seen and one of the strongest people i've ever met. hank aaron was 86 years old. our deepest condolences to his family and friends. may he rest in piece and his memory be a blessing. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. trump 's impreach. trial delayed. will mcconnell vote to convict. republicans already dismissing biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package that includes $15 national minimum wage and $2,000 stimulus checks . dr. bebra birx breaks her silence. senate majority leader cluck

schumer delaying donald trump's impeachment trial. it's now going to start the web of february 8th which is roughly the timeline mitch mcconnell wanted. mccon nell wants trump gone. reporting dozens of republicans are lobbying p ing mcconnell to to convict trump. mitch said to me, he wants trump done. it's political interest to have him gone. it's in the gop interest to have him gone. the question is, how do we get there? well, it's not going to be easy. mcconnell has to get 17 republicans on board to convict trump and bury him for his actions against the united states and there are very loud voices in the republican party who are still standing firmly behind the former president. josh hawley, first and foremost. remember that photograph with his fist in the air. telling cnn, he has no regrets for answering trump's call to

try to overturn the election. listen to his exchange with manu. >> we saw on january 6th. >> no. i was representing my constituents. i did what i said i was going to do. i gave voice to my con stitch wents. >> this has to be exposed for what it is, which is complete bunk. first of all, he said he was giving voice to his constituents. one of his constituents and a long time mentor, a former republican senator of missouri said backing hawley was the worst decision i made in my life. an editorial in the kansas city star reads assault on democracy. he has blood on his hands in capitol coup attempt. to the extend that his constituents did want him to support a violent mob and support overturning the results of the election, they only thought that because that was right because of what trump and

hawley told them. days after the election, senator hawley starting sowing doubt. he said federal law should guarantee transparency. the following month, december 30th, weeks after bill barr said there was no widespread voter fraud and nothing that impacted the election. hawley releases a statement saying i cannot vote to certify the electoral college without raising the fact that some state, particularly pennsylvania failed follow their own state election laws. needless to say he's not from pennsylvania. later that same day on fox news, he said this. >> my view is this. this is my opportunity to stand up and say something. to stand up and point out there were irregularities in this election. there was fraud. >> it was not. when rioters stormed the capitol, all of those things that hawley said, they mattered. they had listened.

>> i think cruz would want us to do this. >> hawley cruz would want us to do this. the two republicans who led the charge in questioning the election results. two republicans who helped trump pour gasoline on fire. tonight one person who is not at all enthusiastic about the impeachment trial is weighing in, the current president. >> do you support mitch mcconnell's time line for a february impeachment trial? >> i haven't heard the detail but i do think having some time to get our administration up and running, the more time we have to get up and running to meet these crisis, the better. >> you have been talking to all players here. the unrepenitent josh hawley and a try that was scheduled to go next week. that was the deal. pelosi was sending it over.

now, there's a delay. why did schumer agree to delay the trial? >> reporter: the article will still be sent over on monday but you're right, there will be delay when the actual arguments will take place. there was bipartisan support to delay the trial for some time because of what we're seeing in the senate which is gridlock. joe biden has only had two cabinet nominees confirmed so far. it will be a third on monday, janet yellen. democrats are pushing to get the nominees confirmed. they are open to pushing back the time frame and joe biden signal some support. this comes at a tame for republican support for convicting trump is waning. there's hardly any republicans in that camp right now. i surveyed republicans up and down today and the last several days and it's very clear the consensus is growing there will not be 67 senators to convict

donald trump. there need to be 17 republicans who would braeak ranks. only a handful likely to break ranks. told me the chances are virtually flil. there would be actually 17 republicans breaking ranks and part of it has to do with some are still very close trump allies and loyalists. others contend this is unconstitutional to go after former president. this has never been done before but there's a disagreement about the constitutionality democrats and legal scholars would argue there's precedent in the senate to go after a former federal official. all of that will play out in the trial which will start on week of february 8th. mid-february will be the key time when starts will cast their vote. the chances of convicting donald trump very slim. >> that raises all sorts questions the impact that will have on the biden presidency.

something biden foresaw. we know he was lukewarm at best. democrats were honest about that to begin with. let's go to fill near the white house. we knew biden wasn't hot on this start with and now here we are. it will have to have a sflat trial the doesn't sound like biden wants much to do with the gnat trial. do you have word on this delay? >> reporter: the white house is not commenting. you saw what the president said earlier today. the reality is this is an administration that acknowledges what happened on january 6th and white house press secretary said as she walked a very fine line on this one is the president obviously viewed president trump as unfit for office. he ran against him and beat him. they also know what an impeachment trial means. they also know that what it means, in large part, would be shutting down their agenda. not just their nominees that they want to move quickly but

also the momentum created by a series of days planned out next week. reversing a will the of policies from the trump administration or ramping up their own policies as it pertained to pandemic and the economic crisis but also the leggil la legislative aagenda. they know there's a ton of work that needs to be done. to reshape the proposal that could pass the house and senate. that work can't be done. this will give space but also underscores the biden team wanted room to run, now they have couple of weeks. >> a couple of weeks. you have this giant, whatever you would like to call it hanging around your neck waiting for it. phil, thank you very much. one of the impeachment managers for house democrats, congressman eric swalwell from california. what is your reaction to senator schumer's decision?

he just announced the second impeachment trial delayed until february 9th. >> we're ready. good evening. we could be in trial tonight. we would be in trial in two weeks. it's up to the senate. we have case to make and whether it's tonight or in two weeks the evidence won't change. the president incited our citizens to attack or capitol. once that happened, did nothing to stop it. >> the facts are the facts. we have all laid them out. the question is what the republicans and the senate will do. do you have any concerns that you'll lose momentum and lose support to convict trump the longer there process goes on? i suppose i should caveat that to say the support is not there right now. i guess you would only have time to gain it. how does this delay work for you? >> the minority leader, mitch mcconnell wanted a delay out of a sense of fairness for the president. that's fine. we're not opposed to that. we don't want to rush this. if the president needs time to put together his team over the next two weeks, that's fine.

we will be ready. we want this to be fair more than anything. the evidence isn't going to change. we're looking at this as very vote is up for grabs. every senator ran for their life. every senator sent the same text message i sent to my wife or loved one about my personal safety being threatened. they know what happened. the senators aren't only jurors, they are victims. >> there's reporting that a member of congress said quote, mitch mcconnell said to me, he wants trump gone. it's in the gop interest to have him gone. what that means is they don't want him coming back. they may think that convicting him helps or doesn't help in terms of their play with trump base. how many republicans do you really think are up for grabs right now? >> we're looking at this not as republicans or democrats but just americans who were attacked and erin, i hope they vote to

convict because they want to hold the person who inkriets eds attack accountable. i hope they want to deter a president in the future from doing this again. the only time you try to pull off a coup would be in the very last days of your dppresidency. we have to show we'll hold you accountable until the last second. the penalty would be d disqualification from office and it seems appropriate for someone with such disdain for our d demo democracy. >> if you do not convict him in senate, then they cannot prevent him from ever running again. congressman, wlerned yesterday that president trump has picked bush bowers, he's an attorney from south carolina to be part of his defense team. the wall street journal reports that the guy who set this up is going to be a juror in trial, lindsey graham. republican senator who is

trump's con cigly air. can he be a juror when helping trump with his defense? >> i'm not worried about that. the president is entitled to a lawyer like any american accused of a crime. i hope senator graham can be object ive about what donald trump did. how he radicalized the terrorist who came to the capitol and how he did nothing once he inkrcite them. i'm not passing judgment on senator graham. >> i appreciate your time. th thank you very much. >> my pleasure. i want the go to our chief political analyst and john kasich. schumer has agreed to what mcconnell wants, to delay the trial. he thought that was the best chance they had. does the delay help?

i guess if you were going the fail now, a delay is better than nothing but what's the strategy here? >> i think everybody got a little bit of what they wanted. it's clear joe biden didn't want this thing to proceed that quickly because he wants to get his confirmations through. mcconnell asked for some more time. schumer said no. we'll give you a little less time. i think they each got what they wanted here. i think it proceeds as the newly elected president really wants. he wants confirmations, he wants to get some stuff done potentially on his covid relief bill. i think it works for every one. >> let's say that it does but say it goes the way it would right now if there were a vote from our reporting and things change. right now, that would mean the president isn't convicted. he's not banned from future office. it's that's the outcome, hoump does that hurt president biden and his agenda and the way the

american people see him. he didn't want this whole thing. how much could it hurt? >> well, first of all, i don't think we know where this is going. there's a report also today that senator mcconnell is open to this. if he decides he's going to convict, that will change some things over there with republicans in the senate. i was talking to some folks tonight about this and they think they can see a way they could get to maybe ten votes which would leave them 7 votes short. as this is delayed, is there more information that's going to come out. we spend a lot of time talking about politics to this and that. i think what we can't forget is we saw something that we would have watched with the french revolution. i was there and served in that place. imagine them coming in there and five people dying and running

around saying where is nancy like they're going to get her. the only thing missing from the french revolution is i don't think they had a guillotine outside. what this gets down to is where people are in heart of their hearts. mcconnell is a key to this. the state parties are still supporting trump. if trump is not convicted, what happens and how does that hurt biden? i think you'll hear more from trump. it's up to biden figure out how he can have an agenda that can co co-op. i don't think it depends on what happens with trump. >> what about what the governor is saying about mitch mcconnell high p . he is known for having control of his caucus. is he -- is he waiting to kind of figure out where the winds are blowing. does he already know what he's going to do. it's hard to read the tea leaves

here. >> that's what mcconnell likes. he duoesn't wand you to read. he said this was a mob that was provoked by the president. those were his words "provoked by the president." privately the reporting is he's telling people he thinks the president deserves to be impeached. he's also told his members this is a vote of conscience. i'm not going to lobby you one way or the other. i'm not going to tell you what you ought to do. we know how mcconnell feels in his heart but we have to wait and see how he's going to vote. there's a lot of people raising constitutional issues. they're saying you can't do this to a former president of the united states. people will vote their conscience. i think at this point, i'd have to say you're not going to get many more than the ten that governor kasich is talking

about. people will vote their conscience. mcconnell doesn't want trump to overhang the future of the republican party. >> final work. >> i just think we don't know what's going to happen in the future. that could change some things. we vo to watch. >> thaing both. biden trying to move forward on his economic plan but this crucial question getting on board. the biden administration pointing finger when it comes to pandemic that they now own. six if ten americans say they don't know when they will get a vaccine or where. >> we're not inheriting a national plan or infrastructure. kamala harris ever present at biden's side. what does it say about her power

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just coronavirus. take the president's move to freeze student loan payments. alexandria ocasio-cortez, tweeting now let's cancel them. outfront now jared burnstein. thanks so much for being with me. student loans is one part of a large economic vision that the president has been laying out. it reflects some of the challenges that you'll be facing. congresswoman, alexandria ocasio-cortez wants the biden administration to forget temporarily suspending the loans payments, just get rid of the debt all together and do it. that's highly controversial. not just among republicans but many moderates. are going to do it? are you going to move to cancel all student loan debt? >> she's such an important and

impassioned voice among progressives. of course we hear her an want to hear her. there's lots of other ways to do this. you heard the president talking about working with congress to cancel $10,000 worth of student debt. that's part of the agenda. it's not a one time thing or you'll be back to students sustaining debt that disrupt their lives and hurt the overall comm economy. it's got to be part of a broader plan and part of the recovery package. you've already seen some of that in the rescue package and the executive orders today in terms of extending moratorium. so important for people to get through this crisis. >> let me talk about another part of the president's relief plan. i said 1.2 trillion. i meant 1.9. >> 700 billion just gone there. >> funny how that happens when numbers get so big.

the former, someone you know well, larry summers. clinton former secretary came out against that idea. here is what he said when it first came up last month, the $2,000 checks. >> i'm not even sure that i'm so enthusiastic about the $600 checks. i think taking them to $2,000 would be a pretty serious stake that would risk temporary overheat. sgr what do you say? >> i think we have to distinguish between heat and overheat. he's talking about inflation taking off. we have an unemployment rate that is almost twice as it was before this crisis. if you look at the unemployment

rate for blacks, if you look at the unemployment rate for latin x persons, it's in double digits or close to it. we have a will the of unused capacities. the passion less economic term and put more, i think in human terms. we have poverty out there. behave lunger out there. we have people facing evictions and homelessness. these checks are critical to get to them for relief purposes. with inflation running well below 2% which is the federal reserve target for almost a decade now, we need to generate heat. that's not going to be over heat. really important executive order. there are eight million people entitled to the checks but did not get them. here is where joe biden comes into play. he know it's one thing to sign a bill and it's another thing to make sure that it's implemented. i work with him during the

recovery act on these issues. we'll make sure the 8 million people who are overlooked get their fair share, their fair shake of this check. >> how are your conversations happening. i know that the president is urging democrats to be patient. you have a flank of your own party that wants one thing versus your moderate that wants another. never mind the republicans you need on board in the senate to get anything done. you have a lot of things you're balancing here. how are your conversations going so far with -- i guess with the two groups. the republicans and the progressive democrats. are you making progress? >> yes. these kvconversations are goingi could say remarkably well. it doesn't seem remarkable for the following reason. i don't care if you're in read state or a blue state. i don't care if your a d or an r. i don't care who you voted for. you want this virus under

control. you want this vaccine produce and and distributed. you want schools to open. you want there to be testing and tracing. you want there to be the equipment necessary. you want families. you want businesses to get relief they need. that is what we're talking about. in the conversations i'm having it's not nearly a divisive as you would expect. no no small smart there's tremendous untapped demand to accomplish these goals especially to finally put this virus in the rear view mirror and president biden has a plan to do that. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. next, the doctor who led trump's task force speaking out about whether she wanted to quit. >> always. i mean why would you want to put

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americans don't know where or when to get a vaccine. it's been more than five weeks since the vaccine started rolling out. >> reporter: diagnosed with cancer during thes fighting for life. isolated with her husband jack in her home in palm beach county. >> my years are numbered. i feel like i lost a year. >> reporter: she's yet to get her first dose. it's been a year without em br -- embracing her family. >> i see you. >> reporter: she hasn't met their 7-month-old great granddaughter. >> the vaccines will be targeted with the risk is the greatest and that's in our elderly population. >> do you feel you were given false hope? >> i do. >> yes. >> reporter: she thought vulnerable seniors like her would be first to get the vaccine in florida. instead. >> how you doing? >> reporter: she and her daughter have been in a hunger games of sorts using five

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this was the case at one vaccination site in the villages where 7500 appointments were cancelled. >> we're left high and dry. >> reporter: this after the governor announced the site was open. >> obviously, a site like this is great for the villages because a lot of people live here. >> reporter: the company that runs it says they didn't get doses from the state. >> getting ready to come to florida. >> reporter: cnn started following her journey to get the vaccine two weeks ago. >> last time you used the word frustrated. now what word would you use? >> i'm extremely frustrated. i tried everything out there and nothing is working. >> reporter: i have some good news to share. i talked to sharon, joyce's daughter and she was able to get an appointment for her mom. that's set for tomorrow. florida governor maintained he said this at multiple press conferences that he stands behind the roll out of the vaccine in his state. it's important note that we have heard similar frustrations from

people in states across the country. >> thank you so much. i want to bring in the director of the infectious disease and research and served on the biden coronavirus advisory. you hear the frustration as rosa said. this is coast to coast. people who can't get the vaccine. people are trying to understand here, the vaccine providers laid out their map of what they were going produce. is this a supply issue or is this an issue with states not able to get it out. what is the problem here? do you know? >> i'm eligible in minnesota to get the vaccination also and i can't find one. i want to share that frustration loud and clear. it's a combination of problems. first of all, operation warp speed was an amazing process to bring us these new vaccines from

research and development through evaluation for safety and how effective they were to approval and manufacturing. that's where it entnded. they didn't think about the last mile and the last ininch. how do you get vaccine out in way people know it's coming, where will it be and how do you help people who are eligible for the vaccine but not sure if they want to get it. how do they do that? tost falling back on the states. i know the new biden administration will make this a pry priority. you should know a week in advance how many doses will be in your state so that you can allocate them and people know. they also know when it's their turn. right now they don't. that's what we have to also help them understand. when it their turn. >> you've always been a straight

shooter on this. you have in multiple interviews with me. you always have called it like you see it. let me ask you because i know you saw a lot of information. a source with direct knowledge of the biden white house covid related work said this week they were inheriting a nonexist ents vaccine distribution plan. there's nothing to rework. we'll have to build everything from scratch when it comes to the distribution of the vaccine. once they said that, dr. fauci was asked about it. he disputed it. here is what he said. >> we're not starting from scratch because there's activity going on in the distribution. >> what's the truth? >> it's a little bit in middle. first of all, when we talk about distribution, that's the word you can interpret, they are distributing the vaccine from the manufacturer as part of operation warp speed. we have no clue how much is

coming and when. that makes it very difficult to plan for these clinics. once it's out here, that's up to states. we had limited support to hire additional people. people aren't being frufr frust by software programs not working. i can say having been part of the of the team that we never saw plan that was written in one page of plan that came from the trump administration about this. that's not a partisan comment. that's just the truth. >> all right. let me ask you one other thing. you mentioned the former president's advisory board. dr. debra birx was the coordinator and she said she considered quitting. we heard extensive reporting but now she's talking about it. here is what she said. >> always. i mean why would you want to put

yourself through that every day. i had to ask myself every morning the, is there something that i think i can do that would be helpful if responding to this pandemic and it's something i ask myself every night. >> do you think the white house is missing out by not having kept dr. birx on or not? >> i can't comment on why they did or didn't decide to keep dr. birx. they are setting up a come prehence ifr effort to make sure we have vaccine that's distributing fairly and quickly. some may remember andy was the one that literally saved health.gov back in the obama era when there was a problem rolling that out. that's the quality of people

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vice presidents kamala harris taking a prominent role in the biden administration and it's very visza vizasible. you see her today. moments ago she wrapped up a meeting with small business owners. john avalon. thanks so much. kate, biden said he wants to base harris' role on the close partnership he had with president obama. in this age when everything is virtual, we only see them through the screen, she does seem to be more visible. >> absolutely. she is by his side through most of his major announcements.

i think we'll be seeing a lot of her over the next four years. you know she was a senator, attorney general. she's broken through a very difficult glass ceiling. i think she will make the most of it. we have only just begun to see kamala harris in the spotlight. i think it will be exciting. we haven't had a female chief of staff in the white house. now we have a female vice president. she's appointed three women to be top aides in her office which is also never been done as vice president. she's already made a lot grouchbground breaking decisions. >> when we talk about how visible she is, we're showing the pictures but during his briefing as president-elect when president biden was there, look at her. she was there every single time. it was very clear that this was a team. he was doing this from delaware. she was there. what message is this administration trying to send. they wanted the whole country to see her there every time.

>> i think her appointment was essential to the success of the campaign. it added energy and vigor and diversity. look, joe biden respects and understands the vice presidency more than most presidents. it's a relatively recent change in american history. what is significant is biden was sort of balanced to obama's rising star. he had the experience. in this case, biden's got the experience but kamala harris is seen as a president in training. she doesn't have the experience but she has the star power. she's going to -- as her portfolio expands, expect her to play at least as powerful a role as joe biden did. >> you have the controversies that come by vir whitue of bein

first woman. vogue printing both covers. they faced backlash because they were only printing the more informal photo. her team was blind sided. they asked to go with the more formal photo. vogue felt the casual look reflected the moment. i've come around do that point of view. both of them capture her. the casual moment does capture a lot of her strength. what do you make of this controversy and how she saw it? >> this is an incredible moment for women and for women of color. i think the more formal cover does make sense. she is a president in training right now. we have 15 vice president who is have become president but only six of them were actually elected. the next four years, her fate depends on the success of this administration. it's very closely tied to what happens in the biden

administration. the pandemic getting under control. i think this sort of majesty of the moment is captured in the more formal photograph versus the one with sneakers. >> john, let me ask you, we're learning the impeachment trial has opinion delayed. it's now going to be february 9th. obviously, with the situation in the senate, some are suggesting harris could get tangled up if presiding which is an open question because chief justice john roberts would preside over a trial if it's a sitting president, this isn't a sitting president. he may not want to be there. it could be harris who is president of the senate. how does she navigate this? i would be shocked if this is anything she wants to be near. >> absolutely not. we're do deep in unprecedented territory here. we never had an impeachment that didn't have a justice presiding over it. as the president of the senate,

this is the one of the roles she will be called onto play. i can see people objecting because she has a partisan point of view she's made clear. she's not impartial. would it be senate pro tem. we're so in unprecedented territory. this is a new vice president. she wants to be focusing on building her portfolio and building her credibility and not presiding over the destruction of this last chapter in american history. >> all right. thank you so much, john and kate. next, safe concerns in the capitol. while multiple democrats are telling cnn they don't feel safe around some of their gun toting colleagues. >> why does a member of congress need to sneak a gun onto the house floor? >> we remember baseball legend and civil rights activist hank aaron. est 5g network... award-winning customer satisfaction...

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if you've been financially impacted by covid-19, janssen may be able to help. tonight, prosecutors focussing in on rioters that assaulted police officers during the insurrection on the capitol. a man in new jersey arrested for shoving and punching a police officer on the steps of the capitol and a federal judge today ruling the 20-year-old man on the far right of that photo you see right there on the far right who allegedly attacked police officers with a metal bat will remain in jail all the way until trial. it comes as security concerns persist on capitol hill. some now apparently coming from lawmakers themselves. >> reporter: in a brazen move republican members of congress are defiantly dismissing security to keep the capitol safe. capitol hill police are investigating republican

congressman andy harris after the congressman tried to carry a concealed gun with him on to the house floor thursday setting off the metal detectors and afterwards trying to pass his gun to another congressman to hold it for him. >> why does a member of congress need to sneak a gun onto the house floor? >> reporter: and also, on thursday, according to a tweet from a "huffington post" reporter, congressman don young had a switchblade on him passing it to his wife before he went on to the house floor. >> we still don't yet feel safe around other members of congress. >> reporter: multiple house democrats tell cnn they feel unsafe around some republican members. one house democrat telling cnn the increasing tensions with certain incoming freshmen has been building for months. this is just the latest example of republicans not only breaching security protocols but often times bragging about it.

freshman republican congressman lauren releasing this provocative video on her first day in congress revealing she'll be bringing her .9 glock to the floor of congress and streets of d.c. >> it's your right to defend your right including your second amend ment and that's what i'm here to do. >> reporter: madison saying he was armed when the mob stormed the capitol this month. members are permitted to keep guns in their offices and carry guns on the capitol grounds but not in either legislative chamber. following the insurrection on capitol hill, metal detoectors were quickly installed off the house floor requiring members for the first time to walk through them to get onto the floor. the move was met with an immediate uproar from many republicans. a hold full that refused to go them, ignored capitol hill police and walked onto the floor

without being screened. congressman mullin yelling at capitol hill police it's my constitutional right to walk through and they cannot stop me. congressman andy bigs calling them crap, the stupidest thing and others blatantly mocking the security. >> i can tell you none of us were looking to one another saying gosh, i hope there are more metal detectors outside. >> reporter: speaker of the house nancy pelosi proposed a rule change that would refine members that refuse to go through the metal detectors, $5,000 on the first offense and $10,000 on the second and pelosi said that will likely be voted on in the next two weeks. >> the democrat majority. jill biden greeted national guard members that remained at the capitol today after thousands were removed from rest areas inside the capitol and put in a parking garage. what are you learning about this? >> reporter: those images were

so heartbreaking, erin. these are guardsmen that have been protecting this building night and day for many, many days. and certainly those images set off a lot of lawmakers here at this moment there is certainly a lot of finger pointing but very little answers. it is still very unclear who made the initial order for those troops that were taking their rests and sleeping in the capitol to be removed from the capitol and put in a parking garage, certainly potentially a cold parking garage. there was a joint statement from the national guard and the capitol hill police saying that now has been remedied but of course, so many questions need to be answered. >> so many questions on something that should have been seamless, thank you very much. next, a nation remembers hank aaron. >> straight away. fastball is a high fly to the deep left.

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hank aaron has died. a giant among baseball players and all people, he is the man who broke babe ruth's home run record and perhaps the greatest baseball player of all time. but of course, he was so much more than that. aaron was a pioneer for racial and social justice as a child in the segregated south, he hid under his bed from the ku klux klan and rose above it all as an adult. he turned the other cheek harassed because he was black and about to eclipse the achievement of a white man. the country has come a long way since that day and in the last days of aaron's life, a black woman became vice president of the united states and on the day he died, another barrier was broken, a black man general lloyd austin sworn in to head

the pentagon. former president barack obama among the many saluting aaron calling him an aassuming man and towering example. aaron said people could look at him and say quote, he was a great baseball player but an even greater human being. that's what he wanted people to think, and that they do. aaron died peacefully in his sleep at 86 years old. thanks for joining us. it time for anderson. the new president sounds a call to action but will it only be heard by one set of ears? john berman in for anderson. might have looked like an ordinary pen at a desk signing orders to boost food aid and minimum wage but hearing biden discuss the huge recovery bill, he was standing at the plate taking a henry aaron sized poke at the nation's economic problems. >> the bottom line is