what's the biden agenda on the economy? >> i'm really struck between the parallels for joe biden. when he became vice president eight years ago the economy was in tatters, millions were out of work and we didn't trust the banking system. we had lost faith in our institutions. this time it's different, it's a health and jobs crisis. his first order of business would be to get the virus under control, that's what they say they're going to do. president trump has said the economy and your 401(k) would tank under a biden presidency but even with biden's promises to raise taxes on investors and wealthy people, corporate america expects a more stable relationship with the white house. >> i think joe biden is a steady hand, there's not a -- if you are one of the people who was afraid that there was going to be rampant dysfunction, civil war, radicals on any side were going to take over, joe biden is kind of not the type. >> he worked with him in the last financial crisis. so biden wants to raise taxes on rich people, he wants to roll back some of those 2017 corporate tax cuts, wants to r

the coup failed, the weaponized attempt to block the election of joe biden failed. donald trump sent a mob to overrun the capitol, to stop the moment you are about to see, it failed. and vice president mike pence read aloud the results of the election, formalizing the count of the electoral vote. >> within that whole number, a majority is 270. the votes for president of the united states are as follows. joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the person's elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. >> being in the middle of that moment of domestic terror, these seven republican senators joined with more than 100 house republicans to try to overturn the election results. the question this morning, can america stand 13 more days of donald trump bearing the title of president, a man deemed so dangerous by twitter that he was banned from that site for

take the joe biden win as your base line. how did raphael warnock compared to joe biden? every state that's colored in, either blue or red here is a county. every county, i should say, is a county where raphael warnock outperformed joe biden. so the point is, warnock's doing well almost everywhere. better than biden almost everywhere. and the same is true for jon ossoff. i want to talk about president trump for a second here. we have an indication, an illustration of maybe the effect that trump had on this race and on this state. i'll go back to here. the county that he visited, just before the election, was whitfield county. you can see, raphael warnock got 29% of the vote there. kelly loeffler got 71%. you'll be like, oh, donald trump visited. kelly loeffler got 71%. that's great. well, not really. it's not that much different than what joe biden and donald trump did there in the presidential election. biden got 29%. raphael warnock got 29% there, so trump's visit didn't really do anything to change the election results there. republicans were not able to turn out the n

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>> john, it's going to be extremely hard for joe biden to do that. but let's just step back and think about the journey that joe biden has traveled to get to this day. i'm older than all of you guys. i was there in the spring of 1987 at the wilmington train station where joe biden announced his first campaign for president. he was a young man then. he was going to galvanize the baby boom vote. new generation of leadership at a time when george h.w. bush represented a previous generation. i was there in the senate office building when he pulled out of that campaign. he was a flawed candidate. 20 years later, tried again in 2007. way overmatched by hillary clinton and barack obama. that campaign was not a success. however, barack obama saw in joe biden somebody who could help him succeed as president. and now we have found almost -- more than 30 years after that initial attempt by joe biden, he has arrived at a place where there is no politician in the united states who has a better opportunity by virtue of his personal characteristics and his experien

., locked down ahead of joe biden's inauguration. more than 20,000 national guard troops are being deployed to the nation's capitol to protect our future president, lawmakers, and landmarks. in some strange poetic bookend, president trump got a big, beautiful fence built, but this one is around the u.s. capitol to protect it from trump supporters. the fbi director is warning that authorities are tracking extensive amounts of online chatter calling for more violence next week. five people died in the capitol insurrection and it is becoming increasingly clear that it could have been much worse. we get new video like this every single day. here is what one extremist said after beating a police officer with an american flag. >> that is our building filled with treasonous traitors. >> yes, sir! >> death is the only remedy for what's in that building! >> well, this morning, you're going to hear from the police officers and what they have to say. that man has since been arrested and charged along with more than 100 others, including a man w

joe biden is a uniter in nature. he's not going to have rhetoric daily that is aimed at dividing the country and dividing neighbor from neighbor in america. that's not his approach at all. so, there's reason there to be hopeful because he has set this goal to really try to bring america together and he actually says he thinks it's the only way to succeed at battling covid. and so, it's his mission. i think you're right to be optimistic, but i think you have to understand the country is so divided and that number i think exposes the division more than anything else. >> david chalian, margaret talev, thank you both very much for your thoughts. >>> so u.s. capitol police officers tell cnn they were unprepared and outnumbered. they say they feel betrayed by their leadership after the capitol insurrection. one officer says he was just trying to survive. all of that is next. research shows people remember commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that

joe biden got 380,000 votes. jon ossoff, 363,000. he ran 17,000 behind joe biden. gwinnett county, same story. only 8,000 votes, but you keep adding these up and in all of these key counties, dekalb county is another example. jon ossoff at 298. 10,000 here, 10,000 there, that's what ossoff and warnock need to do in order to prevail. what do the republicans need to do? they need to clean up in these rural counties. that's where donald trump ran strong and that's where they ran strong in november, as well. and that's where donald trump went yesterday. whitfield county is the county that trump visited. you can see david perdue got nearly 70% of the vote, a 15,000-vote margin. donald trump, by the way, with a similar margin there. in all of these rural counties, if they build up these margins and they're 159 counties in georgia, that's how the republicans can pull this off. now, there is one crucial thing i need to warn you all about tonight. tonight isn't just going to be tonight. this will take some time to count the vote. how do we know that. let's look back at what

this is the only thing any president can do on day one and joe biden did it. what's interesting is what he chose to do. the mask mandate. rejoining the w.h.o., hugely important as well in terms of the pandemic but also taking executive action on immigration, reversing the so-called muslim ban, putting the u.s. back in the paris climate accords. what do you think the message that was being sent was intended to do here? >> i mean, it's frankly a little bit of whiplash. you go from the trump administration to what joe biden did just on his first day. i think that that was carefully crafted. that was the signal they wanted to send, a different leader is in town. this is going to be a very different leadership to america. a lot of those executive orders were not just inward looking for the voters and the citizens of this country but were really a global message being sent that, all right, we have a new leadership in town. it's time to, you know, kind of think -- rethink america's relationship with the world and its leadership around the world. >> anna, jeff, stand

in just 19 days, president-elect joe biden, he will be inaugurated. in less than a week, we'll know which party will control the u.s. senate. and what will be president trump's influence on the republican party after he leaves office? >> meanwhile, so many americans are struggling financially. so christine romans breaks down what you need to know heading into this new year. we have that and much more ahead on this special new year's edition of "new day." but first, let's get a check of your headlines at the news desk. >> good morning and happy new year. i'm alison kosik in new york. finally, right, the world said good-bye and in most cases good riddance to 2020. the ball dropping in times square amid scant crowds. celebrations here and around the world were very different from normal, muted due to the coronavirus. toronto canceled all in-person celebrations, instead, providing at-home revelers a light show at cn tower streamed live on youtube. coronavirus still hitting grim levels to start the new year. today in a matter of hours, the u.s. will hit 20

, he says joe biden has always had balls. sometimes more balls than sense. >> right. >> but that is how joe biden approached things. at least back then, at least through the '80s. and i wonder if the last few decades of joe biden's life, everything he's done in some ways the tragedies and some ways the experiences, what kind of perspective you think that has given him as he takes office tomorrow? >> yeah. i think perspective is the keyword, john. you know, he is in so many ways at the age of 78 the product of the best moments of his life and the worst moments of his life. we know the stories of the tragedy the losses he suffered and the setbacks, the things of his own doing, failing out of the '87, '88 presidential race. and it took him a while, took him some years later before he could acknowledge, as he said in 2008, i wasn't ready to be president. and there is a sense in which the man we see today who is a little calmer, a little quieter, a little slower than he was when he got into this business, as that ambitious man in

they tried to paint joe biden as a crazy liberal. this was tried during the campaign where the russians and the trump campaign tried to paint joe biden as not mentally competent. and he still won. so, why would this work now? >> yeah. and i'm glad you noted, there are two things here at play, right, john? it is sort of the notion oh he's this old out of touch guy. so other people have to be in charge. and it's the and other people are in charge that are going to be so much more extreme and liberal than joe biden presents himself to be. they're trying both in this one line of attack. to your point, john, i've seen no evidence yet that it's working. obviously we lived in -- we live in very polarized times. and there's some benefit that animates the republican base with these lines of attack. but i see no evidence that broadly with the american people that joe biden has suffered in any way because of this line of attack coming from republicans. and i think they know it, which is why they're continuing to search. i mean, john cornyn is s

joe biden will be president on january 20th. tomorrow after what could be a long night joe biden -- the electoral votes will be counted and mike pence will declare joe biden the winner because he has to constitutionally, but the fact that the president of the united states is trying to undermine democracy is something that needs to be alarming. >> well, yes, john. and this is more -- the president's behavior is more than offensive, it's really grotesque and an on sent to our system of government. there is no way to state it. by the way, this whole notion of pressuring the vice president, i mean, the president is going out there telling people who aren't prepared to go on this kamikaze mission, he's calling them surrenderers. that's what he's doing, and can a pit laters. i was called that in 2013 because i didn't go on that suicide mission of shutting down the government back then. this is what they do, if you don't agree with them they call you names. sadly there are members with whom i have spoken that are mortified by this. th

ten days into joe biden's term. and obviously, he's going to need to stand up a government as rapidly as he can. and i think that's something that under the circumstances, republicans as well as democrats are going to share the desire to help him stand up, at least the national security elements of that government. >> maeve, here's how president-elect biden is feeling about this and the task ahead. he says, the nation also remains in the grip of a deadly virus and a reeling economy. i hope that the senate leadership will find a way to deal with our constitutional responsibilities on impeachment, while also working on the other urgent business of this nation. that sounds like a tall order. and i mean, this is the last thing that he needed, you know, as john said, in his first ten days or month in office. >> right, alisyn. i mean, as you guys have been talking about this morning, there is so much work to be done in terms of getting the nation up to speed on vaccinations, for example. joe biden wants to put forward ano

what does joe biden do now? and what do we know about the scope, depth, and planning of the attack and the safety of the inauguration next week? on that last point, developing this morning, a new intelligence poll warns that domestic extremists are likely more emboldened now. online chatter is, quote, off the charts. the federal law enforcement official tells cnn that the evidence uncovered so far suggests that the siege at the capitol was planned. we have new -- brand-new video of all of this to show you. the fbi says it has received tens of thousands of tips, including some that appear to show members of congress with individuals who later showed up at the insurrection. we'll start with cnn's sunlen serfaty live on capitol hill, where some time soon, there will be a senate trial of donald trump, but at that point, we will no longer call him president, sunlen. >> that's exactly right, john. and capitol hill is essentially now gearing up for this next step in this whole process. the senate trial of president tru

have-hours left until joe biden takes the oath of office. the president, donald trump, will fill some of that time with these pardons. but the spectre of the senate trial has to be hanging over him. and i do think it will color what decisions he makes about pardoning himself, maybe don, jr., rudy guiliani, people, if he does pardon could hurt him in a senate trial. >> well, john, i think you identified the key variable, it's the one ken pointed to a moment ago when he talked about donald trump being transactional. that is all what donald trump is. what makes donald trump and this situation different from previous presidents. there is always las vegas at the end of a presidential term. but there are two guardrails that tend to apply. one is the pardon process through the justice department and the second is, the president's sense of right and wrong, shame, morality in applying this. there is an interaction of those two things. with donald trump, neither of those two things apply. right and wrong does not figure into his calculations. what fig

it's joe biden let's move. it's clearly joe's push. some think it's odd to be putting all of his muscle behind infrastructure right now, but that's clearly joe biden's decision. there is a certain decisiveness here with him on these actions, evan, and i'm curious why you think that is. >> you know, what we're seeing in some ways is a guy who's been thinking about what it means to be president for a very long time. he's thought about presidents who have had a big imprint on history and those who did not. he's met recently with historians. he thinks about what it is that could actually change how americans think of one another and of our relationship to the government, and so that's what drives a lot of these choices. he knows that a lot of them are politically, in some cases, difficult, they're risky and might not work, and ultimately whether he can achieve these is going to come down to whether he can get the votes. but he really believes over the years democrats have often negotiated against themselves, carved down their ambitions, re

>> well, right now, joe biden is leaning toward pushing ahead without them. but the covid relief debate is only a part of that discussion. we have that discussion again when the proposal hits the infrastructure plan and down the line when democrats move other things that are important to them, like voting rights legislation. do they decide to bypass or short-circuit or end the filibuster in the senate in order to move those packages? they've got to decide, are the republicans a reasonable counterparty to the democrats, people that we can do business with? we've seen so far that the bare minimum of ten republicans who made an offer initially which was not anywhere close to joe biden's offer. that is a bridge that cannot be joined at this point. so that's why democrats are moving ahead. but that issue is going to come up over and over and over again. when you see the republicans grass roots, republican parties censuring members of congress like liz cheney who have said look at the facts, look what happened. it wasn't antifa, it was inspired by the president. if

this morning it might not be joe biden or zee others. how about joe manchin. he's putting himself in the middle of passing the $2 trillion bill. he indicated overnight he's opposed to passing key legislation on strict party votes, that he is alarmed by that process. and since we haven't heard any republican saying they support the white house infrastructure plan just yet, that puts it in serious, serious peril. later this morning the president will announce his first executive actions on guns in response to the latest flurry of mass shootings. >>> meanwhile the united states reporting more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases. hospitalizations climbing to their highest level in a month, and the cdc confirming that the highly contagious variant which was first identified in the united kingdom is now the most common strain of the coronavirus here in the united states. despite that, the cdc director says she believes all children will be back in classrooms by september. let's beginning with jeremy diamond who's live at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: sen

the radical left now in charge of washington is joe biden wearing that horn helmet? >> it's confounding. but, so too are what republicans are now saying about that mob and what happened in the insurrection at the capitol and the impeachment trial, you are hearing more people vocally. senator marco rubio said he called it stupid that there would be a trial. don't they still want answers? don't they still want accountability or justice? >> reporter: no, they don't. what people like marco rubio wants is this to go away. so he can start screening, which he has socialists the way sarah sanders was in this video. joe biden wasn't president for two days and he proposeed that covid relief bill and took some other steps open immigration before marco rubio said look at this radical socialist agenda. the quicker they can get away from the discussion of this massive crime against the united states, it was perpetrated by a republican president and his sympathizers, that was enabled by people like marco rubio over an extend period of time, the quicker they can try to unify themsel

remember, joe biden never -- when they were impeaching donald trump, joe biden never came out publicly and said he wanted to do that. and you know, he was always ambiguous about that. so, it's like, we can't quit 2020, right? all of the hangover to have the trump administration is now dominating joe biden's first hundred days. the last two days of first -- of executive orders, the majority of them were about undoing executive orders and actions of the trump era. and this means that we'll be talking about donald trump and paying attention to the drama of the transition for quite a bit longer now. >> ryan lizza, thanks for having you on. great for waking up with us. can't wait to read the playbook this morning. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime, the pandemic doesn't sleep and neither does dr. anthony fauci. he's up early and will speak to us next. defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. ♪ for every trip you've been dreaming of, expedia has millions of flexible booking options. because the best trip did you know you ca

joe biden. it's happening right here on cnn. his first town hall. his first real trip outside of washington as he heads to milwaukee to answer questions from voters. his first real chance to address the american people since the impeachment trial of his predecessor. now, we expect him to use the time to push the $1.9 trillion relief package that is working its way quickly through congress. another major development overnight, house speaker nancy pelosi announcing a push to create an independent commission to investigate the deadly siege at the capitol similar to the september 11th commission. now this would require legislation and a presidential signature. there are questions this morning about how much authority this commission will have to call witnesses and to get real answers. >> so overnight, senator richard bur was the latest republican to be censured by his own party for daring to vote his conscious by voting to convict former president trump. adam kinzinger's own family said they're embarrassed to be related to his because of his vote. they'

maybe except joe biden, himself. he is having ten republican senators that put forward an alternative or counterproposal, his relief bill. he is having republicans over before he's had democratic senators, democratic leadership. what realistically do you think comes of this? >> i think it likely cements the idea that democrats will end up doing it by themselves. when you talk about this bipartisanship, you have to figure out how you define bipartisanship. i want a piece over the weekend and talked to a white house advisory of joe biding. we can build support. that's an important distinction because you have a significant number of republican who's expressed sued, but they want significant action on covid relief and they want republicans in congress to cooperate with president biden. that doesn't mean that republicans will do it there in the same what i that senator flake was just talking about over the long run, the republican party will need to change. current republican lawmakers will be trailing indicators of that

certainly a very different approach from president-elect joe biden. and john, we'll hear more from him and his new justice team later today. >> we'll come back to you when that happens. not only did president trump fail to condemn it in a timely fashion yesterday, he called for it. he sent this mob to march on the capitol. jessica, thanks so much for being with us. we just talked to congresswoman nancy mace from the south carolina who said that the president's actions over the last week have wiped out his entire legacy. that was from a republican member of congress. so how will this presidency be remembered in history? we'll discuss, next. . wait, no, it's not next! i'm going to go right to john avlon. >> i would do that. don't make us wait! >> i had reasonable doubt for what was coming up next, because it wasn't at all clear. john avlon here with a reality check. >> there is now no question that donald trump will go down as the worst president in american history. the storming of the u.s. capitol by right-wing rioters is a monument to his misrule. th

nothing, you know -- joe biden is going to be the next president. this is all a political calculation on their part. every one of those senators is from a red state except it turns out loeffler, and they know that they will only be defeated by republican in a primary so now they are making sure they are on trump's side. what this really was about is not addressing the pandemic. you know, both ted cruz and donald trump during this campaign said, oh, you know, after the election is over, no one -- they're not even going to talk about the coronavirus because it's kind of a hoax. but now we're seeing it killing as many people as it ever has and what you saw on the doors, this was about organizing, and on the doors people were saying we're hungry. i'm worried about being evicted. i don't have a job. on the podcast we talked to detailer, the head of unite here. they had 1,000 people on the doors. when they knocked on doors instead of the normal 7% of people that talked to them, they had over 30% of the people talked to them. and those people were worried

all from states joe biden won. speaking of pennsylvania, eight keystone state republicans voted to invalidate their own voters, which is bonkers. you can't logically say there was massive fraud for president, but your election was legitimate. but then logic left the station a long time ago. of course there's more. the most populous pivot county in the country is suffolk in new york, where congressman lee zeldin cast his vote for donald trump over democracy. so did new york's only republican representative, but this isn't about local politics. it's about people putting party over country. like 12 republicans from florida or seven from north carolina or six from georgia. on the flip side, republicans who consistently stood up to trump's threats. they showed real courage. people like mitt romney, ben sasse, and adam kinzinger, and they deserve your respect whether you agree with their policies or not. and that's why those who failed this test should not be forgiven or forgotten. as former republican governor arnold sc

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the thing that joe biden did, president joe biden did on day one is keep his promises. and he said he would lead on day one and he did that. and a lot of this is because we have this -- these converging crises happening all at once. and so he did that by making sure he changed the course of the covid-19, took action on racial equity on day one as well, climate change, trying to fix a modernize a broken immigration system and so this is what the president has done taken action, make sure that he's being decisive and bold. and so today, as you just mentioned, he's going to give a speech on racial equity. he's going to lay out what that agenda is going to be. it's just going to be the beginning. it's going to be the beginning of so much work we're going to do for one of those crisis that he mentioned over and over again as well as covid, the economy and climate change. >> can i ask you sort of a thematic question and the president was asked this yesterday but i want your take on it what is unity? >> so i think the way that the president sees unity is basically bipartisansh

the weaponized attempt to block the election of joe biden failed. donald trump sent a mob to overrun the capitol. these are the pictures. they were sent there to stop the moment we're about to show you. it failed. vice president pence read aloud the results of the election, formalizing the count of the electoral vote. >> within that whole number, a majority is 270. the votes for president of the united states are as follows. joseph r. biden jr. of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. the announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the person's elected president and vice president of the united states. each for the term beginning on the 20th day of january, 2021. >> so even after the president sent the mob, the insurrecti insurrectionists to take over the capitol, there were republican members of congress who voted to overturn the result of the election. u.s. senator who s who voted to overturn the results of the election. look at all of this? look at the results of those v

and joe biden, i think, will be different here. he is, in a very good way, a creature of the senate in that he knows how to compromise. he knows how to work across the aisle and has a desire to do so. and i don't think you'll see this schism between how he acts in the morning as opposed to how he acts in the afternoon with regard to dealing with congress. >> david axelrod, politico coined a phrase this morning. called biden bipartisan curious. >> i think he's bipartisan eager. but he also is a realist. and you know, one of the big decisions he's going to have to make is how much time he gives to trying to get bipartisan support before he uses devices and tools that are available to him to move forward on a more partisan basis. particularly on this virus. and the funding that he needs to get this program moving. so, look, i think that joe biden is absolutely sincere. i know this. i worked with him in the white house. he's absolutely sincere about his desire to work with people on both sides of the aisle. he understands that that is

yeah, so they really believe that joe biden is not even joe biden. >> okay. so for those of you on the top row who did for a while fall into qanon, did you ever understand who was running it? did you ever know who q was? >> no. hmm-mm. >> jay, i mean, did you know who was feeding this information and like who the ring leader of it was? >> no. >> i didn't know that i was in a qanon group until i got out of it. i had no idea that the information i got was qanon information. >> so do you guys think that there are particular media types, media personalities who also are a gateway to conspiracy theories and qanon? >> well, newsmax, which is a tv station, definitely. they're just -- their reportings are really off the wall. >> i can remember when glenn beck joined fox news is when my mom became susceptible to conspiracy theories. she hung on his every word and in the recent years, tucker carlson. >> definitely fox news, one american news, oan, stuff like this is the easiest way to get into that stuff now. >> i found myself, you know, eliminating 98% of media so i c

this new book is called "lucky -- how joe biden barely won the presidency." we can't wait to talk about just how narrowly this didn't -- this could have gone the other way. we'll get to that in a second. amy, first, is this a strategy of sort of underpromising and overdelivering? like why was he able to move up -- i remember thinking, by the end of july we'll have enough vaccines. by the end of july. now it's the end of may. so what's happening? >> i think the white house understands there's a lot of fatigue going on. the white house is seeing what's happening in states like texas and they know they have to act quickly. people are getting tired of staying home, tired of not having their kids in school, and i talked to some white house aides who say that they realize, they understand that pressure and they had to do what it takes to move up their timeline. and if president biden can pull off this victory it will be a good thing for him. i think a lot of people will credit him and his administration for taking action and moving quickly. so i think that's why th

joe biden won this election. i think it's going to be interesting to see what this trial -- how long does it go? impeachment trials have gone from 21 days to 80 some days in terms of calling in witnesses, seeing evidence. there is a strong desire on the part of some democrats to move on, and i know they won't say that publicly because of, you know, blowback from the base let alone just general people who think there need to be accountability, rightfully so, but there privately is a desire to move quickly. if they just have a couple of days, we might not see a lot of witnesses, we might not see a lot of evidence, however, there is a lot of evidence. the witnesses and the stories are astounding and so i do think it will be interesting to see, do they go for like a really -- a real trial, you know, where they bring people in, have people who, you know, were hiding under their desks on january 6th telling their story? i think those could be really moving and you would see a lot more, perhaps, republicans vote to conv

. >> this is what president joe biden has called upon us to summon now, the courage to see beyond crisis, to do what is hard, to do what is good, to unite. >> seeing kamala harris is going to mean so much to so many millions of little girls and little boys. >> we saw the 15 executive orders and executive actions that have been signed by the president. >> the world is watching us and i think we're saying to the world, this is the america you believed in. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." it is thursday, january 21st, 6:00 here in new york. and the sun not even up on the first full day of the biden administration and already we have breaking news, as president biden wakes up for the first time in the white house, we're getting word from officials about the staggering lack of coronavirus vaccination plan left behind. this morning, we are told they have to start from scratch. also breaking before dawn, minutes ago, the white house just released this new national strategy for coronavirus. we are reading through it and we'll bring you t

biden nor did he mention joe biden's name, once. but the tone was strikingly different from what we heard from the president just the day before. >> to those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. >> go home. we love you, you're very special. >> and to those who broke the law, you will pay. >> we're going to the capitol. we're going to try to give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. >> now, don't mistake that change in tone for a change of heart from the president. a white house adviser telling cnn that the president only recorded that video at the urging of his senior staff. and as he was facing not one, but now two resignations from within his cabinet. now, separately, sources tell me and my colleagues that at least two cabinet members had been discussing in the lead up to that video, demanding a cabinet meeting with the president to demand that he confront his behavior and make a statement like the one that he made last night. and discussions

biden is a guy you can do business with and because joe biden is an incoming president who continues to believe that bipartisanship is important. but alison, it's important that we not grade on too aggressive a curve on how likely this stuff is to happen. joe biden may want to do things on a bipartisan basis, but his party is desperate to get really big things done and really fast. i think there's a window of no more than a couple of months for the president -- for the new president, the new administration to show that that theory of the case can work and for republicans to show they're ready to deal on big stuff. i think lauren's reporting on the filibuster is crucial. the preference among many old school members of the senate and every republican is to keep that procedural block in place. the question is can it survive, say a massive coronavirus relief bill, does the filibuster survive that test. >> margaret, i think the impeachment news is interesting as well. mitch mcconnell is going in with this proposal. it's not up to mitch mcconnell. he may be proposing something democrats ar

joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. peaceful transition will have taken place, but not to peaceful because of what the president incited. >> doris kearns goodwin, invaluable perspective as always. we thank you for being with us this morning. look forward to speaking to you in better times. >> me, too. absolutely. >> thank you, doris. >>> i don't know, john, i never thought we would be here. i mean, i think as i said it's the logical through line from american carnage, but what we have reported on this morning and yesterday has been an incredible experience. >> you had a member of congress tell us that she was fearful that she was in the middle of what would be a mass casualty event. we had another member of congress tell us he was trying to figure out how he could use his pen as a weapon to fight his way out from the u.s. capitol and the people who were there putting him at risk were told to go there by the president of the united states. >> it's going to be a news-filled day and we have 13 more days of this presidency.

so is it time to rethink the 100 million shots in the first 100 days from joe biden? >> well, the president-elect, allison, is very committed to trying to make that work. the 100 million shots in 100 million arms in 100 days. that said, we really do have our work cut out for us. what we realize is the emperor has no clothes. there was no national plan beyond the assistance given to pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines. so there are so many different things that really need to be tackled still from who will do the vaccinating? who will be the vaccinators, a huge increase in staffing that you are looking at having to recruit and train. we need tech systems to manage scheduling and calling people back for their second doses and figuring out, you know, just collecting demographics on all those people. reporting all of that back to the cdc. those systems were not stood up. those are things the federal government who anticipated a year ago that they were eventually going to need. i think bottom line, congress is really going to have to work with the biden administra

if you are joe biden, think about your motivation here. you have seen from this odni report about election interference that russia was peddling this misinformation, and a lot of that misinformation was about joe biden's family, about his son hunter. he has an extra personal motivation to take this very seriously. >> i have to say, it's not every day you hear a president of the united states saying to another foreign leader, yes, i think he's a killer. that was a moment. >> that's right. and you remember, john, when bill o'reilly interviewed president trump in 2017, made that point, he's a killer, donald trump absolved vladimir putin and said, well, we've got a lot of -- we do a lot of killing, too. we're not so innocent ourselves. joe biden has a very different approach to that. >> another striking part of this interview was when the president gave his most extended comments yet about new york governor andrew cuomo under investigation for sexual harassment. listen. >> if the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign

how does this color the first days of joe biden's presidency? >> well, that's the thing, right? the entire 2020 campaign that joe biden won and is now going to be sworn in as president was largely about donald trump. and now the first days of the biden presidency is going to largely be about donald trump because there's going to be this impeachment trial. so joe biden is going to continue to have to, even after he is sworn in as president, is going to continue to have to navigate around a trump centric moment in american culture. but i think when you ask what's next, alisyn, obviously, biden is going to try his best starting tonight to really turn the page and get the country focused on his covid relief plans, his vaccine distribution plans and try to keep that focus all the way through. but what's next more broadly that i am most interested in about donald trump leaving office is, how much power does he maintain inside the republican party? how much is he the definitional figure of the republican party of 2021, 2022 and beyond. i believe over the last two months, that power has

the timeline allowing trump's team to prepare and space to confirm president joe biden's cabinet nominees. >> it's not going to be easy to manage all these things at once, but it's absolutely imperative. >> reporter: biden telling cnn he's doubtful there are enough republicans willing to convict trump, but he also believes the impeachment trial has to happen. despite the effect it could have on advancing his agenda. >> i believe we will put forward a very strong case, that of course is already in the public view of what took place here. >> reporter: even with the bipartisan passing of the article in the house, many republicans oppose the trial against trump. >> it seems very, very much counterproductive if you're president biden to say we're going to take the precious first days of a new administration and we're going to squander it on this impeachment trial. >> reporter: the trial moving forward as the justice department's internal watchdog launched an investigation looking into whether any doj officials participated in attempts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. the probe aft

biden. >> reporter: december 14th was when electors across the country cemented joe biden's place as president. but it also marked the day donald trump amped up his behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to overturn the results, both publicly and as we're now learning, privately, in an effort that almost prompted mass resignations at the justice department. hours after trump announced bill barr's resignation, two weeks after barr declared there was no evidence of widespread election fraud, the president summoned acting attorney general jeffrey rosen to the white house, according to "the new york times." trump wanted doj officials to file legal briefs supporting republican efforts in court to overturn biden's win. and "the times" reports he urged rosen to appoint special counsels to investigate the unfounded claims of election fraud and dominion, the election's equipment company trump falsely claimed changed votes in coordination with venezuela. rosen refused, according to the times, but what rosen didn't realize was that trump has been introduced to the man heading up the civil division

this will have a huge impact on joe biden's agenda. that's why president-elect joe biden and donald trump both campaigning in the state yesterday. more than 3 million people have already voted early and by mail, shattering every runoff record there. now, we should warn you that while voting ends today, it could take days to count all the votes and determine a winner. >> we've seen that movie before. >> meanwhile, as john just said, president trump went down to georgia, ostensibly, to campaign for the republican candidates, but he, instead, kept the attention on himself. he's promising a hail mary to his supporters that somehow he will emerge victorious with the help of vice president mike pence. vice president pence is in a pickle. will he it

let me be clear where the administration stands and where joe biden stands. there's been no change here. the president, i think, has been very clear about the need to respect human rights and civil rights across not just here in america but across the world. and that america should be a leader on that. that america should be pushing other countries that he said last night in the town hall that there is no budging on human rights and that hasn't changed for joe biden. it hasn't changed for this administration and it's still true today. >> symone sanders, a pleasure to have you on. we look forward to speaking to you again. >> good to be here. >>> at this town hall, the president rejected calls to defund the police. we'll talk about that and more with the atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms, next. psst! psst! allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! you're good. covid's still a threat. and on reopening schools, we know what happens when we don't put safety first. ignore pr

william burns will be president-elect joe biden's selection to be his cia director. and if confirmed, burns will become the first director in cia's history to have his lifelong experience come from the state department. we're told that biden was really drawn to that diplomatic experience and burns' perceived ability to restore credibility to the agency in the post-trump era. burns, of course, has decades of foreign service experience. he's currently the president of an international affairs think tank in washington, d.c. he's served five u.s. presidents. here is what president-elect biden says about william burns potentially becoming the next cia director and his nomination to do so. he says, ambassador burns will bring the knowledge, judgment, and perspective we need to prevent and confront threats before they can reach our shores. the american people will sleep soundly with him as our next cia director. and john, we're told that he does have support from democrats in republicans, which, of course, the biden team hopes paves the way for an easy confirmation hearing.

biden will be sworn in, but this is only after weeks of fueling and inciting the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol and his damage is already done. cnn joe johns is live at the white house. what's happening, joe? >> good morning, alisyn. the president certainly waited as long as possible before he put out this statement and he put it out right after the electoral college vote up on capitol hill in the very early hours of the morning. it was the closest thing the president has put out to a concession speech, but it wasn't a concession, it wasn't a speech, it was about two paragraphs long. it was on the twitter account of dan scavino, who is his social media director. here is that statement. "even though i totally disagree with the outcome of the election and the facts bear me out, nevertheless, there will be an orderly transition on january 20th. i've always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. while this represents the end of the greatest first term in a presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to make america great aga

. >> it's been an historic week to say the least for president joe biden, for vice president kamala harris and it turns out for senator bernie sanders. memes of sanders at the inauguration have gone wild. people commenting on his body

what do they hope when joe biden takes office? what do they expect? and i wonder if there's a difference. >> happy new year, john, pleasure to see you, bright and early in this year. what i am hearing more than anything else is a sense of hope about the united states being back in the game, being back as an engaged power, as an agenda setter, some country that wants to try to help organize cooperative solutions around the world, get engaged with problem solving, everything from climate change to regional issues. but i think, you know, underneath that, what i detect is a hope that the biden administration understands, this is not just a kind of restoration. you can't go back to 2008 or '09 or 2012. the world has changed a lot. one of the things i've tried to describe in my book is just how profoundly the world has changed. so you have, just think about, where you have with china. china is now clearly the second-most important country in the world. it is -- you know, the united states and china are in a legal of their own. china has come out of this pan

so joe biden has to explain what all this means and what the path forward is going to be, alisyn. >> to me this is the president's first chance since the inauguration to speak to the american people on his own terms in his own way without the shadow of the other guy hanging over him now that the impeachment trial is over. anna, i'm just reading punch bowl news the a.m. report, you have new reporting out just now about where this big relief package is headed and how republicans plan to treat it. >> yeah. i mean, i think this is truly joe biden's moment to say, this is bigger than republicans and democrats. it's time to come together as a country. but what we're reporting this morning is he is going to face an uphill battle convincing pretty much any republican in the senate or the house. he might find a handful that do support this bill, but the vast majority are now coalescing around being against this bill. i think it's one of the few times where republicans are kind of in disarray post trump. they're trying to find a rallying point. and like the 2009 stimulus bill, they feel confid

they have not liked these remarks at all here in moscow from joe biden. in the past few minutes, president putin himself has been asked about his response to joe biden's kind of affirmation that he thinks president putin is a killer. he said what would i answer to him? be healthy. i wish him good health and i say this without irony and without joke he said. he also added that people tend to see others as we see ourselves. when we evaluate people and nations, it's always as if we are looking in a mirror. basically playground sort of war of words speech saying, well, kind of takes one to know one or something like that. the kremlin spokesman, putin's spokesman has been a little less cryptic in his response to these remarks by joe biden saying that these are very bad statements by the president of the united states. he definitely does not want to improve relations with us, and we will continue to work with the united states on that basis. not just words either. there's been actions as well. in fact, last night, in a move that hasn't taken place for several d