Speaker Pelosi’s conference:
Earlier posted live blog / breaking:
Speaker Pelosi expects — is hoping for — an answer from VP Pence today if he will be invoking the 25th.
“A threshold was crossed yesterday of such magnitude… what’s next? “
The inauguration will be small and in a secure location.
From The Washington Post:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday joined Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) in calling on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office.
Trump “invited an armed insurrection against the United States of America,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol, a day after a pro-Trump mob incited by the president stormed the Capitol, vandalizing the building and forcing lawmakers to be evacuated.
Pelosi left open the possibility of impeaching Trump a second time.
Under the 25th Amendment, the president can be removed from office by the vice president plus a majority of the Cabinet, or by the vice president and a body established by Congress, if they determine he “is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Speaker Pelosi:
“The president… is a very dangerous man.” She does not trust him.
“If he wants to be doubly impeached, it is up to him.”
The Speaker’s phone is ringing off the hook from citizens and members, “impeach, impeach, impeach”
The New York Times: Pelosi calls for Trump to be removed from office.
Ms. Pelosi called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which allows him and the Cabinet to take the power of the presidency from Mr. Trump. Her remarks echoed a similar statement made earlier by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
If Mr. Pence did not move to do so, Ms. Pelosi said that she and other members of Congress “may be prepared” to move forward with impeaching the president for a second time.
“The president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people,” Ms. Pelosi said at a news conference in Washington. […]
Ms. Pelosi… described the events as “horrors that will forever stain our nation’s history, instigated by the president of the United States.”
In the wake of the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, the top two Democrats in Congress called for the removal of President Trump from office.
If the Cabinet and Vice President Mike Pence don’t move forward to exercise the 25th Amendment, “the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- San Francisco).
“That is the overwhelming sentiment of my caucus.”
“This is urgent. This is an emergency of the highest magnitude,” she said.