they called him joe biden 2.0. he often said -- joe biden would often say beau has all my best qualities and none of my worst. and there was a real sense of service and commitment and the presidency, and all of these things are wrapped up in one for the biden family. >> john king, as we see this motorcade leave joint base andrews and make that drive over to the lincoln memorial for this memorial service, honoring the 400,000 americans who have died from coronavirus, we can't stress enough that this is the first thing that the president-elect of the united states wanted to do. remember and honor the victims of coronavirus. and that is in such stark contrast, as you point out, to what the current president, the outgoing president of the united states has wanted to do over these many, many months. >> the current president, who will be the former president this time tomorrow, has ignored the pandemic, denied fact, logic, reason and so on from the very beginning. he said it was not going to be a pandemic. he said it wou

>> 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

does he even mention joe biden's name? that's what we're looking at today. >> and maggie, just very quickly, you mentioned the possibility that he would pick up the phone and call donald trump. and call joe biden. anymore reporting on that? >> i've heard that it is less likely than it was yesterday, but let's see what happens. >> and tim, as a presidential historian, i'm always struck by these hours, right? joe biden is waking up in blair house and he's got a few hours to kill until he has to address the universe at this critical moment when he takes over the presidency what does history tell us about what these president-elects go through in the hours before they take office? >> well, they used to stay at a hotel, the willard hotel on pennsylvania avenue, and this would be the time when they would check over the notes of their inaugural address. in some -- the original tradition was actually for the incoming president to give the inaugural address before they were sworn in. so they would be looking at their inaugural addr

of joe biden. he's a man that tries to get along with people. i think he should have a couple, three months, but there's going to come a time when a decision is going to have to be made. remember, to get rid of the filibuster takes a simple majority vote. >> senator, you served under that dome for a long time as a member of the united states senate. you also served a long time ago as a member of the capitol police force. i know you live in nevada now, you're back home. what was going through your mind? what was your thought process when you saw the united states capitol under siege from americans? this was not 9/11 where you were told to go into hiding, get out of there, there could be a plane of foreign terrorists coming at the united states capitol. these were americans. what were you thinking? >> john, my first job in washington was a capitol policeman. i carried a pistol, i directed traffic, i helped crowd control. i was a police officer. and when i came to the senate, i was kind of the protect

joe biden is swinging for the fences. you look at this speech, this is a once in a century opportunity to reset the american system. you're talking about a free community college? you're talking about child care. you're talking about family leave. you're talking about the family economics that are on display here will change people's lives in a real way. so i think nobody has really put it together yet. this is a big reveal. you put all the stuff together. you've got the deferred maintenance taking care of for how this country can work for more people. i think it's a big deal. >> evan, you wrote the book on joe biden. are you surprised by the direction he's moving? >> he feels this moment calls as van said for something larger than an ordinary set of policy items. in his inauguration address 99 days ago, he mentioned democracy more than any address in history not only because we were two weeks after the insurrection out capitol. it's because he really sees there is a risk if americans don't believe democracy can deliver f

he has not called joe biden. joe biden won the election. he won the election. donald trump had every right to challenge it. to ask for recounts, to go to court. he did that. and more than 60 times, judges, including judges he appointed told him to go away. you have no evidence. he does not have the grace to call the president-elect. he was not. we'll see if it happens. he's not planning to adhere to the tradition of leaving a note. maybe part of this is the covid era, but no meeting at the white house, nothing to show respect for the office and respect for the democracy. it's more than awkward. it's reprehensible. but it's a testament to what we have seen for four years. this has been the grievance, grievance presidency every day. it's the mexicans' fault, black people's fight, rinos fault, meaning republicans in name only. it's mike pence's fault that he wouldn't stand up for the president in the capitol building. president trump always blamed somebody else which is part of the turning of the page we'll see. joe biden's personal tragedy to become president now

and joe biden did a lot of brave things in 2020. don, i know your new book deals so much with civil rights, and james baldwin, and the like. but biden on july 4th, urged americans. he said we're going to rip the roots of systematic racism, and it was an important statement when biden made it. i think tomorrow will be about unity. but i think biden on week two and three will have to be a fighting, happy warrior. we'll have to collectively take on all of the crises and the management that we haven't done properly during the trump administration. >> thank you, the book was number one on amazon today, and it talks about the issues we're dealing with. so i appreciate you mentioning it today. president trump has raised the idea of starting to new political party in recent days. it's unclear how determined he is to do this. but what would that mean for the republican party, and what would that mean for this country, because i think it would mean good news for democrats. they would say, bring it on. because it splits republicans. no? >> i d

so, joe biden does that much better than many do. so, i think that was one of the many memorable connections of the evening. now, did he make some grand policy pronouncement or make headway on how he's going to get the covid bill passed? not necessarily tonight. but he was absolutely relatable. and there was the sense that there is a new president. yes, we've known that. but as he enters the second month of his presidency, it has the sense it's an entirely different moment. so, these young children will be growing up with a different president. so, that, to me, don, stuck out tremendously as he talked to that second grader. >> kaitlan, at one point the president referred to the former president as the former guy. i said is he speaking to the media right now because he doesn't want to talk about him. he wants to put him -- meaning the former guy, as he says -- behind him, in the rear-view mirror. >> yeah, well, jeff noting this is entering almost the second month of his presidency. the first half -- the first beginning part of it has

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

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

i don't know how much this is in joe biden's control, to get a lot of people that tune out joe biden or in information echo chambers that do not convey the president's message of what he's trying to do on the vaccine, it's going to be very hard for joe biden to reach those. other folks are going to need to reach those americans. >> governor, you're the former governor of this state. biden and you both believe that he could work with republicans. but even more importantly you both believe that republicans would work with him. were you right or were you wrong? >> well, look, i mean, two things. first of all, the mood and the tone in our country's much better. i mean, people aren't waking up in the morning trying to figure out what the heck just happened down there in the white house. and that's been a really good positive. but i will tell you, don, i think joe biden is frankly afraid to offend the left wing of his party. and that stops it. you may have an infrastructure bill. the minute they negotiate an infrastructure bill the left goes crazy and then he goes, well, we're not going to

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

the biden team is also looking at those. joe biden in some ways returning. he was the vice president for barack obama, trying to return to an obama-like approach for dreamers. and this is a big tbd. the administration says it is open to resuming the iran nuclear deal. it's clear he understands covid. how he performs in the first 100 days, speeding the vaccine rollout, proving the government has a new and better approach to covid is a signature block. >> reporter: they do look like they're offering a more streamlined approach than the last administration when it comes to vaccine distribution. we are not where trump officials said we were going to be by the end of the year, certainly not this far into january. i think they're hoping to change that. they're still trying to get a grasp on exactly what the state of play is. when they say they inherited nothing when it comes to vaccine distribution, there was a plan, but maybe it wasn't one they felt set them up for success, so i think we can see that change today. that will be a lot we're going to hear from the p

a classic joe biden. that is forum that he has shined in because he's just a man of fundamental human decency. he himself has gone through difficulties in his own life, so he is able to relate to people in similar situations. so a real, real touching moment for him that i think a lot of americans draw some relief from. don't be scared, help is on the way, and part of that help is obviously this almost $2 trillion relief package that he is hoping to get through the senate next month. >> i'm glad you brought up that little girl so we could play that and have the american people hear it. kaitlan, i want to play another moment from the town hall. biden was asked about his predecessors. here it is. >> have you picked up the phone and called any former president yet? >> yes, i have. >> do you want to say who? >> no, i don't. they're private conversations. by the way, all of them have with one exception, picked up the phone and called me as well. >> okay. so we know who he probably called, all of his former pred

joe biden won georgia. they know what they're doing and faced a lot of pressure from the republican president as we watched it play out. 1,208 for david perdue but there's votes to be counted in blue there. >> what is going on in georgia is a free and fair democratic election. we're standing by to hear from democratic senate candidate raphael warnock, expected to speak any moment, we'll have live coverage. election coverage will continue with chris cuomo and don lemon standing by live. ♪ (quiet piano music) (loud music & noises) ♪ (quiet piano music) comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. good morning, mr. sun. good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built wit

in it he does not mention joe biden by name. he does however list this as one of his accomplishments. >> i'm especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars. >> the irony lost upon him that this is what the capitol of the united states of america looks like tonight to the entire world, a fortified war zone, movements completely restricted, fences with barbed wire installed. barriers blocking roads to all the national monuments. 25,000 national guard troops are stationed there. look at this marching by the capitol, a stunning video taken by our own manu raju today. this war like reality is all because of the battle cries to trump's supporters who then staged a violent insurrection. >> stop the steal. >> stop the steal, stop the steal. >> we'll lose everything. >> that's treason. >> treason, treason. >> protect our constitution. >> this is our house. this is our country. this is our country. >> and in this farewell address, he's telling his supporters this is not the end, only the beginning. >> no

we've seen joe biden's emotional before. this is clearly moving for him. >> joe biden is an emotional man. he always has been, and i think now even more so. when you consider the difference between donald trump and joe biden, it couldn't be more different. i once asked joe biden if he was the polar opposite of donald trump and he jokingly crossed himself and said, "i hope so." here you see it. he's someone who believes he owes an awful lot to the state of delaware. they sent him to the senate right from the county council when he was elected. he wasn't old enough to serve in the senate. he was one of the youngest people ever elected to senate and now one of the oldest to ever put his hands on the bible, to be sworn in as president. of course, the mention of beau biden and him saying that he only had one regret, that we should be introducing him as president, meaning beau. he doesn't keep that a secret. he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his family and his love for his family. again, it's

but my priority is to get joe biden's cabinet into place. i think especially at this moment, with an ongoing insurrection still being mounted against the federal government. we need to have those people in those positions. in addition we need his covid team ready to go to fix this broken vaccination distribution system. then we need to move on legislation. joe biden outlined a fantastic plan last night to get the economy going and to tackle this virus. so those are my priorities. and my hope is that if we are going to process an impeachment trial, we would do it in a way that would allow us to get the cabinet in place and get this legislation moving first. maybe we can do all of it at the same time. i don't want to be spending the first two weeks on impeachment alone. >> it's pretty hard when you think about what you have to do in a formal senate impeachment tr trial. senate members need to conclude each day and that could go on for some are suggesting weeks, which could delay other business, including confirming an incoming cabinet. >> list

joe biden said he doesn't trust the taliban. so we have to ask, is he correct that sit a better counterterrorism strategy to take our finger off the scale in afghanistan and to use over the horizon capabilities, i suppose he means hell fire missiles, to deal with future terrorism. or was it better for us to meddle a little in the politics of afghanistan, because that place is so unstable, that there are many terrorist organizations to disrupt and it's harder to disrupt if we're outside of the country. that's to be seen, and that's going to be the legacy. >> tim, thank you very much. >>> evacuating all americans from afghanistan who want to leave, the president says that's the goal, even though admitting it may be an impossible one to meet. right now, more than a dozen american students are stranded in afghanistan with their families. the frantic effort to get them out safely, next. for what you ! with customized car insurance from liberty mutual! nothing rhymes with liberty mutual. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. libert

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

just one for joe biden. there is one reason, big reason why other nominees haven't been confirmed is debate on going between the top democrat, the new majority leader chuck schumer and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell how they will share power in the congress split 50/50 in the senate and kamala harris will break ties but there is disagreement about how to organize nietthe committ and as a result, the comkcommit process may get derailed meaning nominations may take time to be concerned in the senate. just as joe biden is demanding action on his nominees, it could take awhile for the senate to actually get to that point. still questions remain about whether or not a deal can be reached about whether, how to organize nietthe senate and one reason why is mitch mcconnell is demanding they spare the tactic and democrats say they won't agree to that. amid calls for unity on both sides, call to turn the page uncertain about whether or not the senate can get its act together, get these nominations confirmed

invited joe biden. so certainly tomorrow will look different in that sense from what americans have been used to. >> and i remember thinking seeing barack obama and michelle obama standing at the white house and welcoming the trumps there. it is amazing, when you talk about the most contentious of times, the two people who pushed the birther conspiracy, the obamas were still going to welcome to the white house because that is what you do. these traditions are about the peaceful transfer of power. for the first time in this country we did not see a peaceful transfer of power and joe biden is taking over a country that is so divided, what does history tell you about how joe biden could go about overcoming this? >> well, actually, history on both points, points me to the 1933 inauguration both on the idea that there is a peaceful transfer of power between people who don't like each other and the way crisis could conform to an opportunity. when two men couldn't stand each other and they wouldn't talk to eac

even what joe biden will face, you can imagine joe biden a veteran of washington, cultural politics of this town. is thinking about the daunting challenge of hitting a reset of four years of donald trump. what he attempted to do, what trump did, and the division in the country. the stakes are very, very high. and manifestations of that, the ravages of the pandemic on top of all of that, will be evident as the 46th president looks out across the national mall on this chilly morning, and this chilly midday, to see no spectators. no fellow americans watching him because of a combination of the division in the country, which creates this armed encampment and the threats of his inauguration and the pandemic. so there's a lot for him to deal with. there's no doubt -- i hope he's getting good sleep, but it makes for a difficult morning. >> natasha, it feels as though we're in this period of suspended animation. people holding their breath. the president still in the white house, he will fly off but it will take much longer than that, obviously, for americans and historians and everybody to pr

joe biden is the new president. there is a lot of talk about him attempting to unite the country with his words tomorrow. it is a tall order. given the division. what are you looking for, from not just what he said tomorrow but what he does in his first several days in office. >> well, jim, as you and i both know and as our viewers know, joe biden is good at being em pathetic and understanding and being a shoulder for somebody to lay their head on. tomorrow he'll have to try to start reaching out to the 74 plus million americans who voted for donald trump who might not think that he is the right person at the right time for this job. but i do think you're going to see him really try to do bite size major things. and i do think that covid obviously has to be front and center and we've already heard from his administration, we've heard from health officials that they are trackling this right now. in addition to that, you have to look long-term and wonder what could get done in a divided congress in a senate that is a

of joe biden's approach. that's a repudiation of donald trump's approach. that is the wages of four years of alienating our allies and of refusing to work with them on these issues, and that's true. both in the asia-pacific and in europe. and so when joe biden takes office on january 20th, and sits down in consultation out of mutual respect with key like-minded economies that collectively comprise almost 60% of the world's economy, we are confident that we can develop a common agenda on issues where we share deep concerns about china. and it's not just on trade. it's on technology. it's on human rights. it's on military aggression. and so our proposition, which we will begin testing when we take office, because, of course, we are not in office yet, is that that will put us in a stronger position to be able to deal with china effectively, in a clear-eyed way and in a way that ultimately delivers the kind of results that have entirely escaped the trump administration over the last four years. >> there is a dome

that joe biden won fair and square. and you know, one of the ways to promote healing is for you to say yes and to put that on your twitter account, show that all of the people who bought into a lie will start hearing from some of the people that were pushing this. the answer is, you know, the american people -- >> mr. chairman -- mr. chairman. >> yes. >> joe biden is going to be sworn in as president. he is president-elect joe biden. >> that is not the question i asked. that is not the question i asked. >> our concern -- our concern an why we raised objections was in several states the rules were changed and unconstitutional fashion when the -- the election law. you had secretary of state, you had governors and supreme courts and in some cases you have county clerks. that is what we're pointing out. that is all we're pointing out. just like our colleague mr. rask pinpointed out concerns he had on january 6th, with the election of president trump then. >> i think -- i think i get -- you refuse to answer that question and

so many on the right want to make it seem like joe biden's not in charge, like joe biden doesn't know what's happening. today joe biden came out prepared. he knew the facts. he knew the statistics. he knew what was happening on immig immigration on one side of the border and on the other side of the border. he was a man in authority and in control. and at the same time doing it all with empathy. >> i think you're correct. the whole idea about joe biden -- listen, it's not the razzle-dazzle of the sort of con snake oil salesman of the former president, and continuities the cool customer of a barack obama. as they call it, uncle sle joe,s guy who wants to work for the american people, who knew the facts but wasn't out there to impress people, i just want to do the work. let's talk some policy here. okay, alice? because former president trump was on fox tonight. this is what he said about officials charging insurrectionists. watch this. >> they go after people that i guess you'd call them lean toward the right and they wave american flags, in many cases they're waving the american flag.

like joe biden doesn't know what's happening. today joe biden came out prepared. he knew the facts. he knew the statistics. he knew what was happening on immigration, on one side of the border and on the other side of the border. he was a man fully in control and at the same time, doing it all with empathy. >> i think you're correct. the whole idea about joe biden, listen, it is not a razzle dazzle sort of con, snake oil salesman of the former president. and not the cool customer of a barack obama. it was, you know, uncle joe, right? this guy who want to work for the american people, who knew the facts but was that out there to impress people. i just want to do the work. so let's talk some policy here. okay? because the former president trump was on fox tonight. this is what he said about officials charging insurrectionists. watch this. >> they go after people, i guess you would call them, lean toward the right. they wave american flags in many cases. they're waving the american flag and they love our country. it was zero threat right from the start. it was zero threat. look. they w

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you know, doesn't matter whether you were for joe biden or weren't for joe biden. we always celebrate the peaceful transfer of power in this country. it's what democracy is. and this time we seem to be afraid of it. we seem to be saying we have to be really careful here because something we took for granted, we can no longer take for granted. and to me, that's really sad. >> so sad indeed. all right, everybody thank you very, very much. we're still following more breaking news here in the situation room. with more on the pentagon now authorizing 25,000 national guard troops, heavily armed to help secure the inauguration from extremist threats. >>> plus there's breaking pandemic news. president-elect biden just announcing his plan to speed up contr coronavirus vaccinations and keep his promise of 100 million shots in the first 100 days. nad. i'm a fashionista. sneakerhead. metalhead. me? gearhead. ♪ ♪ audiophile. gamer. i'm a foodie. woo! i'm whatever this is. obsession has many names. this is ours. the new lexus is. all in on the sport sedan. woohoohoohoohoohoo

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

you can summarize joe biden's foreign policy decisions by multi lateral diplomacy of joe biden versus america's first. so there is a great deal of elation in the world, most of the world. yet at the same time, the world is waiting to see the specifics. there is little about specificity. no details. think of joe biden's domestic politics. very highly ambitious. it's really joe biden's proactive on the offensive. he wants to transform the american economy. he wants to bridge divide inside america. yet in terms of foreign policy, he is not as ambitious. it's cautious. that is why the world is waiting to see the specific policies. as i say, did devil lies in the details. >> so where does tehran look at this, though? they certainly feel like america pulled out of the deal, that they want america to make the first outreach here. they want sanctions lifted before anything is done from tehran's point of view. how is some sort of compromise reached between tehran and d.c. here? >> robyn, there is a huge gulf between iran on the one hand and the united states and its you european allies on the

and, you know, but joe biden has known mitch mcconnell a long time. he's made very big efforts to reach out, to not demonize mitch mcconnell, to not criticize him during this transition. this will be a first test about whether you can actually see cooperation between the republican leader and the democratic leader in the senate. if they manage to negotiate this, maybe they can manage to negotiate some other things after impeachment is over. >> because i remember when he was a senator and he was a senator for a long time, long before he became vice president of the united states, on so many issues, domestic issues, national security issues, and you remember this well, he worked very closely with his republican colleagues in the senate. in those days there was good bipartisan cooperation. do you think that is potentially available right now, that he will, with the then-minority-leader mitch mcconnell, work closely together? >> i think the safe bet with congress these days is for polarization and gridlock. but that has been the message from joe biden dur

, 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

progressives are trying to pass joe biden's agenda. joe biden's agenda is both of those bills. he, himself, this summer, explicitly linked them and said, "i need both of those bills, not one." they're trying to vindicate the strategy. manchin's performance yesterday illustrated why they were reluctant. they want to know he is going to be there. they decided after the framework was released and everybody had private conversations that they were good, that biden was -- that manchin was going to be there. but manchin continues to try to give them reasons to distrust that prospect. >> pamelramila jayapal, who wil on the show later, says, "i trust the president." it is on the president to sbrin joe manchin along. people who have been watching, and i'm sorry for those watching with interest, wanting to know if this is going to pass, that's what they want to know. is this going to pass, the larger safety net bill? is this going to go forward? >> not version of it has to go forward if democrats want any chance of winning any seats in the midterms. at the end of the day, i think joe man

he's leaving before joe biden is going to be sworn in. there are new questions about just how many people are going to be at the sendoff ceremony at joint base andrews. the white house is inviting a lot of people. they can bring up to five guests per invitation. some guests are saying they are not going because of the travel restrictions happening in d.c. or the fallout from the president's response to that attack. it's an open question of what that ceremony is going to look like for the president. that's what we're monitoring. whether or not the president is going to be in public or just make that video that we know he taped on monday, that final farewell address highlighting his accomplishments. that is something we expect the white house to say today. kaitlyn collins, cnn, the white house. >>> some 25,000 national guard troops have been authorized by the pentagon to help keep the inauguration safe, but fears of an inside attack have prompted additional screening of the troops themselves. >> they're screened and repeatedly screened a re

joe biden. >> all right, pamela. thank you so much. appreciate it. arlette, it is perhaps the most important speech of his life, the one that the president-elect is about to deliver. he did a decent job at the democratic convention. but this is going to be a tougher task because the country is in real pain and is deeply divided. what can you tell us about the work that president-elect biden is doing on this speech? >> reporter: well, the president-elect is aware of the gravity and the moment that this speech will offer as this country really in a divided moment and also grappling with this pandemic. but i'm told that the president-elect is likely to make final tweaks on his speech until the very last minute. this is not entirely surprising in biden world. he is a meticulous preparer for speeches big and small, and he's often flown to make those changes until the very, very last minute. now, the president-elect has been working on this speech for a few weeks with his chief speech writer, renee re

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

joe biden's proof of that. if the progressive wing of the party had been taken control of the democratic party completely, joe biden wouldn't be the nominee. there were plenty of other candidates that they supported, and same thing we saw in new york a few days ago with the election there for mayor. it is an important wing. it's got a voice. it's going to be heard. the problem is on the republican side, it's not a wing that's taken over their party. it's an authoritarian movement led and fueled by trump, and the only way to defeat that is if the rest of all of us form a pro-democracy coalition, democrats, republicans, independents. if the press stops covering this as liberals versus republicans, you know, conservatives, democrats, versus republicans and starts to cover this as what it is, a fight for our democracy against an authoritarian movement. one great example of this is how much the press talks about how joe biden has failed to reach his 70% of americans getting their vaccination for the coronavirus. he

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joe biden knows that. he understands that and that's why he is the president for this moment. >> but he's got to reach the other side who has not been to this point willing to even accept that he is the actual president of the united states. that's a tall order, jason. >> well, it is a tall order. >> >> but look at the speech he gave yesterday. he didn't talk about himself, he didn't talk o about donald trump, he talked about america and bringing it altogether. he has been consistent. like a broken record. when he came here joe biden is saying the same old thing about unity and folks coming together. he has been like a broken record time and time again talking about this issue of bringing this country together and healing us. some people don't want. that's okay. you take the time you need but eventually you'll have somebody with open arms saying let's move forward together. >> i want you to help me understand this. you mentioned his speech and what he talked about. i'm not sure how people got this out of h

and first, joe biden has to just take the temperature out of the room a little bit. less partisan talk which he has already done. telling his party we have to work together. understanding the new majorities are not that big and we have very tight window in the first 100 days to get some big things done. to your point he has to start being very factual and have daily press briefings, communicating with people and explaining why it is important to take the virus shot, and why it is important to pass a stimulus bill and to just be really factual. >> right. >> i think those are the things he has to do and do it in his typical uncle joe way of explaining to the country the difficult choices that are ahead. >> jim, always a pleasure and i will see you later. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> prominent republican senators taking public shots tonight. split on how to solve the problem like donald trump's impeachment trial. a new update right after this break. it's a thirteen-hour flight, that's not a weekend trip. fifteen minutes until we board. oh yeah, we gotta take off.

biden and jill biden entered the screen. >> and what we're about to see as joe biden and jill biden go to church this morning is the dawn of a new era, new for the last four years, but it's almost in some ways a return to washington as usual. a denizen of this down, joe biden, who has been here most of his adult life, is going to go to church in a storied cathedral that has a long history in washington, with members of congress from both sides of the aisle. a show of bipartisanship. a show of normalcy this morning as one era ends and another one begins. it's a symbolic thing, but i do think that it is -- it really speaks to, at the core, what joe biden is about and what he wants to do and what he wants to do is just bring things back to normal. bring the temperature down a little bit. and it's not a reality show anymore. >> as we wait for president-elect biden to go to the cathedral of st. matthew, we wait for air force one to leave from joint base andrews, let's bring in john bolton, who was president trump's national security adviser. mr. bolton, ambassador bolton, thanks for join

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>> i obviously trust joe biden. i know he's going to advocate for the strongest possible social programs, for the strongest possible climate provisions, and a lot of that is in this bill. if we can complete it. but ultimately we still have more time before next week when joe biden is in glasgow, and my belief is that we can resolve all these issues and then with certainty the democrats can vote both for the infrastructure bill, and for joe biden's build back better program with all of the details that are very clear to everyone, not just in the congress, but all across the country. >> it sounds like you're almost granting accepting that this is not going to happen today. >> well, i have not seen any specific legislative text with regard to what is in the legislation on taxes, on medicare, on medicaid, or on the exact formulation of any of the climate provisions, even though i'm very optimistic that we'll have a very bold program, i think it is wise for the members of congress to actually see the legislative language

joe biden's big moment hours from now. he will do something that his predecessor tried to prevent, something millions of trump voters, dozens of republican lawmakers, and then thousands of rioters on the capitol tried to stop. joe biden will officially be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states. his incoming vice president kamala harris making history herself in a major way as the first woman, the first black woman, the first south asian woman to step into that role, and all of it will happen at the center of sadly a city on lockdown. with the incoming administration facing challenges ahead that no new president has seen in our lifetime. >> you would not believe what this capitol looks and feels like today. >> yeah. >> and of course for millions of americans an economy on the edge, a pandemic at its very worst point. and a nation so divided it can hardly come together to agree on how to climb out of it or just what the reality of today is. but joe biden says he knows how to heal. >> to heal we must remember. bu

that is a point of contention with president joe biden because biden revoked the pipeline, canada favors it. with all three leaders they talked about the importance of the covid pandemic. the broader agenda for joe biden which he is trying to get early momentum is the covid-19 pandemic and the related economic recovery. he met with advisers at the white house today. vice president kamala harris was there. they are trying to gear up momentum for the covid relief package, $1.9 trillion to try to get through congress. his economic adviser brian dienst will be talking with 16 senators of both parties, see if they can get a bipartisan package. if not, democrats will try to do it through a special budget procedure with democratic votes only. but critically important for joe biden to get action quickly on covid-19 and the economic recovery. john harwood, cnn, the white house. >> thanks, john, for that. >>> so the chinese foreign ministry recently called trump administration officials, quote, anti-china politicians who had undermined the relationship between the u.s. and china. so how will presi

the incumbent, the incumbent is joe biden. no matter how hard democrats try to make donald trump the incumbent, joe biden is the incumbent and that is what voters seem to be voting on, at least in virginia. >> mcauliffe was -- i mean, he was very clear about it. biden was a drag on the race. we knew that, the candidates knew this. what other issues were animating voters in virginia? >> yeah, i mean, look, if you were to look essentially at the issues that were motivating voters in virginia, look at this. there was all this focus on education. everyone was saying, schools, schools, schools. it was actually the economy and jobs that was the issue. economy, jobs, education, guess who won the vote of those three? glenn youngkin. in fact, on the economy which was the most important issue, look at that. youngkin won by 12 percentage points. it's awfully difficult to lose a race in which you are trusted more on the top three issues according to voters. >> one quirkiness people in virginia think the >> coeconomy is good. if you think