mo more. >> reporter: a key focus now among federal and local law enforcement agencies preventing a repeat of wednesday's deadly siege of the u.s. capitol. according to an fbi bulletin obtained by cnn, armed protests are being planned in washington, d.c., with all 50 capitols this weekend through inauguration day. monitoring online chatter. hello and welcome to our >> they're looking at open source things and going through viewers joining us here in the and following up in some of united states and all around the these chat rooms and some places world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary where extremists tend to church. coalesce in the dark corners of just ahead -- >> we are on the verge of what i the web. >> reporter: dc mayor muriel fear to be a pretty significant bowser concerned about more violent actors coming to breakdown in democracy in civil washington is urging people not society here. to come into the city on >> the fbi is warning of dozens inauguration day. >> our goals right now are to of armed protests being planned nationwide ahead of inauguration encourage americans to participate virtually and to day. can law enforcement prevent more violence? plus, pushing to impeach. protect the district of columbia

all eyes are on capitol hill today as the democrats aim to from the violent insurrection hold the president accountable for last week's riot. president-elect joe biden experienced at the capitol. >> reporter: the pentagon is has his coronavirus vaccine, the second one, but most americans boll storing 15,000 guardsmen to be deployed by inauguration day. face rollout trouble by delays and confusion. at least 20 people have been we'll take a closer look. rounded up across the country and face federal charges. some are accused of bringing bombs and other weapons to capitol hill. two men were arrested after photographs showed them wearing good to have you with us. body armor and carrying plastic we begin in washington where house democrats are pushing ahead with their plans to restraining ties. impeach donald trump for a one man is accused of wanting to second time. lawmakers will soon reconvene to shoot house speaker nancy consider one article of pelosi. they are using sophisticated impeachment against the tools to track down more president for inciting last week's deadly insurrection at suspects. >> all of the cell phone the capitol. records, all of the electronic the vote is set to happen a exhaust that's given off by our little more than 24 hours from now. cell phones, crossing bridges, meanwhile, acting homeland security secretary chad wolf is ez pass, license plate readers, resigning. he's leaving just as the fbi has matching that up with available

issued a chilling warning about more possible attackian todd for online information as well as conducting interviews of these people's friends and circles. >> reporter: and new fallout over the breakdown that led to the overrunning of the capitol. now former capitol hill police chief steven sund tells cnn and the washington post he was concerned about what was coming in the days before the siege. sund said he asked his bosses, the house and senate bosses, request that they be on stand by, the national guard. he was turned down. when the rioting was underway he pleaded five more times for help including to the pentagon. quote, i needed boots on the ground. immediate assistance then and there helping to secure the nation's capitol building. they were more concerned with

the optics. the army general denies sund's claim. he said he needed to get it planned and it was quickly taken to the secretary of defense. we reached out to the house and senate sergeants at arms to their response to sund's allegations. while some capitol police officers are being haled as heroes for their courage during that riot, several others have been suspended. the acting capitol police chief says investigators are actively reviewing video and other material from wednesday's attack. they're trying to determine if any current and former law enforcement officers played a part in the riot. in addition to the suspensions, we are told at least ten other officers are under investigation. security concerns mount, we are learning that president trump has approved the dc mayor's request for a predisaster declaration. that means extra funding for

security around the inauguration after he got his coronavirus vaccine. president-elect joe biden told reporters the threats won't stop him from taking his oath of office on january 20th. >> i'm not afraid of taking the oath outside. i think it's critically important that there be a real serious focus on holding those folks who engaged in sedition and threatened people's lives, defaced public property, caused great damage that they be held accountable. i think that's a view held by the vast majority of democrats and republicans in the congress. >> so let's now talk with the policy maker in residence at the university of michigan and former senior director of

counter terrorism at the national security council. >> thank you for having me, rosemary. >> a disturbing fbi internal memo shows protests are called for at all 50 states and there are threats of an uprising if president trump is removed before january 20th. what was your reaction to this? what needs to be done to try to neutralize these threats? >> certainly very surprising to hear the fbi, my former employer release a bulletin like that. i don't think it was done with any ill intent. it appears to be based on either specific information that suggests that there are threats in all 50 states and without

that specific threat information that individuals and leaders in literally every state across the country need to do more to get ready between now and the inauguration. >> how is it possible for the country to deal with that? if you're having these attacks in 50 different states at the capitol buildings, we saw what happened last wednesday in that instance, they were not able to control the mob. what happens if it's happening simultaneously in 50 different states? >> i have a hard time believing they have that information that there are 50 plots all coordinated to occur around the inauguration in every state. i think it is more on the abundance of caution. i haven't seen the bulletin so i can't speak to it directly but in terms of measures that can be done between now and then, clearly this is a warning sign that security needs to be ramped up, both with the activation of national guard elements and there appears to be news that

governors in many states have already made that decision to mobilize national guard units and then beefing up law enforcement, security, other homeland security resources as well in developing a very secure layer of perimeter-based security so where what happened last week at the capitol can't happen again because you've got these rings of security around a very tightly guarded target. hopefully that's going to be one of the pieces of this plan as it goes forward. >> meantime, two capitol hill police officers have been suspended, many more under investigation and another individual has been arrested in the wake of last wednesday's insurrection directing rioters through the capitol building. do you worrisome insiders who enabled this riot still remain and pose a possible threat to the inauguration? and how difficult will it be to

track them and other perpetrators down, do you think? >> this is one of the saddest parts of what happened last week because for those 15 votes and potentially others as you mentioned that enabled rioters and this mob to overwhelm their force, i think this has serious consequences. it desecrated this iconic piece of the american sort of national identity, physical destruction, and somebody was murdered. one of their fellow officers were murdered. i can't even imagine what these 15, potentially others feel. this is about as serious as it gets. >> counter terrorism expert talking to me earlier. president trump and vice president mike pence have met for the first sim since the deadly riot at the capitol. a source says they had a good conversation at the white house

on monday and agreed to work together for the remainder of their term. pence has been under pressure to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from power, but if that doesn't happen, democrats say they will vote to impeach the president on wednesday. our ryan nobles has the details. >> reporter: tuesday will be a big day here on capitol hill. that's when democrats will begin the process of impeaching president trump for the second time. they'll start with a resolution giving vice president mike pence 24 hours to invoke the 25th amendment, which it's unlikely that he will do. then on wednesday they'll take up the actual articles of impeachment. it is expected that they'll be able to pass it relatively quickly. they have the votes and it is likely that it will get through the democratic controlled house without much of an issue. the question is what becomes of those articles of impeachment once they are passed. the current senate majority leader mitch mcconnell does not

appear to be all that interested in moving forward with a trial prior to president trump leaving office on the 20th. the question is what does chuck schumer do with the articles of impeachment? he has suggested he is willing to move forward with a trial, almost right away, even after president trump is out of office. there are some complications that could happen in terms of the beginning of the biden administration and invoking his agenda. schumer has said that they're going to have to try to do both, that means getting some of these nominations confirmed for the biden cabinet while at the same time conducting a trial. the former vice president, soon to be president, said he was concerned about how this could interrupt his first 100 days in office but he said it is up to the senate democrats to decide how to handle that. one thing we know for sure, it appears the house democrats will move forward with impeaching them. he is the first president in american history to be impeached

twice in one term. ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. the top u.s. house republican said the president bears some of the blame for wednesday's riot.he says mr. tr accepted responsibility. according to a source, kevin mccarthy also admits that the violence was not caused by the left wing group antifa despite what many of his fellow republicans have claimed. he and other members of the party are floating the idea of censuring president trump for inciting the violence. well, even though mr. trump is back on speaking terms with mike pence, all is not well at the white house. kaitlyn collins has more. >> this is the first time that president trump and the vice president have spoken since that deadly riot broke out on wednesday when the president sent mike pence up to capitol hill with vulgarity because he was not doing what the president wanted. we saw what ensued after that. this is the first time they came together we are told in the oval office and had a conversation.

the readout we got from a senior administration official did say the president is not going to be resigning from office like some public senators have called on him to do. they're going to serve out the remainder of their term. given the fact that they did speak, it seems less likely of the theory that the vice president is going to invoke the president of his power with the 25th amendment. we'll likely see democrats move forward with the impeachment process they promise will happen tomorrow. that remains to be seen. how that will play out. all of this comes when there is an added touch of chaos now that chad wolf is stepping down from his job days after saying he was not going to step down from his job. we believe this is less likely to do with the fallout from the riots and the president's response, more to do with the legality with the fact that he is an acting secretary.

the court rulings are going to invalidate moves he made. the bigger picture of decisions he made. this is donald trump's last week on the job. he's finally speaking to the vice president after going the longest stretch they have gone without speaking. he has his acting secretary stepping down. the patriots head coach saying he is no longer going to receive the medal of freedom because of the events that happened last week. not at all the white house aides and the president's senior staff thought his last full week on the job as president of the united states was going to go. kaitlyn collins, cnn, the white house. and when we come back, a look at "the herd"less that have to be cleared to speed up the vaccination process in the united states. united states. back with that in just a moment.

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new cases every day for the past week, and as cases rise, so do hospital admissions. the u.s. has now gone 40 days in a row with more than 100,000 people hospitalized with the virus. and there are plenty more terrifying statistics as the u.s. struggles to even begin to contain covid-19. our nick watt has more. >> reporter: for the first time america is averaging over 3,000 covid-19 deaths a day. more dead in a day than were killed on 9/11. every day dozens of bodies in that trailer. funeral homes in california turning people away. >> i have 200 people a day just to say no. we have no more capacity for them. it is really, really sad. >> reporter: meanwhile, a little over 1/3 of the vaccine doses distributed across the country have been administered.

we were promised 20 million shots by new year. >> we need to acknowledge that it's not working. we need to hit the reset and adopt a new strategy. >> reporter: the president has failed again. >> the complete lack of planning here is quite frightening, frankly. and i think all of us are very worried about what we're inheriting and stepping into. >> reporter: the president-elect december pledge, 100 million shots in his first 100 days. >> we need mass vaccination events. i actually think what we should be doing now is getting rid of the priority system. >> reporter: that is beginning to happen. joe biden got his second dose today. remember, it's a two dose vaccine. >> do you feel confident in your covid team that they will be able to vaccinate 50 million americans in the first 100 days. >> i do. i put together which i'll be announcing on thursday laying out a plan of how i want to proceed. >> reporter: they plan to release every dose on hand and stop holding back the second

doses but it's a gamble say some experts. >> if there are production snags or if we cannot administer the vaccines quickly enough, people cannot get that second dose in time, i don't know how i'm going to be able to convince my patients to get the first dose. >> reporter: biden's team says second doses will not be delayed. production will not be a problem. >> please, do not be concerned about that. i'm confident we can cover that. >> reporter: in terms of containment, a good place is under 5% of tests coming back positive. right now the nation is averaging over 13%. in idaho it's over 50% and more evidence, as if we need it, that this ain't the flu. chinese studies shows most covid patients discharged from the hospital still suffer at least one symptom six months later. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. joining me now is dr. larry brilliant, a cnn medical analyst and epidemiologist.

thank you, doctor, for all that you do. >> thank you. nice to talk to you, rosemary. >> more than 375,000 americans have died from covid-19. the country is struggling. only 9 million doses administered so far. as a result we're seeing some states abandoning cdc guidance on who to vaccinate first instead of administering as many doses as possible. is that what needs to happen here? >> i think we've maybe bit off a little bit more than we could chew for good intentions, however. there are many reasons to vaccinate people. you want be to protect vulnerable communities, over 75. you want to protect communities under served, african-american and immigrant community and then most importantly you want to stop the pandemic. each of those has a slightly

different cadence but by creating this sis vol -- system that vulcanized got too complicated. >> how do you carry it out en mas masse? in many states computer systems are crashing when people make appointments. how do you stop that from happening and get on with the job at hand and administer as many shots as possible without the more privileged getting there? >> i think the key is simplicity. when we did the movie "contagion" and we did a lottery. you'd get your number and go to akol lohse yum or arena and they

i'm afraid by bringing it through pharmacies or hospitals and just doing things 8 to 5 monday through friday, that's not what we want. we want all out effort but we want it really simple. >> yeah. new york is doing it 24 hours and they've got booked appointments throughout the night. president-elect joe biden still insisting he will be able to administer 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days. is that doable? should he release all shots available? >> two separate questions. i do think it's doable. remember to get 100 million in 100 days you don't have to do 1 million a day, you only have to average a million a day. so in the out days maybe you're doing 3 or 4 million a day once you're geared up and we start off with where we are now. yes, i definitely think that's doable. as to whether you should release all of the vaccine, i agree with

dr. john, all these other fine epidemiologists who say, yes, it is better to have the vaccine that is available in people's arms and not in refrigerators. i would say there's a slight difference between the moderna and pfizer vaccine in that case because we are assured of getting 200 million doses of moderna pretty -- according to the calendar. it's broken into two shipments or deliveries. one we may not get until april. if we vaccinate 100 million right away with the moderna vaccine, we would not have to worry that the second dose could be forthcoming. the important thing is to get as many doses in people's arms as soon as possible, not in the refrigerator. >> and our thanks to cnn medical analyst dr. larry brilliant there. there's no rest this week for congress as democrats push to remove president trump, but

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in washington an upheaval would make for a rocky start for president-elect joe biden. cnn's arlitt sainz has our report. >> reporter: with a senate impeachment trial a possibility, president-elect joe biden is hoping that the early days of his administration will not be bogged down by such a trial. president-elect says he has spoken with people on capitol hill to see if they can operate on dual tracks running a senate impeachment trial while also considering and advancing his nominees and agenda. take a listen to what biden had to say after he received the second dose of his covid-19 vaccine. >> the question is whether or not, for example, if the house moves forward, which they obviously are, if the impeachment is sent over to the senate, whether or not the parliamentarian as to whether you can bifurcate this, go half day dealing with impeachment and half day getting my people

nominated and confirmed in the senate as well as moving on the package. >> reporter: one of those items the president-elect would like to push through is a coronavirus relief deal, and he has said that he will outline his plans for coronavirus vaccinations on thursday as well as saying how much that plan will cost. arlitt saenz, cnn, wilmington, delaware. joining me now is kim whaley, law professor at the university of baltimore and former u.s. assistant attorney general. good to have you with us. >> good to be with you, rosemary. >> moving ahead with the second impeachment of president trump and they set a date to vote on wednesday. where do you see this going, particularly in the senate where republicans say this is just too divisive? >> well, in this moment it looks like we'll see, again, the republicans sort of not step up to the plate and do what i think is the important thing to do for

the constitution itself and for the rule of law. what happened this week was astonishing and deadly and corrosive and destructive, but politics is intervening and unfortunately the framers' vision for the impeachment clause to function as a serious check on the presidency isn't working anymore, but i still think democrats can't set idolly by and let this one pass as business as usual. >> i did want to ask you this because democratic senator chuck schumer is exploring the use of an emergency senate session for an impeachment trial before trump leaves. how likely is it that that would work? >> well, you know, mitch mcconnell has said that there would need to be 100% unanimity from all senators to bring them back prior from this early session. whether the two democrats from the senate, if they get certified and seated in time so

the majority goes to chuck schumer, still unclear there would be sufficient votes to actually convict and there would need to be a conviction in order to not only remove mr. trump from office but to do the other thing that many people are talking about, that is to bar him from running in 2024. but, you know, congress, they're deal makers at the end of the day so who knows whether there could be some kind of agreement that would get some sort of accountability, maybe a censure, some other means of the senate and the congress as a whole saying, listen, it's not okay for the president to a tact a coordinate branch of government. as a constitutional scholar, rosemary, it's really astonishing there isn't more bipartisan support for some kind of line. >> yeah. i mean, it is stunning. of course, if there isn't a conviction then you simply

embolden president trump who will become donald trump citizen. then if you censure him, it's a slap on the wrist. it's nothing. we know that kevin mccarthy was trying for that. nancy pelosi shut that down. >> well, you know, i really think there are a number of issues here. one is the safety of the american people from domestic terrorism between now and the 20th and the question of whether mr. trump is a risk to continue in office, and that seems to me to go beyond politics, beyond sort of theater, the message, even the constitution and we don't know. i don't think -- i don't think the biden team probably even knows the extent to which mr. trump is a potential danger, particularly given how cozy he is with vladimir putin all these years. the second piece is accountability for mr. trump personally. he is not insulated from state -- local charges out of d.c. in theory while he's a

sitting president and certainly after he leaves office. >> our thanks to kim whaley for her analysis there. now to a legal battle brewing between a tech giant and a fringe social media company. amazon says a lawsuit filed against them by the right wing app parler has, quote, no merit. parler sued amazon on monday in response to being suspended by the cloud services provider. it alleged an antitrust violati violation, breach of contract and interference with the company's business relationships with users. and that's just the latest corporate fallout from last week's riot on capitol hill. joining us now to discuss this is john defterios. he's live from dubai. good to see you, john. big tech and other major u.s. companies are flexing their muscles sending a very clear message to republicans who supported trump's election lies that triggered wednesday's riots. how powerful is the message and

the action? >> reporter: i like the way you framed it, rosemary. corporate america is dividing into two different strategies, if you will. there are some saying we're not going to donate at all when it comes to money, and money talks in capitol hill terms, that's for sure. they're not donating at all saying the system is broken and we're not going to participate until it's fixed. then there's the other camp saying to 147 republicans who went against the electoral vote process which sparked the riots, we're not going to donate. by the way, let's take a look at this list. this is a group that would like to steer clear normally of political controversy. master card, marriott, company getting involved dow chemical, the parent of cnn, blue cross

which is a surrogate, airbnb. for senators like ted cruz or josh hawley, we don't like you angling for 2024 in the name of trumpism and we don't want you to break what has been created over the last 250 years in the united states and we don't like you angling in the name of politics when it breaks the system as we see it today. it is really out of the realm, rosemary, for them to take that stance. >> john defterios joining us live from dubai. many thanks. bonnie watson coleman announced monday she tested positive for covid-19. a statement from her office says she believes she was exposed to the virus while sheltering with other members of congress last week during the attack on the u.s. capitol. cnn previously showed this video of six house republicans refusing to accept masks but

it's unclear if coleman was in that same room. she spoke earlier to cnn. >> it has been a bunch of malarkey. they have been said what trump wants them to do and say. they're responsible for half the chaos that we have going on there and then they had the arrogance and the defiance of other people's rights and the right to be safe and healthy and so they don't -- they lack the heart. >> well now a second member of congress has tested positive for the virus. representative tweeted that she suggested it came from last week's lockdown of capitol hill. coming up, brittain's fight. the race to vaccinate the population is ramping up, but there are further lockdown measures as the virus rages.

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well, brittain's health secretary says the country has now administered vaccines to around 2.3 million people and those vaccinations can't come soon enough. covid is running rampant with more than 32,000 people now hospitalized. that is up 22% from the same time last week. in germany they're already in place. schools are closed until the end of the month and only grocery stores and drug stores will remain open. chancellor angela merkel says the coming weeks would likely be the most difficult phase of the pandemic. let's talk now with selma abdel azeez and melissa bell who joins us from pa selma, let's start with you.

soaring infections and hospitalizations across the u.k. >> reporter: i mean, the speed of this vaccination, rosemary, every day it is being ramped up. it is going to be at break neck speed. if you ask the authorities here, they want to see 2 million people vaccinated per week. every week. 2.3 million people vaccinated so far. the goal is to get 50 million people across this country vaccinated, the most vulnerable, those extremely clinically vulnerable, over 70, those who live in nursing homes anca homes, the staff as well as front line health care workers. quite frankly, rosemary, that is the only option. that is the only way out of this new variant that has been plaguing this country causing record breaking hospitalizations, record breaking death rates. temporary morgues are being used. that's how much the death toll is piling up, rosemary. >> melissa, to you.

what is the latest you have on covid numbers and the response in germany and france? >> reporter: further restrictions could be necessary, france for the time being has said that its curfew system should be enough although the prime minister would not rule out yesterday a third lockdown. spain introducing fresh restrictions and germany extending and strengthening its partial lockdown in the face of the rising figures. still, some good news. the continent has been slower in getting its vaccine program rolled out and getting jabs into arms, but we have just heard that the european medicines agency has received an application for the marketing of the astrazeneca medicine and they have agreed to purchase 400 million doses. that should help the european countries where the slow pace of the rollout is being blamed on a lack of supplies. germany, there's 400 million vaccines. should they go ahead and approve that marketing request, it will

come and add to the stocks of the 600 million pfizer and biontech vaccines and the 160 million moderna vaccines being delivered to european member states. >> selma and melissa, thank you. how a bunch of basketball players helped shape the times by going against the person that signs their checks. when we started our business

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about a basketball team that may have played a role in shaping the future of american politics. wnba player elizabeth williams and her teammates campaigned against the senator who owns their team, which may have played a role in that senator losing his seat. cnn's john riddell spoke with williams about how her actions on the court impacted who controls capitol hill. >> it was only a t-shirt worn by a group of basketball players that many people have never heard of. it was a simple message but it was a message that just might have changed the course of history. >> i think it's a testament to the women in this league that even though we might not be huge in numbers, we can still make a huge difference. >> reporter: the british born basketball player plays for the

atlanta team. they wanted to embrace the black lives matter movement. loeffler was a loyal supporter tried to stop them. >> our co-owner wrote a letter to kathy engel bert defensing black lives matter and the movement and, you know, saying that we need to keep politics out of sports and all of these words that were meant to kind of ramp up her political base. >> i'm not going to let a political movement, which is what the black lives matter movement truly is, tear our country apart. >> i think a lot of us felt a combination of disappointment, frustration, even a bit of confusion in that, you know, you're an owner of a team in a league that's 80% black of people that, you know, have lost family members to gun violence, have felt a lot of this in a

very personal way. >> reporter: correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm not sure you've referred to her by name yet. you keep referring to her as the co-owner of the team. is there a reason for that? >> yes. yes, there is. as we kind of shifted into this more political sphere of how things were moving, we talked to people in politics and they talked about the power of saying someone's name and so you can also do the opposite by not saying someone's name. >> reporter: the name they instead chose to say was raphael warnock, a democratic challenger to loeffler's seat. they vetted warnock and his policies and soon other players across the country were promoting him too. in a november election warnock forced loeffler into a runoff which he won in january. >> when i think about the arc of our history, what georgia did

last night is its own message in the midst of a moment in which so many people are trying to divide our country. >> reporter: warnock's victory was much more significant, not only because he's the first black senator and first black democrat to represent the state in the senate. this handed control of senate to the democrat for the first time in six years. president-elect joe biden will now find it considerably easier to govern in the new term. nobody could ever calculate just how important the players' role was in elevating warnock, but many believe it was crucial. as the results came in, williams phone was exploding with messages. >> like, wow, we really did this. we helped flip the senate. i think a lot of the messages were being thankful of being part of this group of really, really impactful and incredible women. >> reporter: how does that make you feel? >> it's a lot. you feel all of the emotions.

you feel initially the relief of, wow, this really long process is over to the pride like i mentioned before, the joy and then the optimism. >> reporter: williams says until recently she didn't consider herself to be political but that has changed now. she realizes the value of being a leader both on and off the court and the example set by these players is that everybody has the power to change the world. don riddell, cnn. >> every vote counts. football coach bill belichick is refusing donald trump's offer of the presidential medal of freedom. belichick says he reconsidered the award after seeing trump supporters attacking the u.s hi statement. one of the most rewarding things in my professional career took place in 2020 when conversations about soal to the forefront and became actions. continuing those efforts while

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