first of all, what more can you tell us about this stunning news about mitch mcconnell? it is pretty amazing when you think about it. >> reporter: well, senator mcconnell, i think, is fed up with president trump, especially given what happened last wednesday in the u.s. capitol. you have to remember that senator mcconnell is somebody who cares deeply about the senate and the institution of congress. he has never wanted to be president. he has always wanted to be senate majority leader. that was his lifelong goal. in two days last week, president trump basically fettered away his majority leader status on tuesday, and the next day a pro-trump mob stormed the capitol and desecrated the building that mcconnell reveres. in a two-day span, wolf, i think senator mcconnell was deeply hurt by what happened and politically, if we're being totally candid, i think he sees an opportunity now to purge president trump, get rid of him from the republican party and move on, make a fresh break. >> you think if there's a senate trial and there almost certainly will be a senate trial, is i

so, manu, let me just get back quickly to mitch mcconnell. he apparently hates -- and that's a strong word -- hates the president of the united states right now. we heard jonathan martin of the "new york times" say it's very possible mitch mcconnell might even vote in favor of convicting president trump in the course of a senate trial after trump is going to be impeached for a second time tomorrow, the first president to be impeached twice, that mitch mcconnell might also go in favor. you need 60 votes and that would be a powerful moment. >> if that happened, donald trump would most likely be convicted by the u.s. senate. you need 17 republicans to break ranks. he would bring over a lot of votes, a lot of republicans not certain which way to go. already we expect a handful to vote to convict when it does come to that, but if mitch mcconnell comes that way, that would be a very key indication, and that would mean donald trump would not be able to run for office, hold a public office ever again. but, wolf, that still needs to play out. mr. mcco

that is the only way to look at mitch mcconnell. congressman jim himes, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, the invasion of the capitol was also a superspreader event. three house democrats have tested positive for the coronavirus after some republicans refused to wear masks while they were all in the same safe room. one of those democrats who now has covid-19 is 75-year-old congresswoman bonnie watson coleman, and she joins us next. at fisher investments, we do things differently and other money managers don't understand why. because our way works great for us! but not for your clients. that's why we're a fiduciary, obligated to put clients first. so, what do you provide? cookie cutter portfolios? nope. we tailor portfolios to our client's needs. but you do sell investments that earn you high commissions, right? we don't have those. so, what's in it for you? our fees are structured so we do better when you do better. at fisher investments we're clearly differen

mitch mcconnell no se enfocó tanto en donald trump, pero sí en la democracia. ojalá que esta crisis que vimos hoy nos ayude a recuperarnos como una nación, y hacernos entender que nos debemos unir más que nunca. >> me interesó mucho victoria que tanto mitch mcconnell como chuck schumer utilizaron la palabra insurrección, una palabra que también utilizó joe biden cuando hablo sobre los incidentes que ocurrieron el día de hoy en el capitolio. fíjense, mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer y joe biden utilizando la misma palabra para describir lo sucedido hoy. >> mitch mcconnell normalmente no está de acuerdo con los demócratas. éstas no para protestas ni rallies, eran personas que buscaban usar violencia contra nuestros líderes políticos, y violentar en efecto nuestras instituciones democráticas. divisiones políticas, diferentes opiniones, todos los líderes políticos han dicho ya. joe biden en su discurso hoy en la tarde lo dijo en inglés, ya basta. aquí ojalá que los diputados y senadores que al principio dijeron que tenían oposición a la certifi

that is the only way to look at mitch mcconnell. congressman jim himes, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, the the invasion of the capitol was also a superspreader event. three house democrats have tested positive for the coronavirus after some republicans refused to wear masks while they were all in the same safe room. one of those democrats who now has covid-19 is 75-year-old congresswoman bonnie watson coleman, and she joins us next. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it, lowering my blood sugar from the first dose. once-weekly trulicity responds when my body needs it, 24/7. trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. it isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your

25th amendment to his republican base then i will consider impeachment now i think that mitch mcconnell is in a very difficult position here because he can absolutely has to distance himself from the far right contingent in the senate namely ted cruz and josh holly and he needs to make very clear that he rejects their collaboration with the incitements and there are is now a senate ethics complaint pending against them it'll be interesting to see what happens there but at the same time if you went along with the conviction on the impeachment for donald trump he runs the risk of alienating a good portion of his base and of really step cementing the split between the 2 sides of the republican party in the senate much more extremely and not having the far right vote when he needs it on bills that will be coming up so i think he's going to try to figure out what to do my guess is he's going to try to defeat that conviction but he wants to make absolutely sure that he's got his ducks in a row we need to walk the hallways and indeed to try to consolidate the no vote on this impeachment here i

i think it's a bit interangry mitch mcconnell to don't trump. because there is a bit of i told you so. everybody knew that trump was a ticking time bomb and they were hoping they would get to january 20th before the bomb went off. and sadly, we didn't make it. >> we want to go to garrett on capitol hill. we saw the senate. what is happening with the house? >> the house is getting the chamber back in working order. we may not see them in session until 9:00. we know more of the rioters were in the house chamber than in the senate. they are trying to get their act together to get going. again, the irony is once we resume, this may end up being a shorter night overall than what we expected before things turned violent earlier today. the spirit seems to have gone out of the pro trump rejecters. you mentioned james lankford and the comments he made, to bhakac away from his objections, and steve dain essays the time has come to okay knowledge joe biden's the game. and other than cruz, we are starteding to see an acquiesces to reality, and you seement t

we are getting a statement from mitch mcconnell again. what would come next given the rules, procedures and senate precedents, that govern presidential impeachment, there's simply no chance, again from mitch mcconnell, that a fair or serious trial could conclude before president-elect biden is sworn in next week. he goes on to say the senate has held three presidential impeachment trials. they have lasted 83 days, 27 days, even if the senate month says were to begin this week, no final verdict would be reached until after president trump had left office so reaction now from phil wakeman of real clear politics. so this seems unlikely, phil. your thoughts. >> i think we'll learn a lot of civic lessons from chad pergram the days to come as he explains the rules. what we saw from mitch mcconnell is that yes, while there's a 50/50 split in the u.s. senate right now, he's not going to bring the senate back with a emergency session. there's not a love lost between mcconnell and the president. there's a lot of senate republicans that blame the pr

mitch mcconnell has always been strategic in his maneuvering. that is what he is thinking ahead to while the president is not getting much foresight into anything and is burning the white house down on his way out. host: jacquie alemany is joining us, the author of the washington post power up column. ahead of a very busy week in washington. we will get to the phone lines to call in. .emocrats, (202) 748-8000 republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. jackie alamein he will be with us until about 8:45. -- jackie alamei the weekend before the, leading up to the election in november. the president went to rome georgia and rallied and the were about 30,000 people that came out during the pandemic to rally behind this president. his appeal is undeniable. if anyone thought trump come him losing the election would make a big dent or be the end of trumpism i think a lot of people were mistaken and republicans to understand that which is why obviously there is a schism in the party and use some people hugging the president and others bac

depending on how obstructionist mitch mcconnell becomes. this is what the game is now. it's how often does chuck schumer have to threaten a nuclear option when he can? and ezra's right, he has to be able to actually threaten it. it sounded like he did have 50 senators ready to go to at least break through this filibuster of the organizing resolution and once that wall is cracked, that would have been a pretty big crack in that wall. >> i do think that if this had gone on for another few days what manchin said was i want them to get together, when it became clear that mcconnell wasn't going to get together with schumer. he might have been able to do that for that one organizing resolution. what i would tell you, lawrence, is i worked on this issue as you know with senators for a very long time. and you're not going to get -- it's not just manchin and sinema. it's also dianne feinstein, for example. you're not going to get them to go for the full nuclear option of getting rid of the filibuster for legislation entirely. but one small thing that you could do that would make

and mitch mcconnell -- he is turning 79 years old next month. he's just lost the election to another six-year term. this could very well be -- that could very well be the last election that he has run. and, clearly, with that phone call, mitch mcconnell is not just trying to leave president trump behind in the rear view mirror, but really just looking forward to what kind of a working relationship that he could have with president-elect joe biden. i think what's really interesting, too, how much mitch mcconnell's comments -- first of all, does he speak out more forcefully, now that this reporting is out there about his thinking. and also, how much does that motivate other senate republicans to be much more vocal and to come out. if there is a vote to convict him if and when this goes to a senate trial. i can tell you, before mitch mcconnell's comments i think maybe five to seven republican senators that would potentially vote to convict the president in an impeachment trial. but it's hard to get to 17. but mcconnell's comments were huge and does

and likewise, you know, the reporting on mitch mcconnell, this is not mitch mcconnell coming out publicly and saying these things, this is whispers behind the scenes and being confirmed, you know, off the record. when he comes out and says something publicly on this is perhaps when the tide will really turn, and other republicans will feel like they have political coverage, come out and support impeachment. you know, the house vote today, or in 2019 when they impeach trump, there were no republicans who voted in support of it. you now have prominent republicans, including house number three liz cheney, saying that she would vote to impeach trump, and that may give political cover to other republicans to do the same. francine: stephanie, thank you so much, our senior writer covering the white house, stephanie baker. coming up, much more on the historic week in washington. we will have more on not only what mitch mcconnell will do next, but we will have more on security surrounding inauguration day. this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: economics, finance, politics. this i

senator mitch mcconnell said i had "excessive expectations," but i don't think so. after seven years of hearing repeal and replace, why not done? >> there's a lashing out when things don't go his way. john mccain was the deciding vote, and so, you know, it was hard to understand how mitch mcconnell would be the blame of it, but, you know, that's the president's nature, as we all know. >> can you believe that mitch mcconnell, who has screamed repeal and replace for seven years, couldn't get it done. >> trump was using the most powerful weapon he has, which is twitter, to humiliate him repeatedly, to rake him over the coals, to let his followers know, "this is mitch mcconnell's fault. he's failed you, not me." >> mitch, get back to work and put repeal and replace, tax reform and cuts, and a great infrastructure bill on my desk for signing. >> narrator: mch mcconnell learned a lesson-- he had to keep donald trump on his side. >> mitch mcconnell is a very smart politician. i think he understood the trump base, perhaps better than most. and he understood that the trump b

but republicans are split you have people like mitch mcconnell warning republicans is not healthy for the party especially before the election talk about the electoral college others are saying this is a litmus test so hearing from the president and this bolsters the case of what they are doing but i imagine we will see a lot of reporters asking senators and lawmakers on the hill today for their response and democrats are calling for their own investigation. and the georgia board of election also calling to have a probe because the president is attempting to tamper with results which experts say is years and to questionable legal territory. >> and the mitch mcconnell leadership era how unusual this republican senate split is? >> the hallmark of the presidency is that republicans in general have coalesced through the unorthodox policies and ways of doing things. we haven't seen much push back in general and now at the end of his term, as he leaves the white house in 16 days joe bidenct is the president-elect no cancer pushing back because mitch mcconnell has realized there could be som

mitch mcconnell doesn't leak a lot. we heard a lot of his office yesterday through "the new york times" and other sources says he believes the house is doing the right thing, going after impeachment for the president of the united states. maybe that gives republicans some cover here. do you think that when impeachment passes through the house today, and it will later, there's a chance that still that senate, led by republicans, will vote to convict? >> there's a hell of a bigger chance today than there was 24 hours ago. last night mcconnell's people were telling mike allen that there's a better than 50/50 chance that mcconnell himself would vote to convict and remove trump from office, remove him from politics forever more. it would be one of the most unprecedented votes, one of the most stunning votes really in the history of our republic. and he doesn't do things by accident. he is sending a signal. liz cheney is sending a signal that you have one chance, one chance to be able to take a vote quickly and remove trump f

the top republican mitch mcconnell holds giant influence here. mcconnell said he will listen to the legal arguments, meaning a vote to convict is possible. that makes the second public impeachment trial very different. remember, mcconnell was a firm no from the beginning in the first. five or six votes are against the president, but 17 would be needed to reach what's needed for conviction. follow the leader is very much a thing among senate republicans, so mcconnell's choice will very much heavily sway the final math. the president is vexed that his aides and allies, including mitch mcconnell, are not rushing to assist him. the impeachment trial just one of the daunting day one challenges now for the new administration. the coronavirus is raging. the vaccine rollout is behind schedule. just this morning, devastating news from the government, reporting that nearly a million americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits just last week. the president-elect is asking the senate to split its days, taking breaks from the impeachment trial to con

mitch mcconnell tried to weaponize it. that to me indicates the republican party will leave no stone unturned in terms of the levers of power. if they could weaponize the senate gym, they would. anything that there is, they will try to use as a lever of power because they understand they are dealing with an administration and a democratic party that is emboldened, that is scared for the future of the country and that is willing to do a lot of really big things to save what i think they see as the country on a precipice. >> well, alex, as a student of washington, may i ask you then a relatively silly follow-up question? >> you can always. >> what do you make then of mitch mcconnell's argument which he made bluntly and in public that he would continue to basically try hostage obstruction tactics unless he was given the commitment that he could endlessly try hostage obstruction tactics? >> right. the -- it's completely counterintuitive. mitch mcconnell doesn't want anybody to do away with the filibuster because it's the one t

it was quite the speech by mitch mcconnell. the reactions that i'm seeing from various democrats are sort of shock and relief and cheering. things like that. instead of talking about it i want to pull up a couple excerpts. let's play it, i want to get everyone in on this. >> if this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. we would never see the whole nation accept an election again. every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost. my colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election. nor can public doubt, alone, justify a radical break when the doubt itself was ensicited witht any evidence. we cannot declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids. >> andrea, katy, rich, claire, i thought it was the clearest rebuke of president trump's behavior we have heard from any sitting republican leader. you heard it from mitt romney, from lindsey graham when he is anti-trump

york times, mitch mcconnell is leaning towards convicting the president. he sent a letter to his republican colleagues yesterday after the house impeach the president saying he has not made up his mind. he is leaving that door open to convicting the president. if mcconnell votes to convict the president or signal fact to his republican conference, that will provide cover for the rest of the republicans to vote for conviction. they would need is 17 republican votes in order to convict, at a minimum. that is a pretty high bar. we only saw a few vote for conviction including mitt romney, the republican from utah. this is a different scenario. the capital itself in the united states editors themselves were under attack in this siege. the representative said it was incited by the president's words before the rally at the white house. this is a very personal act of violence against members of congress. each of them it was on the floor that day. they had to flee for safety. they understood what was at stake. they understood the process they were engaged in. that

>> then let's -- >> and mitch mcconnell, we know, i mean, mitch mcconnell does not let something get out there like that that he is happy there's impeachment unless he really believes that. >> that is a great point. >> is it mitch mcconnell's republican party? you know, or statistics marge re-taylor green who is the congresswoman from dalton, georgia that ascribes to a lot of qanon beliefs. >> that congresswoman from georgia, do you know why she's relevant, because we keep talking about her, we're not talking about all sorts of other freshman who were elected. kevin mccarthy did say that the president bears some responsibility. he is a person of influence within the republican party, and he was, before president trump took office. so yes, you've got guys like lee zelden who are still defending the president but don't we need to remember that none of us had ever heard the name lee zelden, no one who lives west of montauk, long island heard of lee zelden until president trump made him a name. aren't these people holding onto that moment of fame before they're knocked back into irreleva

mitch mcconnell is open to impeachment. a source says mitch mcconnell hates president trump for citing the insurrection and plans never to speak with him again. as of this morning, president trump is expressing no regret, and he is making new threats. >> federal investigators say they are pursuing thousands of leads on the identities of these domestic terrorists. so they can bring sedition and conspiracy charges against them. america's most senior military leader is issuing a rare statement warning their troops about their constitutional duty to reject extremism. metal detectors have been installed now outside of the house chamber after multiple house democrats told cnn they were worried about other members carrying firearms. we begin this histor

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it's mitch mcconnell we're talking about here. even if he's thinking about the history books or acting swiftly with trump, he's also understanding the levers of power. he and schumer need to have a power-changing arrangement. joe biden needs to get cabinet members confirmed. and mcconnell has the ability depending on how the timing of this works to stretch this out in a way that restricts joe biden's agenda at the same time he's trying to protect and reset the republican brand. there are a lot of strategic questions here and finally, how many republican members in the senate are ready to do this. and so, like, i think all of that strategy is going to settle in over the next few hours and maybe the next couple of days. >> you know, elie, last time around with the impeachment, there was a feeling that maybe it was ceremonial, because we knew he wouldn't be convicted in the senate. this time around feels different, because there seems to be so much more at stake, including barring president trump from ever running again, and all the

mitch mcconnell has in the past few hours made positive noises about impeachment. there's another route open to democrats who want to see the president, even though the impeachment push would not result in his being removed from office. no matter how unfit he is for office, either morally or mentally, it does appear this vice president is not prepared to go along with the effort to use it in this case. >> zero chance of the 25th ammendment being used. what are the chances for impeachment being successful? claire: it's very likely that donald trump will be impeached in the house. they have the votes to do it. they've done it before. the upset with donald trump is much higher than it was over the ukraine matter. what happens after the house impeaches him and what strategy the house should use with regards to impeachment, it will of course go to the senate for a trial, but mitch mcconnell has indicated he will not invoke a provision that would allow the senate to be convened earlier than it would normally convene. it means the senate would only convene after the inaug

mitch mcconnell wants to start the delay of the trial until february. democrats aren't dismissing the idea. who does this benefit the most? >> i actually think it benefits the democrats. as time passes, more information is coming out. what we don't know are the connections between trump and the conspiracy and where they planned to take over the capitol. i think with time they'll find there was a much more direct tie between information trump had and it's just out there speaking rather generically about rallying the troops and getting them to march down pennsylvania avenue. it's going to become more incriminating, in other words. >> interesting. the violent mob storm in our capitol now fresh in anyone's minds. if the trial is delads too long, do you think the outrage is going to fade? >> i don't. the witnesses are going to be sitting right in the senate. they remember what they went through and they're the only people that count in a trial are the jury right there in the senate. they are judges and jury in this instance. they know what happened. it's how

mcconnell by his donald trump some time to do other things. tell me about some of the remarks on the floor what to do with you know this is a kind of saying this is a slippery slope you know you can still president trump and then it's a kind of you cancel freedom of speech and so on how much is that you know obviously was a part of the debate and they're trying not to try to be on top side and how much of it is there why did point whether some of those fundamental principles are at risk in the current climate in the states. well look at think we need to have a larger discussion in our country about what the social contract is what the governance rules are regarding speech and animating something like this this is an extraordinary moment this is an anomalous moment even though people felt many people felt this was big building this frustration and potential for violence but you know i think that question is we're going to have to debate how this election was handled how the aftermath of the election was handled and to what degree this does affe

i want to get to mitch mcconnell in a second. just briefly what's your take on this concern about law enforcement and the military that clint was just walking through in terms of how trust is rebuilt. this is not something that we've really felt like we had to grapple with before that these law enforcement agents may not, you know, usually the loyalty is to the country and the office. >> yeah. i think this is going to be a massive, many year-long project. people don't have faith in almost any institution now including government, including media now, including law enforcement. lots of suspicion about who was involved at what level. it will be months before we know all the details on this. and i think biden and others have a right to be suspicious in certain corners. you're looking at tapes about what happened at the capitol and it's clear some capitol police were supportive of this. so people have to investigate, figure it out and create rules so that this never happens again and i think a big part of that is the prosecutions tha

mcconnell and merrick garland, mitch mcconnell does not have the power of majority leader or minority leader or the senator from kentucky or the senator named mitch mcconnell to block judges. he does not. the only way thats you can blok a judge from being debated in the senate is for senators onom the committee to refuse to report that judge and mitch mcconnell does not serve on the judiciary committee so we has no say in that instance, he can urge them to and influence and try to convince them to donv so but he ultimately has no power to do so. even in that regard i would point out democrats can move the discharge judges from committee, that's an important power when the democrats did not use with regard to merrick garland, they can forcece the issue. i suspect they force issue early on in that debate then they would've won that debate but quite frankly the majority of republican senators did not agree with the strategy aten the time to prevent a votepr on merrick garland. it's an important point to make, i would also add in 2001 with the last 50/50 split there is a power-sharing agr

york times, mitch mcconnell is leaning towards convicting the president. he sent a letter to his republican colleagues yesterday after the house impeach the president saying he has not made up his mind. he is leaving that door open to convicting the president. if mcconnell votes to convict the president or signal fact to his republican conference, that will provide cover for the rest of the republicans to vote for conviction. they would need is 17 republican votes in order to convict, at a minimum. that is a pretty high bar. we only saw a few vote for conviction including mitt romney, the republican from utah. this is a different scenario. the capital itself in the united states editors themselves were under attack in this siege. the representative said it was incited by the president's words before the rally at the white house. this is a very personal act of violence against members of congress. each of them it was on the floor that day. they had to flee for safety. they understood what was at stake. they understood the process they were engaged in. that

so mitch mcconnell, i'm all ears. tell the american people exactly what part of the president's speech that you thought was violent. was it when he urged his followers to peacefully and patriotically march to the capital so their voices could be heard? did you know -- you like this snap impeachment process, do you feel it's thorough and fair and constitutional? do you think it's just? and do you think you want to be validating with the house of representatives ran through in a week without even any knowledge of those people that apparently we are discovering were part of a plan that was well orchestrated to entice people to do this and get involved in this themselves? they plan to? did you know about that? if it's an impeachable offense, mitch mcconnell, i ask you tonight, where were you when congresswoman maxine waters threatened on going to take trump out tonight. >> you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, the department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you tell them they are not welcome. >>

and mitch mcconnell is key to it. there's a lot of hypocrasy with mcconnell and the republicans that enabled trump on do what he has done. but the republicans are in a point where they have a leverage what happens with trump. i agree, there's similarity that the situation with president nix ob on, with the powers coming to him and saying, either you resign or you are going to be impeached. we are not there yet, but we are on the edge. >> can america ever remove this stain of the stain of this presidency, dan? >>. >> short answer is no. there may have been a time back six months, nine months, maybe a longer, but now, to be as i say, highly probable he is going to be at least impeached. that doesn't mean he is going to be found guilty by the senate. >> but, it becomes the second president, the only president, to be impeached twice is a, this, this cannot be removed. that's why i say, that he now is what we call a stone cold loser. he knows it. it must be driving him crazy. but that is his problem. what we have to deal w

that seems to be the mission for mitch mcconnell tonight. he is with the agreement and support of chuck schumer to try to eliminate this vote process going forward. we are joined now by former senator claire mccaskill, who has been watching these proceedings all day and has watched her former workplace invaded as it has never been before. claire, it's my sense that mitch mcconnell has this wrapped up and he is giving the opponents their chance to talk now. and the people he just listed, by the way, are all going to be speaking in opposition to any objections on the republican side. >> well, i tell you, lawrence, as of 8:08 tonight i was told by more than one republican senator that they had not gotten hawley to back off his pennsylvania objection. that they thought they had everybody else wrapped up and that's why everyone spoke on arizona. you saw a lot of speakers speaking on arizona that had been slated to speak on georgia and pennsylvania. and i think what they are trying to do, it's a classic mitch mcconnell move, is to build the pressu

no single person could do more to evict or help donald trump than mitch mcconnell. it remains in question whether mcconnell will actually do anything, but with every hour that passes, the dam sustaining president trump crumbles a little more. kevin mccarthy, house leader, in his seditious attempt to overturn the election, has asked other republicans on whether he should call on mr. trump to resign at the capitol last week. meanwhile, john katko, senator of new york, became the first house republican to back impeaching trump, and now he has company. congresswoman liz cheney, the number 3 republican in house leadership, she now says she will vote to impeach trump, and not reluctantly. she released a searing statement condemning the president saying, quote, much more will become clear in coming days and weeks, but what we know now is enough. the president of the united states summoned his mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. everything that followed was his doing. none of this would have happened without the president. the president could have immed

mitch mcconnell will not say how he'll vote. mitch mcconnell promised there who not be a conviction from the beginning so it is very different, but republicans have 20, 20 seats now held by senate republicans in 2022 and mitch mcconnell is hoping to get their power back. is it a traditional mid-term? in a traditional mid-term, the president's party lose seats or is it like 2002? is the pandemic, is this the insurrection that created a climate when george w. bush's party gained seats in the first mid-term because the country was in a national crisis. we don't note answer to that crisis, but i get people at home who think this should be about the facts and the violence insurrection. this should be about the fact that everyone has said that that is a crime scene. where this is going to play out. it should be about what the president said, the former president now said, what donald trump said and what he did. i get that. however, it's a political institution. there's an election in less than two years now and a lot of those republic

that's exactly what mitch mcconnell did. he slow-rolled it and killed it by patching together issues that have nothing to do with each other, making a weird frankenstein type bill. i want to push back on something that a couple anchors said, which is that president trump got nothing out of this. he got nothing except credit for millions of americans for wanting to get more money directly into their wallets. at the end of the day, mitch mcconnell had to swallow the poison pill. president trump made him own the fact that millions of americans are going to get $1,400 less than he would like them to do. president trump may consider that a very big political victory at this moment. howie: that's a good point. richard, conservative comet day commentators said democrats were playing politics by refusing to have this bill before telex because they didn't want to give donald trump credit during the campaign. >> i don't know if i agree with that but i do agree with jillian. let's be very clear and think about how we got here. in may,

it hinges on a standout between chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell. we'll take you live to the hill, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. >>> top of the hour, friday morning, glad you're with us, i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. lawmakers are ready the second impeachment trial of the former president donald trump. a source tells cnn the house could send the article of impeachment to the senate as soon as today. note this though, mitch mcconnell is hoping to push the trial until next month in order to give president trump's legal team time to prepare. i spoke with the number two democrat in the senate. he said he's open to that idea as well. this is as president biden using his second full day in office to focus on the economy. he'll sign two more executive orders today to provide more assistance to those struggles in this pandemic. the administration still considering all options as congress works to reach a deal for more stimulus. >> he thinks we could get to a bipartisa

and one republican member of congress says that mitch mcconnell -- mitch mcconnell wants trump gone. he wants to stick a fork in this guy. he does. done. it's easy to whisper behind the scenes, right? but maybe the people quiekquiet lobbying mitch mcconnell should speak up publicly. it's clear the republicans' problem is going to be trump. doug gross of iowa telling "the des moines register" our party i in large part has been telling our base lies regarding the election. we have to rye lie on our leaders at least to tell the truth to protect our freedom and they didn't do that. instead they played it. they played our base like a fiddle. and they played 'em so much, they almost played 'em so hard and they turned around and almost burned us down. and we can't let that happen again". >> we all saw it and now the fallout from the insurrection is getting worse. 19 capitol police officers have tested positive for covid-19 after the riot. trying to beat back a maskless hoard of screaming people. i want to say some other things. unh, unh, unh, unh, unh! you know when you want to do something

if they want mitch mcconnell to break ranks, they're going to want to keep mitch mcconnell happy. because mcconnell has indicated privately he believes donald trump committed impeachable offenses. he's undecided, he's made that clear publicly, too. some republicans are saying very clearly that if mitch mcconnell were to vote to convict donald trump, perhaps mcconnell could lose his leadership position in the next congress. so a lot is riding on the line with mcconnell. mcconnell is making clear that his conference wants a delay for two weeks to consider this impeachment trial, probably sometime in mid february. he does need the consent of the senate majority leader, chuck schumer in order to do just that, and schumer, we are told, is reviewing that proposal. one thing, erin, is that they also want some commitments from mitch mcconnell to move forward on some of joe biden's cabinet nominees. the senate has been moving very slowly initially to fill out joe biden's cabinet. so there is some discussion about potentially moving some of biden's cabinet nominees and then moving to an imp

that mitch mcconnell, right now that mitch mcconnell still retains his position as senate majority leader thanks to his own obstruction. democrats are going to have to choose very soon. do they rollover for phoney calls for unity, absolve the republican party for its trespasses against american democracy, or do they wield the rare power they have won through democratic and legitimate means to repair democracy in people's lives? joined now by senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, one of the democrats who filed an ethics complaint against senators cruz and hawley today. i want to talk about that in a moment, senator. i want to sort of first 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's 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's really undermining himself, mcconnell is right now. he's making the case for procedural reforms to allow a majority to

off,as the debate kicked mitch mcconnell gave this fiery speech on the senate floor, saying we need to move past this, joe biden has won, it is not our place to overturn the will of the people. as he was saying those words, protesters started storming the capitol. pointsre at several able to get into the building and overwhelmed the police force. they were inside the chamber on the senate floor yelling trump had won the election. there was an armed standoff on the house side. there are still protesters in the building roaming around. force,. capitol police state troopers, secret service are working to secure the building. this raises a ton of questions not only of what happened procedurally in the next couple our, but how we think about whatcapitol building and republicans in particular think about what democracy is. david: we saw video of damage being done, windows broken, people breaking in. there was at least one report of a possible casualty. we saw some still photos of that . do we have any idea of injuries? with casualties, people who were injured. laura: there have been reports

mitch mcconnell day one did not want to go there. he wanted us to back off. >> what an amazingly courageous and righteous warrior for ethics. that's what they said. what they did was, of course, preside over the most corrupt administration in modern american history with trump leveraging his position for personal gain, rewarding his donors with tax cuts and his closest aides were charged with crimes ranging from lying to campus to tax fraud and campaign violations. the swamp was never more putrid. we all saw that. after leaving the white house, bannon himself was indicted, charged with, get this, defrauding those who gave money to his scheme the supposedly build the border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. federal prosecutors say bannon kept nearly $1 million for himself. he was arrested on the yacht of a chinese billionaire. in other words, he was charged with ripping off the same trump support here's had chanted, drain the swamp at trump rallies. so it was so fitting, so perfect, that in his final hours in office, trump bot

mcconnell, in which mitch mcconnell says that the senate would definitely take it up if the house goes ahead and impeaches trump again. they'll pick it up and start their proceedings at the earliest, one hour after joe biden is inaugurated as the new president of the united states on january 20th. literally he's saying he would start it at 1:00 p.m. on january 20th. congressman schiff joins us next. stay with us. ah, honey! isn't that the dog's towel? hey, me towel su towel. there's more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze odor remover in every fling. gain. seriously good scent. love the scent of gain flings? then you'll swoon for long lasting gain scent beads. secret aluminum free helps eliminate odor deodorants only mask odor? instead of just masking it. and is made with 3x more odor fighters. with secret, keep it fresh every day. secret. vicks vapopatch. easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. trusted soothing vapors, from vicks wannit's timeight and for aerotrainer. a more effective total body fitness solution. (announcer) aerotrainer's erg

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mitch mcconnell said he hasn't made up his mind. mitch mcconnell is counting. he wants to hold the president accountable. will he have the courage? we'll see soon enough. this is not good for the president of the quiteunited st >> john's math is right. it something worth repeating. super majority is needed to convict the president in the senate. 17 republicans would be needed to join them. >> right. so it's a long shot right now, but as john says, we have to watch mitch mcconnell, i think we also have to watch donald trump. we have to see what donald trump does over the next week. i mean, you never know from day to day. i mean, today he did another video where he seemed a little more conciliatory even though he said he was shocked by the violence, which i don't see how that could be since he inspired it but, who knows what he's going to do. who knows what his pardons are going to be coming up. there are things that donald trump can do over the next seven days that could add to the bill of indictment. we don't know. that can make some republicans say wait a minu

mitch mcconnell said he will wait to hear the legal arguments. it's not clear if he has a legal team put together. he has been telling people call alan dershowitz. we expect rudy giuliani to be involved. that's remarkably different than the last time the president was impeached. the president has been increasingly isolated from his top aides. still remains to be seen. >> we'll see if we get a statement from the president of the united states. he has lost twitter, instagram and facebook. we'll see how he releases that videotape. this is the first time we pointed out in american history the president has now been impeached twice. the second time around, this time, there was bipartisan support for impeachment. ten republicans voted in favor of impeaching the president. and that is significant. >> yeah. it's not just bipartisan. it is the most bipartisan impeachment in american history, far exceeding the number of people in the opposing party who voted to impeach clinton or johnson. so i do think it is significant. on the other hand, wolf, it is stil