of joe biden's approach. that's a repudiation of donald trump's approach. that's the wages of four years of alienating our allies and of refusing the 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 as i said, collectively comprise of 60% of the world's economy, we're confident that we can develop a common agenda on issues where we share deep concerns about china. 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're not in office yet, is 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 delivers the kind of results that have entirely escaped the trump administration over the last four years. >> there is a domestic political rea

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

that's an inheritance coming from the last administration and joe biden just -- joe biden got -- he inherited four simultaneous crisis and i think he's done as well as any human being could do. i do welcome this lower key approach for a while in the presidency. i think it suits him well and i think it suits the country well. >> it gives us all a chance to take a deep breath which has been hard to do over the past four years. remember trump's first super bowl interview? that's when he made the big uproar over questions about putin and he said, oh, you think america is so innocent? talk about contrast in tone, right? david gergen, thank you so much, sir. >> good to see you again. >> you too. >>> coming up, you've heard of the more contagious variant in the uk, a new study has found it is spreading rapidly here in the united states. what does that mean for the fight against the pandemic? that's next. you're live in the cnn newsroom. i give to shriners hospitals for children because i want to be a part of something amazing. - i know my gift to shriners hospitals for children makes a difference in

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

joe biden said it beautifully. if you're going to unite, you must remember and we must -- and look at that is our responsibility, to uphold the integrity of the congress. united states. that is our responsibility. to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. and that is what we will do. and just because he's now gone, thank god, that we -- you don't say to a president do whatever you want in the last months of your administration, you're going to get a get out of jail card free because people think we should make nice and forget that people died here on january 6th, that the attempt to undermine our election, to undermine our democracy, to dishonor our constitution, no. i don't see that at all. i think that would be harmful to unity. >> speaker pelosi -- >> madam speaker, a year ago in the last impeachment trial you said you could not have a trial without documents and witnesses, i'm wondering what kind of trial you would like to see your impeachment managers put forward and is that what you're wait

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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

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

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

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

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

now joe biden followed up on what he was saying with those executive orders and joe biden is doing the same thing and there is placomplaints from the opposite party? should they be surprised and governing like a democrat when that's what he was elected to do? >> you can't go back and forth in between administration like this. you have to get some of this cod fied and put into law. joe biden himself is not a big fan of executive orders except now, they feel they have no chance and gotten momentum and it is the beginning o f the administration so they are undoing a lot of this stuff that trump did, rejoining the paris climate accord and etcetera and undoing the muslim ban and climate change. right now first thing's first, get stimulus passed and covid done. you don't see the president really commenting except a little bit on impeachment. stay out of that also. joe biden was not born yesterday, we all know. he was in the senate for 36 years. he understands and when he needs to hang back and let them have their own fight and just do his j job. >> republicans, the house minority leader, kev

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

president joe biden. they're likely going to discuss vice president's executive order to revote the mer mitt from the xl pipeline. let's bring in john deftarios. i imagine that phone call will be warm but trudeau's tone might be fost jie fostyer on the time. killing keystone is a piece of his larger climate agenda. >> i think that's a fair comment, kim. joe biden has tow have high impact in the first 100 days, covid-19, package of sim position, a quick history president obama halted the project, president trump brought it back. for prime minister trudeau, he has so say i'm. >> adam: in these statements and that he's very closed the e.s. is coming back into the paris climb agreement. he wants to have a $2 trillion stimulus process later in the year. 100% renewables by 2035. he's putting john kerry as the special envoy to make it happen. prime minister trudeau, he has to take a step back saying all of that rustling with donald trump after nafta, it will be smoother. >> she's been angry in the west. here in

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

joe biden's victory was far from certain. in addressing the house democrats today, president biden thanking congressman jim clyburn for the critical endorsement that helped him win the nomination. >> i also want to note it was almost exactly a year ago today that you delivered the endorsement to me in south carolina. it meant so much to me and my campaign. you're a great friend. >> so, joining me now to discuss is amy parnes. she is the senior political correspondent for the hill and john allen senior correspondent for nbc news. they are the coauthors of the new book, lucky how joe biden barely won the presidency. thank you so much. i think the last time i talked to you guys was shattered, i'm not sure. but it's been a while. good to see both of you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> amy, i remember a little over a year a go in the campaign, it seemed like joe biden was toast after iowa and new hampshire. but we believed that he could win and that he could governor. when you look at his presidency, having covered the campa

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 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

, 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

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joe biden is passionate about protecting the peace process in ireland, but no one can accuse joe biden of trying to under mine the peat prce process, and he says mind your language, make peace, make sure you don't undermind this process, i think johnson has to listen. >> yeah, absolutely. and it is still early days, i think we have to point out in fairness for the u.k. outside of the europeand union on the globl stage. they have been part of a powerful commercial block before of 28 voices and now they're not. they're faced with the world super power that has not always aligned with them. thank you for your time. great speaking to you today. >> with that we're going to toss back to robin in atlanta at the cnn world center who has a packed show full of world news. >> i do, indeed, thank you. >>> this could be benjamin n netanyahu's final government. they are set to have neftali. >> yeah, it will be the israeli parliament here. it could be the last days as you say of benjamin net ya netanyahu's rain. today could be the day that he is leaving office. there is quite a lot to get through. we

president joe biden in cornwall, england, for the g7 summit. it's his first trip abroad since taking office, it also represents a major attempt at fence mending with america's most reliable european allies after four years of president trump's belligerent isolationism. later today president biden and prime minister boris johnson will embrace a renewed atlantic charter, a strategic document between the u.s. and uk dating back to 1941. the prime minister as summit host said covid-19 and climate change would be major areas of discussion among many others. >> here at the g7 what we're looking at is making sure that we have a new treaty on pandemics, working to that, building back greener, building back better, which is why we're looking at what's going on here in cornwall with all the green technology, but also talking about the values we have in common, everything we want to do together. it is a huge agenda. >> it's worth noting that the g7 actually has eight members if you factor in the eu. from 1998 to 2014 the group was called the g8, but then

he's -- he's moving now, joe biden. due to his age and due to covid, he's pretty much stayed in washington since the inaugural but now he's going into the midwest. and he's also -- you know, he has such grace notes, joe biden. i think his calling card is he feels other people's pain. we've seen this over and over again. and i think he's always good at slapping people on the back and saying good job. and i believe the medical workers of america, people that are exhausted from a year of this are responding to biden's presidency. they're feeling that they have a leader now who is not working against them. biden's poll numbers are good and all this important first 100 days of his presidency so far has been great. he's done well of probably having to take a low key approach to dealing with the insurrection of trump, not part of the impeachment debacle that occurred on capitol hill. but biden now needs to lead as nancy pelosi said, don, on getting a 9/11 commission report. we need facts as many as we can assemble about what o

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

every time people say that stuff, joe biden proves them wrong. he had one gaffe in the whole hour, but zero buyers remorse with this president. >> he was pressed related to about the migrant children being held by the government. he blamed the previous generation for dismantling the system and he's committed to transparency as soon as he's able to implement his plan. did he explain why he doesn't allow full access to the media so the public can see what's happening? it's questionable. >> what we heard so much was the talk about coronavirus and the pandemic and, of course, obviously, they want to prioritize the safety of the officials working there, the kids who are being held at these facilities and processed through them. that is understandable. but there are also ways to make it work. of course they gave access to a health & human services facility this week, for example. they limited it to just one reporter from one outlet and a few cameras, not the normal slew of reporters you would see. you don't want to just see the hhs facility. you want t

what a day for joe biden. he's about to roll past the treasury department into 1600 pennsylvania avenue. four years ago donald trump was the ultimate outsider, disrupter. winning the presidency in his first run for president. joe biden is coming back now as its resident, the president. >> we are waiting joe biden to arrive at the white house for the military procession marking his entrance to his new home, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, for the first time as the u.s. commander in chief. that's coming up along with the parade across america featuring entertainers, athletes and american heroes all around the country. our extensive live coverage right here on cnn continues. >>> we are awaiting the start of the inaugural parade. president biden is leaving arlington national cemetery soon. he will make his way here, right near the white house, for a military procession. there will also be a made-for-tv parade, a virtual parade, as our inauguration coverage continues. dana, when president biden walks into the white house

supreme court to invalidate joe biden's victory. add that to a list of reported plans hatched by the trump white house to change the verified election results. including firing the acting attorney general and replacing him with someone who would do whatever trump wanted. these plans never went anywhere in part because officials threatened to resign en masse. but timing is important. these new details emerging as the timeline takes shape for trump's senate impeachment trial. his second. some symbolic parts of the process begin tomorrow but arguments are set to start in the senate a little over two weeks from right now. at least 17 republicans in the senate in addition to all the senate democrats would have to vote yes to convict trump for inciting the insurrection at the u.s. capitol. it's not yet clear if those 17 yes votes exist but at least one senate republican says a trial is definitely justified. >> i believe that what somebodying alleged and what we saw -- being alleged and what we saw which is incitement to insurrection is an

but joe biden perhaps the closest of all. one thing is key, biden would not have been surprised by anything we just heard from senator manchin. he knows this is part of the process, and they have to run out the full tape here. they have to actually try to get a bipartisan agreement. this is not for show. this is not political theater. this is what is key to get the infrastructure bill right now that's on the table passed. that's why the republican senator from west virginia, coming back to the white house to have a call with the president tomorrow. we'll see how serious they are on negotiating. this is something they need to play out. now, we heard senator manchin leave the possibility open for what happen it is noeegotiation fail? he does generally vote with this white house. but democratic senators and democrats across washington can be angry, they can be fuming, they can be furious at senator manchin. but that's who they have. without him, they would have 4 senators. so they should have won more seats last year if they wan

joe biden is trying to get that back on track. and with canadian prime minister trudeau, they did have a disagreement. joe biden revoked the permit for the xl pipeline, which goes from canada down to the gulf of mexico. that was a disappointment to prime minister trudeau. campaign promise for joe biden. that's something they'll have to work at. with all three leaders, pam, they talked about the importance of the covid-19 pandemic. that is a universal problem around the world. >> all right, john harwood, thank you so much. >>> meantime, a texas man who allegedly participated in the capitol insurrection is now being charged with threatening to assassinate democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. jessica schneider is following the latest. jessica, what have we learned about this? >> reporter: pamela, another major arrest connected to the january 6th terrorist attack, this time against a texas man accused of posting online death threats not only against democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez but also against a cap

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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