. capitol hill, the continue and i go of the trial of former president donald trump. and we could find out as soon as today if the senate will convict the former president for inciting the insurrection on capitol hill. now, in a few hours the senate will reconvene for the final steps of the impeachment trial. >> house managers could ask for witnesses here, that is the unknown this morning. it does not seem likely at this point, but today's proceedings will include closing arguments

and the final vote of conviction or acquittal is expected to come this afternoon. the former president's legal team laid out a short rebuttal yesterday. the defense claimed his rhetoric did not incite the rigoters. they argued that the former president is protected under the first amendment. >> and there is a key question that the defense left unanswered, what if anything did then president trump actually do to respond to the riot especially considering the danger to his own vice president. we have new reporting on that in a few moments. but let's start with some of the key arguments from yesterday's proceedings. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. >> no thinking person could seriously believe that the president's january 6 speech on the elipse was in any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. the suggestion is the patently absurd on its face. >> and we fight.

>> you can't incite what was already going to happen. this unprecedented effort is not about democrats opposing political violence. it is about democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition. it is constitutional cancel culture. we have reason to believe the house managers manipulated evidence and selectively edited footage. >> i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. >> why are we walking to the capitol? they cut that off. the house managers spoke about rhetoric, about a constant drumbeat of heated language. we need to show you some of their own words. >> if you were in high school, i'd take you behind the gym and beat the hell out of them. >> this is not about whattism.

i'm showing you this to make the point that all political speech must be protected. >> we like a good fight. >> i've got to stand up and fight. >> and fight and fight. >> we are in this fight for our lives. >> we cannot ever give up fighting. >> these are the metaphorically reshetoric cal uses of the word fight. we all know that, right? suddenly the word fight is off-limits? spare us the hypocrisy. the reality is mr. trump was not in any way shape or form instructing these people to fight or to use physical violence. >> the house managers assert that the january 6th attack was predictable and foreseeable. if so, why did it appear that

law enforcement at the capitol were caught off guard? >> holy cow. that is a really good question. and had the house managers done their investigation, maybe somebody would have an answer to that. but they didn't. they did zero investigation. they did nothing. they looked into nothing. but jimmy crickets, there is no due process in this proceeding at all. counsel said this has been my worst experience in washington, but man, you should have been here on january 6. >> rather than yelling at us and screaming about how we didn't have time to get all the facts about what your client did, bring your client up here and have him testify under oath about why he was sending out tweets denouncing the vice president of the united states while the vice president was being hunted down by a mob that wanted to hang him.

and was chanting in this building hang mike pence, hang mike pence, hang mike pence, traitor, traitor, traitor. >> let's go now to daniella diaz, she is on capitol hill. what should we expect to see today? >> reporter: you just played a really good recap of what trump's defense tried to argue yesterday. trump was using rhetoric that all democrats and republicans use. they used examples of kamala harris and elizabeth warren using the language and jamie raskin arguing that the insurrection was incited by trump himself. and this is a good summation of what will happen today where we expect the senate to resume and reconvene at 10:00 a.m. and today the is likely to be a said the final day of the impeachment trial. that could change, but this is

what we expect. we expect the vote to happen around 3:00 p.m. and we ls expect to hear from some senators leading up to it who might give speeches of what they thought of the impeachment trial. so we're looking to that. but i really want to drive home the point that even if every democratic senator signs on and votes to convict donald trump today at 3:00 p.m., they still need 17 republican senators to sign on to this and right now it just doesn't seem like that will happen. we are watching the usual senators who usually vote their conscience, this includes susan collins, lisa murkowski, mitt romney, but other than that, it doesn't seem like there will be 17 republicans. and if the argument here -- the goal here from the impeachment managers leading up to today, the final day of the trial, was to change heart and minds from republican, it just doesn't seem like that will happen today. >> daniella, we'll watch for all of that. thank you.

and so professor for the center of the u.s. politics at the college of london is with us and also ross garber, thank you both for being here. ross, i want to start with you because i think one of the biggest most glaring question marks that has been left open today is this question that has gone unanswered it seems from senator susan collins and lisa murkowski, they asked specifically when did trump learn of the breach of the capitol, what specific actions did he take to bring the rioting to an end and when did he take them. what do you think is the consequence for that at the end of the day being unanswered? there were no specific actions that were given by his attorneys to defend him in that regard. >> yeah, it is actually such an

important question because the trump lawyers argued that when trump was saying fight, when trump was saying all the things that he was saying, it was just sort of normal politician speak, that he didn't intend otherwise for this riot, for this occupation, for this insurrection to happen. that wasn't what he was planning. and as evidence of that, the house managers pointed to just as you said the fact that it doesn't appear that after the president knew that the capitol was being occupied, that he did much of anything. and so what the president was doing as the capitol was being occupied became a central issue. the house manager s cited press reports about the president being delighted, but otherwise, you know, it does seem like it was silence except for some tweets one of which that attack the vice president and others that were sort of, you know, not

very assertive in trying to get the rioters to stop. so that was a big issue. the senators asked both sides about that and team trump that actually has access to the president kind of, you know, meandered around it but didn't answer the question. so that is a big issue. and late last night, there may have been some momentum to call witnesses. i don't know if it will succeed or not, but that is the big issue of the day. >> that is what i was going to ask next. thomas, i want you to elaborate on what we expect today and what is the likelihood that any of the testimony or the arguments i should say that we saw in the last couple of days might lead to either side asking for witnesses before closing arguments today. >> well, it does seem like there has been quite an internal debate among democrats about

witnesses. but i think that they have calculated rightly that this is not going to make sense. and the main reason is that most of the events on january 6th were in plain view. everyone could hear what trump said and encould see the mayhem that ensued. so it was a fundamentally different situation for example than with ukraine where considerable information was concealed. the another reason is that this could really turn the trial into a much more lengthy proceeding. and i think democrats aren't really interested in that. they are calculating that more rapid fire approach allows them to say that they pursued impeachment without dragging their feet and distracting from biden's agenda for an impeachment that is probably heading nowhere. and lastly, democrats are probably if they want to get witnesses going to run into significant legal road block bes trying to force for example testimony from white house staff who might be able to provide some private information about

trump's demeanor and words after the riots began. but i think overall it is very unlikely that we'll see witnesses. >> ross, talk to me about the pence factor here, the democrats made quite strong arguments leading to the idea that basically president trump kind of left his vice president out to dry. >> yeah, so it was one of the big contracts we saw between the democrats house manager presentation and the trump lawyer presentation is the democrats did what they knew they had to do, which is reach out to the republicans and one of the ways they did that was by focusing on the vice president, focusing on the danger he was in, and focusing on the notion that it didn't seem as if the president really cared. i think at some point they said that they left -- the president left him for dead. and so that was an effort by the

democrats to i think appeal to republicans and in a way drive a wedge in between, you know, the supporters of the president and people who care about the vice president. and again, it goes to those big fac factual issues about what the president was doing, did he care about the vice president or not. >> so thomas, before i let you go, i mean, there was such emotion in the democrats' arguments. and the video. and what is really unique here is the fact that the jury, they are also the witnesses. these senator, they were there january 6, they know what happened, they know what it felt like. is there any likelihood do you think that that could persuade any of them, any of these 17 that is needed, from the republican side to convict to come on board? >> to me the big takeaway from the republican side, and the impeachment trial in general, is that there really is no big takeaway or at least nothing

that would be sufficient to change the not guilty verdict that was more or less predetermined. every single aspect of this trial i think was predictable. it would start with democrats making an emotional appeal, republicans would counter by challenging legitimacy of the trial and defending trump with the definition of free speech and then it would end with the fair of trump voting to acquit as much on procedural grounds alleging the trial wassen kouns tug un unconstitutional, and then trump will try to spin it as exoneration of his actions on january 6. i think the only real suspense here is how many republicans might turn on the former president. likely some, but it will be a small number. getting 17 senators on board just isn't remotely in the cards in my view. >> thomas, ross, thank you.

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did not know that his vice president was in danger. tomor tommy tuberville stands by the kept of the kept -- content of the call with the president. and reporting with kevin mccarthy saying that he immediately tried to decide fuse the event. this is a tweet from sheldon whit whitehouse, one way to clear it up, suspend the trial it depose mccarthy and tuberville under oath, get fact, ask secret service to produce for review comms back to white house on vice president pence. should he do those specific things? >> so, you know, as we talked about there, there are these lingering questions. and the trump lawyers went right at it yesterday, they said there are huge questions about what

the president was doing, about what his intent was. and the trump lawyers say the house managers didn't prove their case. they didn't have evidence. and so what senator white househouse and others have said, it won't be hard to get some of this evidence, we can call the house minority leader, we could call our fellow senator, senator tuberville, and so let's do that. and that is what senator whitehouse is saying. it still seems unlikely that will happen, but these questions are lingering in the air. >> thomas, if the argument of inevitability is justification for not deposing tuberville, for not getting the facts from mccarthy, then what was the point of any of this? it was unlikely that they would get 17 republicans to vote to convict from the start. so if that is the argument for not getting the information to determine what the president did or did not do as the insurrection was happening, why

are we doing this at all? >> well, i think that is a really good question. and it begs the issue for democrats of kind of what is the end game here. because we see that this is more less a foregone conclusion and it is not obvious that it will have a political win for democrats, in fact it could backfire by giving donald trump an opportunity to galvanize support among his base, you know, it is a real tricky situation. i do think that democrats were in a lard place because there is a principal matter here, one of accountability, and of course many of their constituents would have been highly unsatisfied had democrats not taken this course. but at the same time, i do think that they had to kind of look forward a few steps, think about how this was going to end. as i said, i do think that basically everything that we've seen so far has followed a very

predictable script and looks like it will end the way most experts thought that it would from the outset. >> ross, a single article of impeachment, is this the right article? and i mean, is it frontloaded as the questioning the insurrection, how much did the president contribute to what happened, instead of what we now know, that there were conversations about what the president could have done and did not do as this was happening. if the article focuses on the wrong end of the action here, something more to a violation of the oath to protect, preserve and defend. >> yeah, if that were the article though, it would be met with this argument that that is actually not a high crime or misdemeanor. you don't need a crime for it to be an impeachable offense, but it has to be something incredibly serious that probably is a crime. being a bad president, that doesn't count.

you know, founders thought about including mal-administration as grounds for impeachment and they rejected it. it has to be something that is incredibly serious. this is the one that the managers chose i think to avoid the debate about whether it is impeach bable or noft. a not. and the trump lawyers went right at it said you picked this arld and you haven't 3wr50proven up case. i think the trump lawyers were pretty effective to their base of dumping this issue back on the house managers, house democrats saying loorksk, you picked the article of impeachment, you had control of the timing, whether witnesses were called, whether subpoenas were issued, and you just botched it, guys. that was the trump lawyer's point. and i honestly think that it is probably a pretty appealing point to the trump base and some

of the senators in the room. >> so let me stay with you for this one, ross, because that is what i teased before the break, the defense attorneys used roughly three of the 16 hours allotted for the defense. if there is an acquittal on the constitutional argument, which, yes, was decided before, early in the month, why are they going on to these other elements? from a defense attorney's perspective, if you know that you can getting a qacquittal on point "a," why argue "b," "c" and "d" because that is where the confusion is, that is where the question for witnesses are. was it a mistake to go even those three hours? >> well, i think we'll see in a while whether it was a mistake or not. but the objective -- what the trump lawyers were doing was focusing not just on acquittal,

it was clear from the beginning as thomas noted that there was going to be an acquittal here. so what the trump lawyers did, they went into try to appeal to the trump base to try to appeal to, you know, the senators who might be on the edge, republican senators, and to talk to their client. so they were talking about jurisdiction and you're right, a lot of people will use that as a basis. but then they went hard after issues that appeal to the republican base. you know, cancel culture and, you know, the democrats hating the president, things like that. the question is did they do too good a job and invite witnesses. we're going to see about that. but that is what they were trying to accomplish and i think that they probably did accomplish that. >> ross, thomas, thank you both. and be sure to stay with cnn, our special coverage of the second trump impeachment resumes today at 9:00 eastern.

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concern across the country. >> for the first time since the start of november, the seven day average of new coronavirus cases is below 100,000 and this week, the federal government began direct shipments of vaccines to retail pharmacies. we're talking about a million doses going to 6500 stores across the country. of course it expands greatly the availability, but there is a new report showing nearly a third of adults are undecided about the covid-19 vaccine. >> despite some hesitancy, the u.s. has averaged more than a million and a half doses administered every day the past week and almost 50 million doses have been administered overall. >> evan santoro is with us live. good to be talking about promising news, but give us a fact check here on the reality that we're still seeing today. >> that's right, you put it right. this is a hard week to summarize with this pandemic because on the one hand, we have some really good news. on the other hand, this pandemic

is still able to cause just absolute tragedy. more tragedy from this pandemic. in las vegas, a family mourning, a pregnant frontline nurse rushed to the hospital with covid complications, only her premature child survived. >> she was fighting really hard because she knew the baby was still in the nicu. >> reporter: the coronavirus ripped this family apart even in a week with the virus seemingly in retreat. 40 states are showing downward trends in new reported cases of coronavirus. only one, alaska, shows reported cases rising. the death toll now over 480,000 remains shocking, but the seven day average is in slow decline. the vaccine rollout remains a struggle. friday numbers show only around 11% of the american population has had at least one dose so far. and variants of coronavirus are spreading across the country. in florida, officials reporting

around 10% of new cases in the state may be due to the variant first detected in the uk. >> i think that we'll be wearing masks for several months into the future. >> reporter: still the improving numbers have led some states relax some restrictions put in place during the december surge. indoor dining partially reopens in new york city, while the country's focus turns to reopening classrooms to students. >> the president's goal is to have schools open five days a week, kids in school learning, teachers in school, and to do it safely. >> reporter: friday there was new guidance from the cdc on how to do just that. classrooms can reopen safely it said if they follow these five rules -- universal and correct wearing of masks, physical distancing, washing hands, improved ventilation and contact tracing for new cases. not on the list, vaccinated teachers. the cdc says states should prioritize teacher vax 245igss, but should open schools even if

they can't. >> it is one of the layers of mitigation that we believe will help, but we believe and the science has demonstrated that schools can be reopened safely prior to all teachers being vaccinated. >> reporter: that is a problem for some teacher groups who have been urging schools to vaccinate educators before sending them back into a class room. there is availability in some states, but it varies. some teachers are getting frustrated. this one in tennessee drove 100 miles to get a shot. >> this is not okay that we're having to do this. we should have been better prepared. >> so those struggles still a big part of the vaccine and now feeding in to the conversation about schools. but obviously the base of the conversation is about kidses and keeping them safe. and we have new news about that, which is that the astrazeneca company that has one of the their vaccine, they are now testing it in england in children as young as six years old. now, we haven't seen that kind testing in kids that young, most

of the places that we've seen testing, here in america, it is only down to about age 12. so that 6-year-old age testing, that could be a big step forward in this pandemic. >> no doubt about it. evan santoro, thank you so much. and so be sure to stick with cnn for the latest on the kren pandemic as well. tuesday night we expect to joe biden's latest take, he will be joining anderson cooper in an st. louis presidential town hall. again, that starts at 9:00 eastern this coming tuesday. as new reporting may show what former president trump was thinking during the capitol riot and whether it seemed like he was going to -- or intended to call off the insurrectionists. boris sanchez is live in west palm beach with more. boris. >> reporter: good morning. serious allegations about a phone call that donald trump had as his supporters were ransacking the capitol. how that might impact his

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40 minutes past the hour. cnn has learned that one of former president trump's impeachment attorneys david schoen threatened to quit thursday night. a source said that the former president was able apparently to talk him into staying. >> the "new york times" first reported the incident. they reported that mr. schoen was quitting over a debate about how to use video evidence during their defense on friday. mr. schoen will not be present

at the trial today to observe the sabbath. >> cnn has also learned that the former president has been complaining about his lawyer bruce castor all week and briefly considered firing him apparently. we're learning too some new details about that fiery exchange between then president trump and house republican leader kevin mccarthy during a phone tall while the capitol was under attack, mccarthy asked the president to call off his supporters. president trump responded by telling the gop leader that the rioters cared more about the election results than he did. >> let's go to boris sanchez in west palm beach. so some republican members say that it amounted to dare riks of the former president's duty. what more are you hearing broke what now they or anyone will do about it? >> reporter: yeah, that is still the open question. at least one of those republican

congress people, jamg ie herrer butler, is going on the record with these accusations. and she and others claim that kevin mccarthy after having a conversation with president trump detailed that conversation to them relaying what the president -- former president said as mccarthy was begging him to call his supporters off. and here is part of that exchange. mccarthy telling these lawmakers that trump told him, quote, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. and mccarthy reportedly responding, who the f do you think you are talking to. of course this confirms so much of what we've already heard about president trump's mindset that day. we saw it on twitter. the president was angry at republicans for certifying the results of the 2020 election. he was calling it a great day, he was happy about what his supporters were doing ultimately

saying that they were special, that he loved them, clearly though this draws into question the approach of the house impeachment managers and democrats who have been hesitant to call witnesses if there are republicans that are already going on the record with this story, that show that donald trump not only knew what was going on at the capitol, but was happy about it. that blows an enormous hole into his defense and again, it leads to questions about whether ultimately they may be called to testify. >> we could get that answer today. boris sanchez, thanks so much. so let's move to a developing story that we are also following. new york's governor cuomo is facing accusations that his administration covered up thousands of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes. we'll have more on that after a break. hey, dad! hey, son! no dad, it's a video call. you got to move the phone in front of you like..like it's a mirror, dad. you know? alright, okay. how's that? is that how you hold a mirror?

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new york governor andrew cuomo is facing accusations that his administration undercounted thousands of covid deaths in the state's nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. >> and comments from his top aide are fueling the controversy. here is athena jones. >> the gravity of this coverup cannot be overstated. >> reporter: andrew cuomo under fire after his top aide admitted to withholding data for months that revealed thousand more confirmed deaths than previously disclosed. according to a transcript of a private video call, melissa derosa who often appeared at press conferences with the governor told democratic state lawmakers basically we froze. because then we were in a position where we weren't sure if what we were going to give to the department of justice or what we give to you guys, what we start saying was going to be

used against us. cuomo arguing at the time the threat of an inquiry from the trump administration was politically motivated. >> they have played politics on this from day one. >> reporter: the new york "post" first reported the story citing a recording of the call. state lawmakers from both parties slamming derosa's admission. 14 democratic state senators saying that cuomo should be stripped of his emergency powers. among them, one tweeted you are only sorry that you all got caught. state republicans echoing their call and going further. >> cuomo administration purposely lied and withheld evidence and information to avoid prosecution. andrew cuomo must be prosecuted and andrew cuomo must be impeached if this evidence exists. >> reporter: residents of long term care facilities have accounted for a significant percentage of covid deaths in many states. in new york some 15,000 residents at facilities lied according to the department of

health. about a third of all covid deaths state wide. >> the covid crisis in new york's nursing homes was a preventable crisis. >> reporter: the true death toll was revealed after the attorney general issued a scathing report last month accusing the state of undercounting deaths in these facilities by some 50%. by only publicly reporting those who died on site, not residents who were admitted to hospitals and died there or elsewhere. the deaths were counted in the state's overall death toll but were not attributed to long term care facilities. >> whether a person died in the hospital or died in a nursing h home, it is -- people died. i wish none of it happened. i wish there was no covid. i wish no old people died. >> reporter: the associated press reporting more than 9 thourk,000

were transferred to nursing homes early in the pandemic including 5300 directly from hospitals and more than 2700 readmissions of patients accepts b sent back to nursing homes. and cuomo has faced criticism over a march 2020 state health department advisory that required nursing homes to admit and readmit patients with covid. something critics say may have further fueled the outbreak in those facilities. cuomo has said the policy was in line with federal guy anidance. howard zucker argued that 98% of nursing homes had coached cases before admitting a positive patient from a hospital and that the major driver of infections appears to be from asymptomatic staff. the controversial directive was scrapped in may. this is after governor cuomo was praised initially for his handling of the pandemic. he even wrote a best selling book about leadership in a pandemic. his daily covid briefings became

appointment viewing during the worst of the outbreak here in new york and he was even award an international emmy founders award for his use of television to inform and calm the public. some people were even talking about how he should run for president. well, now he faces a real crisis. athena jones, cnn, new york. >> athena, thank you. there is a bitter cold gripping the country. i mean from coast to coast. this is expansive. and with it, a potential texas-sized snowstorm here. we have a live report for you on what you can expect, stay close. , anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn?

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so depending on where you are waking up this morning, you may be one of 120 million people under this winter storm alert this morning. we're talking about record low dangerously cold temperatures that is really going to grip a good chunk of the country. >> and there is also the potential for snow, light snow could develop into a blizzard-like conditiocondition texas and as far as houston. and allison chinchar is tracking the storm. so where is it expected to be the coldest and how long to you ex do you expect it will last? >> the question really is where isn't it. when you look at this map, all

of these winter weather alerts stretch from coast to coast. you are really going to be hard pressed to find an area maybe outside of florida that isn't going to be dealing with extreme cold or snow or ice. now, one of those alerts we're talking about is referencing ice. we have an ice storm warning across portions of maryland and virginia today because it is currently doing just that. we have ice coming down along with freezing rain, sleet and even some snow across portions of virginia, north carolina, even over across portions of tennessee and northern alabama. but this system is going to continue to push up to the north and east. and with that, it means that it will take the threat for ice with it. so you are also going to see the ice threat potentially accumulate from say just north of charlotte, north carolina all the way up towards new york. most of these areas, it will be up to about a quarter of an inch, but some could be as high as half of an inch of ice before that system moves out. and that is the system in the southeastern portion of the country, but we're also keeping an eye on not one, but twosyste

in the western half of the country that will move through the rocky, dumping snow for colorado springs, albuquerque, even salt lake city, arriving in the southern plains by tonight. from there on sunday, it really starts to spread out over much of the southern u.s. again, bringing intense snow, some sleet, some freezing rain, some regular rain mainly focused along the coast. again, you have a lot of elements here. but look at some of the snowfall totals. oklahoma city could pick up a foot of snow in the next couple days. that continues to spread to the east. so it is not just the southern plains. look at this huge swathe of how many areas will be looking at snow. and it is not one system, it is two. so often what you will have, you will have the first round come in, people will go out and then get ready for the next round right after that. >> allison chinchar, thanks so much. so by the way, if the cold has you indoors this weekend, whether rain, snow, whatever,

cnn's new original series stanley tucci searching for italy will be there for you. the award winning actor's new show airs tomorrow the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. ♪ this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. it looks dark and fairly quiet there right now but it's not going to be the case in just a couple of hours. we find out today whether the senate will find former president trump guilty of inciting the january 6th insurrection on capitol hill. in just a few hours, the senate will be reconvened for the final day of the impeachment trial. >> house managers would ask for witnesses but that does not seem likely. we do know today's proceedings will include closing arguments and th