good evening. here we are again the capitol under threat once more. capitol police saying they obtained intelligence of a quote, possible plot to breach the capitol by an identified militia group tomorrow. house members worried they are likely cancelling going to work tomorrow. and asked about the intelligence by confirming her department and the fbi raised the alarm. >> senator, we issued a bulletin last night co-authored with the fbi about discussing march 4th and march 6th, is that what you're referring to? a joint intelligence bulletin we released last night around -- it

was very late. midnight, i think. >> so with concerns about a new attack front and center, you would think understanding the last one would be a priority especially to the senator she was actually replying to, republican ron johnson. after all, he was interested enough in what might happen tomorrow to make it his very first question. when it comes to what already has happened, though, not so much, except it seems in continuing to downplay it and deflect responsibility for it. now, we should say right here that some of his republican colleagues truly are taking a serious interest, especially in why with the capitol under siege it took more than three hours for the d.c. national guard to respond and the new order is putting obstacles in its path. the commanding general of the d.c. national guard major general walker talked about that today. >> the secretary of the army's january 4th letter to me with held that authority for me to employ a quick reaction force. additionally, the secretary of the army's memorandum to me required a concept of operation

be submitted to him before the employment of a quick reaction force. i found that requirement to be unusual, as was the requirement to seek approval to move guardsmen supporting the metropolitan police department to move from one traffic control point to another. >> a higher republican rob portman, one of the ranking members today, says he wants to hear more on this from the former army secretary and former ranking member. another republican roy blunt devoted much of his questioning to the subject, and senator ted cruz eliciting new information whether those guidelines hobbled the guard's response. >> senator cruz, i would have had that authority prior to january 6th to employ direct a quick reaction force. so the secretary of defense, his letter authorizes me to use the quick reaction force, and it says, only as a last resort. where the secretary of the army,

his direction to me withholds the authority to use the quick reaction force and he will only authorize that and only after he has a concept of operations sent to him, a con op sent to him. so that was restriction that was unusual to me. i never seen that before. >> senator josh hawley called attention to what the general said but he quickly directed his questioning toward the notion these new orders were an over reaction to criticism of the guard's role in the mayhem last surrounding the former president's photo op last center. he then segued into questions he asked the fbi director yesterday about collecting meta data to be on the 6th. but the prize for deflection goes, as we said, to senator johnson, who made a career now out of rewriting what we know about the insurrection and

downplaying the horror we all saw. >> how many firearms were confiscated in the capitol or on capitol grounds that day? >> to my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests on the scene at this point. >> nobody has been charged with an actual fire arm weapon on the capitol or capitol grounds? >> correct. >> how many shots were fired that we know of? >> i believe the only shots that were the ones that resulted in the death of the one lady. >> now, this must have been a theme for the senator somehow an insurrection involving makeshift arms wasn't the real thing like a flag pole to beat an officer nearly to death. is this a weapon? the officer taking the blows would probably say it was or what's believed to be bear spray used on the police, an irritant that at least according to the latest reporting might have contributed to officer brian sicknick being killed. would that be a weapon? senator johnson has been playing rhetorical games and deflecting. about what really happened that day. you'll remember, he read this revisionist account of the assault into the congressional record last week. >> a very few didn't share the jovial, friendly demeanor of the

great majority. some obviously didn't fit in, and he describes four different types of people. plain clothes militants, agents provocateurs, fake trump protesters and disciplined uniform column of attackers. i think these are the people that probably planned this. >> so it seems like it's kind of a game to him. five people died directly because of the insurrection. senator amy klobuchar responded directly to johnson's assertions that the insurrectionists were just there for a peaceful, fun visit. >> these people that were assaulting the capitol with military gear and were pinning an officer between a door and were using bear spray on officers in the capitol, would you title them provocateurs? >> ma'am, it would all depend on the evidence behind the case, right? so as we're going through and figuring out what actually we know about each individual, it would depend on the facts and

what we know wholistically about that to put a label on it. >> do you think there were some very serious, violent people involved in this insurrection? >> 100%. a lot of officers was injured and a lot of damage was done. >> would you describe the atmosphere as festive? >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. and the absurdity didn't stop there. i'm using that word because on the eve again the capitol is once again under threat. we got an op ed from the man that was nearly sacrificed on the altar of that big election lie. mike pence writes this opposing voter rights legislation, and i'm quoting. after an election marked by voting irregularities and officials setting aside state election law, i share the concern of millions of americans about the integrity of the 2020 election. people who believe that wanted to hang mike pence. and that's where we are tonight. with the capitol under threat eight weeks after the insurrection bracing for the possibility of another because

of the big lie that just won't die. more now on the new threat reportings and the chain of command mystery surrounding the d.c. guard's orders during the insurrection. joining us is former assistant homeland security secretary juliette kayyem, and also cnn military analyst and retired army lieutenant mark hertling. this possible plot to breach the capitol grave enough the house is likely cancelling the session tomorrow. a lot of this is based on qanon identifying march 4th as the date of the real presidential inauguration, i guess back when ulises grant was inaugurated and that somehow donald trump is going to return to glory on the 4th and become the 19th president of the united states. >> the resurection. and that's what they're anticipating. i can't second guess the intelligence that they're seeing from my seat, so all i can say is this is where we are. that there is at least

legitimate enough intelligence to suggest a second attack that is promulgated because of the lie, that is because essentially at this stage, the direct outcome of the lie. the lie leads to the violence. you can't deny it anymore. that closes down, potentially closes down all of the third branch of government or third branch of government tomorrow. this is where we are and guess what? we will be here for awhile because the lie doesn't go away. the gop is invested in the lie because it's tied to, as you just noted, it's tied to the voting restrictions they are trying to put in place throughout the country. they need to convince people that the lie is true, that the votes were illegitimate and particular african american and hispanic votes. this lie is not going away and what they are trying to do is say the lie is about policy changes, about voting rights, but the lie is also leading to the violence. and they can't have it both ways, and so any -- a republican now who does not reject the lie

outright is now responsible for the violence that we might see not tomorrow, but because there is going to be a new date and a new date and a new date. and that's the inheritance of what trump leaves behind for the biden administration's intelligence teams. >> yeah, general hertling, that's the thing about this group, qanon belief, they come up with a date and the date passes and nothing happens that they said was going to happen and they come up with a reason why that occurred. oh, that was a cy op. and like the people used to predict the end of the world and change the date all the time. from a security standpoint, given the security deficiencies we saw on january 6, what should be in motion now to -- i mean, are troops ever going to leave d.c.? >> that's a great question, anderson. you're exactly right. we have seen this kind of thing in combat before where there is anticipation that the enemy is

going to attack, so you get all revved up. you get people up at dawn. you have them in their foxholes ready to shoot, and the enemy doesn't attack. and then you get another date, and they don't attack again. so suddenly you start feeling lax and you're not as energized and suddenly they get away with it. you know, in this whole thing, in this event on the 6th of january, what i saw today, and it has to do with what juliette was talking about, i had anticipated an ugly hearing. it was that and so much more because what was discussed during the hearing today is everything we shouldn't do as military forces, as intelligence forces. the thing we have to do is fight for intelligence, not wait for someone to give us information. we have to plan and collaborate with people we anticipate fighting with, in this case the d.c. police and the capitol police. we have to have trust in the chain of command.

that was gone with the last guy's administration. finally, what i'd like to say and this is the thing that troubled me the most. when i first saw general walker's rules of engagement, the letter that he received from the secretary of defense and the secretary of army, i was flunked. that is something you'd never see. you trust a two-star general to commit his qrf, to commit his reserve. that's why he gets promoted to those levels of authority. that wasn't happening. i got to tell you general walker used, as you played the tape, he used the term "unusual" several times in his testimony. that translates into this is a bunch of b.s. and i got to tell you, it was horrible across the board. >> the qrf, the quick reaction force is what you're referring to. but general hertling, just from your experience in military matters, to william walker, the commander of the d.c. national guard, he raised these questions about the instructions he had

gotten from the acting defense secretary and the secretary of the army. what was so unusual about that? the idea that walker wasn't given the ability to just move a quick reaction force to deploy them or even redeploy guardsmen who were already stationed in one place to another? >> you can go down the entire list of the things he was asked to do to include what kind of uniforms were his soldiers going to wear? what kind of things could they not take with them, like vests and helmets? moving people as he testified between one traffic control point to another. that's just silliness. i mean, a sergeant squad leader makes those decisions, not a two-star general. to go back to the secretaries to get confirmation of those orders to me as a guy who has been in combat under rules of engagement sometimes are restrictive, there

is usual lay reason for those restrictive rules of engagement, but in this case, it just seemed to hinder his activity with a -- by the way, anderson, an extremely small force. that's troubling, too. because when he was talking about committing the quick reaction force, 150 people, 140 people, whatever he said he had, that would have been nothing in terms of countering the kind of activities that were going on and again, i go back to my first issue you plan and collaborate with other organizations before you get into an anticipation fight. everybody saw this coming. and i'm really surprised at the actions of having a lack of forces to support this individual as well as some of the state capitols that didn't have national guard. >> juliet, obviously when those restrictions that the walker was talking about were not in place by the way during the black lives matter protests during the

summer, we saw a much more ready and more muscular response, you know, of troops. you worked in homeland security. why was walker handcuffed? >> so it's important to note that those restrictions were not put in after lafayette park? so people like the senator was arguing, well, this was an overreaction to lafayette. no, this was put in january 5. something is going on here which is not explained in any testimony. by december, any person with a twitter account, let alone just listening knows that donald trump is talking about the state. he's using the language of fight. it is so disconcerting members of congress don't show up that day and some even show up armed. they are nervous. so that intelligence is out there. you'll need to wait for the fbi to tell you. the military is then told do less than a normal situation. which is you would preposition

at this stage. we did it during the elections. the national guard was prepositioned. and you would do it during this, not because, you know, you want to stop first amendment rights, but because there is a legitimate concern about violence. so the fact that they wooempbt o weren't even out there on the 5th and the morning of the 6th, the crowd, the mob looks up the hill and says it's totalsly -- you know, let's just go up there and, right, and let's attack because it's not being fortified. those five days we have no explanation about both what mark said, the general said about the rules of engagement and why did the pentagon take so long and so the only person i care about hearing from is the former acting secretary chris miller who was brought in the at the last moment by trump very late in the administration and has some explaining to do. >> yeah, juliette kayyem and general hertling, thank you. next, in light of the breaking news a closer look at the conspiracy theories driving

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there is breaking news about a possible new threat to the capitol centers on a date, march 4th. some, not all qanon followers believe will mark the former president's return to office. not only is that not on the agenda, but the house won't be in session due to this development. tomorrow is a concern as is the 6th. we get perspective from "new york times" technology columnist kevin rosom and nia bloom. "inside the mind of qanon women." so kevin, is there any way to predict how qanon followers react to what does or does not happen tomorrow? if history is any guide, there have been dates set before and promises made and none of it has come to pass, and just they evolve into new theorys or say well, that was an intentional

distraction or disinformation or a cy op. >> qanon operates as a kind of doomsday cult. they are constantly making predictions when things will come to pass, when this storm will arrive and the pedophiles will be rounded up and arrested and it never happens clearly and after it doesn't happen, they push the date back and try again so this is happened a lot and it's happened most notably on inauguration day when they believe that the inauguration would be interrupted by trump announcing martial law and taking a second term in office, and they did actually suffer some setbacks after that. a lot of people, sort of part of the group became disillusioned. but the people who are hanging on changed their prediction to march 4th, to tomorrow as the date when they think that trump will return as the president. >> i saw some pictures posted online, mia, where some of mad cow disease people were saying

executions will take place on the 5th of people who have already been rounded up or will be, and they showed pictures of the press ricers put up for the inauguration saying that those were gallows and that washington has actually already been taken over by the military and is now a prison for the people who are going to be rounded up. there is also, nia, this thing a lot of them believe president biden isn't really president biden at all, it's a body double. it's just nuts. >> there are a few things they believe. so the first thing was that it's not really biden and like the movie "face-off" it really president trump. the reason that president biden is always wearing a mask isn't because of covid-19, it's because they haven't synced up the mouth yet between the facial mask of biden and how president trump is imitating biden. they also look at the fact that biden on his very first day biden signed 17 executive

orders, 17 being q's the 17th letter of the alphabet. >> it's so interesting. i don't know if it's that interesting, frankly, the longer it goes on, the less interesting it becomes after a while. it's just like the person won't leave the party and keeps talking. you know, there were 17 flags when president trump, i think, said, you know, farewell to frank sinatra or the village people playing, surprisingly enough and boarded the plane and there was people reading into that. is it, mia, from what you've seen, are people -- is there still money being made? are they still selling products? is there still the backing of this that there was before? because we've talked and kevin as well about people leaving in the wake of none of their promises coming true. is there any way to know how many people are still out there that believe this? >> well, so, after the january 20th inauguration and the storm

didn't happen, on gab and telegram there was a great deal of weeping and teeth gnashing, but the fact remains that the people who are diehards will double and triple down. now what's interesting about tomorrow is a number of these qanon influencers who are the ones that are making the money are now saying wait a second, wait a second, march 4th is a false flag operation that antifa has created to make us look bad. so you have now this different vein of arguments within qanon that some people are saying, yes, of course it's march 4th, and that's why the trump hotel quadrupled the room prices but then others are saying no, it's antifa. it's a false flag. they're trying to make us look stupid. >> did the trump hotel quadruple room prices for tomorrow expecting loonies to come? >> you know, if there is money to be made, trump is going to

make it. >> wow. that's really interesting. kevin, in terms of an actual threat, a threat of force we're hearing about tonight, if the biggest threat of force we have seen from them i guess would be the capitol insurrection. obviously, the guy showed up at the pizza parlor and incident at the hoover dam. there are other incidents, somebody doing a mob hit, blaming qanon ties. the idea that the house is likely not going to be in session tomorrow because of this possible threat, does that surprise you? >> i think it's not surprising that there are threats and it's not surprising that law enforcement is preparing for the worst-case scenario. i do think there are some important differences between what we see in advance of tomorrow and what we saw in advance of january 6th, the capitol riot. before the capitol riot for weeks there were groups that were preparing to storm the capitol, talking about their plans openly, you know, trading

airbnb listings and talking about carpooling to washington d.c., making it very clear that they were intending to show up in vast numbers and we haven't seen the same kind of energy around the events that some law enforcement agencies expected to happen tomorrow. it doesn't seem to be capturing the same kind of offline energy, but i think it's always good to be prepared. it doesn't take thousands and thousands of qanon believers in one place to cause trouble and even violence. >> yeah. kevin roose, mia bloom, appreciate it. thank you. just ahead president biden's blunt words for the governors of two states ending the mask mandate and my conversation with former congressman beto o'rourke about what this means for the future of his state, texas. this is wealth. ♪ ♪ this is worth. that takes wealth. but this is worth.

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a short time ago dr. fauci added his objection to that of president biden to texas and mississippi ending their mask mandates. he called it ill-advised and risky. earlier today president biden was more blunt. >> i think it's a big mistake. look, i hope everybody realized by now these masks make a difference. we're on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way we're able to get vaccines in people's arms. we've been able to move that up

to the end of may to have enough for every american, to get every adult american to get a shot and the last thing, the last thing we need is the neanderthal thinking that everything is fine, take off your mask. forget it. it still matters. >> both governors responded. here is mississippi's tate reeves. >> given how long ago mr. biden was elected to the u.s. congress, he certainly should know how neanderthals think. >> texas governor greg abbott also responded, saying it was time to restore lives and normalcy. those states are ending mandates after coming down off record highs but also as new cases in both states begun climbing again in the past few weeks. mississippi's mandate ended today, texas next week. once that happens, at least 15 states, the ones in red will have no mask mandate. two other states in yellow require masks sometimes. earlier i spoke to former texas congressman beto o'rourke who

acknowledged a potential run against governor abbott about what this means for texas and the nation at large. >> congressman o'rourke, you tweeted this decision by governor abbott was a death warrant for texans. why do you think he would do this? >> i don't know why he would do this. i know that in doing so, many more of our fellow texans are going to die beyond the 44,000 who have already sum succumbed to covid. the ill prepared way that he met the pandemic and in the botched rollout of the vaccines, and it's disproportionately hit the communities that are already strug ling, the lowest income, communities of color and those on the front lines including health care workers will bear the print of the cost and consequence of this decision. anderson, one of the things that people should understood is that houston, texas, the largest city in our state, one of the largest

in america is the first city to have every single variant of the coronavirus in one place. and that's just beginning to take off. we have no idea what the spread of these new variants are going to do, but we do know keeping a mask on, keeping six foot distance, having some public protocols are going to help save lives while we race towards the finish of having every single adult in america vaccinated by the end of may. why he would give up now close to the end, i don't know. >> the governor came under heavy criticism during the handling of the norm and power outages in texas. we talked during that time. the mayor of austin said last night it's a possibility of the governor's move to lift the mask mandate could be related to that criticism. do you think that's possibly part of the motivation? >> he's presiding over a state that is approaching the classic definition of a failed state. literally cannot guarantee electricity, running water, heat when temperatures are dropping into the single digits.

we know an 11-year-old boy froze to death in his trailer. we know an 84-year-old grandmother froze in her home. we know perhaps more than 100 of our fellow texans died of hypothermia or carbon monoxide, inhalation trying to stay warm in their cars. this is a really politically convenient bombshell to drop when every one of us wants to see the accountability and the answers for what happened to our fellow texans in the midst of the storm. >> i mean, right now the cdc has come out and said governor abbott's decision is premature. the infectious disease society said pandemic control measures must continue. i mean, what happens if the numbers go up then does he dig his heels or does he then go back and say okay, well let's restart some mandates? >> what he said is that if hospitalizations reach a certain level within a given county, that county judge will be empowered to take the necessary measures. that's really trying to close

the barn door after everyone and all the virus has gotten out and infected the people who's care he's entrusted with. here is what we're doing. a number of us are going door to door on a voluntary basis to the poorest zip codes in texas finding those eligible to be vaccinated and ensuring that they get registered and signed up. we're going to neighborhoods that don't have internet access, talking to folks who may not own cell phones who may not be communicating in the english language to make sure that we get them vaccinated and help them out, otherwise they are literally the first in lynn to become infected, hospitalized and to die. we've seen this over and over again. >> the mayor of austin said he'd try to get in government buildings in municipal buildings in austin that a mask mandate but is there much else that local officials or businesses can do? i know some businesses said they will require their customers to wear a mask.

>> anderson, imagine you're making the minimum wage in texas, which is $7.25 and you're likely working not one but two, maybe three jobs at a convenience store and a customer walks in without wearing a mask. you remind them. that customer is very likely to say i'm not listening to you behind the counter, i'm listening to the governor and the governor told me this is okay, and that's not hypothetical. we are getting that kind of feedback already in realtime in the 24 hours since the governor has announced this. he's putting the most vulnerable, those $7.25 hour workers, the health care workers, nurses, doctors and administrative and support staff, he's putting them in harm's way right now by doing this. so yes, businesses can and should require masks. people can and should wear them when they go out, but what the governor has done is essentially given the green light to anybody who does not want to wear a mask and to flout the best public

health guidance that's out there. so this one is on us. he's basically told texas you are on your own. he and the rest of our state government have given up. we're left to our own devices. >> congressman o'rourke, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you so much. just ahead, our gary tuchman investigates how the johnson & johnson vaccine is being received in communities and whether there is a bias against this latest life-saving drug. d , his future became my focus. lavender baths always calmed him. so we turned bath time into a business. and building it with my son has been my dream job. at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com

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the challenge of the johnson & johnson vaccine is not just to get into it arms, but the perception of it being less effective than the other go vaccines. all three of the drugmakers agree the vaccines work to prevent people from getting seriously ill and whichever vaccine you can get you should take. gary tuchman is looking how this is being received and visits the suburban area with predominantly black rest residents thought to get a vaccine. >> reporter: delwood is just north of st. louis. >> i waited a long time for this. >> reporter: the pharmacist, the owner of the business.

>> okay, congratulations, you are all set. >> reporter: just got her first supply of covid vaccine for her community but she didn't get just one kind of vaccine, she got two. moderna and the newly approved johnson & johnson. >> this has been great. it's a blessing to be in this position. >> reporter: particularly because rebecca knows there is a reticence among many minority groups about getting the covid vaccine. >> i was hesitant about getting it. >> really? >> reporter: because she has two kinds of vaccine, she has the unique opportunity of giving her customers a choice. >> i have the moderna and johnson & johnson. which one would you like? >> this is one, the shot, the johnson & johnson. you want to get that? >> is it just one shot? >> just one shot and then you're done. >> okay, i'll take that one. >> yes, that's the best option. >> okay. >> and it's equally effective. so we do have a johnson &

johnson and we have the moderna. johnson & johnson, one shot you're done. moderna, two shots. which one are we going with today? >> johnson & johnson. >> johnson & johnson. why is that? >> one shot and i'm done. >> reporter: this is just one small pharmacy in america, but the trend here is very clear. the one-dose johnson & johnson vaccine is very popular. >> you're not going to feel a thing. >> reporter: trenya clark also chose johnson & johnson. >> i cried. i was so happy. here in north county, we weren't getting vaccines. they were making us drive 60 and 80 miles to go get it. >> reporter: reggie jones is the mayor of delwood. >> okay, you're all set, sir. >> reporter: he was one of the smaller number of people here who chose moderna. outside the pharmacy in nearby neighborhoods, it is not difficult to find people who aren't planning to get any covid vaccine. >> yes, i believe that they would bring the lesser drugs in our communities to test us to see if they work before they hit the masses.

>> reporter: you're referring to the johnson & johnson one dose? >> yes. >> congratulations, you are set. >> reporter: the pharmacist knows about the past, but tells her customers now is a much different time. >> done, sir. >> reporter: timothy williams believes that with all his heart. tell me how getting this vaccine will change your life? >> it will change my life. i get to get out the house. you know what i mean? i got grandkids. haven't seen my grandkids in a year. my youngest grand kid is turning 1 on the 21st. >> reporter: it must feel great. >> last time i saw him was march 20th. >> reporter: of last year? >> yeah, last year. i'm going to hug them and squeeze them. that's all. see my grandkids. >> reporter: the pharmacy is still open, anderson. it's a late now. we can tell you as of now, 67% of the people who have come in for vaccines, two-thirds have asked for the one-dose johnson & johnson vaccine. anderson? >> gary tuchman, appreciate you being there. thank you. perspective from infectious disease specialist. former covid adviser to

president biden's transition team. dr. gander, we saw gary's piece. were you surprised by how many people chose to get the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> honestly, i was a little bit surprised just because there has been so much in the media about the efficacy of the johnson & johnson vaccine as compared to the others. and just to remind everyone, in terms of preventing hospitalization and death, all of the vaccines were 100% effective in clinical trials. so this is not an inferior vaccine. and if anything, we have in a sense more data on the johnson & johnson vaccine because it was tested in south africa, in latin america where the variants had emerged later in the pandemic, and we know that the vaccine remains effective in those settings. >> i do think that's one of the interesting things that's often overlooked about the johnson & johnson vaccine because the efficacy when it came to -- it is, correct me, maybe i won't even say it.

tell me what the efficacy is compared to the others on mild cases, but what is often overlooked at the fact this has been tested against the south african variant, the brazil variant and has been deemed effective against hospitalization and death with those variants, which is significant. >> yeah, and that's significant. we haven't seen that same level of data, frankly, with the pfizer and moderna vaccines because they were tested in clinical trials much earlier on and not in the presence of those variants. again, all of these vaccines prevent hospitalization and death. we don't vaccinate for the common cold, the sniffles and so really, that's the wrong measure to be looking at here. and when you think about it, this is one and done. yes, you know, a vaccine does not take effect right away. it takes a little time for the immune system to see it and mount a response but it means you can get back to your life, back to life, back to your family that much more quickly afterwards. >> how quickly after somebody

has been vaccinated, whether it's with johnson & johnson or moderna or pfizer can they have some level of protection? >> so you get your full protection with johnson & johnson four weeks after the first dose. with pfizer, you get one dose, then you get another dose three weeks later and then it takes another two weeks so you add that up, that's five and similarly, with moderna, you're looking at six weeks. so you really do shave off a week or two and only need one shot with the johnson & johnson. >> as we reported, obviously the governors in texas and mississippi plan to lift mask mandates and allow businesses to operate at full capacity. texas governor says it's time to open texas 100%. how -- what do you think of those decisions? >> i think it's really concerning because this is not the time. we're almost there. we are at the almost at the end, the finish line of this marathon and this is also when we are seeing this spread of the u.k. variant, which is more

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breaking news tonight in the ° sexual harassment allegations against governor andrew cuomo. he appeared before the press, and apologized, but also said he never touched anyone. >> i now understand that i acted

in a way that made people uncomfortable. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo, apologizing amid allegations of sexual harassment by three women. >> it was unintentional. >> i truly and deeply apologize for it. i feel awful about it. and frankly, i am embarrassed by it. and it's not easy to say. but that's the truth. >> reporter: the governor also making it clear, he's not going anywhere. >> i'm not going to resign. >> reporter: and denying claims of inappropriate behavior. >> i never touched anyone inappropriately. i never touched anyone inappropriately. >> reporter: his appearance, the first time we've seen him since the women came forward with their claims, all in the last week.

two of the accusers are former members of his staff. a lawyer not buying the apology. saying it was full of falsehoods and inaccurate information. he said he had no idea he made anyone uncomfortable. we are confident they made him aware of the complaint. a third woman told the "new york times" she met the governor at a wedding reception. wedding reception in 2019. their encounter seemingly captured in this photo by a friend. >> you can find hundreds of pictures of me kissing people. men and women. it's my usual and customary way of greeting. however, what i also understand is it doesn't matter.

it doesn't matter, my intent. what matters is, if anybody was offended by it. >> it's really important for us to be able to hold our own accountable. >> reporter: one new york state senator saying she would like to see the governor resign. so would a few of her fellow state democrats. the senate majority leader others not going so far. >> he's saying that nothing inappropriate happened. if the investigation shows that something inappropriate did happen, i think he would have to resign. >> bridget joins us. do we know where the investigation stands now? >> reporter: we know it's in the hands of the new york attorney general, who will appoint a special lawyer, a private lawyer, to handle all of this. and you can imagine that's going to take some time. they have to make sure they're vetted, that they can leave their current job to handle this investigation.

and the investigation as a whole could take months to complete. but today, cuomo reiterated the fact that he will participate fully in the investigation, and he asked new yorkers to hold off on judgment until the findings are released. >> have they identified the person who will lead this investigation already? >> reporter: not yet. it's still a few days away, because the process takes a while to make sure the background checks and little details like making sure they can leave their current job, to handle this case. but it's going to be an important person who does it. of course, andrew cuomo has a lot of people who he knows. they need to make sure this is an independent investigation. as many people the lawmakers and victims want.

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