THIS STORY NOW IS FRANCESCA
CHAMBERS IS THE WHITE HOUSE
CORRESPONDENT FOR MCCLATCHY
GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE WITH US
TODAY FRANCESCA LET'S LET'S SET
THE SCENE FOR EVERYONE AS
WE'VE BEEN TAKING A LIVE LOOK
AT WHAT'S TAKING PLACE IN
WASHINGTON DC
AND STARTING EARLIER WITH THE
VOTE TO CERTIFY THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE WHAT IS THE LATEST
THERE AS WE'VE BEEN GETTING
SOME UPDATES.
>> WOW I'M JUST LOOKING AT THIS
TWEET FROM PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP ABOUT MIKE PENCE AND
EARLIER WE
HEARD HIM, A PROTEST IN
WASHINGTON DC PRESIDENT TRUMP
THAT HE IS CALL AGAIN ON
MIKE PENCE.
>> DO WHAT HE CONSIDERS TO BE
THE RIGHT THING WHICH WOULD BE
TO EITHER DISCERN.
>> BY THE ELECTION RESULTS OR
TO ACCEPT ALTERNATE SLATE OF
ELECTORS VARIOUS THEORIES THAT
HE HAS PUT
OUT THERE. LAWYERS OUT THERE
BUT WE REALLY PUT PRESSURE
ON WEDNESDAY. THE TWEET THAT WE
JUST SAW FROM HIM AND I
REALLY RATCHET LEVEL AND REALLY
SHOWS YOU ALL THE SORT OF
TENSION THAT YOU'RE SEEING
RIGHT NOW BETWEEN THE
SITTING PRESIDENT AND THE
SITTING VICE PRESIDENT OVER THE
FACT THAT MIKE PENCE SAID AND A
LOT TODAY HE SENT TO MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS THAT'S HIS ROLE IS
LARGELY CEREMONIAL THIS PROCESS
AND HE SIMPLY
DID NOT HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL
AUTHORITY TO BE ABLE TO DO IT
IS THAT THE PRESIDENT CALLING
ON HIM TO DO AND SO.
>> THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT I
DON'T THINK WE CAN STRESS
ENOUGH THE FACT THAT YOU DO
HAVE A SITTING PRESIDENT WHO IS
PRESSURING OPENLY HIS VICE
PRESIDENT WHO HE SELECTED
CAMPAIGNED WITH AND WAS IN
OFFICE FOR 4 YEARS WITH NOW
AND PUTTING THAT PRESSURE ON
MIKE PENCE AND FOR MIKE PENCE
TO COME OUT WITH A STATEMENT
THAT MANY REGARDED AS A VERY
STRONGLY
WORDED STATEMENT SHOWING
EXACTLY WHAT HE CAN AND CANNOT
DO AND HIS OATH TO THE
CONSTITUTION HAVE WE EVER SEEN
ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN POLITICS.
>> WAS IT JUST
THAT USES SITTING VICE
PRESIDENT HE'S BEEN EXTREMELY
LOYAL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
STANDING BY HIM THROUGH THESE
ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD.
THE PRESIDENT NOR HIS LAWYERS
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVE AND
COURTS HAVE JUST THESE CASES
LIKE MIKE PENCE DREW A LINE IN
THE SAND TODAY, ONE THAT LETTER
AND BY THE WAY I'M TOLD THAT HE
SENT
THAT LETTER 2 MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS PRESCOTT IT AT THE
SAME EXACT TIME PRESIDENT TRUMP
WAS OUT
SPEAKING THAT RALLY OR AT THE
TIME WHEN THAT LETTER
IT'S TRANSMITTED SO UNCLEAR
WHEN HE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT I
WAS AFTER THE FACT
NOT CERTAIN I REALLY REALLY
STRIKING HOW THAT THAT THIS
CHAIN OF EVENTS
DOWN TODAY AND THAT THIS WAS
THE THING THAT MIKE HAS ENDED
UP BREAKING WITH
ON ALSO MITCH MCCONNELL, THE
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER BRIDGE
WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP ON THIS AS
WELL.
>> AND SO YOU KNOW AS WE'RE
CONTINUING
TO IT. TAKE A LIVE LOOK HERE IS
THE SENATE IS IN RECESS DUE TO
THE PROTESTERS WE UNDERSTAND
THAT THERE HAVE THEN LOCKDOWNS
THAT
HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED AS WELL
AND WE'VE BEEN CHECKING IN WITH
OUR OWN MEGAN PRATZ AND NICK
CARPER WHO ARE ON THE GROUND
FOR JUST JUST WHILE WE HAVE YOU
THOUGH WHEN YOU CONTINUE TO
THINK ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS IN
THE CERTIFICATION OF THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES THAT
HAVE ALREADY COME IN FROM EVERY
STATE AFTER RECESS WHERE DO YOU
EXPECT THAT THIS WILL PICK BACK
UP AND HOW LONG COULD THIS
TAKE.
>> WELL
EACH OBJECTION FOR EACH STATE
CAN TAKE UP TO 2 HOURS IT'S A
REALLY IN MANY WAYS WE'RE JUST
GETTING STARTED IF THE
REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THEY PLAN
TO OBJECT REALLY DO PLAN TO
OBJECT TO HIS MANY STATES AND
THEY HAVE SAID
THEY WILL IT REGIONALLY IT WAS
ABOUT 6 STATES THAT THEY WERE
CONCERNED ABOUT THAT ANY ONE OF
THE PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS, HE
SAID IT COULD BE UP TO 10
AND THAT COULD ALSO INCLUDE
STATE THAT THE TRUMP AND HE
DIDN'T EVEN CHALLENGE IT IN
COURT SAID SUCH AS VIRGINIA AND
NEW MAC SICKO SO THAT
ALPHABET'S
JUST START AND THEY CAN GET
QUITE FAR INTO A POTENTIALLY SO
THIS COULD BE GOING ON FOR A
WHILE.
>> WE'RE SEEING A LIVE LOOK AND
I DO WANT TO GET CONFIRMATION
BEFORE RIGHT EXACTLY SPELL OUT
WHAT
IS HAPPENING IN CAPITOL HILL,
WE'RE LOOKING INSIDE THE
BUILDING RIGHT NOW.
OF COURSE WE'VE BEEN SEEING
IMAGES OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING
WHERE PROTESTERS WERE CLASHING
WITH CAPITOL POLICE AS YOU'RE
SEEING THERE WAS AN INSIDE AND
OUTSIDE LOOK ON
CAPITOL HILL. RIGHT NOW WHEN
YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT'S TAKING
PLACE AND NOT JUST THE OPEN
PRESSURE
ON PENCE BUT THEN ADDITIONALLY
FOR THE GOP REPRESENTATIVES
AND SENATE THAT FOR THE
SENATORS WHO STOOD UP AND EARLY
TRIGGERED THAT'S RECESS IN
ORDER FOR THEM TO HAVE THEIR
VERBAL ARGUMENTS. YOU SAW US
STANDING UP YOU SAW A
INNOVATION FROM ONE SIDE WHERE
THEY WERE ESSENTIALLY SAYING IN
STRONG FORCE THAT
THEY WERE GOING TO SUPPORT
EVERY SENATOR THAT STANDS UP
AND CONTEST THE RESULTS OF
THESE ELECTIONS. BUT THEN YOU
ALSO HAD A STATEMENT FROM
SENATE
MAJORITY LEADER MITCH ALL THAT
ESSENTIALLY GOES AGAINST
LARGELY EXACTLY WHAT SOME OF
THOSE VERY SENATORS WERE
STANDING FOR
AS WELL DESCRIBE THE CLASH
BETWEEN THE PARTY ITSELF THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY AS WE GO
THROUGH WITH THESE PROCEEDINGS.
>> WITH THE USUAL
TODAY BECAUSE IT'S NOT
SPECIFICALLY BREAKING DOWN BY
PARTY. WHY DO YOU HAVE.
SENATORS REPUBLICANS LIKE
MITCH MCCONNELL SAY THAT THIS
IS NOT HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD
IT YOU CONTINUE TO
SAY THAT BECAUSE YOUR SIDE NOW
WHEN THEY'RE 4 ELECTION IS
SOMEHOW FRAUDULENT THEN YOU'LL
GET CAUGHT IN THIS FOREVER.
AND THAT IS CERTAINLY
NOT HOW HE SEES THE JOB OF THE
SENATE AND BELIEVES THAT IT
SHOULD MOVE FORWARD AND SO EVEN
SAYING ALL THAT YOU KNOW HE
HAD SOME THE ATTACKS ON THE
LEFT AND HOW HE FEELS THAT THEY
REACTED TO THE 2016 ELECTION,
BUT LARGELY HIS BEACH BOYS
REALLY WE'RE GETTING
REPUBLICANS TO JUST MOVE
FORWARD FROM IT INTO ITS OUT
TO THEM WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND
IN MANY WAYS HIS REMARKS AND
CHUCK SCHUMER THE SENATE
MINORITY LEADER'S LINED UP
WHICH IS UNUSUAL.
>> OK AND WE ARE GETTING
CONFIRMATION NOW FRANCESCA THAT
THE PROTESTERS HAVE MADE THEIR
WAY INTO
THE CHAMBERS. AS THE BUILDING
HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THAT IS
THE LIVE LOOK THAT WE WERE
TAKING OUR VIEWERS TO HEAR
RIGHT NOW AS YOU'RE SEEING
THOSE WHO
ARE CARRYING LOOKS LIKE SOME OF
THE FLAGS COMING IN FROM YOU
SEE SOME
PROTESTERS CAPTURING THE MOMENT
IN THE MOST I SUPPOSE YOU STICK
USE OF THAT BUT ULTIMATELY AS
YOU SEE A SCENE
LIKE THIS. AND YOU THINK ABOUT
THE PROGRESS THAT IT WOULD NEED
TO TAKE TO ACTUALLY MOVE
FORWARD IN A
CIVIL MANNER. WHAT MESSAGE ARE
THE REPUBLICANS OF THE HOUSE
AND SENATE GOING TO NEED
TO SEND. AFTER TAKING A LOOK AT
THE VERY IMAGES THAT WE ARE
WATCHING LIVE IN LIVING COLOR
AND IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.
>> PROTESTERS ARE
CLEARLY WHEN YOU SAY AGAIN
REPUBLICANS NOT LISTENING TO
MITCH MCCONNELL AND OTHER
REPUBLICANS WHO SAY THAT THEY
THEY DO NOT.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO
TO BE ABLE TO DO WITH THE
PRESIDENT WANTS HIM TO DO AND
MIKE
PENCE RIGHT. THERE CERTAINLY
LISTENING TO PRESIDENT DONALD
TRUMP TO
ADDRESS THAT AND OUT ON THE
SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE
JUST SOUTH OF THE SOUTH LAWN OF
THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER TODAY.
YOU KNOW HE WAS REALLY
ENCOURAGING ON SAYING THAT HE
COULD MARCH WITH THEM
TO THE CAPITAL AFTER THIS NOW
HE DID NOT END UP DOING THAT HE
WENT BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE
WHERE HE IS AND WILL AT LEAST
REMAIN FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER
HALF HOUR BASED ON THE
D LIST BUT HE DID AT ONE POINT
SUGGESTING HE COULD MARCH WITH