perhaps the president will find another way to temper his followers and prevent any further tragedy in the days ahead. hi. welcome to all of our viewers joining us from around the world. you're watching cnn. i'm robyn curnow. wasting no time. new details also unspeakable horror and violence at the capitol as rioters now face justice. >> plus skyrocketing coronavirus deaths here in the u.s. but alarmingly low vaccinations.

good to have you along. so extremist supporters of president donald trump are now calling for more violence in the u.s. capitol. and it's against that backdrop that lawmakers will now take action against the president in the coming hours. the house is expected to vote to urge vice president mike pence to take steps to remove president trump from office. if pence doesn't, the president faces a possibility of an unprecedented second impeachment. >> sadly, the person running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. and it will be a number of days until we can be protected from him. but he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him. >> well, arrests from last weeks

riot are still being made, and officials are investigating whether some of the rioters planned to take lawmakers hostage. ryan nobles has more now on what's ahead in the u.s. house. ryan? >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi is ready to move forward with articles of impeachment against president trump if vice president mike pence does not begin the process of invoking the 25th amendment. in a letter to her colleagues on sunday night pelosi said that she is going to introduce a resolution on monday morning that will essentially put mike pence on the clock, give him 24 hours to decide whether or not he's going to take the step of moving forward on the 25th amendment. and if he doesn't, then the house will begin impeachment proceedings. that could happen as early as wednesday. and there's enough votes for pelosi to get the impeachment past the house. the question is what happens when it gets to the senate?

so the question is what does pelosi do after those articles of impeachment are passed? she could send them over to mcconnell for him to do nothing with them or she could actually hold onto them and wait until president trump is out of office. and when the democrats are in control of the senate and begin the trial, then there are still some benefits for the house democrats to move forward with the impeachment even after president trump is out of office. there are long-term consequences that president trump could be in store for if he is ultimately convicted of those impeachment proceedings. so still a lot we don't know. the only thing we know for sure is that speaker pelosi is ready to take that first step of doing something to hold president trump accountable for his role in those riots that took place here last wednesday. ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. >> thanks, ryan, for that. as we wait for the house to start impeachment proceedings, a growing number of republican lawmakers are speaking out. they're publicly placing at

least some of the blame on president trump for wednesday's insurrection. one senator says the president's political career is virtually over. >> i think the president has disqualified himself from ever certainly serving in office again. i don't think he's electable in any way, and i don't think he's going to be exercising anything like the kind of influence that he has had over the republican party going forward. >> there's no question in my mind that he was -- he was responsible for inciting this riotous mob. this was an insurrection, and, you know, they stormed the capitol and threatened to kill the vice president and put the lives of people in danger, and he had a huge part -- a huge role to play in that. >> i talked to some of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle today. i do believe there's an appetite whether that's a censure or some other resolution or opportunity to move forward, someone's got

to be held accountable. and we have to hold the president accountable for what happened. the rhetoric leading up to this vote, the lies told to the american people, this is what happens. rhetoric has real consequences, and people die. >> we're also learning new details about the violence that unfolded at the u.s. capitol on wednesday. new video obtained by cnn shows a police officer being brutally assaulted by rioters as they try to storm the building. now, a warning this video is disturbing, but take a look. >> as you can see the angry mob

there pulls the officer to the ground, drags him down the stairs and beats him as he laid there helplessly. someone even hit the officer with a pole carrying the american flag. now the attack happened about 10 minutes after president trump told the crowd to go home, but clearly -- clearly his message was too little, too late. cnn has reached out to the police for more information on this assault as well as the officer's condition. authorities are still trying to identify many of these rioters involved in wednesday's attack. jessica schneider has the latest on the investigation and what police are doing to prevent more violence. jessica? >> reporter: there is a lot of concern as we move into a new week and closer to the inauguration in the wake of last week's attack on the u.s. capitol. the capitol now surrounded by a 7 foot nonscalable fence and hundreds of national guard members. they will be sent in for the inauguration next wednesday. that includes a thousand members from new york, 6,200 from across

the country. and so far, a man found with 11 home maid bombs in his truck near the capitol plus a handgun, assault rifle and ammunition. and prosecutors say that man actually had two handguns on him when police finally found him. then there was another man charged with sending text messages threatening injury to house speaker nancy pelosi. when he was found he had firearms including an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition that was in a truck he had parked outside of a holiday inn hotel in washington. but this is likely just the beginning of the charges. the acting u.s. attorney in december says hundreds of people may end up under arrest as they continue this investigation that encompasses hundreds of prosecutors and fbi agents working from three command centers 24/7. and finally there is some growing concern for the safety of members of congress, many of whom wave seen in videos yelled

at, surrounded in airports as they traveled to and from washington. well, this weekend we learned all members will be able to get increased security when they travel through airports. u.s. capitol police, they're coordinating with other law enforcement agencies to make sure those protections happen to keep those members of congress safe. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> michael is a political analyst and author of "how trump governs." he joins me now from los angeles. lovely to have you on the show. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> how much momental is building for a fast track impeachment? >> oh, it's very, very close. i think nancy pelosi said it very clearly. if the president doesn't resign, if the vice president doesn't start the 25th amendment, then congress will impeach. they could impeach very quickly. they have a very short insurrection and incitement of violence charge. it can be done very quickly.

a senate trial would take much longer. but i think the key is impeachment because i think they have to find a way to make a very clear statement that donald trump is not going to be part of our future, that we have to put him in our rearview mirror. and he's got to be behind us. he's put a lot of pollution into the system. we've got to get rid of that pollution. and impeaching him a second time would do that. it would end his political future and end his career. >> i want to play some of them because before we came to you there were some really disturbing images. as we see more fall out from this week, what is the impact politically of images like this especially for republicans? >> the republicans have got to make a choice because this was a completely different set of circumstances than they faced in the past. in the past it was donald trump's excessive verbiage, his

attacks, his, you know, breaking of norms. this is insurrection. this is violence against the united states government. this is what you put people in prison for life for. so there are republican senators like ted cruz and hawley who have sided with them, sided with the president. they are jeopardizing their careers as their careers should be jeopardized because they're siding with insurrectionists. this is something republicans have to get a space from. they have to get distance from that because their brand has already been tarnished. they can't just rebrand. they need to do a maya culpa first. we did it wrong, we'll do better. on the positive side if you look historically at this, the republican party can come back. parties are very resilient. in 1964 republicans got crushed with barry goldwater. four years later they win the white house. >> you talk about this domestic

terrorism, extremist, just sheer excitement. we're seeing an image for example of a man who wore a camp auschwitz sweatshirt. it's almost unbelievable to see an image like this. there he is on the left with the beard. we know he's been arrested and identified. but none of this hatred, that kind of hatred magically ends on january 20th, does it? now that is the problem. >> that's right. it's in our bloodstream now. he's given permission for people to do that, to be that way. and before donald trump those people were existent, but they all stayed under a rock wherever they were, and they knew they can't come out because they would be criticized, they would not be accepted. they felt accepted by donald trump. he gave them permission to come out in the open. and now they are so out in the open that, you know, you saw them on january 6th. they're taking selfies of each other. they're just having a party. thank goodness that the people who went into the capitol were so incompetent that they had no

plan. let's go rush the capitol, and then when they're there it was what do we do now? it was almost like a college prank for some of these folks. and they did a lot of damage, but thankfully no one was killed in the house or senate. but there were five people killed. that's a whole new level of violence and a whole new set of circumstances that the republicans have to have around their neck. >> this is going to be the first full week of this president not tweeting. how does that change things? and where does this social media ban leave president trump and his supporters? >> in normal times the media ban would have been something that donald trump would have just jumped at and would have said this is an example, they're out to get us and the bad guys are all after me. he doesn't have the capacity to do that the way he used to. plus the circumstances are so different. he's on the defensive because what was done in his name by people who thought they were following his lead was so

heinous, so disgraceful that the rug has been pulled out from under trump, and he did it to himself. and so if he doesn't have a megaphone, it's because the megaphone has been taken away from a spoiled child. >> michael, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, robyn. >> legendary watergate journalist carl bernstein has strong, strong words for president trump and republican leaders when he spoke with cnn on sunday. he says events at the capitol last week have stained trump forever, adding that gop leaders must constrain the president. now to prevent more damage to democracy. listen. >> look, one way or another the stain of what has happened is going to cling to donald trump's person and his movement forever in history. the important thing at this moment is to make sure that in his state of utter madness that he is constrained, he's put in a

constitutional straitjacket, that he cannot do further damage to the interest of the united states and the safety and health and welfare of its people and constitution, whatever that takes. and it's damn time for mcconnell and mccarthy and others, pence, to say that's what needs to be done. i think we need to look at the bigger picture here. that really donald trump is the enemy of the constitutional republic that is the united states of america. >> also coming up, soaring cases, hospitalizations and deaths. ahead, the fight against coronavirus in the u.s. and the vaccine rollout that is falling far short of expectations. you're watching cnn. stay with us. ♪ these days, it's okay to do some things halfway... but taking prescriptions shouldn't be one of them. so cvs works to make them affordable with a proprietary search tool that looks for savings. plus we deliver, free.

no wonder cvs customers are better than most at staying on prescriptions. which tends to make you healthier. get a free prescription savings review at cvs. that doesn't happen. of an asthma attack... this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is a different kind of asthma medication. it's not a steroid or inhaler. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it's one maintenance dose every 8 weeks. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. nearly 7 out of 10 adults with asthma may have elevated eosinophils. fasenra is designed to target and remove them. fasenra is not a rescue medication or for other eosinophilic conditions. fasenra may cause allergic reactions. get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, and tongue, or trouble breathing. don't stop your asthma treatments unless your doctor tells you to. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection or your asthma worsens.

headache and sore throat may occur. this is the sound of fasenra. ask your doctor about fasenra. if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. get their dishes as clean as possible.olks ask me how to i tell them, try cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. it breaks down food soils to clean up to 99% of visible and invisible food residue for a hygienic clean you can see and feel. cascade + the power of oxi. and still going for my best. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib... ...not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm reaching for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? i'm on board. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding.

don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliquis, you may bruise more easily- -and it may take longer than usual for any bleeding to stop. seek immediate medical care for sudden signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. eliquis may increase your bleeding risk if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. ask your doctor about eliquis. and if your ability to afford... ...your medication has changed, we want to help. ...your medication has changed, that life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look... ...with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one... ...fda approved... ...to temporarily make frown lines... ...crow's feet... ...and forehead lines... ...look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic, may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness may be a sign of a life-threatening condition. do not receive botox® cosmetic if you have a skin infection.

side effects may include allergic reactions, injection site pain, headache, eyebrow, eyelid drooping, and eyelid swelling. tell your doctor about your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions, and medications including botulinum toxins as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. so, give that just saw a puppy look. and whatever that look is. look like you... with fewer lines. see results at botoxcosmetic.com we're now just 11 days into the new year and the u.s. has already added more than 2.3 million coronavirus cases. as hospitalizations and deaths continue to soar. so right now january is on track to be the deadliest month in the pandemic. since the first of the year more than 28,000 people have died. nowhere is the situation worse than in california.

just look at these images. the state added nearly 50,000 new cases and the surge of infections is showing absolutely no sign of letting up. but california is now looking to boost its vaccine rollout. as distribution across the u.s. continues to move very slowly. the cdc says more than 22 million vaccine doses have been distributed. just over 6.6, though, have been administered. the former head of the food and drug administration says it's time for a new strategy. >> the game has changed on the vaccine. we really need to get this vaccine out more quickly because this is really our only tool, our only back stop against the spread of this new variant. we might be able to get immunity into the population. we need to hit had reset and adopt a new strategy on trying to get it out to patients. >> joining me to discuss is a cnn medical analyst and also

professor at oregon health and safety. i want to get your take on this vaccine rollout. are you surprised or is this another example of america's patchwork health care system? >> hi, robyn. i agree with the latter. i think every time we've had to roll something out whether it's testing or contact tracing or supply or support for hospitals, it's really been really disorganized, complete lack of central coordination and guidance and resources. and so vaccine distribution is pretty much the same. there just hasn't been a strong, centralized, well-organized coordinated effort across states that would give kind of turn key approaches that would allow us to hit the ground running and be efficient. and certainly not the level of resources we need in terms of -- particularly in terms of the health care work force to really

make mass vaccination happen. >> so then what must the biden team do as soon as they take office? what needs to change? how do you centralize this vaccine rollout? >> the biden administration, first of all, has the expertise for the operational aspects and also for the scientific pieces. these are all public health and science and medicine people who have done these sort of efforts before. and i think the main thing is that they're excellent communicators. so they've made a lot of efforts already to try to bring people together around the same table so that you can have the same strategic conversations, figure out what states need and also mobilize every resource needed to get the states what they need to do this efficiently and well. >> are you in agreement with the thinking that perhaps all these vaccinations need to be given out and not stockpiled for the

second dose, for the people in the beginning of the queue? what is your thought on that? >> you know, there's so much debate around this and i think people who i respect fall on different sides of it. i think there's an argument for scientific purity. we know what happens, what the outcomes are if we have a two-dose regimen that's precisely timed the way that it is in the phase 3 trials. i am actually of a different camp, though, on this. i think from an equity perspective and to give people more hope i do think that we should use the vaccine we have as quickly as possible to get it to as many people as possible. i think the public if we communicate well can understand why we're doing that. and i also think, again, the biden administration is prepared to shore up the manufacturing and the distribution in every way that is needed in order to ensure that everybody's still

gets that two-dose regimen roughly in the right time period. so i have a lot of faith in this team, and i think that's really the issue. that if we believe that the manufacturing can be boosted, then nothing is lost by distributing what we have now as quickly as possible. >> so folks just need to hold tight for a little while longer in your opinion. let's just talk about california. absolutely desperate. the numbers are crazy. i think it's 1 in 5 people have it. it might be worse than that now. what do you make of what's playing out in california? do we have any sense of the disaster that's unfolding? >> it's just bone chilling. i'm hearing directly from colleagues there and just following them closely. i think it's very hard to imagine unless you're on the ground there, but simply whole health systems that are overwhelmed by covid. i mean in some counties as much

as two thirds of patients at hospitals are being treated for covid. and then there's all the rest of the patients who need regular care there who are clearly being crowded out. it's difficult to even get transport to a hospital. you call the ambulance for an emergency, you're transported and you have to be managed there in the ambulance wbay because they simply cannot bring more patients into the hospital. nurses have an incredibly high burden right now. of course the governor lifted the usual restrictions around how many patients each nurse can take care of. and so their workload has just gone how the roof. that doesn't feel safe to a lot of people, but it's simply what's necessary right now. these are unimaginable conditions on the ground there. and of course we're only partway through january, which as you said is looking like it'll be the worst month in this pandemic so far, and i think that will stretch into february. >> doctor, we've spoken a lot i think over the past eight months

or so. and i'd ask you every time how you're doing, how your teams are doing and what's it like in the er at the moment. tell us, please, how are you doing? >> there's kind of good news and bad news. i'm in oregon where we are knock on wood nothing like california right now. we've managed to keep things at bay with more -- with pretty aggressive social restrictions. but it's been still a very sustained effort. i think the nice thing is at this stage in the pandemic we have a lot of things in place. you know, our protocols around treating covid patients. we're much, much confident in the medical treatment of these patients. we know better how to keep ourselves, our colleagues and family members safe. so there are certainly things that get easier as we go. buts it's very discouraging to have been in crisis mode for this long, really almost a full year now. >> it is. dr. choo, thanks for everything

you do. appreciate it. >> thank you, robyn. coming up here on cnn, u.s. democrats will attempt to compel the vice president with impeachment for the president if he doesn't. we'll explain why western nations are skeptical.

welcome back to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm robyn curnow. it's 29 minutes past the hour. in just a few hours time the u.s. house democrats rill introduce the resolution calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment and remove donald trump from office. now, the resolution is expected to get a full vote on tuesday. house speaker nancy pelosi says she'll bring impeachment legislation to the floor if mr. pence does not respond to the first measure within 24 hours. pelosi announced that plan late on sunday. it's the first time she's definitively said the house will move to impeach the president if he's not removed. jeremy. >> reporter: as house speaker nancy pelosi indicates the house will move this week to impeach president trump, the president faces the increasing possibility that he will become the first president in american history to be impeached twice by the house of representatives. now, a trial in the senate is a

whole other matter and it's very unlikely that that will happen before president-elect joe biden is inaugurated on january 20th. but the president is facing not only this prospect of impeachment. he's also facing calls for his resignation including from several key republican senators and also facing with some calling for the president to be stripped of his presidential powers through that amendment. president trump making clear through our sources he has no intention of resigning despite his role in inciting that mob on capitol hill last week. but there is this question of the 25th amendment. and the move by the house speaker nancy pelosi will put a lot more pressure on vice president mike pence to make clear what his position is on this 25th amendment. so far we've just heard from sources close to the vice president that first of all, it's likely unlikely he'll actually invoke the 25th amendment and second of all he's still not taking it completely

off the table. because he wants to preserve it as an option should president trump's behavior become more unstable. but it is remarkable that despite four years of unfailing loyalty to president trump we have yet to hear mike pence say himself or through an on the record statement from his office that he does not support invoking the 25th amendment to strip president trump of his presidential powers. that in and of itself is remarkable, and this move by the house speaker could increase the pressure on mike pence to actually make his position much more clear. on sunday president trump also finally moved to lower the flag on top of the white house and to order flags across the country lowered to half staff in honor of capitol hill police officer brian sitnick who was killed in the line of duty during that siege on capitol hill. remarkable, though, it took president trump two days longer than it took the house speaker nancy pelosi to order that move and only after a lot of withering criticism.

germe diamond, cnn, the white house. >> officer sitnick passed away during the injuries he sustained in insurrection. a line of police officers saluted his hearse while it passed by the capitol. his colleagues remembered him as a friend who served on the force for more than 12 years. walgreens makes affording your medicare prescriptions... ...no sweat. so you can get back to the thing you'd rather be doing. ♪ so you can get back to the thing you'd rather be doing. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

my gums are irritated. i don't have to worry about that, do i? harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. crest gum detoxify works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. crest.

the coronavirus has now infected more than 90 million people around the world and nearly 2 million people have died. that's according to johns hopkins university and those are just the cases we know of. the british government says it'll publiclish it's vaccine

delivery plan on monday. the country has also counted nearly 17,000 new infections in the past day. officials there have already extended the country's national lock down until the end of the month. and china is promising to provide vaccines to african nations and other developing countries who haven't been able to secure many doses. christie li christie lustout takes a look how nations are attempting to bolster its ties with nations. >> reporter: africa first. despite a raging pandemic china's top diplomat continued a long held tradition of making the continent its first port of call in the newel year. and because of a raging pandemic, many african nations need help. during the visit the democratic republic of congo announced china granted some pandemic linked debt relief. with an elbow bump, nigeria and china pledged to deepen

bilateral cooperation in economic development and pandemic response. before the visit wang spoke to state run media pledging cooperation to reign in the virus. >> translator: china has called for global cooperation since the start and worked with other countries to fight the pandemic. >> reporter: in may president xi jinping pledged to make chinese vaccines a global public good. china has promised a growing list of developing countries across africa and asia priority access to its vaccines, and it's planning to send hundreds of millions of doses to a long list of countries that have conducted last stage trials including brazil, turkey and indonesia. it's been called vaccine diplomacy. analysts say it's a soft power play by china to reshape the pandemic narrative and repair its image damaged by initial mishandling of the outbreak. >> so they want to improve china's image. and secondly, they want to

expand the market share of the chinese vaccines. third, they want to use the vaccine sort of as a strategic tool especially in those countries where china has strategic interests. >> and the idea of beijing mounting a vaccine -- >> reporter: the term doesn't sit well with china. state media rejects the notion that its vaccines are a bargaining chip. china vaccines do have their public health advantages. they don't require ultralow temperature for storage making shipment easier in the developing world. they may have announced efficacy rates lower thanner and moderna but they're higher than the astrazeneca/oxford vaccine. there is a worrying lack of transparency. no detailed efficacy data has been released for china's leading vaccine candidates. but to developing nations, they are a potential lifesaver.

according to the peoples vaccine alliance, rich countries have purchased enough covid-19 doses to iminize their populations three times over. in 67 poor nations including nigeria only 1 in 10 can hope to be vaccinated by the end of the year according to the international vaccine watchdog group. having largely contained the virus at home, china can focus its vaccine drive on those very countries, a chance to restore its reputation and position itself as the solution to rather than the cause of the pandemic. christie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. >> so health officials in india say they plan to start their coronavirus vaccine drive on saturday. they say the first phase will prioritize health care and front line workers followed by people aged 50 and older or those who are vulnerable. officials plan to reach millions of people with this vaccine drive. india has the second highest case count in the world behind the u.s. with nearly

10.5 million recorded infections. so thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm robyn curnow. for our international viewers "world sport" is next. for everyone else, i'll be back with more news after the break. why walgreens? with save a trip refills that let you pick up all your prescriptions all on the same day... we make filling your medicare prescriptions... ...go like clockwork. so you can get back to what you'd rather be doing! ♪

you power through chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, ...each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. so, if you haven't tried botox® for your chronic migraine, ...check with your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if samples are available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection ...causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, ...speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness... ...can be signs of a life-threatening condition. side effects may include allergic reactions... ...neck and injection site pain... ...fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox® if there's a skin infection. tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions... ...and medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. 95% of patients may pay as little as

zero dollars for botox®. so, text to see how you can save. botox® has been preventing headaches and migraines before they even start for 10 years. so, ask your doctor about botox® today.

mom: honeydad:at i think youi played jv basketball.h. mom: i'm sorry, i don't think it looks right. dad: this is good. and it's all good, baby. mom: is it, is it really all good? daughter: if you love me enough to routinely test your handyman skills not to mention the strength of your marriage, then of course you'll visit nhtsa.gov/therightseat to make sure i'm in the right car seat. mom: i'm gonna call my dad.

welcome back. i'm robyn curnow. it's 45 minutes past the hour. so the u.s. plans to designate yemen's houthi rebels a foreign terror group. diplomats and aide groups fear the designation could damage the u.n.'s work on peace talks in yemen and hinder humanitarian aid. it could also pose challenges for the incoming u.s. president joe biden to try and create a yemen policy. now, in the coming hours the

u.s. house is expected to urge vice president mike pence to take steps to enact the 25th amendment. if he doesn't act within the 24 hours house speaker nancy pelosi says she'll move ahead with the unprecedented second impeachment oof t of the president. and two-thirds of americans believe the president shares blame for those riots. and those scenes the world watched unfold at the u.s. capitol on wednesday were of course extraordinary. yet american woke up the next day to relative order. nick paten walsh looks at how the days events underscores the flaws of the american system. >> i think as as argued on a piece on cnn digital there were scenes that forged their way into the u.s. capitol on wednesday but there are also some key differences, frankly in how the united states reacted to

that situation. in so much of the attempted coups that i or others have seen around the world there is the next morning an extraordinary sense of uncertainty, a real sense of fear perhaps that something fundamental has changed in the fabric of the country. you might see the president perhaps hiding or appearing much more bullish on television depending on what's just happened. you might find state tv playing propaganda. what was quite extraordinary the morning after wednesday was to see how the system simply picked up again in the united states. that's a comfortable vision of seeing cable news, rolling news channels reporting the events, openly, transparently dissecting them. other branches of the government, of parts of congress, parts of the democratic opposition standing up, expressing their fury about what had in fact happened. the capacity, frankly, for people to do that openly is something that is extraordinarily rare around the

world particularly after attempted coups. and certainly i think some of the language that was used around that particular violence, it reflects how extraordinarily surprised americans were to see this. there'd been multiple warnings but still no sight like that. but the key thing i think for many to remember particularly they'll be urged on perhaps in that sense of recognition by people who genuinely have survived or still live under tyranny the u.s. system did still manage to prevail. yes, it has flaws. yes it flaws to enable it to get that particular savage point outside the congress where five people lost their lives. important to remember that. but still there were parts of democracy there that kicked into action. there was law. there was order. the rioters when they got inside those buildings didn't to some degree get what it was they perhaps had gone there for. they were stopped by brave police officers. they were prevented from achieving whatever it was in fact their goals had indeed

been. and then swiftly afterwards finally the pentagon moved into action, other law enforcement as well. so i think it's important to americans who perhaps look at those scenes and think, gosh, what is happening to our democracy, is the fabric of our system falling apart, to remember that it isn't. and remember there are many around the world who have been through similar scenes of unrest seen their daily lives shaken by attempted coups, by scenes like that who will look at america managed to recover so fast, how it had law and order, had those guardrails and feel in some sense an extraordinary sense of g jealousy to a degree. it's important to remember how much order there was still there, how much fairness the law still seemed to provide to those who sought justice and how that may hold america in a better position as it navigates the complicated nightmare of the political environment in the weeks ahead. nick paten walsh, cnn, london.

the u.s. president is vowing to fight tech companies during his final days in office after getting booted from twitter and other social media giants. in less than an hour amazon will remove parler from its cloud hosting service effectively taking it off the internet until it can find a new web hosting provider. this comes after apple and google banned the network from their platforms. amyl gave 24 hours to remove hateful and violent comments before removing the app. john joins us live from dubai. a coordinated response from tech companies. >> indeed, robyn. at first silicon valley was seen as being too soft on donald trump, his base and the traffic they developed both to web hosting companies and mobile phone groups as well. that all changed after the attacks on capitol hill last wednesday. let's cover the mobile platform

of apple and also google. apple has suggested parler was the number one free app on the platform, so this says a great deal. they're willing to take action in the name of hate and organizing a violent protest like what happened on capitol hill. they said the language continued thereafter, and a major web hosting platform saying they warned parler in a letter before they had to change the practices. they said there were nearly 100 examples that continued even after that warning. from parler's standpoint the ceo was saying this is politically motivated and silicon valley wants to kill off competition. parler said it would take publicly about a week for them to find a new web host. we don't know what that will mean or who will step up to do so. but this is part of also a bigger move here by silicon valley to be seen as proactive. you remember the republican senate called silicon valley ceos to hearings suggesting they were violating free speech. this is an effort to try to

balance free speech but also being seen as proactive for the future, robyn, because they don't want to be overly regulated by a new biden administration. >> that's interesting. let's talk about silencing the president's twitter feed. it's certainly going to hit him hard. he's relied very heavily on communicating through that medium. but we also know what will hit him hard and potentially it will be this move from the pga. tell us more. >> yeah, a very busy weekend against donald trump and his organization. you almost feel like a light has switched on here, robyn, and that the trump brand has become very toxic quickly. the pga hosts one of the big four golf championships every year in the united states. they were to host their championship in may 2022 at bedminster, trump of course in new jersey. in may 2022 they've taken the decision now saying it's detrimental to the pga brand. that was the board decision. jim richardson who's the president of the pga said they

could no longer work in collaboration with the trump organization. the trump organization was suggesting for its part that this was a binding contract, so they planned legal action. but obviously the pga thinks that they had an exit clause in that contract for something like this taking place. but you have to think about it. donald trump lives off that brand, robyn, as you're suggesting. not just on social media but on apartment buildings, hotels and on golf courses around the world. i think this is something that's going to just be the start of something in terms of a trend not only in the united states but abroad as well. there's a trump course here develop developed in dubai as well. so vogue magazine's sparking controversy with a cover shoot to vice president-elect kamala harris. i want to show you this cover. this is for the february feature leaked on twitter. it shows harris wearing a dark suit and her trademark converse

sneakers. there's nothing obviously wrong with it except a source says this is not the picture vice president-elect harris agreed to. the magazine later released this picture and says it will run both images in digital editions. vogue said they felt the informal images captured harris' quota thentic approachable nature. thanks for joining me here on cnn. i'm robyn curnow. the news continues with my colleague rosemary church. a lotta folks are asking me lately

how to get their dishes as clean as possible. i tell them, you should try cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. cascade platinum + oxi breaks down food soils some detergents can leave behind, cleaning up to 99% of visible and invisible food residue then washing it away so it doesn't redeposit on your dishes. and oxi is cascade's most powerful clean, formulated with no chlorine bleach. for a deep, hygienic clean you can see and feel cascade + the power of oxi.

hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom." and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, donald trump could become the only u.s. president to be impeached twice as calls grow for him to be removed from office. plus new details on the deadly siege he incited as authorities track down rioters. and january is on pace to become the deadliest month of the pandemic in the united states.