Senate votes on whether it has jurisdiction over impeachment trial of fmr. President Trump msnbc.com/live
U.S. Senate votes 56-44 that it has jurisdiction to try fmr. Pres. Trump. Senate impeachment trial will proceed tomorrow at noon.
6 Republican senators joined Democrats in vote over constitutionality of Trump impeachment trial:
Sen. Cassidy
Sen. Collins
Sen. Murkowski
Sen. Romney
Sen. Sasse
Sen. Toomey
Sen. Cassidy: “If anyone disagrees with my vote and would like an explanation I ask them to listen to the arguments presented by the House Managers and former Pres. Trump’s lawyers. The House managers had much stronger constitutional arguments. The president’s team did not.”
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Dr. Fauci discusses the state of the coronavirus pandemic. msnbc.com/live
"Enjoy the Super Bowl, but don't do it with a large crowd of people in your house," Dr. Fauci says about Sunday's big game.
"The best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating," Dr. Fauci says on Covid-19 vaccine and variants. "Double down on public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another: The masking, the distancing"
President Biden says admin's national pandemic plan launches a 'wartime' effort: "When I say 'wartime,' people kind of look at me like, 'wartime'? As I said last night, 400,000 Americans have died. That's more than have died in all of World War II...This is a wartime undertaking"
President Biden says executive actions aim to extend masking requirements to interstate travel, testing and quarantine requirements for those flying to U.S.
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris participate in a memorial to remember Covid-19 victims msnbc.com/live
"To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation," President-elect Biden says at the Covid-19 memorial.
“Though we may be physically separated, we the American people are united in spirit,” VP-elect Harris says at the Covid-19 memorial.
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?"