biden to pressure the kremlin and impose tough sanctions on individuals close to vladimir putin. so far u.s. officials have condemned the treatment of the russian opposition leader and the protesters but it now won't be until after the court hearing tomorrow when it's known if navalny will be freed or kept behind bars and the u.s. and allies will be expected to act. back to you, erin. >> thank you so much, matthew. thanks to all of you. anderson starts now. good evening. mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader and a man that says nothing casually weighed in on qanon supporter marjorie taylor greene. what he said could matter a lot. we'll tell you in just a few moments. first, we begin tomorrow morning just in time for grand hog day house impeachment managers will file papers laying out their case in the second trial of the 45th president of the united states. and in keeping with the spirit of the day, there is a lot what

he's accused of as well as how he's conducting his defense that will bring a sense of deja-vu. sources familiar with the matter say the impeachment team tends to accomplish the former president's e 's incitement was intentional, something we heard over and over again. >> make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. it's going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. this was not a close election. you know, i say sometimes jokingly but there is no joke about it. it was a rigged election. you look at the different states, the election was totally rigged. there is no way we lost georgia. i've been in two elections and won them both and the second one i won much bigger than the first. because the only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. frankly, we did win this

election. >> so, in addition to documenting that, the prosecution is expected to lean heavily on video from the attack itself and the president's speech that preceded it. >> [ bleep ]. let's go! [ bleep ]. you back off! move! move! it's our house! >> this is footage of the mob's push to get inside the capitol. you see insurrectionists walking up to a barricade resulting authorities say in the serious injury of a capitol police officer that suffered a serious concussion in the assault. you see the man taking off the jacket, reversing his hat. the video is evidence in the case of a man knocking over the officer. then according to court papers,

he picked the officer up off the ground saying quote, we don't have to hurt you, why are you standing in our way? as you know, five people died in the assault. two more police officers later died by suicide. numerous officers suffered serious injuries. the suspect is still at large in two pipe bombings. as bad as the day was, it might have been worse. then of course, there is this with the week to go until the trial, the president changed his legal team. apparently because the prior team would not do what he wants which is to argue that he won the election. in other words, they left in part because the former president wanted them to lie on his behalf, something no attorney is permitted to do. let me put it another way. the president lost his legal team in part because they wouldn't argue in the imp impeachment trial the very thing that incited the insurrection the former president was impeached for. yeah. >> he's not a very good client.

he doesn't take advice very well. he's unpredictable and he doesn't pay his bills. so it's not surprising that he's had trouble here maintaining counsel. it's not surprising that he's asking them to violate their rules of professional ethics by making factually unfounded arguments such as that he won the election and it's actually not surprising a week before the impeachment trial he had to go out and find another pair of lawyers. >> jason miller, a spokesman for the ex president rejects the notion he wants to argue election fraud telling "the washington post" it's quote fake news. consider the source there and take it for what it's worth. as for the new attorneys, bruce caster on the left is a former pennsylvania district attorney best known perhaps for deciding not to charge bill cosby with sexual assault, he was later sued for defamation by one of cosby's victims. the two sides later settled that case. the other lawyer david has

represented roger stone and says he was in talks with convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein shortly before his death was shown to be suicide. >> the reason i say i don't believe it was suicide is from my interaction with him that day. the purpose of asking me to come there that day over the past previous couple weeks was to ask me to take over his defense. we came to an agreement during the course of that discussion, we met for five hours on august 1st. i said i want to meet with his team first to see how they felt about that and then we would go forward. we mapped a strategy going forward. >> so he was upbeat? >> he was upbeat and excited about going forward. >> the defense will present its brief tomorrow as well so we can learn whether in fact they will attempt to frame it the way the former president is said to want it. if they do, welcome back to ground hog day because trying to justify unjustifiable conduct was part of the first go around. the president asking a foreign government to help smear his rival, remember that and getting

away with it. after which this president far from learning his lesson as senator susan collins said he would does the unjustifiable, yet again because the only lessons he's learned is that republicans will not hold him accountable. this time instead of trying and failing to recruit ukraine's president, he recruits a domestic mob and don't forget, this isn't really his second time, it's his third. he made the ukraine call after mueller testified essentially taking him off the hook in the russia scandal so queue up the sunny and cher campers, rise and shine. senator blooumblumenthal, what he was trying to push the big lie and that's reportedly why the entire legal team quit this weekend. that lie is what led him to being impeached a second time. >> anderson, thanks for having me. what it says to me is that he is

going down a path of falsehood, the big lie, which has been rejected by more than 60 court decisions. it's been repudiated by many former allies and it has been absolutely rejected by lawyers who were told to argue it in court because they would be violating their oath to the court, which is that they would tell the truth, not deliberately and tells me also that this trial he is seeking to turn into some kind of vindication of that big lie which is ultimately doomed. >> you've said about impeachment, you've said trials have an enormous impact on public awareness. how concerned are you if president trump's defense is trying to lie about the election, could that lead to more chaos or potentially even

violence? >> i think that the big lie, the falsehoods, the deliberate kinds of deception that he is trying to hoist on the senate and the country will be even more apparent as a result of this trial because what will be shown is the graphic consequences of his inciting a mob to assault the capitol, try to stop vote counting and even assassinate public officials. these injuries, which included stabbings, trama, concussions, spinal breaks and of course, loss of an eye in the case of one capitol policeman, five deaths are the kind of really repugnant consequence of his action that i think, will have an effect on the country and not just that they resulted from his inciting this assault, but they were the result of deliberate

and intentional and purposeful action on his part, which i think will be the proof most powerful in this trial. it will be his own words. it will be a short trial. it will be an open and shut and pretty straightforward set of evidence consisting of what he said in his tweets before to invite and implore these people to come to the capitol as he sat in the oval office not lifting a finger when his own vice president was under threat and his calling them special people. i think this evidence will be very powerful to the american people, far from elevating or glorifying that mob attack. >> do you think it will really change, though, any minds? certainly the american public seen a lot of these videos already. >> a lot of the videos have been shown to the american public. i think putting them all together is going to be powerful but i think the entire public record is an airing of the truth

against his lies no matter what his lawyers argue about the constitutional impediments to a public official once out of office, clearly, that constitutional argument is flat wrong but i think it would be wiser for him to rely on it simply as a trial tactic than in fact go through these falsehoods rejected already by courts and ultimately further discrediting appreciate your time. perspective from john dean and gloria borger. gloria, you have information what we can mexpect from the ne president's legal team in what they're filing tomorrow. >> right, i have some information from a source who is familiar with their brief and he said to me that the focus is going to be on what he called the unconstitutional nature of the democrats impeachment witch

hunt. so he said there will be four to five major themes, the unconstitutional nature will be the biggest but when i asked about the rigged election and where that's going to be on there, the response was that will not be the quote focal point. so it's clear it's going to be mentioned. i guarantee you once it's mentioned, it becomes a focal point for the democrats. >> but the main argument is there is a contention it's unconstitutional to try a former president? >> that's right, and you can't convict a former president when he's out of office but if that were the case, then why would he have lost his other attorneys because that's what butch bowers, the attorney who left was presenting -- planning on presenting and, you know, butch bowers, i was reporting a piece on him by all accounts is an ethics lawyer respected on both sides of the aisle. somebody who does his homework,

is not a show horse, and what i was told over the weekend was that the situation had become untenable. we don't know exactly what those conversations were, but there is other reporting that says that in fact, bowers did not want to talk about the election and the fact that donald trump believes he won. >> john, i mean, even if -- for the attorneys to argue that, you know, a former president cannot be impeached, that's certainly from a -- just from, you know, a legal stand point even though many legal scholars say that's ridiculous, it does give cover to, you know, republican senators who don't want to have to decide whether or not to impeach the president. it's an easy out to say well, you know what? it doesn't matter the merits of it, we can't do it. it's unconstitutional. if the election was stolen from him, how can you use lies as a

foundation for a defense? >> that's difficult. your point, anderson, that the constitutional or unconstitutional argument is a good cover. you can argue an oxford comma is unconstitutional. that doesn't make it so but gives somebody an argument which deflects from the more serious matter at issue, the underlying issues. what is going on? is the incitement of the riot and how you can argue that because he believes or wants to perpetuate the big lie that he actually had the election stolen from him is just not logical. it's easy to understand why his last team of lawyers resigned because he was probably pushing and insisting this be the thrust of their argument and they knew one, it was not a good argument,

two, it's not true and the house managers can decimate this argue 7 ment. that might be a healthy thing to happen for the american people. in a way i'm hopeful they do argue this because i think they can put it to rest. >> what is an oxford comma? is that different from a regular comma? >> that's a whole different program, anderson. >> i'll look it up afterwards. part of my ignorance. the wild card is the former president, what else do you know about what he wants to do and what his advisors are saying to him? >> yeah, i've been asking around and when i ask well, does donald trump want to testify to expect him to testify, the answer is not that i know of. which is one way of saying anything can happen with donald trump but not many people, if any, are advising him to do that. you know, again, with trump even people who are close to him

don't like to predict what he's going to want to do. >> gloria borger, john dean, thank you. up next, the congresswoman conspiracy theorists that could face sanctions for what she's said. what he compared his ideas to what he come back. the president wants to go big and republicans bring him a trimmed down plan and call for unity. we'll bring you their latest on the meeting at the white house that wrapped up a short time ago.

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breaking news from capitol hill, mitch mcconnell released an attack on qanon supporter marjorie taylor greene. mcconnell said and i quote looney lies and conspiracy theories, somebody who suggested no airplane hit the pentagon on 9/11. that horrifying school shootings were prestaged and the clintons crashed jfk junior's airplane is not living in reality. this has nothing to do with challenges facing american families or debates on substance that can strengthen our party. sources tell cnn greene could meet as early as tomorrow evening with kevin mccarthy as democrats are demanding she be removed from her committee assignments for unhinged statements. last week's cnn filing uncovered

ms. greece's suppne's sustappor agreed the school shooting in parkland, florida was a false flag operation. i'll talk with the mother of one of the victims of the shooting and have a private conversation with greene. we'll get her take. this afternoon perhaps wary of potential discipline, the congresswoman reversed course in an interview with the conservative one american news network. >> these are not red flag incidents. they are not fake. it's terrible the loss that these families go through and their friends, as well. it should never happen and it doesn't have to happen if we would protect our children properly. >> she said red flag incidents as opposed to false flag. i'm not sure if there is significance to that. ryan nobles joins us now. has the congresswoman responded to senate minority leader mcconnell's rebuke. >> she did and tweeted out

immediately as that statement was released and said quote, the real cancer for the republican party is weak republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. this is why we are losing our country and anderson, i have to admit over the next couple days, if she is hoping to stay on these committees that she's currently sitting on in the house of representatives, you would expect to see some level of contrition from her because of the past statements. if this statement is any indication, that's likely not to happen. >> i mean, it is, you know, suddenly she's under this pressure so now she has come forward and says that oh, you know, it wasn't a red flag operation. that means false flag is the term that she had used in the past. where does everything stand in the house as far as holding congresswoman greene accountable for her past statements? >> normally, if a member of congress is going to be removed from their coal mmmittee, the lr of the party makes the decision. the house minority leader kevin

mccarthy has not shown an inclination to make the move. house democrats are moving forward in doing it and in order to do that, they have to bring a resolution to the house floor to make that happen. that process begins on wednesday where the rules committee will meet to officially take up that resolution. now, congresswoman greene will have the opportunity to appear before the committee at that time to make the case if she wants, but democrats have made it very clear they're not going to wait for mccarthy anymore. they believe this rises to a level where they need to take action. this could lead to a precedent we haven't really seen in the halls of congress before. committee assignments are decided by the parties themselves. for majority to take action on a minority would be unprecedented. >> can the democrats remove her from her coal mitt committee assignments?

>> no, kevin mcelderry car thr -- mccarthy could do it on his own. the only way the democrats can do it is if they have a majority vote on the floor to make that happen and that begins in the rules committee where they'll have a debate about it there and then it would have to go to the floor of the house of representatives but even though democrats have the majority, there are democrats concerned about setting this precedent. they would prefer for kevin mccarthy to make this decision on his own and that's why hoyer, the house majority leader has basically laid down this, you know, this situation for kevin mccarthy to say if you don't do it, then we're going to do it for you and he's basically giving him about 24 to 48 hours to make that move. >> brian nobles, appreciate the update. thank you. before we get to the next guest, we have video we want to show you that is disturbing and violent. with no sound:. the shooter in the hallways in

the stone man douglas high school. students are running for their lives and by the doorway there is a teacher scott beagle, a geography teacher ushering students inside a classroom. he dieedd to protect these students. scott beagle's mother gave us the video. she wants you to see the video. that day was no false flag operation.

joining me is linda beagle. she and congressman greene spoke privately today. thank you for being with us. when you hear this congresswoman finally say in public on a c conservative media network she believes school shootings -- that this -- not red flag operation, although, false flag is what she called it in the past, i'm wondering what you thought of what she said. >> you know, i think it's good that she finally admitted i would say in a well crafted

statement that shthese shooting do take place. it's clearly the bare minimum but doesn't scratch the surface. >> the idea that this congresswoman after liking horrendous comments online about school shootings was placed on the education committee. does that make any sense to you at all? >> somebody was truly not thinking. i mean, kevin mccarthy couldn't have been thinking when he put her on the education committee. how can you be on an education committee when you even in the past and present, whatever he wants to say was said, when you are accused because she said she didn't -- she said she never said it. she said it was the media, okay? she talked about that today. okay? but if it was the media and people got -- and her followers got a hold of this and it was

quite the conspiracy theory, why didn't she stop it then? why did she wait until now to come out with her bare minimum statement? why didn't she stop it then? why did she have to get her followers, clan, cult, and let the lie go? she said she didn't do it. let the lie go. people believe lies. all you have to do is look over the past four years, tell a lie long enough you get people to believe you. >> and i think it's clear the reason she didn't do that is either she believes it, which is entirely possible perhaps even worse, if she doesn't believe it but she knows it will get her votes because there are other sick people out there or conspiracy minded people out there who believe it and she doesn't have the guts to stand up to them.

she's publicly embraced qanon and said this mysterious q that pri posted these antis-semitic terrible conspiracy theorys is a patriot, the plane didn't hit the pentagon on 9/11. when you spoke to her over the weekend, did she give any reasons for why she has, i mean, not only supported lies about the very least about the parkland and sandy hook shootings in the past? >> no, she said that she didn't do it. it was the media took i believe a facebook post or some post she said about scott peterson getting his pension and that it horrified her that could happen and that the media turned it around, which was fact checked to be false, of course. but, you know, it's so funny because i think she used political strategy on both sides. political strategy that she didn't come forward to say

anything or to negotate what wa being said and is using po political strategy to defend herself because she's getting bombarded from all sides now and it's a horrible way to conduct herself. >> it seems pretty clear the only reason she would make, you know, this limited statements that she has made on a conservative network is because her back is to the wall because there is a very real possibility that she will finally face consequences for the lies that she has been spreading. >> anderson, if she really wanted to be, you know, like we would say, you know, i don't know what the female word for it is, if she wanted to stand up and really wanted to turn down the temperature, she would just make a statement. she would make a statement.

she would say that the parkland shooting was not a false flag. it was not a staged event and she would say that so everybody could hear her. she can use any excuse that she would want to why it got to where it was, but she needs to stop it and her statement today was listen, it was so well crafted. i mean, i even put it in quotes in front of me because i had to read it over and over to try to find where she actually recanted what he said about parkland. i can't find it in those words anywhere. so i mean, stand up, tell the world that that's not what you believe. because i did have the conversation with her. we had a very cordial conversation, okay, and she told me straight to my face that she didn't believe that. so why not tell everybody? why not take away the hurt and the anger that she has caused

with the people from -- i can talk about the people from park l parkland. why can't she take that away? why is it so horrible? it wouldn't hurt her, it can't hurt her with her followers because everybody knows parkland happened. everybody knows sandy hook happened. i mean, our former president knows it happened because he spoke about it. it wouldn't take her out of his good graces. it just makes no sense. i mean, she has all sorts of conspiracy theories and she can have those. i don't want to get into those new. the one that touches me and goes to my heart and puts me in disbelief, okay, is the one about parkland. i mean, you can see it. you saw the video. i mean, i've said it before. i would be more than happy to take all of her followers or anyone that believes what she says and go on a field trip or bus trip or whatever and i'll take you to the 17 grave sites

of the people from parkland. i'll show it to you. she knows it. nobody in the world can convince me that she believes those conspiracy theories about park land. she looked me straight in the face in the zoom and told me she didn't believe it so tell everybody. >> you just used the word minch but shaunda, which is shame and she has no shame and that's how she can look you in the eye and tell you those things which are different than what she said in the past. she has no sense of shame. i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i don't mean to step on your words, i'm sorry. >> no, no, no go ahead. >> quite honestly, being forced to defend the fact that my son was murdered in the parkland school shooting is beyond

absurd. nobody -- never convince me that i would have to defend the fact that my son was murdered in that shooting, in that massacre. >> and there are far too many parents that have to -- i know parents from sanidy hook who ha the playground they dedicated to their child, people that denied their child existed. can you talk a little bit about scott? what was he like? >> i could talk forever about scott. sure. >> you have air lot to be proud of. >> scott was just a normal kid. okay? he was a normal kid, but he was humble, really humble and really private. i'm sure wherever he is, he's saying mom, i can't believe you're making my life so public. what is wrong with you? i'm sure. it's super dry humor and he was really sarcastic, anybody that knows him. i think his greatest qualities

were that he treated people the way he wanted to be treated and he loved mentoring kids. he just loved it. the kids loved him back. i just wish that he knew how much he was loved back by his students and his cross country team because he would always say to me, you know, mom? i can do better. i can do better. i don't know what it is but i can do better. scott was a champion for the under dog. he was. if there was a child that didn't fit in or was unhappy, he was the first one to bend down and say why are you so sad? what can we do? you seem like you're not part of the people playing soccer over there. what can we do? scott treated others the way scott wanted to be treating and that's an amazing, amazing at

but -- attribute. >> thank you for being with us and it's not an easy thing to do and i'm sorry you're in the position where you have to. it's important. >> thank you, anderson. thank you for having me tonight. up next, the white house weighed in on talks between republicans pushing for a smaller covid relief package and the president that says the need is far too great not to go big. we'll be right back. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal.

there's breaking news tonight on the president's covid re relief legislation being offered by republican senators. they met with the president tonight and afterwards susan collins spoke to reporters. >> i wouldn't say that we came together on a package tonight. no one expected that in a two-hour meeting, but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further at the staff level and amongst ourselves and with the president and vice president on how we can continue

to work together on this very important issue. so i think it was an excellent meeting and we're very appreciative as his first official meeting in the oval office, the president chose to spend so much time with us in a frank and very useful discussion. >> the question with the two sides $1.3 trillion apart is what is next and republican's margin in good faith and how far is the president willing to go in the unity he campaigned on. a lot to talk about with kaitlan collins. senator collins, you heard what he said. what is the white house saying about this meeting. >> reporter: she sounded upbeat there and the white house said it was a cordial meeting. in this white house statement, they are saying president biden will not settle for a package that they say fails to meet the

moment and the other key part of this readout from the white house that siticks out is every part of this rescue america plan crafted and proposed is carefully designed to meet the moment they say. what you can read into those words, anderson, there is not a lot in this package the white house wants to change. they said maybe they would, you know come down a little bit on stimulus checks there is room for compromise on that. they have the process on capitol hill to get democratic support from the proposal does not sound like this meeting will result and come closer to the republican proposal will look like given the white house noted how much -- how smaller it is i guess you would say to put it bluntly. >> there is a wide gap between what the president wants and obviously, what the senators want, you know, and what they're putting forward. what could the average person actually get from this package?

>> reporter: well, from the republican package it's a lot different. mainly the stimulus checks. there is no federal minimum wage for $15 an hour. that's what biden has and a difference for the extended j jobless benefits but the stimulus checks is what everyone is focussing on. in biden's package, it starts with $1400 stimulus checks on top of the $600 that passed late last year. what republicans have in their proposal are $1,000 checks but targeted to people with lower incomes. ba basically, they are trying to limit who gets this. there is a chance this could change is that too many americans making too much money that have not been really affected by the pandemic in a financial way would be receiving and benefits from these stimulus checks. so that's an area to keep an eye on to see if that comes to an agreement but one thing the white house makes clear in their statement is they still want to move with urgency here. they're not saying there is a lot of time for them to go back, have the talks and come back

together and come to an agreement. so it remains to be seen but does not sound like they came closer to accepting a lot of those republican proposals. >> appreciate it. stay right there. i want to bring in cnn john king. john, we're learning senator joe mansion, key democrat was frustrated by an interview vice president harris did pushing for the larger stimulus plan. do we know where he stands on this? >> he said he wants a smaller package. 1. 9 trillion is too much he said. he thinks so far that the money should be targeted more to middle income and lower income americans and not people he considers to be in the more affluent class. you may see biden tweak that. he wants to be in the middle of bipartisan decisions. he's essential because joe biden cannot afford to lose any votes in the senate 50/50 even divide.

he'll be in the mix of it. these are bad politics. they should have given him a heads up and say we're doing this to help you and create a climate in your state where people will vote for big so they have to smooth feathers. i'll tell you the republican governor of west virginia did the president of the united states a favor today. the republican jim justice saying he'll take a bigger p pic picture. it might help joe mansion vote for a bigger package saying the governor needs it. >> john, you mentioned democrats can't afford to lose votes. do you think they will remain united? the democrats just won two seats in georgia and in the final days of that campaign, they were promising $2,000 in people in georgia, weren't they? >> joe biden has to call senator mansion, president biden, i should say has to call senator mansion. he might have to do some work within the democrats and might have to do work with house dell c -- democrats. i think we're talking about this backwards. is joe biden willing to go down

and meet republicans? the question is are they willing to come up to make it worth to continue the bipartisan negotiations because to your point, president biden won the election saying he wanted a big covid relief package. after the election when republicans were warning don't give joe biden and democrats blanket control of washington, both democrats in georgia won by saying let's give people checks and have a big package. democrats believe they have the momentum and american people. joe biden truly believes in process and talking to republicans. the question is will they move to him? not will he move to them. >> is that what this meeting was about, optics or was -- i mean, it's not really the setting for a serious negotiation, or was it? >> i don't think so. it did go on much longer than anybody expected it to, two hours because there are nine senators in a room, one of the phone and president biden there, as well but this is also a first big meeting at the white house, the first group of lawmakers he has invited into the oval office

and comes as the white house is faced with multiple questions is he really pursuing this path of unity if no republicans get on board with this but of course, as john noted what the white house is hoping if they do move forward with this reconciliation process saying they only have democrats who voted for this bill and wouldn't have to get ten republicans on board, the white house thinks republicans could vote for it later on facing pressure from their constituents given the popularity of polling that the white house has toted on this bill. that all remains to be seen and you are seeing people like joe mansion voice concern about some aspects of this, some specific aspects of this so if the white house changes that, we're waiting to figure that out. so far, they have not committed to that. they haven't agreed to that. i do think a lot of this was also the white house making an effort to show hey, we invited republicans here and are sitting down with them and listening to them. what it actually changes, though, nobody is clear yet on

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two conflicting story lines on the fight against coronavirus. hospital rates down dramatically last night is a good sign after january was the two conflicting stories. the strains first seen in uk, south africa, and brazil. cdc says 437 cases in 34 states have been detected. a short time ago on cnn dr. fauci said there is a high rate of reinfection with the strain from south africa if it becomes dominant. calls now for the administration

to prioritize getting more first doses to people including michael osterholm a top epidemiologist at university of minnesota and former medical adviser to president biden's transition team. >> you and i are sitting on this beach where it is 70 degrees, perfectly blue skies, gentle breeze. but i see that hurricane category 5 or higher 450 miles offshore. telling people to evacuate in that nice, blue sky day, is going to be hard but i can also tell you that hurricane is coming. >> today the biden administration indicated it would stick to the two dose schedule. want to get perspective from our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, dr. leana wen, cnn analyst. there is obviously hope when the vaccine started rolling out. now with all the variants the hope is certainly if not fading certainly more cloudy. should it be?

experts say it could be a long time before we get back to a real sense of normalcy. >> i think this has added a lot of urgency to an already very urgent situation. bad news first. people who have been infected by this coronavirus and have their own antibodies, there is now increasing evidence those antibodies may not be as effective against the variants. so the chance of reinfection as you mentioned becomes higher as a result. there are a lot of people who said i had it. i'm done with this. that may not be the case if the variants start to become more dominant. the second thing is the vaccines out there like the johnson & johnson data, we know while they're effective across the board they are less effective against the variants as well. the good news is that, like, again, with the johnson & johnson one, they were still effective against people getting really sick. whether it was the variant or the other, you know, the existing, circulating coronavirus, it was pretty effective against people getting very sick, being hospitalized,

or dying. what this really means is we've got to get people vaccinated and quickly. that's the best chance of basically protecting them and slowing down the rate of transmission of these variants. >> so does that mean, sanjay, you think rather than holding, you know, half of the doses to give people a second dose so there is guaranteed to give people a second dose that they should kind of flood the market with first doses? >> you know, i kind of do. i realize this is a provocative point and people have gone back and forth on this. the cdc is not yet recommending this. let me show you a couple pieces of data. the moderna trial. we looked at this data carefully trying to get a sense of how effective is the first dose and then how much more effective when you add in the second dose? if we show the numbers there, 80.2% after the first shot. the caveat is they only studied that for a few weeks, right? these people then got a second dose. three or four weeks later depending on which vaccine. so it is small data and it's

short-term data but it did look promising. let me show you pfizer really quickly. i want to explain this to you because we dug into this when we saw the pfizer apply for the emergency use authorization. busy graphic. the blue line going straight up to the upper right corner is placebo group, people who just got the placebo. the red line is the number of people who got sick after the first dose and you can see that line just really flattened out. that's after the first dose. so it's pretty clear there is a benefit to the first dose. anderson, people need both doses. we got to do this right. but we should give people the doses right now and not hold doses back and then promise them they'll get the second dose. we are in the middle of a public health emergency. this idea of holding doses back doesn't make a lot of sense. we also should guarantee within six weeks as the cdc says they should be able to get their second dose. >> well, dr. wen, a, can that guarantee be made?

are there enough doses out there? and do you believe -- agree with sanjay on this? >> i think the guaranteed timely second dose is really critical. i think that what the biden team is saying is to the providers, don't hold back the second dose. we are going to guarantee there is going to be a steady supply so if you are holding back on half of your supply, because you think we're not giving you a second dose, go ahead and give that. we'll guarantee within several weeks' time you'll get the second dose. the timely second dose is so important because that is how the pfizer and moderna vaccines were studied. this is different from johnson & johnson, which is studying a one dose versus two dose regimen. in that case you could actually have the data and make a reasonable assumption to say if you have a one dose vaccine it is going to be this effective. two dose vaccine is somehow less effective but worth getting it to more people in order to do that. but i really fear that if we

don't give that timely second dose we could be seriously eroding public confidence. already there are a lot of people who think we have expedited the vaccine approval and are not following the science. we need to follow the science to the letter here or we could erode public trust. >> appreciate it. thank you. still to come breaking news about whether there will be charges against a police officer involved in a shooting and killing of an attacker during last month's attack on capitol hill. also a cnn investigation on several rioters who didn't do the one thing you have to do to re-elect a president. we're excited to do business with you but before we sign i gotta ask... sure, anything. we searched you online and maybe you can explain this? i can't believe that garbage is still coming in.

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breaking news to report on the attack on the capitol last month. sources tell cnn it has been recommended that prosecutors decline to bring charges against a capitol police officer in the

shooting of a rioter. the shooting remains under investigation. no final decision has been made. the justice department could make one in the coming days. now to a separate investigation by cnn state election data shows at least eight people facing criminal charges for their involvement did not actually vote. donovan crowl is a member of a self-styled militia and was removed from ohio rolls in 2020 for never voting. there is also no record of him voting in illinois where he was once registered. jack griffith faces a number of charges. court documents state that he posted on the facebook the cavalry is coming. he did not vote in 2020. there you go. they were saying the election was a fraud. votes were stolen. they didn't even bother to vote. news continues. handing it over to chris for "cuomo primetime." >> all right, coop. one of your biggest fans has a

big day today. cha cha is 11 and not only is she 11 years old today going on 19 but she let me leave to get ahead of the storm and come to the city even though that meant i would miss her actual birthday. >> oh, wow. >> good thing we had a couple days of preshopping. i should have pulled uncle anderson into that. she likes you better than me. >> happy birthday. that's awesome. >> all right, cha cha. doesn't get better than that. the man himself. i love you, cha cha. anderson, i love you too. thank you brother. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." family first, right? but your family as well and i have new insight for you. we are in a two front conflict right now. all right? the first front is the battle within the gop. i say it's first because it has a huge impact on the second front. so the party of lincoln is looking more like the gang of wilks booth right now. right? why can't senator cruz or rubio or house minority leader mccarthy lead an