Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera says before President Trump 'incited' the Capitol Hill riots he could have 'easily run for 2024.'
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Nature, every dose is put in
the arms of someone who wants
it now.
Donald Trump addresses the
nation condemning the violent
riots on Capitol Hill.
Like all Americans, I am
outraged by the violence,
lawlessness and mayhem
to those who broke the law. You
will pay.
My focus turns to ensuring a
smooth, orderly and seamless
transition of power. This moment calls for healing
this moment, calls for healing
and reconciliation.
Brian moments ago, they
assistant House speaker telling
CNN they are moving forward
with Senator Chuck, Schumer and
Nancy Pelosis call to remove
the president from office.
The assistant house speaker
says they are planning and
impeachment vote next week. If,
vice President MIKE Pence does
not invoke the twenty fifth
amendment,
he said he would not do that.
We learned capital police
officer has died after
confronting rioters on Capitol
Hill.
He apparently was hit in the
head during the melee with a
fire extinguisher.
He was able to make it back to
headquarters but died later,
a motorcade honoring him
outside the capital last night,
where he worked for twelve years,
officers held a moment of
silence.
One thousand dollars reward: if you know
who stormed the capital
there is the wanted poster that
has been hanging up the fbis
in conducting a manhunt for
dozens of riot suspects
lets bring in Geraldo Rivera.
How are you?
It has been a really hard week
for our country,
terrible
Ainsley. What are your
thoughts,
the speech the president
made? I was he made it Tuesday
night before he inspired and
incited that mob to storm the
capital.
There is no doubt the president
bears responsibility and
hearing the capital police
officer has succumbed to his
injuries. It is inexcusable a
dark stain on american history.
I want the Trump term to end as
soon as possible. On
January 20th, these efforts,
the local newspaper trumps
term, could come to a end early
like every newspaper in the
country, all suggesting this is
now. This issue is on the
table.
I do not want that to happen.
I think the president should
finish his term. What happened?
History will judge him and it
is something grotesquely
disappointing to me. What
happened- and I tell you- I blame
Senator Josh Howley as much as
I blame the president, because
those are two brilliant men,
Stanford and Yale TED, Cruz,
Princeton and Harvard
brilliant lawyers. They knew
there was no constitutional,
judicial or legislative path to
overturn the election and they
went along with that phony
Steve. Why did they do it?
I will tell you why they did
it.
They did it because both of
them are in competition to
inherit the Donald Trump
Constituency.
They wanted to inherit that
superb group of Working Class
Americans, the president, has
forged into a new republican
party. They wanted to take that
mantle in two thousand and twenty four, their own
cool hungry ambition that
drove them
so dismayed by their behavior
Brian. You dont know that.
Let me finish
you dont know what their intention was to inherit
intention was to inherit
anything
TED Cruz. The play by play is up
there.
He talked to Senator Kennedy.
What can we do? Because there
are problems in these states
if we want to elect oral
reform, a series of debates had
nothing to do with the riots
had no idea. What was happening,
he didnt incite the riots. You are so wrong.
You are so wrong.
You are wrong, because these are
very clever people.
They knew the impact of their
words and they knew by holding
out the possibility. The
election could be overturned
and absurd possibility. But
these two smart, clever senators,
siding with the president,
nothing to do with the
riots,
a legal argument which they
are allowed to do.
It is built into the
constitution and whether you
like it or not, that is one
thing, but to blame them for the
deaths of five people and for
the riots
Ainsley. I did read and article
saying if you blame the
President or Josh Howley for
rioters, who do the wrong thing
to you: blame Bernie Sanders for
the shootings of the crazy guy
who shot at Scalise.
It is a great arguments. You
dont,
I dont recall the facts of
the Bernie Sanders situation.
He was a Bernie Sanders
supporter.
Anyone who listens to the
presidents harangue to that
mob on Wednesday knows that
they were in their mind. They
thought they were doing the
presidents bidding.
They thought the president wanted them to storm the
wanted them to storm the
capital.
He said go down there and Don
Junior was even worse and Rudy
Giuliani. What did they expect
that crowd to do once it got to
the United States Capital
set up picnic chairs?
What were they going to do
peacefully march back and forth?
They were filled with rage.
There was this possibility. The
election could be overturned,
which was absolutely false.
They were counting the
electoral votes.
You cannot say they broke the
legal issue.
Now you settle this in a ten
day.
They are not responsible for
the riots
dont, let the propaganda for
you.
They knew there was no chance,
zero chance,
Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Brian there was no chance that was going to happen
was going to happen.
You mentioned you liked Donald
Trumps, twitter speech, where he
kind of conceded
the curious thing what he said
yesterday at the very end he
said our incredible journey is
only just beginning.
There are seventy four million Americans
who voted for him wondering
what that means. It is just
beginning.
Is he going to run again or try
to influence people? I could see him saying that on.
I could see him saying that on
his last day, but after the week
he has had, what do you think
this great beginning is,
is trying to restart undo
what he did?
He had a magnificent legacy.
If you stopped history on
Monday, you had a president who
was the father of the vaccine, the ones that got the vaccines,
the ones that got the vaccines
ready to save the world in
record time.
He got those peace treaties in
the Middle EAST. He got the economy going, that elevated
economy going that elevated
black and brown Americans among
others. So much going for him,
he could have easily run for
two thousand and twenty four.
I had the conversation with the
president when he called me
four times in this house
Friday, the thirteenth of
November, ten days after the
election, he was much more
calm.
He was redesigned which he said
he was a realist.
He said he would do the right
thing.
Then he became more militant as
the days progressed digging in
his heels saying he would not
accept the word of the american
voter and the results is tragic
and has tarnished his legacy in
a terrible way.
Brian, a final question,
given there are fifty sixty seventy
million people who voted for
him after his this week, so
many people are confused.
What do you say to people who
are confused?
Let me address the speaker
of the House Pelosi and the
new majority leader in the Senate, Schumer from New York
Senate Schumer from New York
and say what you are doing is
reopening the wound,
the tension and the division.
Shame on you!
You are as grandstanding as
Howley and TED Cruz.
This I condemn what they are
doing.
We need what the president did.
Last night.
Calm us unite us
apologize for the loss of the
cop and others who died.
Maybe mistakes were made,
I didnt mean
I love you. America lets go
forward. We are getting the
vaccines. We will get this
plague behind us and have
better days.
I want the president to remind
people why we loved him remind
people. Seventy million what
inspired them to leave the
comfort of their home to go to
Washington
because he is beloved by seventy
million Americans, but to
tarnish his legacy to crap all
over it. This is something that
is a tragedy of shakespearean
proportions, because now Donald
Trump is not going to be the
shining star.
We should be focused on the
vaccine. The transition
it
Ainsley Maxine Waters said
getting. Peoples faces
every side, no matter what
group. If they are violent, they
need to be condemned,
doesnt matter. If you vote with
them or not,
people dont need to get in
peoples faces and restaurants.
I always agree with you
keep in mind. The law and order
Democrats were invisible in the
spring and summer when cities
were being destroyed and there
are two hundred and twenty days of riots in
Portland and they took over
locks in Seattle and in New
York.
Brian thank you for holding us
to the flame and showing you.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-08.