hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. ahead here on "cnn newsroom," donald trump lawyering up as calls for another impeachment grow even louder. and if impeachment doesn't work out, vice president pence has reportedly not ruled out using the 25th amendment. also, authorities make some arrests following wednesday's capitol breach. the latest on the search for more suspects.

♪ >> it is just a matter of days donald trump could be impeached for the second time as the magnitude of the deadly riot he incited comes into sharper focus. a political reckoning now looming. an article of impeachment could come as soon as monday, unless the president resigns, of course. even some republicans say he went too far. >> i have to say, i do think the president's behavior this week does disqualify him from serving. but we've got ten days left, 11 days left. he is not going to be serving after that time. one of the things i'm concerned about, frankly, is whether the house would completely politic sigh something. i do think the president committed impeachable offenses, but i don't know what is going to land on the senate floor, if anything.

>> the lives of vice president pence, his family, and u.s. lawmakers were imperiled by wednesday's riot. sources told cnn the president and pence haven't spoken since that day. extraordinary. we've also learned that pence will attend joe biden's inauguration and he has also reserved the right to invoke the 25th amendment if the president's behavior worsens. five people died in the carnage on wednesday, including a capitol hill police officer, yet the white house has not lowered the flag to half-staff as the capitol has done. cnn's manu raju explains what we expect to happen in the u.s. house over the next few days. >> democrats are pushing full steam ahead to give donald trump the dubious distinction of being the only president in american history who will be impeached twice. that is where all signs are headed for an impeachment vote

by early in the week. now the question is exactly when nancy pelosi will make it official that they will go down this route. she is indicating they plan to do just that because she has demanded the president resign or vice president mike pence take those extraordinary constitutional actions to force the president out of office by the 25th amendment of the united states. now pence is showing no indication he is doing that. the president is showing no indication he is going to step aside. so democrats plan to move forward with an impeachment resolution accusing him of inciting an insurrection. democrats behind the scenes have been trying to get co-sponsors on both sides of the aisle to sign on to this proposal. and the democrats believe that they are making good progress to getting most, if not all of their members on board behind this. there are 222 democrats in the house. there is an expectation that they'll be able to get a majority of support within the full house when the chamber

votes potentially by the middle of the week. now the big question will be what happens then, because there will only be a few days left in donald trump's presidency, and there is no indication that the senate will come back before january 19th to begin an impeachment trial to remove donald trump from office. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, has indicated to his members that it would require the support of all 100 senators to change the schedule and come back into session for a trial. that essentially is not going to happen. so that may mean that an impeachment trial may be kicked into the new administration when joe biden takes office january 20th. at that same time, democrats will assume control of the senate majority so the question will be how that impeachment trial would work. and a democratic majority with a democratic president going after a former president, trying to convict him on the charges of inciting an insurrection and effectively prevent him from holding office again. a lot of questions still remain, but at the moment democrats are furious at the president's role in the wednesday mob that led to

multiple people dying and deaths and clashes, including one u.s. capitol police officer who died. and they believe the president needs to pay a price for that. so impeachment seems almost certain to happen in the matter of days. man kn manu raju, capitol hill. president trump already thinking about his legal defense team in anticipation of another defense trial. jeremy diamond with that from the white house. >> reporter: well, with less than two weeks left in office, president trump is facing the increasingly likely possibility that he will be the first president in american history to be impeached twice. and so that's why the president is beginning to look at who will staff his defense team should there be an impeachment trial in the senate. and now two sources familiar with the matter tell me that the president is considering rudy giuliani, his personal attorney and the former new york city mayor and the controversial first amendment attorney alan dershowitz to lead his defense in that eventual impeachment

trial in the senate. it's notable the president is turning to those figures and not to those who defended him during his first impeachment try like jay sekulow, the constitutional attorney and pat cipollone, the white house counsel. that's because both of those attorneys have been increasingly at loggerheads with the president over how he has handled these recent weeks in office over his refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 election. and the president is increasingly isolated not only by losing the counsel of some of these advisers, but also by the speculate of resignations we're seeing within his own administration, including the resignation of two cabinet secretaries, elaine chao and betsy devos just this past week. the president, though, isn't expressing any regrets for his handling of that mob on capitol hill and his incitement to the riot that took place on capitol hill on wednesday. instead, the president seems to be expressing second thoughts, according to our sources, about the video that he was pressured

to tape by his aides on thursday. that's a video where the president for the first time conceded that he will no longer be president after january 20th and committed to a peaceful transfer of power, and said it was a time for healing and reconciliation. now the president, though, remains in a very volatile situation. not only is there this threat of a second impeachment that is looming, but also these calls for his resignation and the calls for vice president mike pence and a majority of the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment and strip him of his presidential powers. now a source close to the vice president said while it was highly unlikely that the vice president would invoke the 25th amendment, he also -- this source also said that vice president mike pence is not taking anything off the table, believing that after the events of the last several days that it's important for the vice president to keep that option on the table. a truly remarkable moment in american history we're all experiencing. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house.

thomas gift is director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london, joins me now. it's good to see you, thomas. what do you make of these reports that donald trump and vice president pence have not spoken since the events of wednesday, which of course included rioters yelling out "hang mike pence." it seems incredible. what does it say about the state of affairs? >> well, good morning, michael. it's great to be with you. i think when mike pence looks comparatively like a voice of reason you know washington is turned upside down. clearly pence is getting a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of trump's wrath. just like so many before him, bill barr, jeff sessions, countless names. trump expects absolute loyalty and fealty to him, but trump isn't loyal to anyone in exchange. if there is one individual throughout his administration has shown deference to the president, it's pence. at every turn he has given trump his full backing. then at a moment, pence won't support trump's unprecedented

and anti-democratic bid to overturn a fair and free election, and trump immediately turns on him. what it confirms is trump is willing to discard anyone at any moment if they don't act as sycophants. >> the events of the past week, do you think put a dent of any type in the trump magic, if you like, with some of his base? not the radical base we saw at the capitol. that's a different group. but this the broader electorate, do you think he has been harmed? >> michael, i think trump's hold over the gop base isn't fragile, and i really doubt it's going to d disappear overnight. his approval rate 90% throughout his administration. last time he was attacked his poll numbers went up, not down. upwards of 45% shockingly of republican voters either somewhat or strongly approved of the storming of the capitol.

so regret regrettably, that's j political landscape we're in at the moment. while clearly there will be some political recoil among moderates and we'll continue to see a fractured party, it probably won't be enough to totally undo trump's magic with hiss by. and especially if he is impeach, it might only further his martyr-like status with the far right. >> you know, it's interesting. we were just reporting that trump has not ordered the flag at the white house to half-staff for that policeman killed in the uprising. that's just extraordinary. do you think the president is even aware of the magnitude of the effect of his actions? is it in his nature to even care? >> clearly trump is in a through the looking glass type world. not only do i think trump doesn't understand or care about the magnitude of the events last week, he seems to actually believe that the storming of the capitol had some merit to it. according to reports, he more or less gleefully watched as the

mob stormed the capitol, and his main concern patiently was how the rioters looked esthetically. apparently they seemed too low class for his taste and he didn't like that. everything we've seen from the president, including telling the mob that he loved them, continuing to broadcast these baseless allegations of electoral fraud, all of that is reflective of the fact that trump is totally numb to what's happened. >> a good way of putting it. looking forward, the senate is 50-50 republican democrat. there is the smallest majority in the house in years. and significant slice of the country who thinks their guy was robbed in the election. how does joe biden govern in that environment? he talks about working across the aisle. but realistically, can he do that? >> it's going to be very difficult, michael. clearly democrats have their work cut out for them in the coming years. the very slim majority that they will enjoy in the house, and

only a tie-breaking majority in the senate means that they have almost no political mar swrin to work with. if democrats do want to be successful, especially as they look to the midterms upcoming, which tends to favor the party out of office, they'll need to focus on i think some of these bread and butter issues. not use their power to inflict political retribution for the last several years. and in my view, try to live out this aspiration that joe biden has articulated about bringing the country together, healing wounds, and ending some of these divisions. the top of the agenda, of course, for democrats is going to be containing covid-19. potentially getting another stimulus package passed. and hopefully getting americans back to work. then they can focus on some of these other issues, health care, education, inequality, wage stagnation and so on. all accounts suggested it's going to be very difficult period of governing. >> sadly does appear that you're right about that.

thomas gifford, always a pleasure to see you. thank you. >> thanks, mike. well, parler, that social media platform touted as the home of free speech online has effectively been shut down. apple and google have removed the app from their online stores, so there is no new downloads. and amazon is revoking its web service on sunday night, which will render it homeless. the app is popular among some u.s. conservatives, but both apple and amazon terminated service saying parler had not done enough to prevent the spread of dangerous and illegal content. now this of course comes after u.s. president donald trump and his campaign team were permanently banned from twitter due to a future risk of, quote, further incitement of violence. right now law enforcement agencies across the u.s. are hunting down people involved in wednesday's insurrection in washington. dozens of people now face charges. coming up, new details on the

investigations. also, right-wing extremist groups cheering on the riot, calling for more violence. how are some americans becoming radicalized online. i'll discuss this with an expert, when we come back. robinhood believes now is the time to do money -

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we are getting a clearer understanding of just how violent wednesday's riot was at the u.s. capitol as more pictures and video emerge. the crowd of rioters who were sold an election fraud fantasy by the president of the united states, no less, began by breaching barriers and breaking into the capitol building itself. i'm warning now, the video you're to be see is disturbing. it shows the violent mob crashing an officer in a doorway as they force their way in. >> ahh! >> it's hard to watch, isn't it? horrific behavior from

supporters of the president. another stunning moment came as the rioters were heard calling for the vice president of the united states to be hanged. >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> disturbingly, the vice president, his wife and daughter were nearby at the complex. a source says they were frightened by the screaming, and you can understand why. and of course all of this in the shadow of the capitol stood a noose and a makeshift gallows. now authorities are working to bring these people to justice. at least 83 people have been arrested so far in relation to the unrest in washington this week. cnn's evan perez is in washington with more details on the investigation. >> reporter: federal authorities around the country are working through the weekend, hunting down some of the people involved in wednesday's terrorist attack

on the u.s. capitol. we know of at least 18 arrests on federal charges and dozens more are facing charges in local court here in washington. among those arrests are adam johnson, arrested in his home state of florida. he is seen in pictures carrying house speaker nancy pelosi's lectern. also arrested jacob chansley in arizona, seen in video inside the capitol wearing face paint and a bear skin hat. the fbi says that chansley told them he came to washington because donald trump called for his supporters to come, and that he organized a group to heed the president's call to action. another member of the mob facing charges, derek evans, a delegate in the west virginia legislature, and he announced he is resigning his seat. five people died in wednesday's mob scene, including a capitol police officer who was attacked by the pro-trump crowd. prosecutors have laid out serious charges against some suspects, including against a man who drove from alabama with

a truck allegedly carrying bombs and a handgun and a rifle. another man arrested with firearms had actually told friends that he came to kill speaker nancy pelosi. evan perez, cnn, washington. >> in the wake of the capitol riots, there are new concerns ahead of joe biden's upcoming inauguration. on january 4, a risk analysis by the security form g4s stated that, quote, current rhetoric suggests that there will be attendees who have violent intent, including armed militia groups, unquote. this is between january 6 and inauguration day. and the andy defamation league published a lengthy blog detailing threats of violence pertaining to wednesday's rally, writing, quote, in response to a user who wondered what happens if congress ignores evidence that president trump won the election, the user wrote "storm the capitol."

jared holt is a visiting research fellow at the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab focusing on domestic extremisms, threat to democracy. he joins me now from washington, d.c. and just the right person to talk to. a lot of people look at the events of wednesday and think, you know, that was a close call. glad it failed. but what are you seeing among the online groups that took part? they don't see it as a failure, do they? >> no, they don't. a lot of the extremist groups on the ground we observed planning and attempting this attack on the u.s. capitol building are taking this away as a kind of propaganda win. there is discussions that we've observed in these groups of users talking to each other in congratulatory tones, speaking of this as a validator of proof that if they get their numbers together and focus on a central target, it is possible to

accomplish the radical things that they hope to achieve. >> wow. in terms of the buildup, you and others, you were warning this could happen, that the chatter was dangerous, and it was in plain sight. give us a sense briefly of what you saw bubbling away in the weeks leading up to wednesday. and when did you start to worry? >> you know, i started to worry in the immediate days before january 6th. and we saw that horrific attack on a federal building, the capitol of all things, because in the online communities that were watching at dfr lab, there was all of this escalating rhetoric getting more and more violent. i was seeing maps of the u.s. capitol complex being circulated. i was observing users advising each other on how to violate laws that prohibit carrying firearms in washington, d.c. and i saw, frankly, a lot of

logistical plans to travel to d.c., accommodations while they were in d.c. from a lot of actors and extremist groups that are a whole host of bad news. >> i guess trumpism, that anger that we saw, the call for violence, they're not going to magically go away with joe biden's inauguration. what are these groups saying about where they go from here? >> you know, historically, extremist groups have been barely, if not outright adversarial toward the government. this was something that we saw with anti-government extremism searching during the obama years. and you're right. whenever trump leaves office and officially and joe biden takes the oath, all of these individuals are not going to vanish off the face of the map or you know, decide all of the sudden that they're not so radical anymore.

instead, you know, the major concern of the big threat here is that a lot of these groups will go from a sort of defensive posture of defending the president, acting on behalf of what they perceive the president wanting them to be doing to turning into a more adversarial position but with more numbers and a sometimes spoken, sometimes unspoken support of a larger group of millions of people who voted, supported, and believed the lies that president donald trump was spreading and fomenting about the integrity of our democracy. >> i mean, which is utterly terrifying, if not really unsurprising. how serious are the most dangerous elements? i mean, people can say what they like, but on this we saw rioters with weapons, sidearms, and other weaponry, and hand restraints, as if they were planning to take prisoners.

reporters heard rioters talking about hanging mike pence, killing members of congress. how far would some of these people be willing to go as opposed to just talk tough? >> you know, extremism, particularly right-wing extremism has a long storied and deadly history in the united states. you know, right-wing terrorism makes up the majority of casualties that come from incidents like that in the united states. so there certainly are people who are prepared to take it even a step further than what we saw on wednesday, and, you know, as much legitimate and i think fully warranted questions and criticisms that capitol police are facing now about letting a lot of these crowds overwhelm them or failing to prepare once it became clear what was happening, we can just really

count ourselves lucky that some of the forces that were in there that were seeking to harm lawmakers or legitimately try to destroy the government were unsuccessful. we can count our blessings that none of our lawmakers or their staff were injured or even killed. >> the work you do is important, and i appreciate the time that you put into it. and thanks for speaking with us. jared holt, thanks. >> thank you. u.s. congress members will be getting extra security in airports until the presidential inauguration. this coming after several lawmakers were harassed in the aftermath of the attack on the u.s. capitol. senator lindsey graham, for example, confronted and screamed at by trump supporters at reagan national airport on friday. normally a close ally of president trump, graham was critical of the president this week. senate republican mitt romney also harassed by pro-trump

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and indeed all around the world. i'm michael holmes, and we appreciate you for watching "cnn newsroom." now the fallout from the capitol hill riot is shaking the halls of power in washington, as you might imagine.

house democrats could introduce an article of impeachment against president trump as early as monday. and sources tell us some republicans may support it. meanwhile, we're also hearing that vice president mike pence, who hasn't spoken to mr. trump since the riot, has not ruled out invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. however, he apparently thinks that could provoke a more extreme reaction. but a co-author of the new impeachment resolution says the risks of doing nothing are too high. >> we would rather not being doing this. we're on the eve of a new president, and we're excited about that. but we can't simply say let the 12 days pass, let it go, it's no big deal. this is a very serious attack and insurrection against the government of the united states. we have a sworn duty to do something about it. we should all do everything we can to not politicize it, but we can't shirk our responsibility. >> images of the violence at the

u.s. capitol this week left the international community horrified. but after four years of watching america under a trump presidency, many weren't particularly surprised. international diplomatic editor nick robins robertson joins me london. how much of a dent is there now in u.s. reputation as some sort of bastion of democracy. it's harder these days for the u.s. to lecture others on democracy or human rights for that matter. >> and it's something that they absolutely need to do if you will. they have been the sort of standard bearer for democracy around the globe. they're the country that so many other nations look towards. they set the lead and trends on so many issues. so when democracy in the united states falters, you know, leaders in other democratic nations worry could this be -- could this be our fate? how do we look at this and how do we analyze it and how do we

make sure it doesn't happen to us. you know, and you hear that in the words of what the leaders have had to say. emmanuel macron of france saying we believe in american democracy. we heard that from prime minister netanyahu in israel as well. angela merkel put her finger on the nub of it, if you will, when she said look, in democracies, there are winners and losers. she said she is disappointed that president trump hadn't accepted that he was a loser. but when actions the world witnessed on wednesday take place, she said democracy is the loser in that case. and in that way, she is fundamentally right. president biden, when he becomes president, president-elect right now said he'll hold a global summit on democracy. and it's important for him and important for the united states that he is able to bring all the united states democratic allies behind him, for many reasons, but principally for him right now, china is the biggest foreign policy issue. he needs to have a strong group

of allies behind him. how can they be strongly behind him if their leaders are worried about propaganda and about what people are saying in their own countries about supporting the united states and the invalidity of democracy. so it's corrosive. at so many levels, michael. >> such great analysis. nic robertson, thank you so much. appreciate that. important. well, the united states is lifting its decades-old restrictions on how american diplomats deal with taiwan, and that is a move certain to anger china. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo made the announcement on saturday. china views taiwan as a renegade province and dealings with the democratically ruled island have long been a source of tension. pompeo said the old u.s. restrictions were meant to appease china's communist regime. no more, he says. the u.s. is hitting several

sobering milestones in the new year, and vaccines aren't rolling out nearly as fast as promised. we'll have the latest on efforts to ramp up inoculations, just ahead. also this. confirmed covid cases surging in the uk to levels not seen anywhere in western europe. we'll go live to london for the very latest. we'll be right back. loves me. loves me not. new neutrogena® skin balancing! 3 made-for-you formulas with 2% pha exfoliate and condition for soft, balanced skin.

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we don't have any more icu capacity. all of the hospitals in the region are putting icu patients in unusual places in the hospital just to find room for them. >> incredible, isn't it? just ten days into the new year, and the u.s. has seen at least two million new covid cases, 24,000 deaths. that brings the total past 22 million cases, and more than

372,000 fatalities. at least five states have hit a million cases or more on their own, and this includes california. los angeles county has reported more than 1,000 deaths in just the last four days. it also reports 100,000 new cases over the past week, bringing the total number to more than 906,000. the health department says southern california has completely run out of room in its icus. the stunning covid numbers in the u.s. make the need for vaccinations, of course, even more our jeurgent. according to the centers for disease control, more than 22 million vaccines have been distributed around the u.s., but less than 7 million have been administered. evan mcmorris-santoro looks at how states are allocating vaccines. >> reporter: while the pandemic continues to rage, the biggest question facing u.s. officials is how to distribute the vaccines as quickly and effectively as possible. many states are shockingly slow

on administering vaccinations. the cdc says these states have administered fewer than 25% of their vaccine supplies. the agency says only four states have administered more than half of the doses they received. in new york, once the epicenter telephone pandemic, governor andrew cuomo bowed to pressure and loosened restrictions on who can get vaccinated after local leaders complained that strict parameters meant doses were going unused. starting monday in new york, an expanded list of frontline workers and residents over the age of 75 can start signing up to get vaccines. but cuomo says to expect a long wait. >> i just want to be clear with my mother and with everybody's mother and with everybody's father and with everybody's grandfather, we're talking about 14 weeks until the federal supply is increased. >> reporter: president-elect biden will aim to release doses currently in federal reserve now. that's instead of holding some of them as second doses as the

trump administration had done. but experts tell cnn that plan could have its own pitfalls if it results in delayed second doses. >> give me the one dose and delaying the second dose beyond what was discovered in the clinical trials, we take a risk of those individuals not necessarily being protected sufficiently. >> reporter: the vaccine crunch comes as the united states faces some of its darkest days of the pandemic so far. a week that included a record daily death count, ominous strains on hospital capacity, and more evidence that the potentially more contagious variant first identified in the uk is here. for the moment, health experts say the current vaccine should protect from the new strain. >> we will also be looking at that very carefully and following it carefully. but right now the data indicate that the uk mutant is still quite sensitive to the antibodies that are induced by the vaccine.

>> reporter: how quickly most americans will receive that vaccine, though, remains an open question. evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, new york. the uk passed three million total coronavirus cases on saturday. no other country in western europe has known more infections. and the number of people across the uk testing positive for the virus is up 22% over just last week. nina dos santos is tracking all of this from london. she joins me now live. stunning case in death toll numbers there. what is the government's strategy? >> well, they're getting awfully worried here. essentially, they're trying to double down on people's behavior, telling them they must absolutely try and stay at home, unless they have an absolutely necessary cause to go out and say, for instance, go to the shops and get food or medicine. they must consider the fact even

if they may be asymptomatic, they could be passing on the virus to somebody else, and that could end up in a chain of infection that could result in a vulnerable person losing their life. that is essentially the message coming from the government on a di of really sobering milestones. we've had so many over the course of this weekend for the uk, michael. just yesterday, we saw 1,035 people losing their lives from coronavirus. that has brought the death toll in this country to more than 80,000. we've been telling our viewers for some time now the fifth worst hit country anywhere in the world in terms of the total number of lives claimed by coronavirus. and as you point out there as well, we're talking about three million people across this country having received a lab positive test here. now remember that the uk had a lot of trouble earlier on in the pandemic of getting its testing and tracing strategy under way. those are just the lab tests, not the quick lateral flow tests that give you a quick result within 30 minutes that don't need to go to a lab and are deemed to be slightly less

effective. speaking of those lateral flow tests, that's also something the government is keen to start rolling out today. they're going to be engaging a big push yet again to try and get these rapid tests out into community centers with the hope that they can pick up those asymptomatic people who as i said might be part of that chain of infection that could result in deadly consequences further down the line. but obviously, they say they picked up about 14.8,0 thousand. the queen and phillip got their vaccine yesterday. michael? >> concerning times in tcu. nina dos santos, good to see you. thank you so much. now the vatican is set to begin covid-19 vaccinations next week. how the pope says receiving the inoculation is an ethical duty.

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to the vatican this coming week, and pope francis lining up to get his shot. joining me now is cnn senior vatican analyst john allen joining us from roam. good to see you, john. it's important for the pope to be vaccinated, not just for his own health, but because of his influence, of course, over tens of millions of people. >> yeah, hi there, michael. great to see you. you are absolutely right. and this pope has been pro vaccine from the beginning. just to give you a brief tick-tock, just before christmas, he approved the morality of the use of the vaccine. on christmas day, he called the vaccines a light of hope and urged that they be fairly described to poorer countries too. a few days ago, the vatican announced its own roll-out plan. and now thanks to a new interview with an italian tv network, we know that pope francis himself will be getting the shot next week. he described doing so as an ethical duty, saying that if medical professionals tell you to do this and it doesn't have any particular risks, you should

do it. he also took a swipe at vaccine resistance, saying he doesn't understand this attitude of suicidal denial about the vaccines. so some strong medicine there, michael, for a pope who is getting set to practice what he preaches. >> i just want to go back. you did mention morality approval. and i think it's interesting for people to understand that. that's because some of the vaccines connected to research with stem cells, right? >> yeah. so these vaccines either in development or in the testing phase, all of them have utilized stem cell lines that are remotely derived from aborted fetuses in the 1960s. on the basis of that, a couple of catholic bishops in the united states and sohad come ou and ruled against them. the vatican ruled that is so remote and the benefit so great

that there is no moral objection. >> very interesting. john allen, good to see you. it's been a minute. i hope you're well. thanks for that. he is a good man, john allen. a once in a lifetime trip for a canadian family with a seriously ill child was put on hold because of coronavirus, but many canadian officials managed to break the very covid restrictions they put in place. well, now their fellow citizens are calling them out, demanding some accountability as families and health care workers suffer and sacrifice. paula newton reports. >> hello, everyone. it's rod phillips -- >> it was staged as a heartwarming christmas message, complete with gingerbread decor and a cozy fire. it turned into a hot mess when canadians learned this politician wasn't home for the holidays but vacationing on the caribbean island of st. barts during the covid lockdown. he was ordered back to canada. >> i know that i disappointed a

lot of people. i hope people appreciate. i disappointed no one more than myself. >> reporter: canadians weren't buying it. ontario's finance minister was forced to resign, and it was just the beginning. what followed were confessions, demotions, resignations from politicians and government employees who just couldn't resist a family visit or vacation, flouting the very guidelines they helped set. even posted it on social media. ♪ we're jammin, jammin >> there is a very lo-co individual rate in jamaica. >> reporter: only to apologize. >> i shouldn't have gone. >> reporter: one trip to hawaii became a searing flash point of anger. then alberta government minister tracy allard was welcomed home from her christmas vacation with "aloha allard" a measure of outrage now brewing with canadians. >> why didn't you stop and think? you're the ones standing in front of the camera saying hey,

you guys got to stay at home. >> 9-year-old braden, traditionally ill with a rare connective tissue disease. after years of waiting, he was meant to go to hawaii in 2020, but couldn't take literally the trip of his life when make a wish canada had to postpone it because of covid. >> we enjoy life here and in the moment. so it's just a huge smack in the face. this was going to be our year. we were going to finally go. we were going to get it in hopefully before we lose him. and to see that other people were jet-setting around because they had had, you know, a long year or whatever, it's -- it's hurtful. >> hey, hey, hey. >> reporter: and some just aren't going to take it anymore. local bans on gatherings on households have led to snitch lines. here is a police takedown of someone having a drink with friends on new year's eve. the neighbors said not on our watch.

the months of sacrifices of a travel ban, 14-day quarantines, and weeks long lockdowns are making canadians weary and angry, especially health care workers now exhausted by a second wave of the violence more deadly and dangerous than the first. >> canadians are not -- do not tend to rapidly become outraged. we're pretty calm, you know a lot. but i think this is sort of been a bit of a tipping point for us to say okay, we've done our bit. what is this about what your respect for our sacrifices have been. for them to then ignore the sacrifice of others for their personal pleasure is -- it's hard to articulate how deeply disturbing that is. it truly feels like an insult. >> reporter: it is offering the collective spirit still needed

to fight the virus here as the privileged and complacent potentially endanger lives right across the country. paula newton, cnn, ottawa. >> thanks for watching cnn and spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. do stay with us, though. another hour of cnn coming up. kim is now demonstrating her congestion. save it slimeball. i've upgraded to mucinex. we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours.

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appreciate your company. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," calls for a second impeachment have grown too loud to ignore, causing donald trump to assemble a legal team. this as sources tell cnn mr. trump and his vice president haven't spoken since the riot and mike pence reportedly not ruling out the 25th amendment. plus, authorities make even more arrests following wednesday's capitol breach. the latest on the search for suspects . with just ten days remaining in his term, donald trump is about to be impeached for the second time. that has never happened to a u.s. president. as the magnitude of the deadly riots he incited comes into sharper focus, a political