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Trump 'will be chased by prosecutors for the rest of his life': MSNBC's Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said President Donald Trump is starting to get a taste of what his post-presidency life will be like.

The "Morning Joe" host played a video statement from Arnold Schwarzenegger, who compared the U.S. Capitol siege to Kristallnacht and remembered the men he knew who'd been broken by Nazi lies, and Scarborough said Trump would soon find himself living in disgrace.

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'Get off the plane': Passengers shout down Trump rioters as they're thrown off flight home

One man was filmed having a fit in the airport after he found out he was put on the "no-fly" list after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The sobbing man shouted that they called him a "terrorist." He was comforted by a woman who said that she was thrown off of a Delta flight earlier.

The video of that woman being thrown off the flight is now also being revealed. She appears to rant about the First Amendment as she slowly makes her way down the aisle off the plane. She seems to be joined by another woman in a black sweater and a man in a grey shirt. The woman in the sweater attempts to argue with one of the other passengers about her "rights."

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Speaker Pelosi tears up describing what rioters did — then calls Trump 'deranged, unhinged and dangerous'

In an interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday, CBS's Lesley Stahl asked who was running the executive branch of the U.S. government right now.

"Well, the person who's running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States," Pelosi said. "He has done something so serious that there should be a prosecution against him."

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Trump also called Georgia Sec. of State investigators to demand 'evidence' be found to prove fraud: report

Not only did President Donald Trump call Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to demand that he "find" votes, he also called one of Raffensperger's investigators demanding that he "find" evidence of voter fraud.

"60 Minutes" reported Sunday that last month "Trump called a GA Secretary of State investigator and told them they would be a hero if they found evidence of vote fraud. No evidence was found that would change the outcome of the state's election."

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Anyone who thinks Trump learned his lesson is 'willfully blind and ignorant': CNN's John Avlon

Senate Republicans have been lining up to agree that President Donald Trump should be impeached after urging the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week. Impeaching and then convicting Trump would mean that the 45th president can never take office again without the permission of Congress.

In a discussion with CNN's John Avlon and PBS commentator Margaret Hoover, Ana Cabrera noted that Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said that the president's words and actions were "clearly reckless," but "my personal view is that the president touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again. And if that's the case, every day we get closer to the last day of his presidency."

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Man caught on video sobbing 'they called me a terrorist' after being booted from flight

UPDATE: Reports that Trump supporters traveling home from the DC riots were added to the no-fly list turned out to be erroneous. Additionally, it's been revealed that the man was removed from the flight for refusing to wear a mask. Raw Story regrets the error.

Many President Donald Trump supporters made it back to their states if they left quickly following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But for those who waited, it appears they're being faced with losing their flights.

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New graphic video shows Trump supporters drag officer down Capitol steps to beat him

CNN released a new video showing a Capitol Police officer being beaten nearly to death on the steps of the legendary building.

"You need to understand the full picture about what happened," said CNN host Ana Cabrera. "In this video, there on the right side of your screen at the top of the stairs, you can see the mob dragging a police officer. They drag him down the stairs, and then they brutally begin to beat him. The officer gets stomped on, even hit with a pole that carried the American flag. The rioters used anything they had, a broom, a crutch, even a trump 2020 flag fastened to a pole. And this is even more evidence of how dangerous this situation was and how much worse this attack was than we first knew on Wednesday as it was going on."

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'Hang Mike Pence!' Trump supporters intended to execute vice president during Capitol riots

Some of President Donald Trump's supporters apparently intended to kidnap Vice President Mike Pence and execute him if he didn't overturn their election loss.

The president's supporters stormed into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, as Pence presided over the congressional certification of Joe Biden's election win, and video captured some of them threatening to execute the vice president -- who Trump had singled out in a speech just minutes before they burst into the building.

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GOP's Adam Kinzinger rips Capitol police for failing to recognize threat from Trump supporters

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) ripped law enforcement for failing to protect the U.S. Capitol from angry supporters of President Donald Trump.

The Illinois Republican, the first member of his party to call for Trump's removal through the 25th Amendment, said Capitol police and other agencies should have been prepared for the mob that stormed the government building, killed a police officer, menaced legislators and reporters, and stole or vandalized property.

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House Sergeant-at-Arms resigns after siege - Nancy Pelosi calls for resignation of Capitol police chief

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that the Capitol Police chief hasn't even spoken to her after their failures to secure the building Wednesday. She also said that the House Sergeant-at-Arms has submitted a letter of resignation after the insurrection.

Pelosi said that she's officially calling for Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to resign.

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Biden: 'Don’t dare call them protesters -- they were a riotous mob, they were insurrectionists'

President-elect Joe Biden appeared about as angry as he has been throughout the course of the election season on Thursday.

Biden spoke Wednesday afternoon begging President Donald Trump to tell his supporters to stop their attacks on the U.S. Capitol. It wasn't long after that that Trump released a video asking for peace but reminding his followers what they were fighting for. The video was ultimately removed from all of his social media sites for encouraging violence.

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ABC's Raddatz tells The View that pro-Trump rioter brought flex-cuffs: 'Was he going to arrest senators?'

ABC News' Martha Raddatz told the women of "The View" Thursday that she interviewed several supporters of President Donald Trump while the riot was going on at the U.S. Capitol. She also revealed that even the National Guard wasn't doing anything to disburse the MAGA crowd and Capitol Police still refused to arrest people on Capitol grounds.

Raddatz echoed the characterization of the rioters as "American domestic terrorists" and said that all morning long she watched the rally at The Ellipse and knew that things were about to get worse. She would ask people there what they wanted and it was to have the election overturned. She said that they would use phrases like "it's our house" and "it's our government."

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Conservative David Frum singles out Fox News host for stoking Capitol takeover by Trump supporters

Conservative writer David Frum said the violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters was a "secession from American democracy."

The former speechwriter for George W. Bush said Wednesday's violence was part of an increasingly intense assault on democratic institutions by Trump and his right-wing followers, and Frum said it was important to note that it was aided and abetted by some of the most powerful political elites in the U.S. -- and not just the president.

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