Speaker Pelosi opens House debate on impeachment of President Trump:
"We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country. He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a president impeached, then what is?"
"All of us must answer that question today."
Rep. Waters supports impeaching President Trump again:
"He is capable of starting a civil war. He must be impeached. He must be stopped now."
"There are more troops right now in Washington DC than in Afghanistan. And they are here to defend us against the commander in chief, the president of the United States and his mob," Rep. Seth Moulton says.
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VP Pence: "We condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms ... To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today: you did not win. Violence never wins. Freedom wins. And this is still the people's house."
Senate Majority Leader McConnell: "The U.S. Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation. We are back at our posts, we will discharge our duty under the Constitution"
Senate Minority Leader Schumer: "This will be a stain on our country not so easily washed away. The final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States. Undoubtedly our worst."
BREAKING: President Trump begged Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the election results in a remarkable, hourlong phone call obtained by @NBCNews on Sunday. on.msnbc.com/355iNlL
The phone call features the president, days before he is set to leave office, pleading with Raffensperger to alter the vote total, and launching into a barrage of discredited conspiracy theories about the election.
“The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry,” Trump said. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.”
"Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong," Raffensperger responded.