Pelosi holding her first press conference since the House impeached Trump, again. Opens with an MLK quote.

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
Just noticed Pelosi is wearing this pin, which she wore during Trump's first impeachment.

It's her Mace of the Republic pin, which symbolizes the legislative authority of the House of Representatives.
Every day the House is in session, the sergeant-at-arms carries the ceremonial mace into the chamber and places it to the right of the speaker.

It’s made of three parts, and symbolizes that people are stronger together than they are separately. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
"I find this to be a very emotional time," Pelosi says, seeming to choke up for a sec.

Talks about making all decisions right now based on "security, security, security."
Pelosi talking about the "disgusting" images in video footage of last week's Capitol insurrection.

"A man in a shirt with Auschwitz on it," she says. "Auschwitz."
"To see this punk with that shirt on," Pelosi says, her voice rising. "And the anti-Semitism he is proud of … requires us to have an after-action review. To assign responsibility to those who were part of organizing it and incentivizing it."
Q: Timing on impeachment articles being sent to the Senate, to kick off potential trial against Trump?

Pelosi doesn't give details.
Q: Some Dem members are raising concerns about GOP members giving tours to ppl in town for Trump's rally the day before the insurrection, potentially helping them learn the building before attacking it.

Pelosi: We're looking into it. If true, there may have to be prosecutions.
Pelosi: "If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime, there may have to be actions taken beyond the congress and in terms of prosecutions."

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14 Jan
Days after a Capitol insurrection that left 5 people dead, and as we learn of domestic terrorism threats ahead of inauguration, I still can't wrap my head around House Republicans having a full-blown tantrum about having to walk through a metal detector. huffpost.com/entry/house-re…
What is going on here?

At best, these GOP lawmakers are embarrassingly entitled.

At worst, they’re sneaking guns onto the House floor and don't want to get caught -- and terrifying their colleagues in the meantime.
These are actual quotes from House Republicans reacting to have to walk through a metal detector to get onto the House floor.

“Horse shit!”

“You are creating a problem you do not understand the ramifications of!”

“You can’t stop me, I’m on my way to a vote!"
Read 10 tweets
11 Jan
The 147 Republicans who still voted to overturn the election results after the Capitol insurrection. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
I still can't wrap my head around this.

Hours after Trump incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol, with plans to kill Nancy Pelosi and others, 147 GOP lawmakers still voted to overturn the election -- citing the same lies about fraud fueling the rioters.
There will be so many investigations into the violence and terror unleashed at the Capitol on Wednesday.

But one of the most egregious attacks on democracy happened in plain sight and requires no investigation. It was these 147 lawmakers' votes. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Read 4 tweets
10 Jan
The more time we have to process what happened Wednesday, and the more details that come out, the more clear it becomes that this could have been so, so, so much worse.

It could have been a massacre in the Capitol.

With the House Speaker and U.S. Vice President as key targets.
So many horrifying details coming out. From a readout from Rep. Jason Crow's phone call today with Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy:

"A greater disaster was narrowly averted."
It's also becoming clear, in case it wasn't obvious, how totally unprepared federal law enforcement was for a Capitol terrorist attack.

"Due to a lack of coordination and preparation, there was not a functioning operations center in the Pentagon to manage the Guard presence..."
Read 4 tweets
10 Jan
🚨Pelosi announces she's beginning the process of impeachment tomorrow morning.
Also of note lower in Pelosi's letter to House Dems: she says their views are "valued" on the 14th Amendment Section 3.

What is that?

That's the portion of the Constitution that prevents lawmakers from having "engaged in insurrection or rebellion." 👀
Here's what this section of the Constitution says.
Read 6 tweets
7 Jan
! Pelosi calls on Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, and if he doesn't, House Dems may proceed with impeachment.

"If the vice president and the cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment," she says in press conf.
Trump is "a very dangerous person who should not continue in office," Pelosi says. "This is urgent. This is an emergency of the highest magnitude."

He may only have 13 days left in office, but "any day can be a horror show for America."
"I don't think it will take long to get an answer from the vice president," Pelosi says re: him willingness to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump.

"It will be yes or it will be no."

I mean, true! 😂
Read 5 tweets
7 Jan
White House officials and admin officials are suddenly resigning in protest of Trump inciting violence and undermining democracy -- 2 weeks before they're out of a job anyway, and after standing by Trump as he's done this for years. huffpost.com/entry/white-ho…
Stephanie Grisham, chief of staff to Melania Trump and former WH press sec, has quit. She says she was proud to be part of Melania's “mission to help children everywhere."

She didn’t mention that she stood by Trump when he was ripping children from their families at the border.
Mick Mulvaney, former WH chief of staff and current envoy to N Ireland, has quit in disgust too.

“I can’t stay here. Not after yesterday."

He's worked for Trump since Feb 2017 — the same year Trump blamed “many sides” for the deadly white supremacist clashes in Charlottesville.
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