and then -- there's just not something that you can give back to the families, no matter how hard you try, there is just nothing that you can give back. >> the coast guard has called the investigation into what happened incredibly complex and said it will take time to determine what went wrong on board. thanks for watching "the whole story." i'll see you next time. ameri' looked brighter. r we're dealing with an emerging infectious disease. we have it so well under control. [reporter] none of us could have imagined how the coronavirus would come to dominate our lives.

[reporter] we are living through a real moment of history. -who's next? -[crowd] class war! all the world is watching! stand back and stand by. [reporter] the president has tested positive for covid-19. it is a scam-demic! [reporter] the coronavirus vaccine is here. the people of this nation have spoken! they have delivered us a clear victory. we will never give up, we will never concede. [crowd] whose streets? our streets! [amanda] while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated. [music]

[crowd] five, four, three, two, one! [donald] hello everybody, happy new year. happy new year. we're gonna have a great year. i predict. i think it's gonna be a fantastic year. we had the best economic year, i think, in our country's history. beginning of 2020, it was donald trump's election to lose. he was doing pretty well. the economy was in great shape. wall street's major industries are all closed at record highs. the dow climbed above 29,200 points for the first time. he's done a phenomenal job with the economy. my stocks have never been higher.

of course he was divisive. there was intense fervor on the democratic side and among some independents to get him outta there. but all things considered, he was in an okay place. breaking news tonight, the drama unfolding on capitol hill. democrats begin making their case in president trump's impeachment trial, accusing him of abusing his power by asking ukraine to investigate joe biden. and so, the impeachment revolves around did the president abuse his presidential power by withholding support for ukraine for his own political self-interest? which many constitutional scholars said embodied why we even have impeachment. [hallie] for democrats, an uphill climb; aiming their closing pitch at republicans who say they don't like that president trump pressured ukraine to investigate his political rivals, but don't find it impeachable. breaking news, the us senate has acquitted president trump on both articles of impeachment, and it sets the stage for a bitter 2020 campaign. [amy] and so, we begin the year with what we thought was a pretty crazy thing.

the guy running for re-election impeached, what else could happen? and then, of course, comes the pandemic. scientists in china are trying to determine if if a new virus strain is responsible for an pneumonia outbreak in the city of wuhan. [dr. fauci] i was lecturing for years, saying, "every time a new president comes in, we've gotta be careful that there will be an infectious disease outbreak. we don't know of its severity. it could be a pandemic that's devastating, or it could be a curiosity." [lawrence] public health officials have been haunted by the 1918 flu. it was a devastating disease. it's often said between 50 and a hundred million people died. we always knew new pandemics would appear. and to have a virus that we haven't ever seen before, that we have no vaccine for, that we have no treatments for, it could overwhelm our systems. [linzi] the outbreak in wuhan is linked to a large food market, which suggests that the virus may have been passed from animals to people. before the first case even came to the united states,

the chinese put on a public database the sequence of the virus. i mobilized my team and said, "we can't assume that this is gonna be well controlled. we've gotta start making a vaccine right now." the first case of china's new and deadly coronavirus has been reported here in the us. [monique] health officials say the man traveled from wuhan, china to sea-tac airport last week, on his way back to snohomish county. now it was official. january 21st, 2020. covid was in the united states at that point, there was no denying it. [dr. fauci] what was likely going on is that that first case was spreading around, and many of the people were without symptoms, but spreading it to others. and that's how an outbreak that has this characteristic starts. [joe] have you been briefed -by the cdc? -i have. [joe] are you worried about a pandemic at this point? no, we're not at all. and we're, we have it totally under control. it's one person coming in from china. and we have it under control, it's gonna be just fine.

[maggie] a bunch of people warned trump early on about the coronavirus. the health professionals were actually going with the wind a little more. particularly anthony fauci, who was not aggressively saying, "let's do a lockdown from china" early on. but then they did. and then trump took that recommendation to do a partial ban on travel from china. but he treated that like a mission accomplished moment. because of all we've done, the risk to the american people remains very low. [dr. gupta] president trump's response was to minimize this, and frankly, to quiet people who were trying to, even from the scientific community, shout the alarms on what was happening here. the cdc says it's time to get prepared. in a call with reporters today, cdc's dr. nancy messonnier said it's not a question of if the novel coronavirus will spread through the united states, but when. well, i don't think it's inevitable, i... probably will, it possibly will. it could be at a small level, or it could be at a, at a larger level. what, what, whatever happens, we're totally prepared. he knew, as did everybody else, that a global pandemic was gonna absolutely

devastate the economy. [erin] the dow today, closing down nearly 12 hundred points. 12 hundred points. that continues what has been market slaughter. and you can't win if the economy is in bad shape. it's going to disappear one day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear. and from our shores, we, you know, it could get worse before it gets better, could maybe go away. we'll see what happens. nobody really knows. we saw in the united states this arrogance, "this isn't gonna affect us the way it affects other countries. we're the number one country in the world when it comes to public health response. we're gonna get through this." [susan] with the early months of covid, we all learned a lot about the progress of science, in that science would think this was the way covid was transmitted, and we all had to wipe down our groceries. and then science would say, "no, that was irrelevant." and that was distressing to a lot of people, because there was so much uncertainty, and the message sometimes kept changing. but that's just the reality of dealing with a pandemic that we hadn't dealt with before.

our advice remains as it has been, that the average american does not need, need an n95 mask. these are really more for healthcare providers. the cdc doesn't urge masking, saying, "no, we have to preserve the masks for the healthcare workforce," even though for a century, we knew masks were important. [dr. fauci] in january and february, with just a few cases and no deaths yet, if we knew then that this was spreading rapidly throughout the population, we would've said, "wait a minute. we gotta shut down things, we've gotta not have people be in indoor settings, we gotta get everybody to wear a mask." but we didn't know it then. there was no history to covid. it was just evolving right before our very eyes. [anthony] new cdc guidelines say any american who suspects they have coronavirus can be tested for the potentially deadly disease. all you need is approval from a doctor. the cdc was world famous for creating tests,

and they made a test. but very quickly, public health officials began to realize there was something wrong with the test. all over the country, these labs were showing that there was an error. the cdc is accused of botching the initial rollout of testing kits and not getting more americans tested for the coronavirus sooner. testing is important not only to know for an individual, "am i infected?" but also for those of us working in the public. we wanna get a sense of the pattern. how quickly is this spreading? the cdc was flatfooted, and it was politicized. but even without that politicization, cdc made major errors. we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate will be the demand. anybody that needs a test, gets a test. we, they're there. they have the tests. and the tests are beautiful. we had a problem with the testing, and if we needed the kind of surveillance, we're not there yet. that is a failing. the issue of, of testing, i think in so many ways is probably the original sin when it came to the united states' response.

we paid dearly for it, we never got ahead on testing. [juliette] the pandemic moves from china to asia to italy, and we're just sitting here thinking we're going to be safe? and so far, we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the united states. nobody. and it doesn't mean we won't, and we are totally prepared. we were not prepared for a 100-year historic outbreak. i had always said there will be a level, hopefully not in any of our lifetime, of such an overwhelmingly transmissible and serious virus, respiratory outbreak that even the best of preparedness is not gonna be able to contain it adequately. it's almost as if you build a dam for a flood,

and then you get a tsunami. you know? you prepared well. but nothing's gonna stop the tsunami. the first death in the united states from coronavirus. a man in his 50's died at a hospital near seattle, and there are new concerns about how the virus is being transmitted inside the us.

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[music] [major] well, it's been a long build-up. speeches, debates, policy papers. but we're finally getting close to the votes that count

in campaign 2020. by the time we got to the beginning of 2020, the frontrunners within the democratic party were bernie sanders, joe biden, elizabeth warren, and pete buttigieg, who was performing more strongly than i think people expected going into the iowa caucuses. [peter] democrats remain divided between the populist pitch from bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, and more moderate messaging by biden, buttigieg, amy klobuchar. [kristen] former vice president joe biden, who has struggled to hold on to his frontrunner status, needs a strong showing here. joe biden was the frontrunner for the democratic nomination until he wasn't. [ed] former mayor pete buttigieg and senator bernie sanders are claiming victory in the iowa caucuses. [alisyn] here are the numbers as they stand. pete buttigieg holds a slight lead over the rest. [kristen] tonight, after the chaos in iowa, voters in new hampshire having their say. mr. trump out of the white house. that's my number one issue! cbs news projects senator bernie sanders as the winner of the new hampshire primary.

here we have joe biden, really, with no momentum, and goes into south carolina as a very wounded candidate. you know, the press is ready to declare people dead quickly. but we're alive, and we're coming back, and we're gonna win. [kristen] south carolina could be make or break for joe biden, who's leading here, and today getting a prominent endorsement from top democrat, congressman jim clyburn. we know joe. but most importantly, joe knows us. [abby] jim clyburn is the most important political figure in south carolina politics. that is a primary that is dominated by the power of black voters. i just want a regular person in the white house. so, when he did endorse joe biden, that changed the entire trajectory of the campaign for him. and it's rare in politics that we can say there was one factor that made all the difference. -this is a blowout. -yeah. for biden.

there's no other way to describe it. it's not just a win, it's not just a double-digit margin. it's a, it's a blowout. i'm gonna beat this man like a drum. i'm telling you, i can hardly wait to debate him. former vice president joe biden won 9 of yesterday's 14 state primaries, completing a remarkable turnaround from just one week ago. primary report: we are very much alive! he really just emphasized he would be normal. that he would govern like the presidents you had seen in the past. and it became a very effective campaign. breaking political news, cnn now told vermont senator bernie sanders is suspending his campaign for the presidency. this, of course, in a campaign that has been put on pause by the coronavirus crisis. if i believed we had a feasible path to the nomination, i would certainly continue the campaign. but it's just not there. good evening, everyone. we're moving into uncharted territory practically by the hour. this country and some of its most venerable institutions, from pro sports leagues, to broadway, to disneyland,

taking stunning measures to slow the spread of coronavirus. i remember everybody comparing it to the flu and saying, "oh, this won't be that bad. it's just something that's going around, and we'll be able to manage it." if you're just joining us, rudy gobert testing positive for the coronavirus. as a result, the nba will be suspending the season, a hiatus at the conclusion of tonight's play. [jemele] as soon as they canceled the nba games at night, that's when everything shifted. we're learning that march madness has been canceled. so this was a big one, this is a billion dollar a year tv product just for those three weekends. it's march madness, and there was no madness. it was just march. academy award-winning actor tom hanks announcing that he and his wife, rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. the tom hanks news really did make a lot of people sit up straight and say, "okay." [tom] my wife and i famously announced we had covid right when the nba got covid, and every, and everything stopped dead in its tracks. i will tell you that our covid lasted about the better part of two weeks.

we were really, really sick. so, it was the original gangster of covid. there was no vaccinations, there were no boosters. we just had it. coronavirus is changing everyday life in this country, in ways a lot of us couldn't have imagined even a few days ago. [chris] there was a sense of, "where is this gonna end?" it was a public health crisis, it was an economic crisis. we didn't know where it was gonna stop. the pandemic might have been the most global event in human history. when was the last time there was a single phenomenon that affected the entire world at the same time? to unleash the full power of the federal government through this effort today, i am officially declaring a national emergency. two very big words. [derek] for a while, it was a unifying event. there was this sense of, "this is a tragedy happening to all of us." but whatever sense of unity the pandemic created, it was dispelled in microseconds. because anything that happens in the us specifically is gonna be run through a political filter. state and local officials, jim, are saying

it's life or death at this point. basically, they are asking for the federal government to get involved. the pandemic is unprecedented. it's the first time in the united states history when all 50 states are what we call "activated" in terms of their emergency operation centers. with covid-19, it's like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state, territory, and the district of colombia. you need the federal government surging resources, using the defense production act to get more respirators, get more masks, get more gloves to our health professionals. governors must be doing a lot of this work, and they are doing a lot of this work. federal government's not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. you know, we're not a shipping clerk. the states started to compete with each other for getting masks, getting ppe. why would you create a situation where the 50 states are competing with each other? and then the federal government, through fema, comes in and competes with the rest of it. the governors thought the federal government was gonna come to their rescue.

that didn't happen at all. [charlie] if italy is anything to go by, the united states better buckle up. the images that came out from italy in march of 2020, they were horrifying. i'm not a panicky person. and i can feel myself getting more panicked. and the atlantic asked me to write about the pandemic. and after reading it, i asked my editor, "what is gonna be its headline?" and he says, "america, you have no idea what's about to happen." and then he goes, "do you think that's too harsh?" a week later, we shut down. [music] your wyndham is waiting. ♪ when bucket lists need checking... points need redeeming... work trips need crushing... or anniversaries need... celebrating? no matter who you are, where you're going, or why.

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[music] [miguel] tonight, new york state says it's the canary in the coal mine. once-bustling city streets have become eerily quiet, while lines outside hospitals stretch around the block. i had never seen anything like it. and i've covered wars. just the incessant number of patients who kept coming in. [mola] at elmhurst hospital, the epicenter of the crisis, ambulances flood in. but there are only a few beds left for new patients. [dr. smith] we were thinking at the time we would have one patient show up at a time, and we would see the patient, and we would recognize that there was a risk that they might have covid, and we can whisk them into an isolation room. but probably the first week of march, we started to realize that we just had,

we had too many patients. [dr. ng gong] every hour or so, we're having an emergency called for respiratory distress. there was just so much fear, and there was so much uncertainty at the very beginning, in march. and we had no idea what was coming. within a few days, that's when the wave started. one after another after another after another. [man] they're overrun with patients. emss last night broke a record, we handled 65 hundred calls. [mola] it's so dire, emts have been told to stop transporting some patients in cardiac arrest that can't be revived in the field. everybody was being pulled in to do what they needed to do. we have the housekeeping figuring out methodologies to try to clean rooms and rapidly turn them around, working with the infectious disease docs to see what they need to do to disinfect, how to make it safe. we have engineering guys trying to figure out how to re-engineer rooms. the ventilator is here now.

[dr. smith] the ventilators are machines that we put patients on to breathe for them when they can't breathe for themselves. we had 30 icu beds when covid started. by mid-april, we had 200 patients at elmhurst on a ventilator. [mola] many young people are ignoring pleas to stay home, including spring breakers in florida. [woman] we do care about our health, it is, like, a big concern. but my thing is, is one day we're gonna die, so might as well go out with a bang. [dr. smith] what i'm hearing on the news sounds like people don't really know that it's this bad. i think i just had this moment of, "i have to do something." it's too little, too late. like, we knew... we knew it was coming. mid-march, i decided i would give videos to the new york times, because if something doesn't change soon, we will not have ppe, we will not have ventilators, we will not have what we need to take care of our patients. five ventilators. oh my god. it was clear that that day was coming if something didn't change. one video, you can see i'm walking into the hospital

in the morning, and the line that day happened to be three times longer than it was the day before, waiting to get a test or get into the emergency department. i was kind of scared. i had put myself out there in a way that is not something that i usually do. people need to know what is happening here. i applaud her, her bravery, for really taking us behind the scenes. [dr. smith] a lot of the calls from friends and families and colleagues were things like, "i didn't know it was this bad." and in my head, i was like, "i don't even give them videos that were that bad." it's so much worse than what i showed. [drew] many medical workers are fighting this battle without the thinnest level of protection. [dr. gupta] it was shocking for us, because this is a country, if anything, always had an abundance of resources. all of a sudden, we couldn't find ourselves a $0.50 mask to try and protect ourselves against the disease. [dr. smith] after the video came out, people just started donating their ppe. so, we kind of had this influx of help from the community until the state sent us more, and then fema gave us some. but the whole country was in a ppe shortage.

the emergency department shower was full of bodies in body bags, and we found out that the hospital had rented a refrigerated truck to hold the overflow of bodies. people were dying and dying and dying, and we were working so hard. and they were just still all dying. so, my father contracted... the virus. he lived in harlem. he had some real issues with diabetes and other conditions. i remember going to visit him in the hospital before he passed. what i remember so vividly is him-- i'm gonna start to cry. [music] is that, you know, him struggling to breathe. him struggling to breathe. like, literally, every... fiber of his body was struggling to breathe. i am one of the many people who lost a father,

a mother, a grandparent. covid basically destroyed our collective connection to entire generations. one patient... who came down with covid-19 after her husband came down with covid-19. and her daughter said to me, "you have to save my mother. we have had eight members of my family die from covid already." "we can't lose her, too." fortunately, we were able to save her. but that gives you a little picture of how quickly it went through families, and actually destroyed some families. [dr. smith] when we would decide to intubate someone, we knew that might be the last opportunity they would ever have to speak to their family. there's one patient i remember, he called his son. and he said it in spanish, but he said, like, "they're putting me to sleep.

i'm gonna be fine, i haven't slept in a long time. i just wanted to call you to say goodbye." and then his son started talking and i pushed the mask back down on his face so he would get the pressure of that air, and his son said something to him like, "i love you, dad." and then, and then i took the mask off and he said, "i love you too, mijo. " and then i put the mask back on, his son hung up, and i said, "okay." and then he looked at me and he said, "only one? i can only call one?" and i told him, "you can call as many people as you want." and i stood with him, he called five people i think, and i did that for five people. he said goodbye to his daughter and he said goodbye to his son, and i think that was his last goodbye. that was it. [dr. fauci] when the history of this outbreak is written, the real heroes and heroines of this are gonna be our healthcare providers. they hung in there, i mean, they got exhausted. many of them got infected, several of them died.

so, they are really the heroes and the heroines of this outbreak. [dr. smith] the reason we kept going to work every day was because if i didn't go to work, then someone else had to go to work. and so, we needed to be there for each other. [tim] what you saw in new york at seven o'clock every night, many people would start making noise. they would either clap, or they would bang pots as a way of thanking the people that couldn't stay home. the people that were out there saving us. that's so nice. [dr. smith] people in this city went out of their way to be there for everyone else. we need to look at the fact that somehow, this plague brought out some of the best in all of us, and try to capture that and bring that forward as we approach the rest of our lives. [music]

[music] [jo] tonight, the long lines at food banks reflecting the grim reality for millions of americans left jobless and hungry. between the middle of march and early april 2020, the us economy lost ten million jobs. in the entire great recession, the us economy lost nine million jobs. so, we had a great recession in two weeks. [jill] michelle clark is a single mother in illinois who had two restaurant jobs. today, she has no work at all.

i don't know how i'm gonna pay my bills. i don't know how i'm gonna pay my rent. [nelson] so many restaurants, so many stores. people you knew and had worked with or shopped with forever, gone. never came back. [tony] all across the country, empty streets, as more americans are either ordered to stay home or they choose to do so. new york is like that scene in vanilla sky, with tom cruise, where time square's empty. that was real. the craziest thing was just that a city with that kind of density was empty at rush hour. the societal change that everybody went through is gonna be talked about for next generations. i have granddaughters that will remember not going to school, not going to birthday parties, wearing masks during the great pandemic. there's a generation that's gonna say, "yeah, well, let's see, that was, that was, that was back during covid." [brian] around the country, some workplaces are telling their employees, "stay home," because of the coronavirus outbreak. it was so interesting to live through this extraordinary acceleration into the future, where this work-from-home world that we were told for decades was going to come

didn't come gradually. it came in a moment. and we had to figure it out. okay, sweetheart. 66 was our high temperature... sweetie, no, no, no, no, no. you gotta be quiet when daddy's talking. [dana] i have a son who had to work from home and do virtual school. that was a challenge for me as a parent, just like every other parent, and most importantly was a challenge for him. but i feel very lucky because i had wi-fi, i had food, i had the ability to pay my mortgage. and not everybody had that luxury. [dr. hayes-bautista] it was clear that certain groups couldn't stay home, or else this economy would literally cease to function. we developed policies and measures that worked very, very well in beverly hills. stay at home, close the doors, order in everything. but in order for that to work, others had to work possibly even harder. the financial challenges, the isolations, the fears of actually contracting the virus, all caused by the covid-19 pandemic, and they're contributing to an increase in mental health problems. [tom] covid was life written in the extreme.

you can say about covid what you can say about being alive during the seven years' war. you know? or world war one. life was different. our daily routine was different. [derek] you couldn't do anything. you literally could not step on a plane. you couldn't got on vacation, you couldn't eat at a restaurant. you would have zoom calls with your friends rather than having dinner with them. we're talking about what it's like to go through this process, and it's like, "well, we're cooking more dinners, the kids are screaming all the time, we're learning how to make cocktails because we can't go to bars anymore." and don't forget the cocktails. it's a mess, but here we are. [jemele] you heard anecdotes all the time about a lot of people breaking up during the pandemic, 'cause suddenly, people began to notice things maybe they didn't notice about their partners before. [nelson] also, tons of couples got married, because the bond was strong, we wanted to do this, and we're not gonna wait. [doug] amanda wheeler and riley jennings, there they are, exchanging vows on a city sidewalk. the minister presiding from his apartment, there he is, four floors up. i think a lot of people were evaluating

exactly where they were in their lives, professionally and personally. it was an incredible time of self-reflection for a lot of us. [reporter] zoom is taking over. in the era of social distancing, even late night hosts are getting in on the fun, working from home to deliver laughs about the new normal. funny zoom backgrounds, sure. you're a blast for that first week. but, you know, enough already? we know the inside of your house looks like act one of a hoarders episode. just own it! zoom was crazy. zoom was wild because not only is it giving you a window into your coworkers' lives that maybe you didn't wanna have, it also kinda broke down workplace decorum, because you had people who are trying to watch their children, conduct business at the same time. in a weird way, zoom taught us to have a lot more compassion. with millions of people following stay-at-home orders, netflix is reporting a surge in subscriptions. people were desperate for some kind of escape. the tv had to be our window to the world. and now, look at the plethora of material

that you can access in a second. a bizarre real-life crime docuseries called tiger king is on almost everyone's playlist. [daniel] tiger king had the best timing perhaps in the history of television. it arrived the weekend that everybody stopped going out. [joe exotic] they're so affectionate. are these trying to mate? well, they're two boys. we have a very open relationship here. tiger king blew us all away. the characters are so quirky and so weird and so unseen before on television, that we knew people would really fall in love with it. were gonna make boef bourguignon. [david] at the beginning of the pandemic, i wanted to watch something comforting. and i finally settled on season one of the french chef. that's all my brain wants right now. this is the president trying to tell me what to do. he can't do that, i'm the vice president of -the united states! -[man] that's right. veep was my go-to during the pandemic. that satire allowed the institutions of government to be a little bit more palatable, in a way.

let's go! [jemele] dj d-nice, he started club quarantine . it went from him just starting something small on instagram live to it becoming an appointment, that you really felt like you were going out to the club. we were just all so hungry for any sense of kind of connection, and i think any sense of joy. so, to just dance in your pajamas in your room, alone, but feeling nonetheless like you were connected in some way to the rest of the world was really cathartic. [music]

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[music] this morning, the fbi is looking into the death of a black man after he was stopped by police in minneapolis. the attempted arrest was caught on camera, and we need to warn you here that it's very difficult to watch. it happened on may 25th, 2020. george floyd had gone into a convenience store, and he was accused of trying to pay for his items with a counterfeit $20 bill. the police showed up... [officer] put your [bleep] hands up right now! [sara] eventually, officer derek chauvin decides to put his knee on george floyd's neck. [renee] the officers with him do not intervene.

and that for nine plus minutes, we watch and listen to george floyd dying. i can't breathe! please, your knee on my neck. check his pulse! check his pulse, child. what was so shocking was the cold, callous look on the face of the police officer as people were saying, "stop, get off of his neck. he's dying." -what are you doing!? -bro! three minutes, bro! and eventually, the breath goes out of george floyd. and he dies. tensions are high as four police officers have been fired after a man was pinned to the ground and died. [lawrence] without that video recording that darnella frazier made, nothing would be happening to those police officers. [jeff] george floyd was 46 years old. he moved to minneapolis from his hometown of houston, looking for a better job. [gabe] floyd leaves behind two children, including 6-year-old gianna.

[van] there have been innumerable black men who have been lynched, but none have ever had it filmed from beginning to end and shown to the world this far from people's noses. and when that happened, something broke in america. [gabe] tonight, the outrage in minneapolis is mounting, even after four officers were fired. was it enough for you that the officers were fired? that is not enough. [dr. hayes-bautista] after months of being locked up in the house, there was a lot of understandable reaction of, "how much more of this do we have to witness before something changes?" [sara] in the day, the protests were mostly peaceful. as nightfall would happen, things would change. [gabe] it's clear the violence is spreading. right now, multiple buildings on this block are on fire, the national guard just arrived on the scene. and suddenly, the precinct was on fire. we're watching it go up in flames right now. [cheering] [jemele] if you continue to subjugate, oppress a people,

they're going to rise up. [gabe] tonight, after days of anger, pain, and protest, an arrest connected to the death of george floyd. fired minneapolis officer derek chauvin is now charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. i feel like it was a little sigh of relief, but... like i said, what about the other three? in the middle of the pandemic, where there were no sports, no activities, everyone's at home, nobody could look away. my black brothers and sisters are being shot, being killed for no reason! i am tired. [gabe] the outrage is building nationwide. [reporter] mass protests spread to more than 140 cities across the country. [sara] they were putting their lives on the line during a pandemic to say, "police in america, you can't do this." [ron] across the country, an ominous pattern... [crowd] no justice, no peace! [ron] huge peaceful protests by day, demanding justice for george floyd. -what was his name?! -[crowd] george floyd!

[ron] then, mostly under the cover of darkness, violence erupted, with chaos lasting well into the night. while at the same time nypd faces growing outrage, accused of using overly aggressive tactics, like driving a vehicle into a crowd. [juliette] donald trump treats this moment of racial reckoning as a threat to law and order. [peter] the president overnight tweeting: [ben] a phrase made famous by miami police chief walter headley in 1967, known for his aggressive policing of black neighborhoods that sparked race riots. trump saw this as an opportunity to make the case against unity. that division was really the best way for him to succeed. in america, justice is never achieved at the hands of an angry mob.

i will not allow angry mobs to dominate. won't happen. there wasn't actually a lot of violent protests. but you would not have known that from, at times, watching the news. i think it became clear later on that there were agents of chaos that had nothing to do with the people who wanted to peacefully be heard. the country has a history of enslaving, beating, brutalizing, and killing black people for centuries. people came out to join a movement that had now been in place since at least 2012, black lives matter. and in cities across the country-- not just big cities, smaller towns-- it was one of the biggest mobilizations that we had seen in a long time, if not ever, in support of criminal justice reform. [van] you had rallies that were all white in states that were almost all white saying black lives matter. this was a massive breakthrough. i want us to treat black lives as our own on a daily basis.

[hasan] this was the first time that we heard protestors, particularly white protestors, talking about systemic racism as a problem. all different races who are out here to support us as a people. [jemele] george floyd was the tipping point. it was about a collective feeling of impatience, of anger. [sara] there was a desire to say, "hey, wait a minute. there are other african americans in this country that have been through this." [protestors chanting] and thus, say her name was born. [gabe] breonna taylor was killed by police in march, during a botched raid where officers forced entry into her apartment. police fired 32 shots after taylor's boyfriend fired a single shot with a licensed weapon. he says he feared an intruder was in the home. [adriana] taylor was an emt, a frontline worker helping respond to the coronavirus pandemic. and then there was a young black man

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[music] tonight, a major shift in the guides in how to protect yourself through all this. the cdc now saying people should use cloth face coverings when going outside. this is voluntary. i don't think i'm gonna be doing it. i mean, if he's not wearing a mask, i'm not gonna wear a mask. if he's not worried, i'm not worried. -[reporter] the president? -yes, sir. we were a society primed for partisan polarization anywhere, on anything. and of course covid played into that dynamic. [miguel] for weeks, an ugly battle has been brewing over wearing masks in public. this is a sign of control.

[dr. hayes-bautista] having folks that wouldn't listen to science is nothing new. what was new was the almost blessing of this rejection of science by the administration. there was actually a denial of science, as opposed to ignorance of science. donald trump started going into these press conferences and taking control, because he thought that's what the country wanted. except these press conferences turned into trump spectacles. and he got himself into more trouble. [norah] don't inject disinfectant. the comments from president trump that forced the maker of lysol to issue a warning. i see the disinfectant, which knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that, uh, by injection inside, or... or almost a cleaning? this wasn't just some guy saying this. this was the president. he should stop thinking out loud and start thinking deeply. he should start listening to the scientists before he speaks.

he should listen to the health experts. because donald trump, uh, was against wearing masks and against the advice of his science advisors, there were many of his opponents who took it as a badge of honor to be embracing and doubling down on what they saw as the guidance of science. debate is building at the white house and in state houses tonight over when to cast off the curbs imposed by covid-19. [gabe] the calls to reopen parts of the nation's economy are growing louder. putting all of these workers out of business is just, it's a disaster. it's much better to have people coming in, even on staggered shifts and even working four days a week or three days a week than not working at all. that's how we're gonna have to get the economy back. i think the president does need to talk about how we're going to reopen the economy. when you confront a pandemic, it is not purely a scientific or medical phenomenon, it is also a social, economic,

political phenomenon. and so you have to ask yourself what are the costs of shutting down the economy? and a scientist doesn't have an answer for that. those are decisions ultimately in a democracy politicians have to make. just 24 hours ago, president trump said governors would call the shots when it comes to reopening their states, and that he would support them. well, the president is already breaking that promise. all of sudden, to my great dismay, he came out and said, "liberate virginia. liberate michigan." completely contrary to what we had agreed upon. [jeremy] when the president can fire off a tweet saying that americans should liberate themselves from these restrictions that are meant to safeguard public health a lot of people are gonna listen to that. and a lot of people did. and it had detrimental effects on the health of this country. [crowd] let us in! let us in! [jim] an ugly--a dangerous scene at the state capitol in michigan. protesters of the restrictions flooded the building, some of them carrying long rifles, semi-automatic weapons,

threatening lawmakers. [lawrence] there are these armed militia groups, and along comes coronavirus, mask mandates, school closures, those kinds of things. and so these were infringements on their liberty. well yes, they're healthcare measures. [elizabeth] this idea of liberty, which is such an age-old idea in our american tradition. we've seen it become repurposed to describe people who just don't want to obey anything the government says. what was most different about trump's presidency throughout was never trying to unify the country, seeing political capital in division. that was the playbook. breaking news, protests growing in washington, d.c. at this moment the white house now is on lockdown. protestors have come into lafayette square. they're now in front of the white house chanting george floyd's name. donald trump didn't like the fact he could pretty much hear these protests from his window. there was a protest near the white house where a barrier

at the treasury department was pierced. and that set off a security reaction. [diana] the white house went into lockdown for a brief period as demonstrators clashed with members of the secret service outside the gates. [maggie] and so the president and the first family were taken to the underground bunker. my colleague, peter baker and i reported on it that sunday. and trump went ballistic. it made him look weak. and he cannot handle any perception of weakness. tensions began to rise around 11:00 pm as the landmark st. john's church was vandalized and set on fire. donald trump demanded a forceful response from his advisors. he hated how he was being portrayed as bunker boy. and he also wanted to invoke the insurrection act to call in active duty uniformed military on the streets of washington and other cities, saying, we're tough. we're not gonna accept this. [kris] cbs news has learned president trump demanded 10,000 active duty troops be deployed in a heated oval office meeting.

[mark] the president is enraged. he's in a fit. i am quite insistent, pushing back on the president. the violence is not as bad as it may appear on tv. law enforcement should take the lead. and at one point, he leans over the table and looks general mark milley in the eye. general mark milley was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. and he says to him, "just shoot them. can't you just shoot them or something? shoot them in the legs or something?" we were all shocked by this notion that somehow we would use the military to shoot protestors in the legs. [wolf] the teargas is now being fired. you heard the flash bang. that is an attempt to clear the crowd out. [wolf] the police are moving. they're trying to disperse this crowd that's gathered at lafayette park. and it's unfolding as we await the president of the united states to make a statement from the rose garden. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military

and quickly solve the problem for them. that's something quite remarkable, to hear a president say that he would send in the us military to do domestic policing. it seems that they're making preparations over here at the white house for the president to make some kind of movement. it is possible that he may be going to st. john's episcopal church. we are now hearing, jim, that that's where the president is going and that's why the police decided to clear out this area. the president wants to have a photo op over at the church. somebody says the president wants to go check out the damage at the church. we meet the president. and as we do that, we can see the press corps are taking photos and shouting questions. and i turned to milley and say something like, "we've been duped." and that this is now a political event. we end up at the church, and the president goes up, and the famous photo of him holding a bible takes place. it was clearly a moment where i lost my political bearings. look, i do everything i can to try to stay apolitical and just try and stay out of situations, uh, that may appear political.

and uh, sometimes i'm successful at doing that, and, uh, and sometimes i'm not as successful. i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. [woman] june 1, 2020 was one of the most important days of the trump presidency. certainly, it was a day that helped to shape the catastrophic ending of the trump presidency. because of the fallout from that, it became clear to donald trump that the leadership of the u.s. military was not going to go along with any further efforts on his part to politicize the military. [kelly] the president left washington late today for a destination he has not seen in 110 days-- the campaign trail. trump hated the fact that he couldn't go out and campaign. everybody was telling him you can't have these big rallies because this is highly contagious. so finally he decides in june, you know what?

i don't care what they say. i'm gonna hold a rally. i'm gonna hold it indoors. i'm gonna hold it in tulsa, oklahoma. the event in oklahoma is unbelievable. the crowds are unbelievable. [amy] he was gonna show that yes, america wants to get back. we're gonna show them just how not worried about covid you need to be. and it was kind of bust. [abby] when we were on the ground in tulsa, it was already pretty clear that these were not the numbers that you would normally see for a trump rally. [kelly] the city's fire marshal estimated attendance at 6,200. the arena holds 19,000. and the campaign had boasted 1 million had requested tickets. we don't know for sure how people got sick, but after that rally, several prominent republicans got sick, including herman cain who later passed away. tonight, the mayors of several big cities, including new york and chicago, are warning the president not to send federal officers to patrol their streets. the mayors are alarmed by the ongoing violence

in portland, oregon, where protestors have battled for weeks with police and officers from the department of homeland security. trump didn't see this as a crisis to pull the country through. he saw personal attacks on himself. and that's how a national awakening on racial injustice, that's how a pandemic becomes a personal attack on donald trump. it also signaled what he was willing to do to shore up his power. it was a precursor to the things that he would be willing to do when he loses the election. this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. it won't happen.

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of operation warp speed. four of the five drug companies received taxpayer money to find a vaccine. today. two of those companies told congress they will offer the vaccine for free or at cost. [dr. gupta] the government was able to make a lot of at-risk investments/bets on all these various vaccine candidates. it was very expensive to do that, to either fund the research or buy a product that hadn't even been developed. [tom] a $2 billion agreement with pfizer and a smaller german company. it's the biggest deal yet in the government's operation warp speed. that was a very risky financial decision that worked out absolutely wonderfully. [tom] even before fda approval, pfizer, merck, astrazeneca, moderna and johnson & johnson all plan to ramp up production to meet global demand. rather than waiting for it to go through the trials, we began immediate manufacturing the vaccine, stockpiling, if you will, millions and millions of shots. and at the same time, we continued through

the traditional safety and efficacy trials. and the bet was that if they proved successful, we will have already accumulated tens of millions of shots, and it worked. it's a messenger rna vaccine. and that basically means it's a blueprint of a part of the virus. you put that blueprint in the body, and the body in and of itself sort of acts like a vaccine factory. it didn't come out of nowhere. it came out of 20 years of previous research on trying to make mrna an effective therapy. here comes covid, and suddenly we need it fast. [tom] pfizer executives are calling it one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in the past 100 years. a covid vaccine developed in just six months. 90% effective in the group of drug trial volunteers who were known to be infected. i almost broke into tears because that was so unbelievably high for a vaccine to be that effective on the first shot. [dr. emanuel] it is remarkable, and it shows you what can happen

with the right focus, the right ability to marshal all the resources and put 'em together. and for that, i think president trump and his team do deserve credit. [man] this is an nbc news special report. good evening everyone. we are coming on the air with breaking news. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has died. [manu] when ruth bader ginsburg died, it was a political earthquake. and mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, was dead set about getting a new nominee that could cement a conservative majority on the court before the november elections. never mind that mitch mcconnell, in 2016, when barack obama named merrick garland to replace justice antonin scalia, said it was too soon to confirm a supreme court nominee months before the november election. this time, weeks before the 2020 election, he said we're moving ahead. [nikole] in the white house rose garden, president trump made his supreme court selection official.

judge amy coney barrett. [nikole] the decision was instantly cheered among many religious conservatives and activists. [manu] when she was questioned during her confirmation hearings about her past advocacy to overturn roe v. wade, she contended this was not an issue she could weigh in on. i can't express views on cases or precommit to approaching a case any particular way. these are things that justices say to get confirmed. [nikole] if barrett is confirmed, three supreme court justices, a record reshaping the federal judiciary and tilting the high court to the right with a six to three conservative majority for years to come. and donald trump promised as a candidate to name justices who would overturn roe. and he succeeded in doing that. [paula] experts now worry last saturday's rose garden announcement of the president's supreme court pick was a super-spreader event. [peter] the event like a scene from a prepandemic universe. guests hugging and kissing. but even more stunning are the images at receptions inside.

again, no social distancing, no visible masks. and someone, it seems, had covid in that crowd. and then days later, trump had the debate with biden. [chris] gentlemen, a lot of people have been waiting for this night, so let's get going. donald trump comes out, and i'll never forget, biden can barely get out a word. -the question is-- -the new supreme court justice. -radical left. -will you shut up, man? near the end of the debate, i asked trump whether he would disavow right wing groups that were out on the street committing violence. are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups? and he started to say, well, let's talk about antifa. and i said, "yeah, but what about the right wing groups?" i'm willing to do anything. i wanna see peace. -well, then do it, sir. -say it. do it. say it. you wanna call 'em-- what do you wanna call 'em? -give me a name. give me a name. -[chris] white supremacists-- who would you like me to condemn? -the proud boys. -white supremacists. the proud boys, stand back and stand by.

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[hallie] it's not clear how the president contracted the coronavirus or how long before today he may have been contagious. [geoff] the president kept a packed schedule with events and travel in the days leading up to his diagnosis. the kinds of precautions you would take not to infect others, he just threw to the wind. well, first of all, i was ticked off. my immediate thought was, have i gotten covid? has my family, had they all gotten covid? i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm doing very well. but we're going to make sure that things work out. the white house flat out lied. i was on the air a lot during that time, and the white house put out word, well, he's not really that sick, and out of an abundance of caution, we're gonna take him to the hospital. it just didn't pass the smell test. [dr. gupta] it's the level of concern, wolf, that prompted this. they're giving us clues here that there is a level of concern that obviously changed throughout the day. this morning, the president is doing very well. [maggie] we could get absolutely no information out of the white house. when sean conley, the white house doctor,

gave a really terrible press conference at walter reed and was asked specifically about oxygen, and just refused to answer questions. [reporter] he has not received any supplemental oxygen? he's not on oxygen right now. that's right. yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. did the public have a right to know about the health of the president at that point? i think they do. he's the president. but it was just very hard to-- to translate exactly what we were hearing. [maggie] he was much sicker than they said. and we found out later, my colleague noah wyland and i, that he had infiltrates on his lungs, which is essentially known as covid pneumonia. [kate] president trump is now one of only a handful of patients in the world to receive a unique combination of three drugs, including one that's experimental. and the public health experts in the government believed that if he had not been given monoclonal antibodies, that he might not have made it out of this. [kelly] the world's most watched covid patient made a surprise move. the masked president in the backseat, driven by

secret service, to wave at supporters gathered outside the hospital. [abby] keep in mind, he is sick with covid, but wanted to do a photo op. [kate] trump arrived back at the white house tonight, and every moment was clearly orchestrated to send a message. the president drawing criticism after this moment, when he walked up to a balcony and then removed his mask. everyone in the world is watching. he was sending a message that i got through this. this isn't anything to worry about. let's stop making such a big fuss about covid. and one thing that's for certain, don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. [lawrence] the cruel irony for donald trump is that covid did get him. it was killing thousands of americans every month. and i think donald trump would still be president if it weren't for covid. from the university of utah in salt lake city, welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2020. the vice presidential debate was the next debate up.

the goal of a vice presidential nominee is to not cause trouble. [abby] the choice of kamala harris was one that a lot of black women and black activists had been lobbying for. she had been an attorney general, a united states senator. she had a resume that made her a good fit for the ticket. mr. vice president, i'm speaking. it wasn't the disaster that the first debate was, but it wasn't a great debate. the thing that really stole the show was the fly. it landed on pence's head. and it was so distracting. it really took on a life of its own. [geoff] that fly now has a number of twitter accounts. who would have predicted a fly would steal the show? we say this with every election, but the stakes really could not have been higher than they were in 2020. so much loss in america. more than 225,000 dead americans because of covid-19. biden really focused on the covid pandemic and kind of responsibility around how that would be managed.

and it was an easy contrast to make. that's all i hear, turn on television. covid. covid, covid, covid, covid. here you have president trump, who helped accelerate the creation of the vaccines, but he was part of a party arguing that covid was fake or overblown, and the political animal of president trump didn't want to go against that. this year, because of the covid-19 pandemic, for the first time, a majority of americans say they plan to vote early. more than 190 million americans in 44 states are eligible to cast a vote by mail without an excuse beyond the coronavirus. trump was obviously laying the groundwork to claim the election was stolen. voting by mail is wrought with fraud. maybe you'll never know the election result, and that's what i'm concerned with. it'll be fixed. it'll be rigged. he wouldn't even concede that he would concede. will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election? we're going to have to see what happens. you know that i've been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.

one of the bedrock principles of american presidents. he wasn't gonna do it. and he made it really, really clear. [jonathan] i had done an interview with bannon in october where bannon said to me, i'll tell you what's gonna happen. he had a plan. if biden wins the electoral college in every battleground state, we're gonna be disputing ballots. i remember the phrase he said, there's gonna be knife fights in the counting rooms. so all we can say is law enforcement is watching nevada. it's watching philadelphia and pennsylvania. behind the scenes, it's not simply rhetoric. what he is preparing for is to actually challenge that election result once it becomes clear that he's lost. as soon as that election's over, we're going in with our lawyers. democrats, the biden campaign and others were very worried about would trump do something worse than say that the election was stolen? tomorrow, america picks its president. we're gonna win. you got to get out and vote.

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[music] the first polls beginning to close as we come on the air tonight on an evening that could give us four more years of president trump or propel joe biden into the white house. winning is easy. losing is never easy. not for me, it's not. we have to restore decency and honor in our system

or it just is gonna fall apart. we knew that the election day vote was going to look dramatically different from the vote that would eventually come in once all the absentee ballots were counted. is that because we're at a difference here between early vote and day of vote? yes, donald trump has done better on that election day vote. but it's that early vote, john, where joe biden, we think, has run up the score. biden had successfully broadened the map to states that trump had won in 2016. the biggest early moment was arizona. cnn didn't call it. we were very conservative, small c, in calling arizona. but fox did. the fox news decision desk is calling arizona for joe biden. that is a big get for the biden campaign. that caused an incredible amount of chaos inside the white house and inside fox news. -you're 100% sure? -yes.

[bret] and so all this pushback, you're gonna say we made the right call when we made it? [arnon] we made the correct call. and that's why we made the correct call when we made it. the white house was furious. they were calling over to fox demanding a retraction. i'm sorry. no, you don't have to be sorry. we just wanna be... we wanted to make sure you're sure. the president is not happy. all of a sudden, election night coverage is interrupted. there is president trump. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. and he warns that there are people in this country who are trying to steal the election from him. we want all voting to stop. that is not what democratically elected presidents or candidates for the presidency say. that's what authoritarians say. he knew perfectly well that the votes from some places would get counted later. but trump exploited all that, and pretty ruthlessly. a lot of people thought, oh, come on, he's gonna back down. election night was election week. and it's because some of these critical states took a long time to count votes.

it wasn't until saturday morning that we finally were able to call it. cnn projects joseph r. biden, jr is elected the 46th president of the united states. [abby] all across the country, people took to the streets. biden was elected, but so was kamala harris. we did it, joe. we made history, kamala! [abby] the first black woman to be elected vice president of the united states. we've won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket in the history of the nation! it's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. lower the temperature. see each other again. president trump tonight still has not conceded the election and is vowing to fight the results in courtrooms. [drew] this is the man president trump has just put in charge of his legal challenges to joe biden's presidential win. i know crimes. i can smell them. trump brought in rudy giuliani to organize this effort. it was comically and amateurishly done

everywhere he went. many cases are gonna be filed. some big, some small. they were alleging that tens of thousands of people would have been in on some scheme to invent votes to have fake voting machines. but think of all the people who are involved in our elections. they're very decentralized. i mean, it would have to be a massive conspiracy. [ben] attorney general bill barr seen entering the white house this afternoon just after delivering a major blow to president trump's claims of election fraud, telling the associated press, "to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election." [tim] any action he takes from december 1st on to stoke fears and concerns that americans' votes have been taken from them is completely on him. [adriana] lawsuits claiming the election was stolen have been consistently rejected by the courts, including the us supreme court. [dana] i remember talking to several people who had a direct line to then president trump who were begging him to concede, who were saying, this is not what you're saying it is.

this is not rigged. [rachel] the president is now telling his supporters that he also wants them in the streets in washington on january 6th, saying on twitter, quote, "be there, will be wild!" by december, he is marking the place and time of a fight to liberate the election. this, to his supporters, is a fight for something that they were deprived of. president trump faces new cries of foul tonight after his most blatant attempt yet to manufacture an election win for himself. [drew] trump tried to convince georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger, to change the vote count. it was just an outrageous effort by a sitting president, and raffensperger refused. [susan] if you want to look for a heartening thing in a disheartening time, i think you'd look at

the republican officials, the governors, the secretaries of state, the election officials defying a president of their own party, saying, no, they would not do what he was asking them to do. [abby] in the midst of all of this happening, there was an extraordinary op ed. [andrea] the former pentagon leaders from both parties writing in the washington post, we are concerned, at least i'm concerned, that there may be some attempt to use the military to maybe seize ballot boxes. so the purpose the message was to say to d.o.d., you have an oath to the constitution, not to a president, not to a party, not to philosophy, but to the constitution. and you are to remain apolitical. [man] what was happening in those weeks and months between november 3rd and january 6th is as important as january 6th itself. president trump is returning to washington this morning ahead of schedule, skipping his annual new year's eve bash at mar-a-lago

to continue his baseless pursuit of election fraud claims. we have actually heard now from many lawmakers who will be objecting to certifying the election results. what is normally mundane is now full of drama. we knew that there was gonna be a big rally planned by trump supporters, and he was hyping it up, making it sound like anything could happen. watch what happens over the next couple of weeks. you watch what's going to come out. watch what's going to be revealed. [woman] eighty million americans are not gonna allow their freedom to be taken. [reporter] you're saying this is like 1860 america on the edge of the civil war? exactly. this is nothing less than an epic struggle for the future of this country, between dark and light. i don't know how this is gonna end, but if they wanna fight, they better believe they got one! january 6th is not an intelligence failure. they were telling us what was going to happen. the proof, steve bannon said on his radio show the night before,

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[music] it is a momentous day in washington, and all eyes are on the nation's capital as lawmakers from the house and senate are set to meet to put the stamp of approval of congress on the presidential election results. we had never had a transition that wasn't peaceful, but in 2020, donald trump decided that he was bigger than it all. all these people, tens of thousands potentially. already here this early in the morning. [chris] we knew there was gonna be a rally by a lot of the maga crowd who had been fueled by donald trump continuing to say that the election had been stolen. but i never thought it was gonna be anything more than a rally and a lot of unhappy people. this is up there with some of the most charged events that the president has ever held. i hope mike is gonna do the right thing. i hope so. i hope so. because if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. trump and his lawyers had cooked up the theory that the vice president, as president of the senate,

could refuse to certify the votes. and after this, we're gonna walk down-- and i'll be there with you. we're gonna walk down to the capitol, because you'll never take back our country with weakness. [chris] and just at 1:00, pence puts out a statement that says, it is not within my constitutional prerogative, and i am going to do what i'm supposed to do, which is simply to count the vote. [woman] are you going to overturn the election results? it really is a moment where american democracy rested on the conscience of one man, and this was a man who was a dedicated trump supporter, and yet he refused to do something clearly dishonest. lots of energy up here on the east front of the capitol. this crowd has been building for the last couple of hours. [julian] his supporters march. they meet the other supporters. and then between 1:00 and 1:30, they start to get closer and closer to the capitol. and ultimately they storm in. when the external security threat occurred, we delivered our first report on cnn.

we have been told by capitol police that the capitol is in lockdown. [alex] i can see at least half a dozen protesters scaling, literally climbing the walls of the capitol. [man] we just had protestors breach the line. we need backup. [dunn] so i heard a voice on the radio screaming, pleading, "we need more officers! help!" i took off in a full sprint around to the west side of the building. [man] you [bleep] traitors! [dunn] i saw a handful of officers trying their best to hold off thousands of people who were hell bent on taking over the capitol. [manu] members of the far right militia groups, including the proud boys, the oath keepers, had weapons. they had tactical gear. [dunn] they had on helmets, body armor, two-way radios and gas masks. they were more prepared than we were. i've been waiting for that trump train! and then they were your typical rally goers who seemed to be following the crowd. but it all devolved into

just a massive mob. [lisa] i am on a balcony overlooking, i'm inside the capitol. they're now hitting the window of the door. they have broken the glass to the door to the u.s. capitol. and now you'll begin in real time to see them breaking through and smash the windows from the outside of the capitol. [lisa] judy, there are protesters. protesters have now broken into the u.s. capitol. [julian] the house and senate are discussing the votes in arizona when the protestors break through the doors. [julian] members of the house have to put gas masks on. doors are being barricaded. the vice president is escorted out. [lisa] now protesters, protesters are now arriving in larger numbers in through the streets. capitol police are unable to stop them. and so here we are right now inside the halls of congress. this is exactly what so many anticipated. and yet the capitol hill police are doing their best,

but failing to control the situation. [abby] protesters were roaming the hallways. they were looking for pelosi. they were looking for pence. pelosi? yeah, we're coming bitch. the concern we have about personal harm-- safety. personal safety is-- it just transcends everything. but the fact is, on any given day, they're breaking the law in many different ways-- and quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the united states. we now know trump went to his dining room just off the oval office, and he was sitting there, watching it. [katy] the president has just tweeted, "mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution." it's inflammatory, it puts a target right on mike pence's back. and so then the fury starts to build in the crowd toward vice president pence. trump was furious that pence was not doing what he wanted. and according to testimony that the january 6th committee got,

mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, leaves the dining room and goes to his own office, where there's a bunch of colleagues. and he says that trump was complaining that pence had been taken to safety. president trump is really enjoying, in some ways, this calm while so much is happening-- oh my gosh. [manu] it had turned out that that was the gunshot that killed the rioter ashli babbitt, who, along with other rioters, were trying to break into the speaker's lobby. [gunshot] [man] that sounded like a [bleep] gunshot. and that was a tragic and just stunning turn of events. they've killed an american woman right here. her blood is on your hands, mike pence. republican lawmakers like kevin mccarthy were trying to talk to trump to get him to call his supporters off. [norah] have you spoken with the president and asked him to perhaps come to the capitol and tell the supporters it's time to leave? [kevin] i've spoken to the president. i asked him to talk to the nation, to tell them to stop this. there were messages pouring in, particularly to mark meadows.

[woman] it's very clear that they all believe that trump had the power to turn this off. and trump resisted it. finally, trump makes a video in the rose garden. i know your pain. i know you're hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us... and that wasn't exactly a stern order, get out of here. so go home. we love you. you're very special. in that video, he lies about the election being stolen and pours more fuel on the fire. donald trump tweeted out a video about 25 minutes ago. he said we did a good [bleep] job. we took the capitol. so far, there has been no serious response by law enforcement just yet. the first rioters came into the building around 2:00 p.m. and it wasn't until almost 6:00 p.m. when the national guard finally showed up. [ed] the house will resume consideration of the electoral college results tonight.

let's get back to work. i was heartened when it was clear everybody felt like we have to go back and finish this work tonight. i object to the electoral votes of the state of wisconsin. amazingly, several republicans in the house and in the senate still objected to the vote count in several states. and it was pretty clear that no, nothing had changed. the naming of joe biden and kamala harris as the next president and vice president of the united states coming about 13 and a half hours after trump-allied protesters stormed that very capitol building. [manu] the day after january 6th, nancy pelosi said donald trump should resign or he should be impeached. they were gonna move an impeachment proceeding within a week's time, which is a stunning pace for an impeachment. he must be removed from office. while it's only 13 days left, any day can be a horror show for america.

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one article of impeachment against the president for inciting the deadly insurrection at the capitol. many believe that trump's conduct was impeachable, but they weren't willing to vote for impeachment because they also knew that trump wasn't going away. the house of representatives has reached the threshold-- president impeached again. [peter] and unlike the first impeachment of president trump, where no house republicans supported it, this time, ten broke ranks. my vote to impeach our sitting president is not a fear-based decision. i am not choosing a side. i am choosing truth. this was the most bipartisan impeachment vote in american history. now the question is what will the united states senate do? [peter] democrats urging a senate conviction, they say in part to keep president trump from holding office again. donald trump surrendered his role as commander-in-chief and became the inciter-in-chief. this unprecedented effort is not about democrats opposing political violence.

it's about democrats trying to disqualify their political opposition. breaking news tonight. historic acquittal. seven republican senators vote to convict. they needed 17 republican senators to convict donald trump. there's no question, none, that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. you could hear a pin drop in the senate chamber listening to mitch mcconnell condemn donald trump in the strongest of terms, but he didn't want to take the vote to impeach. [joshua] the former president said that his make america great again movement has only just begun. his acquittal leaves open the possibility of another presidential run. the republican party had the opportunity to exile this man from american politics, and their failure of will will echo down the ages.

[mika] the united states turns the page on the trump presidency today, as joe biden will be sworn in as the nation's 46th president. in the aftermath of january 6th, it was as though we'd all been reminded of how fragile the democracy was. when day comes, we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid. the new dawn blooms as we free it. for there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it. if only we're brave enough to be it. [susan] so you had this sense of kind of holding your breath to see a new president actually sworn in. america has been tested anew, and america has risen to the challenge. [tim] 2020 will be remembered as a watershed year, as one of the most consequential years in american history. i think of covid-19 as being like an x-ray on our society, and let us see all the broken places inside us--

the distrust of institutions, the absence of communal feeling. we're the leaders in the world in biomedical research, and that's where we did succeed. much-needed help in the pandemic now starting to arrive at hospitals across the country in the form of those insulated boxes carrying vials of pfizer's vaccine. [fauci] in less than a year, we went from a new virus to having vaccines going into the arms of people in december of that same year. is it in? -it's done. -it's done? you were really good. how are we to face the next pandemic? maybe that will be one of the enduring legacies of the impact of covid on america. [renee] i always have been of the theory that if george floyd's murder had occurred at any other time, if it had occurred a year earlier, the reaction wouldn't have been the same. [van] when chauvin gets put on trial, the whole world's holding its breath. even with having seen what happened,

nobody was confident that he was going to be convicted. [man] we, the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one, unintentional second degree murder while committing a felony, find the defendant guilty. [sara] there was a huge roar outside of the court. people were crying. they were weeping in the streets. [van] the conviction brought a sense of relief, but also a sense of grief for all the other people who had been unjustly killed, who never got justice. we finally have our first victory. it's crazy! and i just want to make sure that i'm here to get more and more of these victories. 2020 had a pandemic. it had the george floyd protests. and it had the 2020 election. each of those might itself have been one of the most important things that have happened in the 21st century. it's amazing when you put it all together just how much americans went through in 2020. 2020 was absolutely terrible, and i really hope next year is going to be better. but the truth is what happens next is up to all of us.

it's gonna depend on how willing we are to fight, how well we learn from what's happened, and how much we are able to care about each other. so i don't know what happens next, but i do know what happens now. let tomorrow be about solutions. today is about vengeance. [bleep] you, 2020. [music]