Exiting WH, Susan Collins calls 2 hour meeting with Biden "very productive" and "cordial"
Collins: "It was a very good exchange of views. I wouldn't say we came together on a package tonight, no one expected that...but what we did agree to do was to follow up at the staff level...on how we can continue to work together"
Collins: "It was an excellent meeting and we're very appreciative that in his first official meeting in the Oval Office the president chose to spend so much time with us"
No GOP senator other than Susan Collins spoke after meeting with Biden. They also didn't take questions.
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On CNN, Sen. Gillibrand floats the possibility of running Trump impeachment trial one day and working on COVID relief the next day.
“If we can't [do both] then maybe we delay the trial for a while [so] we can get Biden's cabinet up and running,” she says
"I find it hard to believe we'll get 17" Republicans needed to convict Trump, Gillibrand tells CNN
On MSNBC, Sen. Casey says it's possible Trump's impeachment trial will begin on the afternoon of Jan. 20th, immediately following Biden's inauguration.
“If I walked into my place of work tomorrow and I saw this, I’d be stunned myself,” one National Guard soldier tells me after I expressed my shock in some impolite terms
Rep. Andy Kim, who worked in Afghanistan, stood with me for a few minutes and took in the scene.
“How did it get so bad here? How did we get to this point as a country?” he asked
You can see police set up a perimeter of barricades far away from the building that morning. I remember flashing my badge to a cop at one of these barricades, again, far away from the building. Somehow this perimeter completely collapsed in just a few hours.
You can see this perimeter in this photo I took looking out the north side of the building at 1:48, when Trump supporters first started streaming in from the Mall.