fox news alert this just in a new tweet
from the president
to all those who have asked i will not
be going to the inauguration
on january 20 20th for all those who
have
asked the president wrote just a few
moments ago since he has been back on
twitter he was banned
as you know temporarily he has tweeted a
couple times this morning
that is the latest from the president on
that and this of course
in the middle of democrats now vowing
impeachment
of the president before that day even
happens
uh so this is the latest in that
developing story
as the president and his team have been
asked repeatedly whether or not
he would attend the biden inauguration
and the answer is now in trace with the
president saying very definitively
that he will not be going yeah
and we're waiting for more on that too
wondering why he exactly is not going
because it was a question for a long
time people were thinking look
i mean it's unprecedented right meaning
the president's go to the inaugurations
they're the ones that kind of hand the
baton so to speak
and we're waiting for a little bit more
of an explainer
on exactly what the decision is based on
is it based on
you know the fact that he still believes
the election is contested
or is it based on something else i mean
that's kind of the key here
that people are focused on is the
reasoning we know he's not going
and now the next step in this process is
to figure out
exactly why really interesting i just
called our capitol hill producer or
congressional correspondent i should say
chad pergram on the hill to ask kim for
some
historical background on the last time
that a president did not attend
inauguration
in the transition obviously uh and
because
of course we'll have to look back in
history to see when the last time that
would have happened a lot of this is
just an unprecedented territory
trace as we continue to cover what has
been a remarkable several days for this
country
we'll find out what more we learn on
that but trace i did say that this is
happening in the context of
he may not make it to that day of course
because
of growing calls now from democrats and
even some republicans for him to be
removed from office before
inauguration day but as john roberts
made clear earlier you know they're kind
of running up against the clock we're
talking about 12 days before the
inauguration and if this
impeachment movement was to go forward
it would have to go forward at breakneck
speed you know you'd have to get
republicans on board
you know nancy pelosi has already said
indicated that she's willing to be on
board but you have to make sure you have
republicans on board
otherwise you're facing the same kind of
deal
that they face during the last
impeachment attempt which was you just
don't have the support
to bring it to fruition and you're
running up against the clock 12 days
and people are also concerned about
getting some other stuff done
in congress before they you know take
this thing up just to give you an idea
of some of the
things that democrats are saying about
this adam schiff notably saying this
morning 10 20 a.m
that donald trump's a danger to the
republic should be removed from office
immediately by
impeachment resignation or invoking the
25th amendment
he said he said that democrats warned
during trump's impeachment that he would
try to cheat
to remain in office he lit the fuse
which exploded on wednesday
at the capitol said adam schiff a few
moments ago obviously a frequent critic
of this president
we await more information on this but
trace
yeah president trump the news just in he
will not attend the inauguration
and it's it's interesting because we've
spent a lot of time in this program over
the past couple of hours sandra talking
about the impact the president will have
once he leaves office
you know you had the former national
security adviser john bolton weighing in
saying you know who was a strong ally of
the president before he became a
detractor of the president he weighed in
saying look once the president gets back
to mar-a-lago he's sitting there in
mar-a-lago
it's not the same thing as sitting in
the oval office and so when the
president's in mar-a-lago
he will not have nearly the same
influence
on his party that he has right now but
then you have others saying
well some of that influence is being
kind of
whittled away here because of some of
the events over the past couple of days
so we'll have to wait and see
exactly how that transpired this just in
as far as some historical precedent
for this happening our own john roberts
just sending out that president trump
will be the fourth president to not
attend his successor's inauguration the
others were
john adams john quincy adams and andrew
johnson
so not unprecedented but hasn't happened
since 1873 we're trying to get john
roberts up from the
at the white house for us uh on this
breaking news
um trace as it comes in you know you
showed the picture of barack obama the
former president
and donald trump just now and you know
you go back to
so the controversy involving president
trump and the heat that he has gotten
from the media and this goes
all the way back to the inauguration in
2016
when the president was talking about
crowd size and from
crowd size it just kind of morphed into
this
snowball of four years of you know this
harsh criticism from the media and you
know you kind of look at these pictures
here
of the president and joe biden we talk
about how it's been just
you know it's it's been standard
operating procedure
for former presidents and vice
presidents to attend the inauguration
of the incoming president and you have
these pictures here
but if you go back and you look at the
controversies involving
president trump it started really you
know
in in earnest on the day of the
inauguration over the crowd size that he
disputed