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

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

joe biden has to worry about what happens to the country after january 20th. and towards that end he needs to build a bipartisan base for going after trump. so it's not just a partisan issue and we're unable to heal the country. >> that's the essential conflict, holding the president accountable for reprehensible behavior versus the politics. there are republicans, we should note, who have said the president should be impeached, what's your view? >> i'm -- you know, i'm kind of where biden is. does this serve the interests of the country on january 21st. i'm going to argue, probably likely not. it was criminal, it was disgraceful, a discouragement to every man and woman who served the country, gave their life for the country, it gets my blood pressure up thinking about this. but i think we need a little less self-service on capitol hill and more public service, a little more statesmanship. i think beside iden is trying ta signal, we're angry, upset, worried about what crazy decisions he may make given he looks more like a corn erred dog than a president but is

to secure the capitol for the upcoming inauguration of joe biden? it's clear there are very serious security threats. the president is absent, the acting attorney general has not been heard from. the acting defense secretary has not been heard from. at least in the days after 9/11 there was a constant drum beat of at least a need to be accountable to talk and answer questions. we've seen none of that from our government even though there's been this enormous breach not only of security but of our democracy itself. so i just think we're still in the crisis, frankly. >> and, david, when you talk about republicans having this moment of reckoning, so to speak, even after seeing the carnage, seeing these disturbing videos, some republicans still refuse to call out donald trump for his role. and some are now saying, like, senator roy blunt essentially that trump has now learned his lesson. i am quoting him here. he says, the president touched the hot stone on wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again. are you surprised that even after wednesday's clear-

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

leading up to the inauguration of president-elect joe biden. and we know right now law enforcement officials say they are tracking dozens of people who may be headed to that spot there in washington. the u.s. capitol bracing for more protests ahead of president-elect joe biden's inauguration and the department of homeland security and several other agencies say domestic there extremists pose the most likely stress. >> and there is an internal report that details the major security and intelligence failures. investigators have opened hundreds of criminal cases against the protestors and some of the right o on the rioters a several are facing charge. >> and pete muntean is in the nation's capitol. and this is an inauguration like we have never seen before based on what you are seeing there this morning. tell us about it. >> reporter: the security keeps getting tighter and tighter. we're pretty far away from the cap capitol, blocks away, and there was a security sweep taking place behind me. you can see the 8-foot fence that surrounding the capito

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

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

joe biden is giving us a road map. he's offering a set of language, opening a door to a way for us to talk about unity, to talk about working across the aisle and i find it very inspiring and i'm excited to be trying to echo those same kind, that same kind of language as i work with republican colleagues. >> yesterday the death toll nearly 700 deaths. the president is saying it's going to get worse before it gets better. >> i think people need to hear the truth. they know on the ground how bad it is. people are losing loved ones, spending hours and hours or days and days trying to get a vaccine appointment. they're struggling to find a covid test. the american people know how bad this is. i think what president biden is trying to do is level with the american people, establish where we are and then begin to lay out a plan for how things can get better, and they need to get better. we need to ramp up vaccine production and distribution. we need to commit at the federal level to state and local funding, but we have to ha

inauguration of president-elect joe biden four days away. shimon prokupecz is working his sources up on capitol hill for us. cnn's matt rivers and then jeremy diamond at the white house. shimon, what more do we know about this disturbing arrest by u.s. capitol police of this virginia man? >> reporter: right, his name is wesley allen bealer and we're told based on some information we've obtained he drove up to e street northeast and presented this fake credential. this inaugural credential and when the authorities checked on the list to see if he had, in fact, been credentialed to enter, they say they did not see that, and so when they asked some questions, he told them he had a weapon in the car and that's when they removed a 9 millimeter glock and as you said, found over 500 rounds of ammunition. one of the biggest concerns here, obviously, is that fake inaugural credential and obviously, the weapon and the ammunition in the car. we don't know much more at this point. authorities are continuing to investigate what he was doing there, but as

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

republicans don't want to work with you joe biden. they don't want to do it. so they have to figure out what they're going to do in order to keep this country on track. it is now up to the democrats and to the indepen ddents and republicans who aren't trumpers who won't apologize and be apologizing for everything donald trump says or does or lies about. it is up to those people to save this country, and if they don't do it, then god help us. >> we're going to see. >> yeah. >> nancy pelosi, i cannot criticize her feel for the game. you can't. it's like mitch mcconnell. i'm not comparing them with any ideology but they know how to do what they do and she's not going to bring something to the floor if she doesn't have the votes. this 27th end up not working for her or the party because it's evidenced them to the country at large at a time where the numbers are not good for biden personally, they're not good in terms of job performance and not good in terms of right wave or wrong wave for the country. on the last one, probably blaming the rowepublicans for that. t

joe biden. >> a long been a joe biden kind of democrat. >> you won't find anyone, i mean anyone. who knows how to get more done for virginia than terry. that is a fact. >> reporter: and in virginia where mcall itch is running for governor again the association has always been a plus. considering biden carried the state by 10 points last year. but today's lack lust you are september jobs report. >> the jobs numbers remind us that we have important work ahead of us and biden's weakening approval rating are the political challenges coming from washington. a point mcauliffe made in a virtual meeting with supporters earlier this week. a meeting that he thought was private. >> we are facing a lot of head winds from washington as you know, the president is ub popular here in virginia so we have got to plow there. >> reporter: republicans blasted out his comments. which offer a window into his mindset in the final month of a race that suddenly is making democrats nervous about the party standing and its appeal to independent voters. >> if thillary clinton and bill clinton had a son, it i

just ahead, joe biden weighs in on donald trump's impeachment trial. the new president says it must happen even though the senate could be mired in the proceedings for most of february. >>> a massive tornado rips through alabama, destroiing buildings and trees. the latest on the damage and the regional warnings. >>> and yet another new worrying variant of covid-19 appears in the u.s. hear anthony fauci's advice for dealing with all the mutations. that attack left five people dead including a capitol police officer. president biden told cnn he thinks it's unlikely his predecessor will be convicted but he says the trial has to happen. house democrat jamie raskin is leading the trial against trump when the senate trial kicks off in two weeks. >> donald john trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states. president trump's conduct on january 6th, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. donald john trump thus w

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

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but it's not his thing anymore and president joe biden is refusing to excerpt executive privilege to keep the documents under wraps. this sooems to lead to a show down. the investigation is zeroing in on four close trump associates, dan ska sereno has been served with a subpoena, the former presidential aid to donald trump had been mia earlier this week, mark meadows and caand kash pat is cooperating. but there is a hold out, steve bannon will not cooperate saying the executive privileges belong to president trump. so let's go to arlette signs in wilmington, delaware. what does the white house have to say about this assertion that trump still holds this power of executive privilege. i assume they disagree with it but i'm curious how long the battle can play out? >> reporter: the white house argues these are executive order circumstances and that president biden wants to ensure that the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has all the documents and information it needs. so president biden decided not to assert executive privilege over those trump administr

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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

but joe biden knows grief, knows empathy. i think chris called him the consoler. hopefully he can be the consoler in chief in the coming hours in the coming days. >> absolutely. and he will be. we saw him do that in his role as the democratic candidate throughout the summer when he -- during the riots, when he had moments he could be that person. we saw him at cnn town halls. >> there's the president, dana, and the first lady arriving. i think we should just listen and let them pay their respects. >>> president joe biden and the first lady jill biden paying their respects to officer brian sicknick who lost his life in the line of duty on january 6th protecting the capital and the lives inside of that capitol. dana bash here with me. chris cuomo with me as well. chris, dana was talking about the empathy of joe biden before the president came in to the capital them president also a very religious man. walking up to the table, putting his right hand on the table, and then over his heart. and then going over to look at some of the flowers and really shaking his head.

>> i think the joe biden is misreading his mandate. it was to normalize and stabilize the country and govern ourselves. which has done with covid. and high marks for that. i don't think the mandate was this to go this big. 6 trillion in spending in the first year. he's misreading that. these proposals are not quite as popular as he thinks they are. i think he's taking a great risk given the fact he has such narrow majority in the house and in the senate. he's taking a great risk. and willing to go this big and forsake the house because he fig yirs he won't get anything in the second two years of the term. he's taking a huge gamble with the go big proposals. i don't think that's what the american people voted for. they wanted to get rid of trump. they want rest not a revolution. they're getting more of a revolution. >> different flavor of revolution. emphasis tonight on january 6. january 6th is a weak spot for the right in terms of caring about law and order. i say it on my show. i don't want to hear about blue lives matter if you don'

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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

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

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

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 will be president on january 20th. he is going to be kicking and screaming all the way. >> i appreciate your reporting tonight. thank you both. >>> let me bring in the democratic senator. what did you hear in the phone call? >> i heard a desperate president, delusional president who knows the walls are closing in on him. and is trying his last great con. he has gotten away with this so many times. republican members of congress have let him get away with it. this time he has run up against a wall. you have both the secretary of state, the republican secretary of state and the governor of georgia standing up for what everybody else knows is reality, which is the fact that joe biden and kamala harris won in georgia. the president can't stand it. he is looking for every way out. what's been really, really despicable is to watch so many republican senators fuel this false narrative of the president. >> senator dick durbin says this merits a criminal probe. do you agree? >> it has all the almost eleme criminal action. you h

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

it will be very clear for joe biden. either he is comfortable moving with the kraik votes alone, he think east comfortable going the filibuster to act on these issues or they will not happen. he will meet the same fate his democratic read that conservative assessor did when he ran up against a washington that is not built to handle the scope of issues the country faces. will joe biden go above and beyond that is the only open question that matters for the rest of that agenda. >> let's talk more about this. the ar-15 is the semi-automatic assault rifle that has been used. a popular gun with owners it and has been a huge source of debate. this particular swp a major, major, major hot bed issue for an already extremely divided country and divided lawmakers. it's not a question of knowledge base. democrats have made it a priority to be clear. in the presidential primary, this was a point of contention, of a shared point of agreement from a lot of the democratic candidates saying this will be, banning assault weapons would ha

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

he is leaving before joe biden is going to be sworn in. there are new questions about just how many people are going to be at that sendoff ceremony at joint base andrews. the white house is inviting a lot of people. they can bring up to 5 guests per invitation. some people are not going because of the travel restrictions happening in dc after the president's response. it's an open question what that ceremony is going to look like for the president. that's what we're monitoring. whether the president is going to be here in public or make that video that we know he taped on monday, that final farewell address highlighting his accomplish mments accomplishments. beyond that it remains to be seen what the president is going to do publicly facing. >> kaitlyn, thank you for that. >>> hard lockdown around the capitol building ahead of president-elect biden's inauguration on wednesday. the fbi privately warned law enforcement that far right extremists have discussed posing as national guard members at the inauguration. it did not specify any specif

but joe biden insists they will get something done. manu raju has the latest. >> reporter: democrats had a private conference call tuesday night trying to figure out if they can get this back on track, after joe manchin derailed it effectively on sunday. now, it's unclear if they can do just that, because there is absolutely no consensus on how to move ahead. particularly because manchin reiterated his concerns to his colleagues i'm told. he said he had concerns about inflation, geopolitical concerns. he said this bill does not show the true nature of its cost. he said it would add to the debt. democrats pushed back. there was some belief that joe manchin was not accurately portraying how this bill would be paid for. but there was a discussion by manchin that he would be willing to discuss things going forward. so does that lead to a scaled back proposal? he said something that even liberals in the house or in the could accept and get it all done in a matter of weeks or months, that remains a big question, because midterm election seas

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

joe biden will take office after a convincing win, let's make that clear. but in the middle of a pandemic, an economy bleeding jobs two weeks to the day after the insurrection in the capitol building that will be right behind him. one week to the day to the second impeachment of donald trump in the capitol building that will be right behind him and with the continuing denial of the president, who is leaving town. donald trump will not be there. he continues to deny the results, he continues to be rude to joe biden, will not even talk to him about the transition of power. nothing like this, no. >> gloria, president trump remains in exclusseclusion for sixth straight day. what is he doing? >> he's cordoning himself off from most people, except for apparently the my pillow guy, whom he met with, and perhaps his chief of staff and his white house counsel. he is sulking. he is still telling people he won the election, wolf. he's keeping an enemies list. he believes those people who voted to certify this election, those republicans are now his enemy. they are not

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

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

but with only 12 days until joe biden's inauguration, do they have time? if this would happen, donald trump would become the first president in the united states to be impeached twice. how is that going to play out? how that is going to play out is still very much in the air. but what is clear is that the president is losing more support from more probabrepublicans aft this. two republicans are telling cnn that they would consider voting for impeachment if the articles seemed reasonable. and the president's cabinet has been discussing invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. but also that vice president mike pence is unlikely to pursue the option. but more than a dozen trump officials have resigned, including two cabinet secretaries, transportation secretary and education secretary. within the last hour, cnn also learned that white house counsel, pat cipollone is considering resigning. a lot going on. it's clear the pressure on the president is mounting today and all of those who egged on what became a riot. let's begin with the breaking news

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.