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Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) pushed back against the argument that impeaching President Donald Trump this late into his term would be “divisive.” This comes as the House of Representatives is set to impeach Trump after Vice President Mike Pence refused to invoke the 25th Amendment over the riot at the U.S. Capitol by a group of the president’s supporters.

The parallels between King Uzziah and President Trump are striking. Uzziah did not turn against his faith, but pursued it with excessive zeal.

During a Wednesday appearance on CBS’s “This Morning,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said there was “no way” he could not vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s impeachment after the president refused to take responsibility for the riot at the U.S. Capitol by a group of his supporters.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined a growing movement of Republicans Wednesday, calling on Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to resign as the House Republican Conference chair. 

Vice President Mike Pence quoted Ecclesiastes 3:3 — “A time to heal” — in his letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday, subtly reminding her that she had recently used that verse to call for an end to the country’s divisions.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that given reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that he believes impeaching President Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of the president influence on the GOP, in addition to the announcement by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will vote for impeachment, means the effort is “gathering momentum.”

Vice President Mike Pence sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday and stated he would not invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.

Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday offered advice on how Republicans and the conservative media, specifically, can “begin the healing and unifying process,” demanding that they state that Joe Biden “was duly elected president in a free and fair election.”

The House will consider a resolution Tuesday calling on Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office. 

House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) announced Tuesday that she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump over last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. John Katko (R-NY) on Tuesday became the first Republican House member to come out in support of impeaching President Donald Trump in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday held a press conference where he insisted that President “Donald Trump should not hold office one day longer,” blaming his rhetoric for the riots that occurred at the U.S. Capitol.

A majority of battleground voters want Congress to move on from impeaching President Donald Trump, considering their effort both politically motivated and a waste of time and money, according to a January 12 memo from the pollster John McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates.

Former Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle (SD) on Tuesday warned against impeaching President Donald Trump over last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.  Bloomberg reports:  Daschle called impeachment at a moment that party control of the Senate is so tenuous a

The president of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies — the equivalent to America’s Speaker of the House of Representatives — floated the possibility Monday of impeaching conservative President Jair Bolsonaro based on his coronavirus vaccine policies.

Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech was “not even close” to incitement to violence, said Alan Dershowitz. Ilya Shapiro said it was “impeachable.”

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is leading the Democrat-controlled House in impeaching President Trump yet again because she “fears the American people might pick him if they were allowed to” again down the road.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued in a tweet Monday evening that the fact that President Donald Trump has been banned from social media should alone justify removing him from office.

Pompeo criticized censorship by media and Big Tech, calling for “woke-ism” to be put to sleep, during a speech on Monday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that there are not the votes to convict President Donald Trump in the Senate, and an impeachment effort now would be “so ill-advised for Joe

Freshman Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) on Monday called on President Donald Trump to resign and said he is considering supporting a second impeachment of the president in the wake of last week’s siege on the U.S. Capitol.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a call with House Republicans Monday night that President Donald Trump told him that he bears some of the responsibility for the Washington, DC, riots. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday said the Democrats’ second effort to impeach President Trump, mere days before he is set to leave office, “will do far more harm than good.”

One anonymous House Democrat said Monday that he or she fears a backlash from House Republicans over Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. 

The U.S. House of Representatives will meet Wednesday morning to consider articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MA). 

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Monday introduced a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to enact the 25th Amendment, mobilizing the Cabinet and ultimately removing President Trump from office.

Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) push to impeach President Donald Trump should he not resign or be removed from office via the 25th Amendment over the riot at the U.S. Capitol by a group of his supporters.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with other members of the House of Representatives, vowed to “restore our democracy” after introducing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), whom some consider the newest member of the far-left “Squad,” is slated to introduce a resolution on Monday to expel lawmakers she alleges “incited a white supremacist coup attempt” last Wednesday as Congress met to certify the electoral votes.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to a complaint from former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, who noted she had lost tens of thousands of Twitter followers as the social media platform began cracking down on accounts and removing President Trump’s, contending the platform is simply targeting “Neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists.”

Monday on CBS’s “This Morning,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) emphasized the need to impeach President Donald Trump “as soon as possible” if he does not resign or the 25th Amendment is not invoked.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday that the House of Representatives would move to impeach President Donald Trump again after some of his supporters stormed Capitol Hill last week.

Political commentator and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan declared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that President Donald Trump deserves the “exceptional dishonor” of a second impeachment.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump should be impeached for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that removing Trump from office with impeachment is “clearly is not going to happen.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accusing the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol this week of choosing “whiteness over democracy.”