Arguments in the Senate trial over the sole impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” to begin on Feb. 8. But Republican denunciations of Trump have cooled and they plan to present tangle of legal arguments questioning whether Trump’s repeated demands to overturn Joe Biden’s election really amounted to incitement.
Maher Bitar served as National Security Council director for Israeli, Palestinian affairs under former US President Obama. As Rep. Adam Schiff’s top legal representative, he was deeply involved in Trump’s first impeachment.
Conservative filmmaker Michael Pack created a furor when he took over US Agency for Global Media last year and fired the boards of all the outlets, a move that was criticized as a threat to editorial independence.
“The president has made clear he believes that through diplomacy, the US seeks to strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern," White House official says.
President Joe Biden urges Americans to overcome their divisions, unite and heal internal rift. "Democracy has prevailed," he states. "We must put politics aside to fight the virus; we will get through this together."
Under unprecedented security and with a minimal audience, Democrats Joe Biden, Kamala Harris take oath of office.
Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration. By the time Biden is sworn in, Trump will already have landed at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
"Iran continues to be a destabilizing element in the region," Retired Army General Lloyd Austin tells confirmation committee. Biden's choice to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, throws his support behind a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but doubts near-term prospects for such a deal.
"As a result of our bold diplomacy and principled realism, we achieved a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East," outgoing US President Donald Trump says in farewell video. "Nobody believed it could happen."
Incoming chief of staff Ron Klain: In his first 10 days in office, President-elect Biden will take "decisive action" to address the COVID pandemic, the economy, climate change, and racial injustice.
