should be introducing him as president, meaning beau. he doesn't keep that a secret. he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his family and his love for his family. again, it's such a contrast with the person who is leaving the oval office because empathy, as we all know, is something that is very foreign to donald trump. >> and it's so interesting one of the first things the president-elect is going to do in washington is focus on and remember the lives that had been lost in this pandemic. almost 400,000 lives, and those lives haven't been lost, those are human beings who have died and those are fellow citizens. and to me it says so much about joe biden's experience with loss and grief that he understands the language of loss, and he doesn't -- unlike the last president who really did not talk about the dead, joe biden

is beginning his inauguration with a remembrance of those who have died. >> and it will be such an important moment for this country. i don't think any of us have talked about the dead enough. we talk about them as this mass of people, 400,000 dead. but we don't talk about them enough as individuals, nor do we see how many people that is, right? if you think about 400,000 dead, the mothers and fathers and kids and grandparents, the magnitude of that loss, and i think it is poignant that biden, who has himself experienced such loss in his life throughout his life, that he will be doing that for a nation that has needed to do that over these many months, as we've lost our neighbors and friends and mothers and children and fathers and grandparents of

this terrible, terrible pandemic, as you said, this outgoing administration downplayed. listen, i thought it was also interesting the way in which this biden sees himself as a figure in advancing multiracial democracy. he talked about meeting a black man on a train. of course, that black man was barack obama, who he then was inaugurated with. and then he will, of course, go and be inaugurated with a south asian and black woman, kamala harris. that is quite interesting. he doesn't have the kind of soaring oratory that obama has and had as president in talking about the leaders of the civil rights movement and seeing himself in that line of people as well, but biden does it in his own way and is part of that history as well and we will see that on display tomorrow and

throughout his administration coming in, he will have an aed station that i believe is the most diverse this country has ever, ever seen. he's certainly seen that as part of a legacy shaped by what we saw in delaware, wanting to be a public defender after the assassination of martin luther king and becoming a partner to african-americans in delaware who were pushing for an expanded view of american power, of democracy, and the kind of multiracial democracy that we see on display that, of course, is upsetting to some americans but is really sort of the reality where this country is going. it's a real moving moment for, as gloria said, a very emotional man. i think we're going to see that on display throughout his departure, as the president we have now not a very compassionate person and that's what this country needs now,

crying out of emotion with passion and empathy, particularly with the loss of so many hundreds of thousands of our neighbors and friends and our relatives from this terrible, terrible disease. >> arlet, it's just so clear how large the loss of beau biden factors in these huge momentous days that are leading up to tomorrow. obviously, beau biden, we saw the podium there for instance, major joseph beau biden, national guard reserve center. and anyone who's lost someone knows one of the very difficult things is even going into large occasions in your life, which clearly this is incredibly meaningful personally to the president-elect and also to the country, but one of the things that factors in is the loss of that person not being able to be there. it does not seem fitting that beau biden, who has shared this intense interest in service with his father is not there for this

day. >> yeah, and really throughout the presidential campaign and heading into this inauguration, it is very clear that beau biden will be on the hearts and minds of the biden family. you saw during the campaign bits and pieces sprinkled, for instance, the playing of the coldplay song, which is beau biden's favorite song. there will be a song played at the end of the virtual inaugural parade that was the song beau biden listened to while he was undergoing treatment for cancer. and one thing biden originally was going to take the train down from wilmington here to washington, leaving from that train station that bears joe biden's name. that got scrapped due to security concerns but instead today biden was saying his farewell at the delaware national guard headquarters that was named after his son beau. and the biden family has been very clear in how he's remembered in these big moments

that they are facing. in fact, his daughter ashley did an interview earlier today where she noted that beau biden passed away from brain cancer at the age of 46, and her father is about to be inaugurated the 46th president of the united states. so it's very clear that he's at the top of their hearts and minds heading into this week. of course, also, the mention of beau just reinforces biden's empathy factor and how he always tries to make these connections with people who have undergone loss, who have suffered through the grief, trying to tell them that they will be able to do that too. and the biden campaign, his advisers have always felt that's really one of the hallmark and calling cards of the president-elect, and you will see that on display tonight, where just on the other end of the national mall where i am, biden will be attending that memorial service for the nearly 400,000 lives lost due to covid-19. the president-elect throughout

this pandemic has really tried to put a personal face on the lives that have been lost and the suffering that so many families have endured and that is a connection that he shares with people who lost loved ones and are struggling amid the pandemic. as he himself has endured such intense, intense loss over the course of his years. really one other thing i want to note, biden still often talks about his upbringing in scranton, pennsylvania, and how that forms the person that he was but delaware is really that state that turned him into the political figure that he is now. you heard him say when he passes, he will die with delaware on his heart. so it's a very emotional moment as he's preparing to leave there to come to the white house, something he strived for for decades. >> indeed, arlett, nia, thank you so much for lending your voices with us.

it's seven minutes past the hour. welcome to our viewers around the world for cnn's historic coverage. historic time in history. >> this country is divided like never before in modern times. washington, d.c. is essentially under lockdown with schools and bridges closed. >> two weeks inside a domestic terrorist stormed the capitol, the contrast could not be more stark in washington with a show of military force in the middle of what's always been the nation's most high profiled stayed display of peaceful handoff of power. 25,000 national guard troops patrolling the streets to secure the inauguration. moments ago senator leader mitch mcconnell put the blame on the senate. >> the last time we convened, we

retained the capitol after violent criminals tried to stop congress from doing its duties. the mob was fed lives. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. and the elections did not have an aside for a mandate for sweeping ideological change. the americans had a closely divided house, closely divided senate and a presidential candidate who said he would represent everyone. as we get breaking news about a major arrest in the capitol siege. it is the first time federal prosecutors are alleging charges of conspiracy. the justice department said a virginia man is the leader of the extreme group the oath keepers and they're charging him with, quote, planning and coordinating the capitol breach. i want to bring in cnn security

correspondent josh campbell and cnn national correspondent sara sidner, who's been reporting on extremist groups for cnn for years now. josh, to you first, what do we know about this suspect and how he coordinated with others on the day of the attack? >> yes, brianna, as you say, this was the first significant conspiracy charge we've seen against the oath keeper movement and more in a moment from my partner sara sidner. but a man was arrested, 55-year-old thomas caldwell, a virginia resident, who was charged with planning and coordinating that siege on the capitol on the 6th. he's charged with conspiracy as well as violent entry or disorderly conduct. authorities are saying he interacted during that riot with eight to ten people. they say this group, i'll quote, moved in an organized and practiced fashion and forced their way to the front of the crowd gathered around the door at the u.s. capitol. the reason this is significant

is because we've seen the fbi cast this wide net arresting a number of individuals, but what we're reading now into these court documents is prosecutors are saying this wasn't simply a large group of random individuals that simply got out of hand but they're saying at least in part, this was a coordinated effort with this conspiracy charge. finally, of course, with that federal conspiracy charge, we're potentially talking about significant jail time here. >> sara, who are the oath keepers? >> we should be really clear, long before qanon conspiracies existed, the oath keepers had very similar ideas, particularly about the federal government. this is a group of people, fairly charge group that is loosely organized across the united states. they generally are anti-government, particularly anti-federal government. they have very hostile feelings towards the federal government because they believe there's some shadowy group running the federal government and they're worried their rights are going to be stripped away, particularly their gun rights.

i have been talking to these guys over the years in the streets. they're often out during protests where there's black lives matter protests or left versus right protests. they say they're nonpartisan but they're generally on the side of the right-wing protesters whenever i have been out there. and i have spoken to some of them in the past. at first blush they seem sometimes to be guys that are all decked out in their army looking gear, playing army. but now the feds realized they're willing to be part of a violent insurrection at the capitol. we should also talk a little bit about what they think about what has happened. if you look at some of their facebook posts, for example, it was very clear they were very supportive of this move to take over the government. the oath keepers also -- this is what concerns extremists, those who sort of follow the extremist movement in the united states. and that is that they heavily recruit -- they say it on their own website, they try to heavily

recruit former police officers, former members of the military, former first responders. they particularly look for folks in that genre, if you were in that kind of work. the reason probably for the conspiracy charge is that they can deal with tactical planning. that is part of what the group does, plan things out worried about the federal government coming down on them. we should be clear that hasn't happened, no one, not republican or democrat who has been in the white house has taken away anyone's firearms. >> sara, thank you very much, sara sidner and josh campbell for us. anderson? >> we are all learning today that two army national guard members were just removed from inauguration duty. it was the result of the extra vetting process. . while 25,000 people were deployed to the capitol, to be sure they didn't have ties to militia groups. while the fbi's vetting process is ongoing, "the washington post" is reporting they have new

intel on another threat, some followers of the extremist group qanon have talked about posing as national guard members to infiltrate the inauguration ceremony. cnn's brian todd joins us now with more. what intelligence does the fbi have about these plans? is it just people talking in qanon chatrooms, or is it something more? >> anderson, what the fbi has relayed to law enforcement according to "the washington post" is that people who adhere to the false qanon conspiracy theory had been discussing posing as national guard members. the post also says though the fbi relayed it had monitored people downloading maps of the washington, d.c. area for potentially sensitive areas where they could possibly breach security. but according to "the washington post," there is no specific threat involved in that qanon situation there. but they are monitoring people and they do believe they have discussed posing as national guard members. a short time ago, d.c. mayor muriel bowser was asked if she

had confidence in the national guard members who were guarding the city. take a listen. >> you have guards coming, guards men and women coming from all over the country at this time. i do think that it is prudent to make sure that they're being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge allegiance to their mission and may be pulled by other views needs to not only be removed from this duty, they need to be removed from the guard. >> and that, again, comes as two members of the national guard have been removed from duty, not clear if they're connected to each other, not clear what they might have done, but they've been removed from duty as part of the vetting process. we can show you other layers of the security here that are really extraordinary, anderson. look up here. this is the ramp from the theodore roosevelt bridge coming this side into washington. that's completely shut down, any

traffic coming in from virginia. you see the national guard and police up there. you really cannot come into d.c. from virginia on any of four bridges in this area, which is an extraordinary security measure. these are very heavily trafficked bridges, about 800,000 cars a day are going over these four bridges, and we can also show you further examples of how movement is restricted here. you've seen a couple civilians on a bike and running but other than this little area here, you can't get anywhere near the lincoln memorial. look at the fencing, another checkpoint just to the right over there. the entire national mall is shut down to civilian traffic. you cannot get really any further than that point on to the national mall here as inauguration day approaches. they're pushing the perimeters further and further out from the center of the city. movement inside the city is very, very restricted. roads are closed all over the place. again, this is an abundance of caution but you do hear about

them vetting national guard members, you hear about these fbi reports that two people have been removed from the national guard, members of the qanon conspiracy theory adherence have discussed posing as national guard members, so they're really not taking any chances here, anderson, as we approach inauguration day tomorrow. >> todd, appreciate it. the want to bring in retired air force lieutenant general jack weinstein, currently professor at boston university in international security. he's written in the past about the need for the military to take the threat of extremism inside its ranks more seriously. thank you very much for being with us. we're hearing about this vetting process. what do you know about how the fbi can determine whether troops may have extremist ties -- ties to any extremist groups? it's a lot, 25,000 troops and a short amount of time to do this in. >> anderson, thank you. i want to say first off it's an acknowledgment that at least the problem exists and now we will be able to root out this extremist as well as white nationalists from the military.

that is a problem. it's also -- we know we can do this because the department of defense, department of homeland security and department of justice were able to weed out these two people. it's going to bel cha everything though to do this because since they've been off of mainstream social media sites, you know, twitter, facebook, they've gone to the dark web for some of their actions, which becomes difficult. but the ability to screen what's on social media, the ability to track that down to individual members is something that both the department of homeland security, justice and defense can do because they do that when you have a high-security clearance. but i agree with what the last report was, it is completely incompatible for military service for anybody to belong to any of these organizations. the whole purpose of the military and whole function it works is because you can trust the person besides you. when you can't trust the person besides you and they belong to a

member of this group, they don't deserve the right to wear this uniform. >> it's clear the vast majority of active duty military personnel, national guardsmen, veterans are heroes. no one knows that more than president-elect biden. this notion though of white supremacists or extremists in the ranks, it's something that countries across the world are dealing with. there have been instances in germany recently and france and other places. how big of a problem do you think this is? >> i agree with you totally the vast majority of people who serve their nation are serving their nation with honor, the past veterans. my belief is every generation that served their country is the greatest generation. do i think it's a big problem? my answer is going to be if you have one individual that wants to cause harm based on being a member of this group, then it is a problem. i don't think the numbers are

very large. i don't think it's a large percentage, but i do believe the number is large enough that the military needs to take this seriously and we need to vet everybody that's wearing a uniform, whether it's active duterte, national guard or whether you're reservists. >> general weinstein, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. we're looking at joe biden getting ready to depart for washington, d.c. he's in new castle, delaware, with jill biden as well. we heard a short time ago very emotional remarks from president-elect biden as he starts to head to washington. >> incredibly emotional. and i think it's something that speaks to the moment that he's in historically and also the personal loss that he's suffered somewhat recently in not having his son with him, which is certainly a loss. you talk to anyone who is reporting on him, anyone who knows him, and they will tell

you what a huge void that is for him to not have his son beau biden by his side. but it's also coming at this time in an extraordinary time, anderson, where we see people, joe biden and jill biden wearing masks, and we're crossing this threshold of 400,000 americans dead. and that's according to the official numbers. this is a country in pain. this is a country that is divided and that is the weight of what he's heading into in his presidency, anderson. >> it's also a time of transition for the last four years where the name of the current president has been spoken in sentences from, you know, constantly on television, in people's own lives, even people who said they didn't want to talk about the current president, talked about the current president. now this is a transition to a new president, to an entirely new administration and it's an

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president trump has just under 22 hours remaining in his presidency and instead of spending the final days taughting his accomplishments, he's spent them in solitude. that might be for a good reason, the attacking shaking his support for some in his party. listen to what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said just this afternoon. >> the last time the senate convened, we had just reclaimed the capitol from violent criminals who tried to stop congress from doing our duty. the mob was fed lies. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people. and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government, which they did not like. >> cnn's white house kaitlan collins joins us now. while we haven't heard from the president, we're expected to find out who are getting the final pardons.

what more have we heard about that now? >> the president kind of did a 180 who we were expecting to be on this list. we thought it would be an end all/be all where the president included his allies on here but we're learning the president is not expected to pardon himself or his family members in the list we're expecting in the next few hours. anderson, there's new reporting about a meeting that happened at the white house saturday night where the president was in the west wing. he was there with his white house counsel pat tip loney, eric herschmann, another white house counsel you might remember was on the senate floor last year defending the president in his impeachment trial and we're told jared kushner and ivanka trump were there. basically they had this stark message for the president warning him what could happen if he did pardon himself or his kids, but, anderson, here's the new twist we are learning, there are republican lawmakers who sought pardon from the president because they're worried about potential legal exposure they could be facing for the roles they played in the january 6th

rally that happened on the national mall right here behind me before, of course, that pro-trump mob went up to capitol hill and breached the halls of the federal buildings. so basically in this meeting we're told the attorneys went to the president and said if he pardoned himself, kids or any of the republican lawmakers who had been seeking clemency, that he could open himself up to being in a more vulnerable position than if he didn't. given these would be forward-looking pardons given none of these people have been charged with any crimes as of now. they basically told the president that maybe some of these would be legally sound but the optics of it would be so bad for the president. so what's notable, anderson, we're learning from sources that this broke through with trump. he doesn't have the best relationship with pat cipollone, the white house counsel. he's actually been dismissive of his advice since the election but this message resonated with the president. i think that speaks to the mindset he's in, in the final few days of office because he's basically concerned really. he's worried about angry senate

republicans and whether or not they convict him in that trial. and it also speaks to the fear and fall squlout from the january 6th rally that there is real concern about legal exposure because it's among these republican lawmakers, also the president's children, donald trump jr. and his girlfriend kimberly guilfoyle both spoke at that rally and were involved in it, and also the people who organized it, fund-raised for it, women for america first is one of the groups, turning point usa another one, there's concern there could be real legal exposure from that january 6th rally. and that played a part in the conversations the president had about this. >> it's incredible to me republican legislators are going to the president or people around him, fishing around for a pardon. i mean, that's really extraordinary. why do you think this warning from the attorney resonated with trump? >> it is so unusual because that is something typically the president would dismiss. if it's advice he doesn't like,

even from attorneys, he often will push back on it. but we're told he was really unsettled by this conversation, that it spooked him. unless he was going to list specific crimes for people in these pardons, that they weren't going to be issued. so that's why they're not expected to be included here. i think the president is approaching these final few hours now in the white house from this very distant, muted manner where he's not appearing in public. he's not his normal rambunctious self. if you speak to people who talked to the president, they will agree with this assessment and say this is kind of the way he's looking at it and he's actually worried about legal repercussions once he leaves office. but he's worried about his legacy. that is a big concern when it comes to whether or not the senate would vote to con victim him. that's another reason two people likely won't be on this list, julian assange, a senate republicans, the republicans said they did not want either included on this list of clemency. and the president is actually concerned his favor with republicans has turned and he's

concerned about angrying them further and that played a big role on who will be on this list when the white house releases it shortly. >> kaitlan collins, appreciate it, thank you. as president trump departs the white house, he will be doing so without performing many of the traditions usually associated with a peaceful transfer of power. among them, a tour of the white house that the sitting president and first lady traditionally give their successors. to this point the trumps have not even spoken to the bidens. cnn kate anderson broward is with us now. she's also the author of "exploring the white house: inside america's most famous home." kate cruz will have only about five hours to move the bidens into the white house. i want to hear what you're hearing about this part of the transition. >> the residence staff, 90 people ever butlers, florists, they're the most devoted, patriotic people i have ever come across. so they're working very hard on this transition.

we know they will have the time when biden is with the three former presidents at arlington too and when he's being sworn in to do the move. we know they're moving ahead as planned and we know melania trump shipped a lot of their things already to mar-a-lago so they're trying to make this as normal a transition as possible under these extraordinary chances. >> you wrote a piece for cnn.com where you said it's disappointing melania trump is not extended an invitation to the incoming first lady jill biden for this traditional walk-through of the white house. tell us more about why something that might just seems like a simple gesture but it's actually a tradition that is so important. >> that's right. i think it gets lost in the morass of all of these awful things that happened in the past few weeks. so it's easy to forget something like this. but it is important because it's part of the people's transfer of power. first of all, it's just basic kindness and decency to show somebody their new home.

and to walk them through it. melania trump got that invitation from michelle obama, even after melania trump questioned obama's citizenship. so this is something that's been done for every modern first lady, she's gotten this tour. laura bush invited michelle obama twice to the white house with her daughters. it doesn't matter what political party they're from, it's all about putting the country before yourself. ands this unfortunate that didn't happen this time. >> it certainly is. kate, thank you so much for that. appreciate it. and just a few hours from now, president-elect biden is planning a memorial for the americans lost to covid-19, expected to cross 400,000 by the end of this day. as biden's covid team gets ready to transition, we're learning that they're nervous about what the trump administration may not have told them about the pandemic response.

prepares to inherit the worst health crisis in the last century, cnn learned there's anxiety brewing among his coronavirus advisers stemming from caa concern over the lack cooperation from the outgoing team. tell us what's happening, sara? >> there's a sense of nervousness and extent they just don't know what they don't know. they feel like they don't have a full grasp of what's happening in all 50 states when it comes to vaccine distribution. they don't have full insight into how many vaccine doses the u.s. has on hand and what exactly it can do to increase

the number of vaccine doses available. they're dealing with these new variants that are popping up all around the globe and they will have to grapple with one of the vaccines. so they are coming in with a big sense of the unknown. i think this was really highlighted when we saw the incoming biden administration say look, we're going to release all of these second doses sitting in reserve. that's going to be our policy. and the trump administration said no, no, we're going to do that first. it turns out that reserve doesn't actually exist. here's mike osterholm, one of joe biden's advisers, explaining what that revolution was like. >> we were quite surprised last friday when we learned that in fact there weren't these extra doses of vaccine being held back for a second dose. something that significant only to find out last friday makes you very concerned there's still more to be learned that you don't know that's going to create a real challenge as we go forward over the weeks ahead. >> and this is what the team is grappling with. they can write as many plans as they want but in a matter of

hours, joe biden is going to be in charge of this enormous health crisis and that means g grieving with the hundreds of thousands of americans who died and families and get us out of this mess with relatively limited information so far, anderson. >> there's obviously huge concern over the rollout thus far of the vaccines. >> absolutely. i mean, we've seen this has gone at a much slower pace than anyone expected. certainly a much slower pace than we heard from operation warp speed. leaving it up to the states means everyone is trying different things and there isn't great insight into what's working well and what's slowing it down in some states. the other issue we keep hearing from states across the board is we're not getting reliable information from the trump administration about how many doses we're going to be getting and when we're going to be getting that and that makes it a lot harder to plan their vaccination campaigns. that will be stuff the biden administration has to deal with. you can say from the so,000-foot view we're going to create mass

vaccination sites and more vaccines but to get into the nitty-gritty details, you really have to understand what's happening in all of these states, what all of these production contracts look like and that's what is waiting for them when they get out on wednesday. >> is it clear how quickly biden's task force will -- do we know when they're going to have their first sort of meeting, the first public results of what they plan to do? >> well, i think we can really be hearing more on this truly, you know, any hour now. we know this is something they've been thinking about. what was really striking i think that we've seen from joe biden so far is he's given us a high-level view of what they planned to do. he's talked about mask mandates on federal grounds and reopening schools but he hasn't released a lot of point-by-point plans on exactly how he's going to do that stuff. i suspect some of that, if not all of it, has been written so far and i think we'll get details soon. again, they have to be prepared to adjust on the fly if they get

into the administration and find things look a lot worse or different they expected, that can really put a wrench in a lot of these plans. >> thank you very much. moments ago the united states crossed a gut-wrenching milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, 400,000 americans have now died from the virus. that is more than the number of americans who died in world war i, the vietnam war and the korean war combined. and this is nearing the amount of americans who died in world war ii. 400,000 souls gone, each one, they're not a number, they have a name. they had jobs. they had passion, they had goals of their own, they have family and friends who are now grieving their death and we would like to pay tribute to some of these people we lost this year. they are teachers. the los angeles area lost two recently. erika brown atkinson, a fifth grade teacher at charles barrett elementary school and nicholas

glover, who taught first and fourth grade at carpenter elementary school. they are mothers and they are sisters, anderson. >> erica becerra gave birth while fighting covid but never got to hold her newborn son. her brother describes her last moments. >> she was teary. i know she heard us. we prayed for her. we talked to her. we comforted her to the last moment. >> they're nurses. betty braef gallagher, best known as miss betty, an er nurse 50 years. she refused to retire when the pandemic began. her son told cnn that she didn't do it to stand out, she did it because that is who she is. this was her calling. miss betty was known for feeding everyone. she was their work mom, even on new year's eve while in the hospital with covid, she texted her colleague to buy pizza for everyone, and she would pay for

it. miss betty died just a day shy of her 79th birthday. >> remarkable. they are husbands. oklahoma icu nurse liz ann jennings lost her husband dennis and her mother to the virus in november. she described her last moments to her husband to cnn in december. >> my husband was working up until this happened, he had a push-up contest with our son and he won and braden kind of stopped and he said, are you done? i can keep going. you see, he was -- >> full of life. >> he was full of life. so they don't let you in there. i'm an icu nurse. i would call but i didn't want to bother them because i know both sides of it. but i finally got in there because i was just going to let him go because there were so many discussions and i knew he was suffering and i got in there and he was laying on his stomach. the bypass was going like 100%.

he had a pneumo in his site where his chest shifted. it's not fair. but i told my mom she was fine when he passed and i leaned down and i said, i'm here. are you ready to be at peace? and he said uh-huh. i said okay, mom's type. she's back at the house. i said she's going to stay with me because i knew he could keep fighting so i couldn't tell him my mom already died. they gave him morphine and ativan and i turned him over and rubbed he's back and said i love you. i said you're going to go now. you can finally be at peace. he said whoo. and he took his last breath about 30 minutes later. and i bathed him and i cut his hair and i put clothes on him. and then i left him. there was nothing else -- i

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with hours left in the trump presidency, the administration's island is low on survivors. folks who have energizer bunnied through all four years of the chaos, the revolving door spinning faster than a pinwheel in a tornado, we'll show you who they are, but first we note the other participants in the tumultuous marathon that's been trump's time in the white house. most of whom did not even come close to the finish line. in the one kilometer club, michael flynn who didn't last a month before he resigned and then was charged, then convicted, then pardoned. anthony scare mutual who holds the record and perhaps we're generous to say that he made it a kilometer, it was more like a furlong. scaramucci lasted only 11 days as white house communications director. >> i've seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. i've speen him at madison square garden with a top coat on.

he's standing in the key and he's hitting foul shots and swishing them, okay. he sinks three-foot putts. i don't see this guy as a guy who is ever under siege. the spapt president is a winner we're going to do a lot. >> he made the country sicker and poorer and it's time for him to leave the stage. >> the next group stopped running the race somewhere around the first water table. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. >> sean spicer, trump's first press secretary lasted only six months and then turned up on "dancing with the stars." ♪ also in the six-month and under club, the first chief of staff reince priebus, strategist steve bannon and adviser k.t. mcfarland. tom price lasted seven months

resigning after scrutiny of his private jet travel and then there are the folks who hit the wall at mile 23, mile 24 and in some cases mile marker 25.9. kellyanne conway who famously declared the white house delivers alternative facts, the any synonym for laws, transportation secretary elaine chou and education secretary betsy devos who stayed through every controversy, every tweet but decided to bounce after thousands of trump supporters violently attacked the capitol with two weeks to go in his presidency. attorney general will barr spent two years championing trump, but when he said there was no evidence of election fraud, he left just before the riot, and in the last 24 hours he has blamed trump's rhetoric directly for the insurrection. >> perhaps the debate about the integrity of the election was the final straw. >> i think that that was the thing that precipitated the -- the riots on the hill.

>> finally as desintee's child once declared leaving the game like some survivors, son-in-law jared kushner stayed after being virtually assigned every task for every hot button issue, daughter ivanka is still there though it's not quite frankly clear what she did on a daily basis and stephen miller outlasted every adviser who trump eventually turned against. >> the poem that you're referring to was added later. it's not actually part of the original statue of liberty but more fundamentally -- but more fundamentally -- >> you're saying that does not represent what the country is always thought of. >> i'm saying the notion -- the notion -- i'm sorry. >> jim, let me ask you a question. >> that sounds like a national park revisionist. >> it shows your cosmopolitan bias. >> it sounds like you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country. >> jim -- >> also going the distance mike pompeo from the cia to the state

department, and ben carson who served as housing and urban development secretary all four years during which he took heat for alleged transphobic comments. he denied a "washington post" report that he raised concern about, quote, big hairy men entering women's homeless shelters saying political correctness would destroy the nation, and he also blamed the purchase of some very expensive furniture for his office on his wife. >> they showed us some catalogs. the prices were beyond what i wanted to pay. i made it clear that that just didn't seem right to me and, you know, i left it with my wife. >> also staying in the race wilbur ross the commerce secretary, his tenure most notable for trying to add a citizenship question to the census and questionable comments on tv including this one defending how prices would go up on products because of the president's tariffs. >> well, i just bought this can

today at a 7-eleven down here and the price was 1.99, so who in the world is going to be too bothered by .6 of a cent? >> people on a budget would be bothered, wilbur, which would be most americans, and don't forgot this, jim, last january after china went into lockdown when he made this prediction about the threat of the coronavirus. >> i don't want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate, very malignant disease so i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america. >> perhaps though the most notable survivor is vice president mike pence. >> the world saw once again the president donald trump stands without apology as leader of the free world. and i say thank for keeping your word, mr. president. >> thanks, mr. president, you've put the health of america first.

i always tell people to know president trump is to -- is to know someone whose word is his bond. >> after years of over-the-top praise of his boss, the president put a target on pence's back falsely telling the world that pence could overturn the election at the certification of the electoral college vote before congress and privately and publicly pressuring him to do it even though he didn't have the constitutional authority to do so. rioters came to the capitol, and who were they looking for? >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> pence, according to "the washington post," escaped the senate chamber one minute before the rioters breached it, but in the exhausting end -- >> the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden junior of the state of delaware has

received 306 votes. donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 232 votes. >> the majority of american voters decided they wouldn't run another marathon, deciding that one was enough. anderson, it has been quite the race, and it has been quite the revolving door. >> that was like a fever dream, like i just feel like i've woken up, i mean, wow, what a four years it has been. >> it has definitely been like a fever dream. i mean, the things that we have seen, and i think that hard hi scratches the surface of it, but that just gives us a sense of certainly the abnormality that i think threw many in the country off guard >> you failed to mention wilbur rocks the other thing that he's noted for is he actually had little velvet slippers made with the commerce department seal on them from the early days and he used to walk around them in the early days. >> my omission. that is wonderful. i'm so sorry i forgot that.

that's a good one. >> brianna, thank you. president trump has told countless lies despite mike pence saying his word is his bond which is fascinating and floated a number of conspiracy theories and stoked the flames and inspired the attack on the cap to. he couldn't have done it without the help of a media outlet. just today a fox host said this. >> security in the nation's capitol is at an unprecedented level this morning ahead of the inauguration tomorrow, and a new report says that some far right protesters have discussed posing as members of the national guard to infiltrate the inauguration the way democrats infiltrated two weeks ago and put on maga clothing. the. >> wow. she actually said that. i want to spring in cnn global affairs columnist for "the washington post" saying trump couldn't have carried out sedition without the help of fox

news. talk to us about the op-ed. why do you say fox shares the blame? >> fox, even though they called the election for president biden early on, anderson, nevertheless threat common drum beat saying that the election was stolen and casting doubt on the legitimacy of the outcome. according to one count, two weeks after they called the election forecasts on more than 778 occasions cast out on the outcome and that creed the big lyrics the myth that motivated the insurrection on january 6th and resulted in the storming of the capitol for the first time since the war of 1812, and, you know, now properly president trump is being held to account for what happened and he's being impeached. he is going to be tried and there needs to be some accountability for the infrastructure of excitement that exists that allowed him to spread the dangerous myths and lies that led to this unprecedented attack on a branch of the u.s. government. >> they also, i mean, not only