OF TOWN HOPEFULLY OUTSIDE OF THE FEW INCIDENTS WE DON’T HAVE ANY MORE THINGS TO REPORT FOR
YOU THIS MORNING AS YOU GOT ANY
TIME SAVER TRAFFIC BRUCE JEN.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: LOOKING LIVE
NOW AT CAPITOL HILL WHERE JUST
HOURS AGO, FROM PRESIDENT ELECT
JOE BIDEN’S VICTORY. IT
FOLLOWED AN ATTACK ON THE
NATION’S CAPITAL AND ATTACK IT
HAS NOT EXPERIENCE SINCE
1814.
THOUSANDS OF RIDERS STORMED THE
STEPS OF THE U.S. CAPITOL
OTHERS FORCED THEIR WAY IN
SMASHING WINDOWS PROMPTING
OBVIOUSLY EVACUATIONS.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: POLITICAL
LEGAL EXPERT CHRIS HAD A
NEWSFOURJAX POLITICAL ANALYST
RICK MULLANEY JOIN US NOW AS WE
LOOK AT THIS FROM A NUMBER OF
AN ANGLE. GENTLEMEN, GOOD
MORNING. CHRIS LET ME START
WITH YOU. ONE LESSON LEARNED IS
THE WORDS OF A PRESIDENT
MATTER. IT IS PRESIDENT TRUMP
WHO UNLEASHED THE MOBS AND URGE
THEM TO MARCH ON THE CAPITAL
AND THE QUESTION BECOMES WHEN
DOES ENOUGH BECOME ENOUGH WITH
THE PRESIDENT IN SENDING OUT
PROPAGANDA THAT INCITES
VIOLENCE AND THE COURTS SAY AND
EVEN MITCH MCCONNELL NOW AND
LINDSEY GRAHAM ADMIT HAS NO
BASIS IN TRUTH.
>>VIC MICOLUCCI: OVER THANK YOU GOOD MORNING AND OBVIOUSLY A VERY SAD AND DISTRESSING
DAY YESTERDAY. I SPENT 5 YEARS
AS A SENATE STAFFER IN A SENATE
STAFFER AND
WALKED THAT AREA IN FRONT OF
THE CAPITOL INSIDE THE CAPITOL
COUNTLESS TIMES SO I THINK ALL
AMERICANS WERE SHAKEN BY
WHAT HAPPENED. AND NOW THEY’RE
OBVIOUSLY BE AN INVESTIGATION
INTO A NUMBER OF THE EVENTS
THAT OCCURRED YESTERDAY
BUT TO YOUR POINT WE ALREADY
KNOW SOME FACTS FOR SURE.
SINCE NOVEMBER, DONALD TRUMP
HAS REPEATEDLY MADE UNTRUE
CLAIMS ABOUT
THE ELECTION AND UNDERMINED THE
CREDIBILITY OF OUR
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. HE HAS
REPEATEDLY LED TO HIS
SUPPORTERS TO BELIEVE FALSELY
THAT THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN
FROM HIM IS A SPOUSE, DANGEROUS
CONSPIRACY THEORIES. AND
YESTERDAY MORNING. HE ADDRESSED
PROTESTERS AT THE WHITE
HOUSE RALLY. WHERE HE TOLD THEM
TO QUOTE BE WILD AND ALSO I’D
LIKE TO TELL
AND THEN GO TO THE CAPITAL
IMPACT ONE OF HIS ALLIES.
ENCOURAGE THE. SEEN TO RESORT
TO A TRIAL BY COMBAT.
AND OF COURSE AFTER THEY WRITE
IN THE ISSUE THAT VIDEO THAT
YOU MENTIONED EARLIER AND WHICH
HE TOLD SUPPORTERS HE
LOVED THEM. BRUCE THAT’S A LONG
WAY OF SAYING THAT AS YOU WOULD
IN A 5 THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEM IS
THE RHETORIC OF DONALD TRUMP
AND THE BEST WAY OF ADDRESSING
THAT PROBLEM IS FOR OTHER
LEADERS WHETHER THEY ARE IN
CONGRESS OR WHETHER THEY’RE ON
SOCIAL MEDIA
TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE
ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS AND
TO SAY NO MORE ENOUGH
IS ENOUGH. IF YOU LIGHT A FIRE
AS THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE.
YOU HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
WHEN THAT FIRE BURNED AS A VERY
SADLY DID YESTERDAY IN
WASHINGTON AND NOT JUST IN
WASHINGTON D C BUT IN STATE
CAPITALS AROUND THE COUNTRY
WHERE THERE WERE INCIDENTS
YESTERDAY IN ADDITION TO WHAT
HAPPENED AT THE UNITED
STATES CAPITOL.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND RICK IT’S
INTERESTING TOO BECAUSE YOU ARE
HERE WITH ME YESTERDAY FOR
SEVERAL HOURS AS WE WATCH THIS
UNFOLD, WE’RE BOTH LOOKING AT
ONE ANOTHER WONDERING YOU KNOW
AT WHAT POINT IS THE PRESIDENT
GOING TO SAY SOMETHING THAT
REALLY STOPS THIS IMMEDIATELY
FROM HAPPENING AND REALLY AS
KRIS EVEN INTIMATED TO HIM
YESTERDAY WE’VE BETWEEN TWEETS
THERE ARE THESE JUST MIXED
MESSAGES,
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FIRST TO HIS
SUPPORTERS BE PEACEFUL BUT THE
ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM ME AND
THEN EVEN HIS STATEMENT AS
EARLY AS THIS MORNING.
THERE WILL BE AN ORDERLY
TRANSITION ON JANUARY 20TH YET
HE ALSO WROTE ABOUT FIGHTING TO
ENSURE THAT ONLY LEGAL VOTES
WERE COUNTED AND THAT
IT’S THE ONLY BEGINNING OF OUR
FIGHT TO MAKE AMERICA
GREAT AGAIN DOES THAT ENCOURAGE
CALM AND PEACE AS WE
MOVE FORWARD.
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, JAN
YESTERDAY, THE ENTIRE NATION
WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING TO
THE PRESIDENT AT A VERY
PROFOUND A MOMENT OF GREAT
CONCERN YOU SAW PRESIDENT A
VICE PRESIDENT THE PRESIDENT
ELECT JOE BIDEN CALL ON THE
PRESIDENT MARCO RUBIO CALLED ON
THE PRESIDENT JOHN RUTHERFORD
CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT.
SO THE PRESIDENT RESPONDED WITH
THE VIDEO AND IN THE VIDEO QUITE FRANKLY NOT ONLY DID IT NOT CALM THINGS. IT REALLY MADE
THINGS WORSE. THE FIRST THING
HE SAID WAS THAT THE ELECTION
HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM HIM THEN
HE SAID HE WON IN A LANDSLIDE.
THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE
ELECTION WAS A FRAUD AND THEN
HE SAID, BUT WE NOW HAVE TO
HAVE PEACE AND THAT YOU ARE
VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE.
THE VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE THAT
HAVE BEEN STORMING THE CAPITOL
HILL. IT WAS UNFORTUNATELY FOR
THE COUNTRY THE PRESIDENT WAS
NOT UP TO THE MOMENT,
UNFORTUNATELY, CHRIS HAS
OUTLINED SOME OF THE CONDUCT
EARLIER IN THE DAY BUT IN THAT
PARTICULAR VIDEO WHEN THE
NATION WAS LOOKING TO THE
PRESIDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND TO
CALM WHAT WAS GOING ON ON
CAPITOL HILL. HE NOT ONLY WAS
NOT UP FOR THE MOMENT THAT
VIDEO ITSELF MAY ACTUALLY HAVE
INFLAME THINGS AND MADE THEM
WORSE. AND TONIGHT’S
TODAY’S MESSAGES. THERE ARE
ALSO MIXED IT DOES NOT APPEAR.
HE’S LEARNED THE LESSON OF WHAT
YESTERDAY WAS
ALL ABOUT.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: CHRIS WHITE
HOUSE ADVISERS ACTUALLY
IMPLORED HIM TO BE DIRECT ARE
YOU SURPRISED THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP DIDN’T LISTEN AND MORE
DIRECTLY TELL THE RIDERS BACK
OFF.
>>VIC MICOLUCCI: NO BRUCE SADLY
I DON’T THINK ANYBODY SURPRISED
BECAUSE THE BEST PREDICTOR OF
FUTURE PERFORMANCE IS PAST
PERFORMANCE. AND THIS IS THE
PRESIDENT WHO SAID THAT SOME OF
THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE IN 2017 WERE
QUOTE VERY
FINE PEOPLE. HE CALLED MEDIA
MEMBERS WHOSE WORK IS PROTECTED
BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.
HE DEFENDED AN ARM SUPPORTER
WHO KILLED PEOPLE IN KENOSHA
WISCONSIN. AND IN A
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. HE TOLD
THE ALT-RIGHT HATE GROUP THE
PROUD BOYS TO STAND BACK AND
STAND BY AND YESTERDAY IT.
APPARENTLY TOOK
GREAT LAKES. AND TIMES DECLINED
TO AUTHORIZE THE USE
OF THE NATIONAL GUARD TO STOP
THE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES
CAPITOL THAT’S WHY THIS IS
SO CONCERNING BUT ALSO NOT
SURPRISING BECAUSE THIS WILL GO
DOWN AS ONE OF THE CENTRAL
POINTS OF DONALD TRUMP’S
LEGACY AT TIMES WHERE HE COULD
HAVE LOWERED THE TEMPERATURE AT
TIMES WE COULD HAVE BROUGHT THE
COUNTRY TOGETHER AT TIMES WHERE
HE COULD HAVE APPEAL TO THE
BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE AS
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ONCE
SAID.
DONALD TRUMP HAS DECLINED TO DO
THOSE THINGS ON THOSE
OCCASIONS.
>> RICK
THE PRESIDENT HAD SUGGESTED
AFTER THE NOVEMBER ELECTION
THAT HE WOULD RUN AGAIN WHAT
IMPACT DO YOU THINK THAT WHAT
HAPPENED YESTERDAY HAVE ON HIS
BASE WILL THEY CONTINUE TO
SUPPORT HIM
IN MASS.
>> WE KNOW JEN AT THE END OF
THE GENERAL ELECTION, THE WALL
STREET JOURNAL WROTE AN ARTICLE
WHICH THEY SAID THE PRESIDENT
HAD A CHOICE HE WAS AT THE FORK
IN THE ROAD. HE COULD EITHER
BE RECOGNIZED THAT IN THEIR
VIEW FOR SOME VERY SIGNIFICANT
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THEY TALKED
ABOUT A GREAT DEAL OF THEM.
YOU CAN GO LOOK AT THE NEW
TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH CANADA
AND MEXICO YOU TO LOOK AT THE
PEACE AGREEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST YOU CAN LOOK AT CRIMINAL
JUSTICE LEGISLATION FROM A
CONSERVATIVE STANDPOINT YOU CAN
LOOK AT
DEREGULATION TAX CUTS A ROARING
ECONOMY PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS, HE COULD
POINT HE COULD POINT TO A
RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT OR HE
COULD GO DOWN A PATH
THAT WOULD TARNISH HIS LEGACY
AND POTENTIALLY DEFINE HIM IN A
WAY THAT WOULD MAKE HIM
UNELECTABLE IN THE FUTURE HE IS
SHOWN, SHOWN CHOSEN THE LATTER
PATH, ALTHOUGH PART OF HIS BASE
MAY VERY LIKELY STAY WITH HIM
NO MATTER WHAT THAT IS
NOT SUFFICIENT. I KNOW WE’RE
GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES THE
CRYSTAL BALL IS ALWAYS
DIFFICULT BUT I BELIEVE
YESTERDAY QUITE FRANKLY MAY
HAVE BEEN THE END
FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S HOPES FOR
THE 2024 NOMINATION, ALTHOUGH
HE WILL PROBABLY SEEK IT,
ALTHOUGH HE’LL TRY TO POSITION
HIMSELF FOR IT
I BELIEVE YESTERDAY IS GOING TO
BE A DEFINING MOMENT PART OF
HIS LEGACY AND THAT IS GOING TO
IN THE END MAKE IT SO THAT HE
WILL NOT BE THE NOMINEE IN
2024.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: CHRIS 13 DAYS
UNTIL JOE BIDEN’S INAUGURATION.
THERE ARE CALLS RIGHT NOW TO
REMOVE THE PRESIDENT FROM
OFFICE INVOKE THE 25TH
AMENDMENT IMPEACH HIM WHAT’S
THE LIKELIHOOD.
>> WELL VERSED AS YOU KNOW
THERE ARE 3 WAYS THE CAN LEAVE
OFFICE BEFORE THE END OF HIS OR
HER TERM,
ONE OF WHICH IS A PRESIDENT CAN
RESIGN AND FRANKLY THAT’S AN
OPTION THAT PROBABLY THE
RESPONSIBLE PRESIDENT WOULD BE
CONSIDERING AFTER INCITING A
RIOT AT THE RITE THAT STORM THE
U.S. CAPITOL AND CAUSE OF DEATH
INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE.
OF COURSE THERE’S THE OPTION
FOR CONGRESS TO IMPEACH THE
PRESIDENT AND REMOVE HIM FROM
OFFICE FOR BRIBERY TREASON OR
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.
WHILE INCITING A RIOT THAT
TURNED DEADLY AGAINST THE U.S.
CONGRESS WOULD
I THINK ALMOST CERTAINLY FIT
WITHIN THE DEFINITION OF HIGH
CRIMES. THERE’S JUST OBVIOUSLY
QUESTION AS TO WHETHER CONGRESS
WOULD HAVE TIME
TO DO THAT AT THIS POINT
ALTHOUGH AND THEY’VE OBVIOUSLY
PREVIOUSLY IMPEACH PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND HEAD OF SENATE
REMOVAL TRIAL. AND THEN THERE’S
THE 3RD OPTION WHICH AS YOU
NOTED IN YOUR REPORTING
EARLIER. THERE HAS BEEN SOME
DISCUSSION APPARENTLY AMONG
CABINET OFFICIALS AND SENIOR
WHITE HOUSE STAFF
ABOUT INVOKING THE 25TH
AMENDMENT IN WHICH THE VICE
PRESIDENT THE MAJORITY OF THE
CABINET COULD ISSUE A
DECLARATION THAT THE PRESIDENT
IS UNABLE TO DISCHARGE.
HIS POWERS AND ONCE THAT
DECLARATION IS GIVEN TO
CONGRESS. THE VICE PRESIDENT
BECOMES THE ACTING PRESIDENT,
WE’LL HAVE TO WATCH TODAY AND
SEE IF ANY OF THOSE OPTIONS.
GAIN MOMENTUM, BUT THERE’S
OBVIOUSLY GREAT CONCERN BASED
ON WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AND
THE EVENTS OF THE LAST SEVERAL
YEARS AS TO HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP
WILL CONDUCT HIMSELF.
IN THE FINAL 13 DAYS OF
HIS PRESIDENCY.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: CRIST AND
RICK MULLANY THANK YOU FOR YOUR
TIME THIS MORNING.