Republican 13th District Congressman Ted Budd criticized efforts to impeach President Donald Trump a week before he leaves office.
ANY OTHER UPDATES, WE'LL HAVE THEM FOR YOU LIVE. BACK TO YOU. >> MARK, THANK YOU. >>> THE CONGRESSMAN DAVID ROUSER WHO WE HEARD FROM BEFORE THE BREAK SAID HE WILL BE VOTING AGAINST ANY ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OR PRESSURE TO IMPLEMENT THE 25th AMENDMENT. TONIGHT WE'RE JOINED BY TED BUD OF THE 13th DISTRICT JOINING US LIVE FROM HIS OFFICE IN WASHINGTON. CONGRESSMAN, THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. >> THANK YOU, DAVID. WE HEARD ABOUT HIS IDEAS. WILL YOU BE VOTING TO IMPEACH OR PRESSURE FOR THE 25th? >> NO. THE PRESIDENT ONLY HAS ABOUT A WEEK LEFT IN HIS TERM. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER. I BELIEVE AT THIS POINT THE PRESIDENT IS AS WELL. WE NEED TO GET THIS CHAPTER BEHIND US AND WE NEED TO MOVE ON. I WON'T BE SUPPORTING IMPEACHMENT. THESE ARE UNSCHEDULED VOTES. WE'RE SUPPOSE TO BE WORKING WITH THE CONSTITUENTS BACK IN THE DISTRICT RIGHT NOW. WE MISS THAT. THIS WAS PUT ON FOR POLITICS. THE SECOND FAILED IMPEACHMENT OF THE DEMOCRATS. >> WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED A WEEK AGO TONIGHT? JUST HOURS AWAY FROM WHAT WE SAW LAST WEDNESDAY. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENED? >> I WAS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHICH PARTY YOU WERE WITH AT THAT MOMENT. EVERY ONE OF US CONDEMNS THAT VIOLENCE IN ABSOLUTE TERMS. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT POLITICAL PARTY YOU'RE IN. WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEBATE AND THAT IS HOW WE DO THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY. BUT I WAS THERE. I ACTUALLY HAD IN MY SPEECH QUOTING THE DEMOCRAT WHO HAD OBJECTED IN YEARS PRIOR TO THE JANUARY 6 ELECTORAL OBJECTIONS. WHEN I WAS ON MY WAY DOWN HELPING ANOTHER MEMBER, I LOOKED OVER. THAT WAS THE MEMBER I WAS GOING TO QUOTE. SHE WAS, OF COURSE, A DEMOCRAT, I'M A REPUBLICAN. WE WERE ALL AMERICANS AT THAT POINT. WE WILL LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO ENCOURAGE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO DO RIGHT NOW. LET'S BE GREAT NEIGHBORS AND GREAT AMERICANS. LET'S HAVE A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER. >> AFTER THAT HAPPENS, HOW DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MOVE FORWARD? >> WE NEED TO GET ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JANUARY 20. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STATE, MY STATE, MY AREA IN THE DISTRICT IS SAFE. AND THEN WE FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS LIKE TO MOVE AHEAD. WE'LL BE IN THE MINORITY. WE HAVE A THIN MOVE IN THE HOUSE AND SPEAKER PELOSI HAS NOT HAD THIS MANY REPUBLICANS. SO THIS WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO PUSH SOME OF THEIR AGENDA GROUP. THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK TOGETHER. JOE BIDEN SAYS HE WANTS TO WORK TOGETHER. HE SAYS HE WANTS TO GO ON WITH THE ECONOMY. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I'M FOR. I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. IF THEY NEED IT, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER. WHEN IT COMES TO HOW FAR THEY WILL GO, LOOKING FORWARD, DAVID, WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT. LARGELY UNIFIED. THERE ARE A FEW THINGS TO IRON OUT. >> WILL DONALD TRUMP BE A PART OF MOVING FORWARD? >> WELL THE MOVEMENT IS THERE. THE 74 MILLION AMERICANS ARE STILL THERE. BUT THE ISSUE AND I THINK DONALD TRUMP, AS SIGNIFICANT AS HE WAS IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS. HE'S LARGELY A SYMPTOM OF THE TIMES. HE REMEMBERED THE FORGOTTEN MAN AND WOMAN IN OUR COUNTRY. MANY PEOPLE FELT LIKE HE ADDRESSED THEIR NEEDS AND THEY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN, LEFT OUT OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. SO THOSE PEOPLE, THEY WILL STILL BE THERE AFTER JANUARY 20. >> YOU KNOW VERY QUICKLY, CONGRESSMAN, I WANT TO CLOSE WITH THE SAME THING I ASKED DAVID ROUSER. IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CENTRAL MESSAGE TO HIM? >> WELL FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, HE HAS A WEEK LEFT. I WOULD SAY FOCUS ON THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER, WHICH I THINK HE'S ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED. BUT I WOULD ALSO TAKE TIME AND SAY THANK YOU. LET'S REMEMBER BEFORE THIS ELECTION. LET'S REMEMBER BEFORE COVID, AND WE HAD THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT IN REPORTED HISTORY FOR WOMEN, AFRICAN AMERICANS, FOR HISPANICS, AND WE HAD SOME REAL STRENGTH GOING HERE. AND YOU KNOW THE ECONOMY WAS GROWING. WE HAD A STRONG MILITARY, WE STILL DO. AND THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS ABOUT HOW THAT OCCURRED AND UNFORTUNATE HI COVID SET THE GROUND THROUGH A LOT OF THE OTHER PROBLEMS. YOU KNOW WHAT I WOULD SAY, THEY WOULD FOCUS ON THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER. >> CONGRESSMAN TED BUD FROM THE 13th DISTRICT OF NORTH
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