What We Know So Far: A Timeline Of Security At The Capitol On January 6
Despite days of widespread incitement on social media in advance of the insurrection, law enforcement was unprepared and overwhelmed.
Despite days of widespread incitement on social media in advance of the insurrection, law enforcement was unprepared and overwhelmed.
President-elect Joe Biden is proposing a $1.9 trillion plan to address the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
The pandemic is taking an immense toll on the nation: some 4000 Americans die each day. And, in December, another 140 thousand people lost their jobs. President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a pricy relief package meant to take on those outsized crises, suggesting the price of doing nothing is even greater than the cost of the legislation.This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice.
Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider talks about the historic impeachment vote and his recent COVID-19 diagnosis.
After nearly four decades in power, recent scandals and investigations surrounding Michael Madigan left him politically vulnerable.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wrote detailed threat assessments before Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer, but offered only general warnings before the events on Jan. 6.
The number represents an uptick in National Guard troops that will be deployed to the area, but it could still fluctuate.
President Trump made history, the siege on the Capitol exposed splits in the GOP party that are likely to remain, Biden’s agenda will now compete with a Senate trial and the Capitol is a fortress.
Ten Republicans crossed the aisle to support the impeachment. Next, a Senate trial — one that won’t take place until after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.