Here's the video of the Capitol police shooting Ashli Babbitt as she and others attempted to break into the Speaker's Lobby (a warning about viewing this)
the clip is from this much longer YouTube account of the entire mob, riot of the Capitol.
Bedlam after the shooting.
"She's dead. She's dead. I saw the light go off in her eyes."
This is when the rioters pushed through more police inside the Capitol chanting "Stop the steal"
someone said: "let's be peaceful" and you can hear someone say "fuck that shit."
some more clips:
"I can't believe this is reality...this is fucking history. we're all part of this fucking history."
this is when the mob starts breaking through barriers.
to the police: "you guys going to follow the constitution?"
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you can change the rules on impeachment trials w/ a majority but
Unc’s Michael Gerhardt says: “If it got streamlined further I think some people would begin to question whether it’s a credible trial, and some of those people might be in the U.S. Senate”
the main purpose of continuing the impeachment process after Trump leaves office would be to disqualify him from running for president in 2024 or any federal office in the future.
That requires a separate vote by the Senate BUT only after a conviction with two-thirds majority.
Liz Cheney sent a memo to GOP Reps. this morning addressing the GOP challenges to biden’s victory.
“This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans.”
“The recent proposal for a new “Commission” is even more problematic”
More: “Such objections set an exceptionally dangerous precedent, threatening to steal states’ explicit constitutional responsibility for choosing the President and bestowing it instead on Congress.”
The memo is 21 pages long and goes through each challenge in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI.
Re: “the commission”
“It is not reasonable to anticipate that any commission so formed could wrap up its work in 10 days; indeed, the subsequent debate...would likely require months”
On New Years Eve, Biden team dumps a bunch of financial disclosures for nominees including SoS Tony Blinken and DNI Avril Haines
Haines lists Peter Thiel's Palantir.
She was a consultant there from July 2017 to June 2020 and lists 180k in income from the company
SoS nominee Tony Blinken's financial disclosure includes at least 5k income from:
Blackstone
BofA
Facebook
Uber
McKinsey
SoftBank
Gilead
Lazard
Boeing
AT&T
the Biden team tells me on the timing that the finalized documents went over mid week (today is Thursday) and just posted.
Biden going old-school and meeting with newspaper columnists including @GeraldFSeib
Biden tells them why he's optimistic on bipartisanship: "Republicans are beginning to realize that there is a center that has to be responded to" wsj.com/articles/biden…
To the doubters, he says: "I’m going to be able to get stuff done in the environment none of you are going to believe,” he said, citing in particular changing views within the business community. “I could not have gotten it done six years ago.”
.@ktumulty was also part of the group.
She reports that Biden noted that he has taken some criticism for stocking his administration with many familiar figures
“One reason you need old hands is the old hands know where the old bodies might be buried.”