Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican incumbent, conceded her Senate runoff to Democratic Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock on Thursday — two days after Election Day and CNN and after several other news organizations projected Warnock the winner. Loeffler thanked her supporters in a video and said she had called Warnock to offer her congratulations. She also
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Two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — are resigning over the riot Wednesday at the US Capitol. The secretaries were among a number of administration officials who announced they were leaving in the wake of a mob of pro-Trump supporters breaching the US Capitol.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has submitted her resignation, saying President Donald Trump’s role in spurring the mob that breached the US Capitol on Wednesday was “the inflection point,” making her the second Cabinet member to resign over the incident. In her resignation letter to Trump dated Thursday, which CNN obtained a copy of, DeVos called
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President Donald Trump conceded publicly for the first time Thursday that he will not serve a second term, stopping short of congratulating President-elect Joe Biden but acknowledging a transfer of power is now underway. It appeared to end, for now, Trump’s false and corrosive attempt to overthrow the election results, which culminated in a violent
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Despite weeks of planning between federal and local police agencies ahead of Wednesday’s Trump rally—including tracking social media—officials said that going into Wednesday they had no intelligence indicating there was a threat the US Capitol could be overrun. It would turn out to be a catastrophic failure after an angry mob overwhelmed police and stormed
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A Capitol Police officer is on life support Thursday night after a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol a day before, according to Capitol Police union chair Gus Papathanasiou. CNN reported Thursday evening, citing three sources, that the officer had died. One of CNN’s sources said that Capitol Police officers were
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Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Thursday that if he were a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet he would support using the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the President from office following a deadly riot at the US Capitol. “Yes, I would,” Kelly told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Political leaders in Washington D.C. have asked Vice President Mike Pence to remove President Donald Trump through the 25th Amendment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats, have called on members of the executive branch to strip President Trump of power through a never-used mechanism in the
Continue Reading Inquiries about invoking the 25th Amendment have been coming into Vice President Mike Pence’s advisers and those discussions have been under way, a source close to the vice president said Thursday, with several Cabinet secretaries informally discussing the matter. But it is “highly unlikely” that Pence would pursue that path at this point, the source
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US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund is resigning amid criticism over an apparent lack of preparedness to deal with Wednesday’s violent mob on Capitol Hill. Sund’s resignation is effective January 16, according to a Capitol Police official. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called for the resignation of the Sund and said the House Sergeant
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has become the second Cabinet secretary to resign a day after a pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In a resignation letter Thursday, DeVos blamed President Donald Trump for inflaming tensions in the violent assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy. She says, “There is no mistaking the impact your
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President Donald Trump has been asking aides and lawyers, including White House counsel Pat Cipollone, about his self-pardon power, multiple sources told CNN. Some of those conversations have happened in recent weeks, one of the sources says. It is unclear if it has come up since Wednesday’s mayhem at the Capitol building fomented by the
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President Donald Trump conceded publicly for the first time Thursday that he will not serve a second term, stopping short of congratulating President-elect Joe Biden but acknowledging a transfer of power is now underway. “A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20,” Trump said in a pre-recorded video taped at the White House. “My
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President Donald Trump is conceding to President-elect Joe Biden and condemning the violent supporters who stormed the nation’s Capitol Wednesday. In a new video message, Trump says that now that Congress has certified the results, the “new administration will be inaugurated on January 20” and his “focus now turns to ensuring a smooth orderly and
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A US Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol, three sources confirm to CNN, in which a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building to stop the counting of electoral votes that affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s win. The police officer is now the fifth person to
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Congressional Republicans are done with Donald Trump. Reeling from the one-two punch of losing the two Georgia Senate seats on Tuesday and what can only be described as a domestic terrorist attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol Wednesday, multiple Republican lawmakers tell CNN that the party needs to move on from the President. While
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A Pennsylvania lawyer who represented the Trump campaign in one of its early election challenges told a federal judge Thursday “the client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime,” one day after a mob of Trump supporters turned violent and stormed the US Capitol Building. The attorney, Jerome Marcus, is asking to withdraw
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Defense Secretary, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, will face his first test on the path to confirmation when he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee later this month in a hearing that is scheduled to take place less than 24 hours before Biden’s own inauguration. The panel’s top Democrat, Sen.
Continue Reading Reporters, producers and photojournalists were our eyes and ears on Wednesday — showing the world what was happening as a group of Trump supporters mobbed the US Capitol. Here’s what some CNN journalists had to say about what it was like on the Hill. Alex Marquardt, senior national security correspondent I knew we were walking
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President Donald Trump attempts a surreal return to normalcy a day after inciting a mob of his supporters to riot, culminating in the first breach the US Capitol in 200 years. On Thursday, he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player, as well as a posthumous Medal of Freedom
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