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Police initiate immediate road closures around the Capitol "until further notice" The US Capitol Police have initiated immediate road closures surrounding the Capitol "until further notice," according to a notice sent to Capitol Hill offices. McConnell believes impeaching Trump will help rid him from the party, source says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he believes that impeaching Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of Trump and Trumpism from the party, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Another person with direct knowledge says there’s a reason McConnell has been silent on impeachment as other Republicans have pushed back: He’s furious about what happened Jan. 6, even more so that Trump has shown no contrition. One source said McConnell "hates" Trump for what he did last week following the attacks on the Capitol that left at least five people dead including a Capitol Hill police officer. Trump and McConnell still have not spoken since last Wednesday's riot, and in fact haven't spoken since McConnell’s floor speech acknowledging Joe Biden as President-elect in December. Another source tells CNN that McConnell couldn’t get Trump on the phone when he refused to sign the stimulus bill over the Christmas week. Biden spoke to McConnell about Senate impeachment trial President-elect Joe Biden is not trying to stop the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, but he is trying to keep them from consuming his agenda and overshadowing the early days of his presidency.

House Majority Leader says impeachment article will be sent over to the Senate "within a very short time" From CNN's Manu Raju House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters late last night that the article won’t be held back by the House and the "presumption is within a very short time" it will be transmitted to the Senate. His office has not commented on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposal to bring the chamber back early, but the expectation is that the trial won’t begin before Trump leaves office. Here's why Democrats want to impeach President Trump after last week's deadly Capitol attack Today's vote underscores Democrats' fury toward Trump and his supporters after months of false rhetoric about the election being stolen whipped the President's most ardent followers into a deadly mob last Wednesday that ransacked the Capitol, forced lawmakers to evacuate both the House and Senate – and could have been worse. The single impeachment article points to Trump's repeated false claims that he won the election and his speech to the crowd on Jan. 6 before the rioters breached the Capitol. In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government — the resolution "He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government.