party, this letter from the gop chairman in nye county nevada more than suggesting further attempts at insurrection let me be clear it says trump will be president for another 4

the biggest name today, republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska. she called on the president to resign. she also said she's considering leaving the republican party if it remains the party of trump. >> impeachment or not, speaker pelosi called the joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark milley. she asked me what's being done to prevent the president from launching a nuclear weapon. she called the president, quote, unhinged. also today, law enforcement arrested several of the people who were rioting at the capitol earlier this week. among them, this man, richard barnett. he's the one that sat in speaker pelosi's office with his foot on one of the desks there. he was arrested after turning himself in to police today in arkansas. you can see him here walking into the station wearing that black jacket. the doj, department of justice, may also re-examine the actions of the speakers at that rally on wednesday before the riot. the list of speakers includes president trump himself, donald trump jr., and other lawmakers. >>> let's bring in nbc's alice b

senator lisa murkowski says the president deserved to be impeached. >> i believe that this president has committed an impeachable offense. >> reporter: still, murkowski has not said whether she'll vote to convict, but she did declare that trump's unlawful actions cannot go without consequence. >> jon, those words from lisa murkowski. but we know so much attention on the majority leader, for a few more days, mitch mcconnell. you know before the president's first impeachment trial, mcconnell said he wouldn't be an impatient w impartial witness. this time, mcconnell saying he has not made a final decision on how he will vote. i'm curious from your reporting what message he is sending to not only his fellow republicans in the senate but the message he's trying to send to the president. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell, david, is sending an unmistakable message to senate republicans and to the president that this time, he is not going to bail out donald trump. whether he ultimately votes to convict is anybody's guess but he is certainly not going to defend him this time, david. >> all right,

wolf, back to you. >> yes, the republican senator lisa murkowski told to anchorage daily news that i want him to be out and he has caused enough damage. those were her words. and now today, the president-elect joe biden dodged the question, and said it is up to the united states congress, but he did not stop before he said that he is simply not fit to serve. so jeff zeleny joins us now, and tell us more about what the president-elect had to say. >> president-elect biden did not mince words and he called him an embarrassment to the country. if there were six months to the term, he would support impeachment, but he neither expressed encouragement or discouragement from the democrats from doing it. and he is in a house call doing it and talk about the agenda and other matters, including this, but the central question hanging over all of this, and if a impeachment proceeding would unify the democrats would it make it harder for him to unify the country. >> he is one of the most incompetent presidents in the history of the united states of america, and the idea that i think that he should

needless to say, if senator lisa murkowski becomes a democrat or more likely an independent who agrees to caucus with the democrats, that would take the senate out of a 50-50 tie and put it all the more firmly in democratic control and, you know, 50-50 with a democratic tiebreakers have 51-49 with no need for a tiebreaker may sound like a minor difference. it's kind of a big difference in terms of what the senate is able to do. and it sounds like she's on the precipice of doing it depending on whether the president picks plan a, resign, or the vice president and the cabinet pick b, removal by the 25th amendment, or the congress picks plan c, which is impeachment, removal, lifetime ban on ever holding office again. those are our three off-ramps from this nightmare at this point. that's how the trump presidency is ending. we're going to talk tonight with a house democrat, who will be key to the impeachment proceedings in just a moment. we're also going to talk tonight with a legendary pulitzer prize-winning reporter, whose sources eerily told him before the election basically that this i

and senator lisa murkowski saying, i want him out. he's caused enough damage. this is nancy pelosi, demanding trump resign immediately, or democrats will move to impeach him monday for inciting insurrection. john, the president, the presidency is unraveling. donald trump's presidency. the president tried to clean things up yesterday to agreeing to a peaceful transfer of power, but now "the new york times" is saying he's regretting that. what is going on inside the white house? >> we've got a mentally unstable man who still has the most formidable powers in the world for the next 11 or 12 days, who is raging against his defeat. he suffered a grievous psychic injury, and people are trying to figure out how to keep him from doing more harm to the country than he did by inciting the insurrection on wednesday. we have nancy pelosi, communicating with the chairman of the joint chiefs. you have talk about the 25th amendment, cabinet officers and white house aides resigning. all people, an impeachment effort getting under way in the house. all part of an effort to pres

s alasator lisa murkowski is calling for the president to resign. if he does not she will reconsider her allegiance to the wreablarty. that could change the balance of power the senate if she does a very strong threat. one more thing. the concept could the presidt be impeached after leaving office? i'm told by some working on this at the capital, there is precedent for this. tretary of war under president grant was impeached after leaving offices. wasn't convicted for a variety p reasons, but was impeached and there ecedent, something they're talking about. >> woodruff: well, lisana somewhat different subject you which are back at the capitol soday. tell us what thurity there is like right now and what more are you learning about what went wrong with security on wednesday? >> judy, i want to show you some photos i took at the u.s. alcohol. it is a different capitol hill. there is that seven foot fence.l natiuard members there, that fence is lining all of you can see all the broken glass is still there. that is the front door i witnessed being crashe

now, though, republican senator lisa murkowski, the first republican to call on trump to step down now, has told the anchorage daily news and i quote, senator murkowski, i want him to resign. i want him out. he has caused enough damage. he doesn't want to stay there. he only wants to stay there for the title. he only wants to stay there for his ego. well, it is true. and it is trump's ego and his concern only for himself that has led to this fragile and dangerous moment for all of us americans. the day that will forever be remembered in history started just after 12:00 on wednesday. >> i've been in two elections. i won them both. and the second one i won much bigger than the first. okay? you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength. and you have to be strong. so let's walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> okay. so then trump left the mob. he left the mob to go ahead. he went back to the white house where he watched we have learned with enthusiasm and excitement as rioters stormed the capitol. so at 2:23 p.m., this is what was airing around the world and of co

moderates like romney, lisa murkowski, senators who have already come out against the plan were seen as key votes for the biden ministration to get. what you are going to be seeing now is more discussion, more negotiation figuring out what people are and are not comfortable with. the big thing you hear with these republicans is this would be a $1.9 trillion spending bill when congress just passed a $900 billion spending bill. there are concerns with what that is doing to the debt and deficit. what that means for the economic recovery. lisa: are there any trump republicans left in senate in-house? emily: there are still ardent defenders of trump in both of those chambers. there are a number of politicians who still see his face out there. they see all these people -- his message resounded in them. they were huge supporters. a number of them see their job as they continue to cater to those supporters. to kind of bring their will to the capitol building. jonathan: emily wilkins in washington, d.c., we appreciate your effort over the last four years in the last 24 hours. tom, many ways t

jon: lisa murkowski has said he should leave office, how common is that feeling among republicans. >> i spoke with president trump, he is not resigning and he is not leaving the public stage at all, donald j trump remains the inspirational leader of a loving and patriotic movement, people who believe america's best days ahead and support law enforcement and to need to stand together and fight against a radical left-wing agenda that appears that joe biden tends to usher in with unified control over the government with the house and the senate, president trump continues to be the most powerful, influential republican on the planet earth it is my expectation while he'll be leaving the white house in several days while his term is lawfully complete, he will continue to weigh in on matters that are important to the tens of millions of americans who voted for him who believe that the selection process that we went through in 2020 still deserves more scrutiny into expect they will still be a constituency of people fighting for the american first agenda. >> is not just president trump taking

. >> reporter: one senator, lisa murkowski, said that the president should resign. i want him out. he's caused enough damage. lindsey graham heckled at an airport for criticizing the president. >> traitor, traitor! >> reporter: said another partisan impeachment would further divide the country. at the capitol, the flag at half-staff for officer sicknick who died. sicknick's family said he is a hero and that's what we want people to remember. ian cole, nbc, bay area news. >>> now that twitter what permanently suspended president trump's personal account, he says he's in talks with other social media platforms or may launch his own. in a statement, twitter says it ultimately took this step because of the risk of further incitement of violence. after the move, president trump then used the government-owned potus account to condemn the ban accusing the company of violating his first amendment rights and twitter removed the tweets last night. many supporters agree that the president is being censored. experts say it's within the company's rights to do it. >> they have the right, and the

and alaska republican senator lisa murkowski may leave the republican party. she is calling for president trump to resign. quote, i want him out. he has caused enough damage. i think he should leave. he said he will not show up or appear at the inauguration. he is not focused with what is going on with covid. he has been golfing or inside the oval office fuming or throwing every person faithful to him under the bus, starting w with the vice president. he needs to get out. he needs to go. he needs to do the good thing. i don't think he is capable of doing a good thing. on the insurrection, lisa murkowski states, i an contribu it to the president. and lindsey graham says it is time to heal and move on. house republican leader kevin mccarthy told biden in a phone call that impeaching trump would quote divide our country more. both of these are hilariously hypocritical individuals. they forget their party's direct role in dividing the country by publicizing the lie of voter fraud and continuing to accept the truth that biden won the election fairly and will be the

and republicans like lisa murkowski and ben sasse and others saying out loud what they've been saying if private for years about donald trump, they're shocked to learn something they've known all along. they're going to have to decide whether they -- whether this is who they are, too. because it certainly is what trump and his followers are. >> and it is what josh hawley and ted cruz are. and peter baker, you know a lot about the most important and influential figures in the republican party and danforth is one of them. and his rebuke on personal, moral and character questions about hawley, i think it is unsurvivable. i'm not sure if he'll be able to hang on to a senate seat in his home state. >> well, that is pretty tough. jack danforth is well respected in missouri in particular and across the country. he was known in his time in the senate as saint jack. sometimes that was used divisively because they thought he was a little righteous but they did respect his sort of moral high ground that he took and he was so prominent in the republican party at one point he nearly became vice pr

we have heard from representative adam kinzinger, senator ben sass, senator lisa murkowski of alaska saying he needs to get out, he need to do the good thing, but i don't think he's capable of doing the good thing. and so what you will see on the senate side, if in fact he is impeached, is a moment of reckoning here. it will be during the biden administration and the question is why would you try to remove the president during the biden administration when he's already gone. well, if in fact they do that on the senate side, he will never be able to run for federal office again, fred. >> and then at a minimum, aren't there serious discussions being led by the house speaker nancy pelosi about any kind of constraints of the president's powers in the few days left that he has in office? >> reporter: that's right. not only do they want to make a very strong statement that this can't be tolerated, this is not acceptable, but she has been in discussions with the joint chiefs of staff on the pentagon side to make sure that he doesn't have the kind of free reign, if you will, to make some dec

murkowski is the first republican to say that he should be removed from office and senator pat toomey the first republican says the president committed impeachable offenses. other republicans are pushing back. >> this is a more long-term punishment of the president then trying to remove him from office. that is when the politics take over and protecting the government is left behind. arthel: kentucky republican james comer is ranking member of the house oversight committee, he was originally undecided but ultimately voted to certify joe biden's electoral college when, thank you for joining us and i want to walk -- make our way to the twitter situation but i want to ask you, i want to state i am glad you're okay, i would like to know if you could tell us what it was like for you inside the capital building last wednesday. arthel: listen, obviously the congressman cannot hear me, what we will do is regroup get the congressman audio set up and we will come back to him a little bit later in the segment. eric. eric: we will get the congressman up and ready as soon we can and we apologize f

, in an interview with the anchorage daily news, lisa murkowski said, i want him to resign, i want him out. he's caused enough damage. president trump currently maintains a strong measure of support in the republican party but one white house aide who left weeks ago said the party will likely face a reckoning. >> the president is bigger than any one man and i think there's a lot of the america first policy is that we will continue to fervently fight for and grow this party but we also need to heal. at times when the president could have called off the mobic, he did not decide to do so and to me that is a breaking point. >> how president trump's last days in office will unfold is unclear. his senior staff hopes to get them back on the business of the nation next week and then there is also the issue of whether the president will issue preemptive pardons for members of his family and close associates like rudy giuliani, and might he even tried to issue a preemptive pardon for himself. it's not clear whether that can legally happen or not. >> bret: there's no sense of there some kind of n

they join with moderate republicans including mitt romney of utah and lisa murkowski of alaska, among correctly - that tction is over. judy: just in the last few minutes, we have learned tt george senator kelly loeffler, up for reelection, announces he also will oppose the count from to talk through more of the fallout from this weekend's news, yamiche joins me along with congressional correspondent sa desjardins. just in the last few minutes, we have heard fallout from this call. but you have been talking to people of -- people around president trp, the biting people. action?e you learning in yamiche: president trump is standing by his stance on the fungal -- on the phone call, saying he has done nothing wrong even though it is clear he is trying to have theio ele overturna in his favor. one call condemning the action from presidt biden -- from presidentlect biden. when you look at what president trump was doing today, he was ally lashing out at republicans, trying to get them to come on his se. he was calling some of them the surrender caucus. we have seen the president use the same

senator lisa murkowski's words: i want him out. another republican says what the president did this week deserves impeachment. >> i do think the president committed impeachble offenses, but i don't know what is going to land on the senate floor, if anything. >> all right. let's go to jeremy diamond at the white house. germ any, it appears the president is taking this threat seriously, although he has some regrets about how he's responded since the mayhem wednesday, right? >> reporter: that's right. he's increasingly likely staring down the painful of an unprecedented second impeach. the first in u.s. history. the president is preparing for the possibility that those articles of impeachment will not only be reintroduced but result in a fliel the senate. that's why two sources are now saying the p is considering rudy guiliani and alan dershowitz to represent himself. rudy guiliani, the president's personal attorney, who we should note attended that rally on wednesday preceding the mob rioting on capitol hill where he talked about tri

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meanwhile, two republican senators have joined calls for trump to resign -- alaska's lisa murkowski and pennsylvania's pat toomey, who spoke on nbc's "meet the press" sunday. >> i think the best way for our tontry is for the president resign and go away as soon as possible. the president spiraled down into a kind of madness that was different. amy: republican senators ted cruz and josh hawley are also facing increasing pressure to resign over their obstruction of the certification of electoral votes. over 5000 lawyers and law students have signed a petition urging their disbarment. as fear grows of an increasingly unhinged trump, house speaker nancy pelosi told her caucus friday she had spoken to general mark milley, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, that safeguards are in place should trump seek to initiate a nuclear attack. twitter permanently removed president donald trump from its platform friday, citing repeated violations of twitter's terms of service and the risk he would further incite violence ahead of joe biden's inauguration on january 20. the band came a day after trump po

they are pennsylvania senator pat toomey and alaska senator lisa murkowski reporter time no one has the latest now on the impeachment push. >>pennsylvania senator pat toomey becoming the second republican to call on the president to resign joining alaska's lisa murkowski who told the anchorage daily news friday. i want him out he has caused enough damage. i think at this point with just a few days left. >>the best path forward the best way to. >>get this person in the rearview mirror every minute and every hour that he is an office represents a clear and present teen danger not just to. >>at the united states congress but frankly to the country >>and tonight as security is locked down ever tighter on capitol hill, the questions persist despite all the open source intelligence social media posts indicating exactly didn't like this match, someone else did. now some in the capital are questioning whether this is the end or the beginning as false allegations of election fraud continue to circulate within the republican party, this letter from the gop chairman in nye county nevada. more than

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 and i will be there with you. because you will never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength and you have to be strong. >> on the question of impeachment. biden saying its up to congress. >> the quickest way it will happen -- >> when biden is sworn in, president trump won't be there, confirming on twitter before the suh suspension. he is not attending the inauguration. >> if trump stays true to the word, he will be the fourth out going president to not be in the inaugurati inauguration. president andrew johnson some had 152 years ago. abc news washington. >>> house democrats plan to introduce their impeachment on monday. jackie spear said if president trump does not leave office immediately. he can topple ourer dem

i think this is an opportunity for senators like joe manchin, chris kuhns, mitt romney, lisa murkowski to come together to help biden get things passed like infrastructure, for example, things passed like tweaks to our of healthcare system. joe biden did not campaign on huge, radical change. he campaigned on working across the aisle to address things like prescription drugs and so i think that once we get through this initial period of time where he gets his team in place and works to really attack the coronavirus issue, those are the kinds of things he's going to look at. chris: wednesday afternoon when the insurrectionists were still inside the capitol, president trump put out this video. >> this was a fraudulent election. but we can't play into the hands of these people. we have to have peace. chris: jonathan, from what your sources are telling you, does donald trump think that after january 20th he still has a role to play in national politics and he still has a base that will follow and support him? >> well, he does have a base that will follow and support him. it would be the hei

there are some like pat toomey and lisa murkowski that voted to convict him. they are at least in play but it is not clear the senate can convict them either. so that's the kind of thing democrats are wrestling with now, when to do this, how to approach this and whether it's the right move to do it as quickly as possible. >> let's get to some audience questions. jill, i would love you to take this audience question from rob. here's what he would like to know. >> yeah. my name is rob carrey. i live in maple falls, washington. considering the occupation of the capitol, if that is considered a federal felony, the police officer who was murdered during the commission of that felony, doesn't the chargeable guilt transfer to everyone who was involved? >> a good question. jill, what would you say to him in terms of the chargeability of other people? >> this is a great question. and the answer is yes. he's right. when you commit a crime in a conspiracy, and this was a conspiracy. it seems to have been well planned. it seems to have been coordinated. then you are respo

the first republican senator, alaska's lisa murkowski, called for president trump to step down. i want him to resign. i want him out. he has caused enough damage. another option, invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office, has been discussed but sources say vice president mike pence is unwilling to take that step. while president trump sent more encouragement to his ardent voters before his twitter account was suspended. apparent trump supporters taunted republican senator lindsey graham in an airport, angry that graham acknowledged biden's victory. after president trump tweeted he would not attend his successor's inauguration january 20th, president-elect biden responded. >> one of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. it's a good thing him not showing up. >> reporter: but welcomed mike pence to be there. >> if mike -- if the vice president is welcome to come, i'd be honored to have him there. >> reporter: of course there are some practical challenges to pursuing impeachment, even if the house acts with speed. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has written

lisa murkowski the first republican senator to call on president trump to resign. while another, ben sasse says he is open to impeachment proceedings. >>> the house, if they come together, and have a process, i will definitely consider whatever articles they might move, because as i've told you, i believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. he swore an oath to the american people to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. he acted against that. what he did was wicked. >> wicked. and joe biden's inauguration, just 11 days away, right there, at the capitol, as extremism intensifies calls for violence. as we say good morning, everybody. it is a busy, saturday, january 9th. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm lindsey ricer. >> no more notifications from the po tus twitter account. a big deal and we have a team of reporters following the latest right now. first up we will discuss the fallout of the capitol hill assault by the numbers. more than 80 people have been arrested and five people died in connection with the riots including a capitol hill police offi

lisa murkowski there too. ben sasse open to impeachment. it seems there is a real chance there could be the senators there to convict the president under the right circumstances depending how all of this plays out. what's your take on where the senate gop in particular is right now? >> kasie, i can tell you behind the scenes they are furious. so just as in your private conversations over the years with senators, they have given their much more candid take on president trump as opposed to the -- i haven't seen the tweet they always tell you on camera when you ask them. but now the counterpart to that is rage at the president. and some of that could well burst into public -- republicans of all sorts. not only what he has done to the country but what he has done to the party. >> all right. michael lessen, thank you very much for your reporting today. we really appreciate it. and i would just say here, as we head into what may be the most consequential week in the history of our democracy, the sense is not that we are getting calmer, that we ha

one republican, lisa murkowski, became the first senate republican to call on donald trump to resign. she said, "i want him to resign, i want him out, he has caused enough damage." she went on to say, "he doesn't want to stay there, he only wants to stay there for the title, he only wants to stay there for his ego, he needs to get out." very strong words from a sitting republican senator, the first to do so so far. some others are open to voting to remove him from office. we'll see if it gets to that point. at the moment, wolf, nancy pelosi wants donald trump to resign. if he doesn't, expect an impeachment vote in the house presumably by the middle of next week. >> manu, you also have new details about what the president was actually doing as that mob was storming the capitol. you were right in the middle of it, thank god you're okay. >> reporter: it was a remarkable development here that donald trump was actually trying to continue to fight the electoral college certification even after the mob came on capitol hill, threatened so many people, cost lives, this deadly clash. the presid

murkowski, ben sasse. maybe mitch mcconnell after records of conversations that he had what the democrats are doing in the house. you still need 13 more. is it doable? >> that's right. let me interrupt you. nancy pelosi is in the chair. she will announce the vote total. she's asking if there is anybody else that wants to vote. 231 yays, 197 nays. five members have not voted. remember, that they can vote by proxy. so let's listen here for a minute. >> neil: just to let you know, the vote is 231 voted to impeach the president of the united states, that includes ten republicans. that nobody was going up throughout the day. a bigger margin that did not go strictly along party lines as it did in the house. 13 months ago. they're calling this over now. this now moves to the united states senate. the timing is the issue here. mitch mcconnell has indicated it's probably unrealistic for the time being to get them to move before the 19th, a day before the state of the union. >> the neys are 197. the resolution is ad

republican senator lisa murkowski of alaska has called for trump's resignation. on saturday new york congressman hakeem jeffries echoed the thoughts and sentiments of many in the democratic party on trump's removal. >> donald trump must be removed from office immediately. he should be impeached, convicted, and thrown out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and forever banished to the dust bin of history. every second, every minute, every day that donald trump remains in office presents a clear and present danger to the health, safety and well-being of the american people and our democracy. >> this morning a "new york times" headline reading for trump and the nation, a final test of accountability. the article goes on to say barely 11 months after president trump was acquitted in a momentous senate trial, the nation now confronts the possibility of yet another impeachment battle in the twilight of his presidency. a final showdown that will test the boundaries of politics, accountability and the constitution. no president has ever been impeached for high crimes and misdeme