>> reaction now pouring in as twitter moves to permanently suspend president trump from the platform. facebook and instagram also banning the president, quote, indefinitely. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm alicia acuna. >> i'm griff jenkens. president trump not only hit with a ban, but several of his supporters kicked off major social media platforms. alicia, it's great to have you here in d.c. welcome. alicia: thank you, wonderful to be here. >> at the epicenter of the political universe and fun to

be back here with everyone because we have a busy news saturday. i don't know if you had plans, but if you did, you better spend a few minutes with us to get the latest. and for the latest we have mark meredith tracking it all. >> good morning, the president relies on the twitter account to dictate policy, fire people and say what's on his mind. they've suspended his account. when you go on to twitter and try to find his handle, account suspended. his photo is gone, past messages no longer visible and until yesterday he had some 80 million plus followers. twitter releasing a statement friday night writing after close review of tweets from the president, the account and context around them and specifically how they're received and interpreted on and off twitter we've permanently suspended the account due to further incitement of violence. and they've not only blocked

the president and his followers, and twitter spokesperson says those accounts are not going to be banned, but there will be limited use for the time being, one campaign advisor is encouraging the president to sue twitter. the president is vowing to fight back potentially creating his own social media platform. lawmakers are speaking out with mixed reaction to the media shut down. among those fired up south carolina senator lindsey graham who writes, quote. the ayatollah can tweet, but trump can't, says a lot about twitter. and adam schiff from california writing social media companies allowed this vile content to fester too long and banning him is a good start. it dipped in trading and the president's son is calling in

censorship and some rush limbaugh deactivated their accounts. a lot going on. >> mark meredith in washington. thank you, mark. alicia: let's go to the white house, david spunt has what the supporters are saying. >> and the president was supposed to be at camp david, but that's no longer the case. he's in the white house behind me. after tweeting with followers comfortably, he's no longer doing that. a lot of people coming to his aid. former ambassador nikki haley says silencing people doesn't happen in the united states, unbelievable. and they're blasting twitter for letting others continue

tweeting, including ayatollah khomeini who made threats against israel. and nancy pelosi is hoping to introduce articles next week. if the house i am peaches the president again, which is entirely possible, the senate may hold another trial, but that may be after joe biden becomes the 46th president. if president trump is convicted in the senate and take a separate vote that may prevent him from running for office in the future. and lisa murkowski said to her hometown newspaper, i want him to resign and cause him out, he's caused enough damage. and judd deer voted, this is a time for healing and unity as one nation. a politically motivated impeachment against a president who did a great job will only

serve to divide our great country. in addition, house speaker nancy pelosi said she spoke with mark milley joint chiefs of staff, says there are codes and we must do everything that we can to protect the american people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy. as far as president trump's term 11 more days, is he going to speak, not going to speak and possibly do it through a statement or on camera, but he's known as you know, as the twitter president, hired, fired, pardoned people on the platform, but no more. >> david spunt, thanks. >> joining us now is republican california congressman and member of the house judiciary committee tom mcclintock. congressman, thank you nor taking time on this busy

saturday. what is your reaction? i'll ask you first, to twitter permanently suspending the president from his account? >> well, you can say it on the street corner, you ought to be able to say it on the social media platforms. that's the promise they made when they were given exemption from responsibility for what they publish because they said, look, that's going to be on the people who did it not on oust and we believed them. we gave them exemption from liability and we learned it's clearly a lie. they're heavily censorship speech and clearly looked h--- and blocked the president of the united states, but not a dictator. >> twitter would argue that they're trying to stop and

prevent the president from what they see as inciting violence. what do you say? >> well, free societies don't punish words and thoughts, they punish deeds. the reason is words and thoughts can be countered by better words and thoughts. that's why we have a first amendment. and what we have now is fundamentally different to set up government or corporate officials to decide what speech is acceptable and what is not. a power that can quickly become abused. the president did not call on these rioters to break into the capitol and to impede the congress's work, he gave a very fiery speech. i thought it showed very poor judgment, but it's no more fiery a speech than what we're hearing from the democrats now in response. that's called freedom of speech and the moment we begin punishing that or censoring that we've lost it and we'll

never get it back. >> and repeal section 230, where does this leave us now? >> well, i sincerely doubt that c-section 230, that's the companies get from liability for what they publish under this new administration and this new congress, but given the size that they've attained with this immunity, i'm very concerned about their ability to essentially destroy the platform that they have built based on their immunity that gives americans the ability to share their ideas, bad ones and good ones. it's thomas jefferson who said error of opinion is tolerated and reason to combat it. they're now destroying the very foundation of that sentiment. >> congressman you mentioned biden's agenda.

do you believe a biden administration legislative agenda will do enough to unite the country? >> well, that's a very serious concern that i have. biden could shut all of this discussion down right now by saying what abraham lincoln said after 600,000 americans died in the civil war with-- let us bind up the nation's wounds i think that biden could help and this country if he took the same approach, but all he's done is to pour gasoline on the fire which makes him no better than trump in that regard and i'm afraid it's a very evil omen to come when our country is going to the left on january 20th. >> congressman, i do want to ask you about, we're going to see an article of impeachment. it's a very simple one that would remove the president, here we go again with

impeachment hearings that would require a senate trial, but we don't know for sure that it's going to be voted on in the house, but you could possibly be forced as soon as this week to vote on it. what is your reaction? and how will you vote if this article of impeachment comes to the floor? >> haven't we divided our country and abused our constitution enough? i can't think of a more vindictive act than to impeach a president a week before his term ends on, you know, pardon the expression, but on trumped up charges. impeachment is a very serious matter, as for high crimes and misdemeanors. the president used poor judgment on wednesday, but you know, he never told the crowd to do what they did. so as i said, i think biden could shut this down right now, all of the talk and start the healing of a nation, so far he's chosen not to do so. in 11 days the democrats are

going to have total control over your government. i would think that would call by some magnanimity. >> to be fair, it's not up to biden it shut it down, the speaker nancy pelosi-- >> he could call for it and he's not. >> all right, congressman tom mcclintock, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> much more on the fallout from twitter banning president trump and the capitol hill riot on fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace speaks with mick mulvaney. check your listings for tomorrow and channel. alicia: for more on the power of big tech companies and the potential impact on free speech, let's bring in attorney and northwestern adjunct law professional, andrew, thank you so much for being here today. appreciate it. you know, americans have so

many questions over what happened this week and what we're going to see in the weeks coming forward, but this ban on the president, how should americans look at this through the lens of free speech? >> it's absolutely horrible. it's just one of those things where you don't do it to the president of the united states. first amendment rights in this country are sacrosanct. could you imagine what the democrats would be saying if oac, joe biden, kamala harris, had been banned from twitter this summer for using insendry language with respect to brutality. and you don't do it, it's the marketplace of ideas. when voltaire, i don't agree with what you say, but fight to the death to say it. >> and i did find it quite

strikings, they said we understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everybody when facebook and twitter will have the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensible for the speech of billions especially when political realities make those decisions easier, political realities, the president is losing power every day, so this seems to be a bit advantageous, doesn't it, for these can ps companies? >> make no mistake, let's call a spade a spade, it's pay back for the lawsuit filed by the doj last month and the aggressive tactics the republicans including the president had been using to peel back the immunity shield of these companies. nobody wants technology companies playing tech god, playing message god, playing content god. that's not what we want. i don't care if you're a democrat or if you're a republican, it's a slippery

slope that is 100% unacceptable in this country. >> let me put up twitter's explanation for the decision they decided to make and put up a statement when they suspended the president's twitter account. they wrote we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence in a context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on wednesday additional violation of the twitter rules would potentially result in this very course of action. and five people died and twitter is saying, basically that the president is responsible. they're not alone. is there a point here? >> yeah, there's absolutely a point. there are much less restrictive ways to prevent this. you could put a 15 minute freeze on any tweets that he does, and remember, if someone directs violence towards another, they absolutely should be banned, but that's not what happened here. it was a message that people didn't like, that allegedly caused his followers to riot,

but he didn't say storm the capitol, right, take over congress. it's the message he provided and twitter didn't like that message, facebook doesn't take it and again, i don't care if you're a republican or a democrat, we don't want that. we doesn't want big tech determining what we can or can't hear. alicia: to go further, google and apple are both suggesting they could put limits on parler as well. all of these companies together are collectively reining things in on the right side. >> and that's exhibit a, why the big tech companies need to be broken up. they simply have too much power and control the message we don't want that, we doesn't want california tech companies determining what 75 million people who voted for donald trump, despite problems he has and we don't want big tech determining what we do or don't

hear. alicia: andrew, thank you for your time today, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> with democrats in the house and senate, joe biden is moving forward on his top priorities. hillary vaughan has more. hi, hillary. >> hey, griff. even though pressure is mounting on president-elect biden to support calls to remove or impeach president trump from the white house in the final phi days of his presidency, he said yesterday that he wants to wait out the clock. >> if we were six months out, we should be doing everything to get him out of office, impeaching him again, trying to invoke the 25th amendment, whatever it took to get him out of office, but i am focused now on us taking control as president and vice-president on the 20th and to get our agenda moving as quickly as we can. >> biden announced his economic

team yesterday announcing his picks for labor secretary and commerce secretary making his cabinet complete and take gina raimondo, and announced a that vaccine doses should be now. the president-elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine and supports releasing available doses immediately and that the government should stop holding back vraciu supply so we can get more shots in american's arms now and more details on that are coming next week. >> can you guarantee that everybody can get their second shot on time? >> the answer is i'll be talking about that on friday. >> on friday. >> the transition official tells me that they have faith in manufacturers that they'll be able to roll out enough new

vaccine doses that they don't need to set aside a second dose for people that have received their first dose. griff. >> all right, hillary vaughan in wilmington. thank you, hillary. alicia: in the meantime, north korea announcing it will increase its nuclear arsenal. this coming just days before president-elect joe biden takes office. north korean leader kim jong-un calling the united states his country's biggest enemy and reveals plans to build a new nuclear powered submarine, and biden is promising principled diplomacy with north korea. >> the death of officer brian sicknick who died after the riots. what lawmakers are doing to honor his life next. your journey requires liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring.

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>> welcome back. investigators announcing the arrest of several people in connection with wednesday's riot at the capitol. among them is 60-year-old richard bigo barnett of little rock, arkansas, this is the man with his foot on speaker nancy pelosi's desk.

federal prosecutors also charges with people who took part, adam christian johnson, seen here carrying speaker pelosi's lectern during the riot and josiah colt who was captured in a photo dropping to the chamber floor from the visitor's gallery by his arm. he's asking for forgiveness, writing i sincerely apologize to the american people i realize now that my actions were inappropriate and i beg for forgiveness from america and my home state of idaho. alicia. alicia: griff, federal investigators are searching for the people or person who attacked united states capitol police officer brian sicknick. flags are flying at half staff to honor his life. let's discuss with ted williams, fox news contributor. thank you for being here today. good to see you today. my first question with regard to officer sicknick, how do you

believe he should be honored? >> you know, i think that officer sicknick is a hero, alicia. and i would love to see him lie in honor at the capitol. this man was out there trying to serve and protect us, the citizens of this country when somebody took a fire extinguisher and hit him across the head and he ended up dialing as a result of his injuries. alicia: we're hearing from his family right now because so much has been said around the events of wednesday. and the family says many details regarding wednesday's events and the direct causes of brian's injuries remain unknown and our family asks the public and press respect our wishes not making brian's passing an issue. please respect our privacy. brian is a hero and that's what we would like to remember. thank you. ted, this was an event that was

political in nature, however, this man's death is very personal for this family. >> it is very personal. he was a police officer. he had served on the capitol police for approximately 12 years and he was out there just trying to do his job, when unfortunately, a mob, a mob that you wouldn't even see in a third world country, attacked our capitol, the people's house and you had this wonderful man serving and protecting. and you know, i've got to tell you alicia, when i heard that he died, when he passed, it moved me to tears. it was emotional for me, very emotional. alicia: and going forward, what do capital police need to do? what does the united states need to do? arguably we're in the law enforcement center of the country with so many agencies here both local and federal. what kind of coordination do

you see needs to happen? what needs to change? >> well, what needs to have been even done here was that the authority, meaning the capitol police, should have gotten together with the fbi and other local law enforcement agencies to have been better prepared, but i've got to tell you, when you look at what took place here and i've heard some people talk about the president of the united states using poor judgment, that's crap. this was the president of the united states inciting citizens, american citizens to go up on that hill and as a result of that, five individuals lost their lives. and so, i'm hoping, alicia, that we never, never see a day like january the 6th again in our lifetimes in this country. >> absolutely. all of us are with you on that. you brought up fbi coordination with the authorities there on the ground. how hard is that? and how realistic is it for

them to do that? is it hard for the two agencies to talk to each other in an event like this? >> no, it is not normally. under normal circumstances, prior to this event like this, all the federal agencies, as well as the local and state police officers, they get together and map out and plan for this event like this. this event was not planned for or mapped out. they did not anticipate or expect that many people to emerge onto the capitol and to breach the capitol in the manner which they did. alicia: one thing that keeps coming to our mind, what do our enemies say when they see this and say to themselves. >> that's the thing that everybody doesn't realize. we don't really know-- and this is the reason i'm calling for a grand jury and complete investigation here because we really don't know who who were the infiltrators who breached the capitol. what if foreign agencies that

came in and saw that donald trump was going to hold this rally, saying that he lost the election illegally and did they infiltrate individuals there at the capitol. there needs to be a complete and thorough investigation on what took place january 6th at the capitol. alicia: ted williams, thank you so much. happy saturday to you. >> my pleasure. alicia: a memorial fund has been created to help the family capitol police officer brian sicknick. so far the fund has raised more than $187,000. for more information please visit go-fund-me and search officer brian d. sicknick. griff: full out, twitter permanently suspending president trump's account and how one civil liberties group is responding. that's next.

>> big tech companies are facing backlash for cracking down on president trump's account. charles watson joins us live with growing concerns over this latest move. hi, charles. >> hi, alicia. the a.c.l.u. is raising major concerns over social media company's decision to silence president trump on their platforms. a.c.l.u.'s senior legislative counsel writing this should concern everyone when companies like facebook and twitter will uncheck power to remove people from platforms and become indispensible for the speech of billions especially when political realities make those decisions easier. instagram, facebook, snap chat have all suspended the president's accounts on their platforms. after a crowd stormed the capitol. a review of recent tweets led to to permanently suspend the

president's personal account citing a risk of certainly incitement of violence. this morning, representative madison caw thorn says the decision sets a dangerous president. >> when you rip the tongue out of somebody who speaks against them you don't prove them to be a liar, you prove that you're paralyzed with fear on the altar of oppression. >> meanwhile, supporters of the move are questioning what took social media giants so long to act. democratic senator richard blumenthal treating no private company is obligate today provide a megaphone for a malicious campaign to incite violence. it took blood and glass in the halls of congress to-- and change in the political winds for most powerful tech companies to recognize at the last possible moment the threat of trump and conservatives social media cite parler is facing a crackdown from big tech after the platform was

accused of using its platform to incite some violence that we saw at the capitol earlier this week. google says it's taken parler off its google play store and apple is threatening the same actions and the ceo of parler says it's a horrible way to handle the situation. alicia. alicia: charles watson, thanks, griff. griff: for more on this, our panel, former u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy and leslie marshall. andy and leslie, good to have you here on this busy saturday of news and let's jump in where our reporter charles watson left things. it's not just twitter's long-running feud with the president, flagging him and now suspending him. other tech companies, google, apple, shutting down what many in the conservative sphere see as suppression and outright

censorship. leslie, i'll go to you first. looking the president of the united states has numerous platforms, the white house has a twitter account. he has several staff members that have twitter accounts and almost every time the president speaks he has the media covering him. and the cameras are rolling. look, a private company has a choice whether you like it or not, to censor individuals, this is different because you have to remember, there are people out there that could and have sue companies like twitter or facebook. they're almost damned if they do and damned if they don't. the first amendment doesn't cover yelling fire in a crowded theater. there are many who feel the president incited what happened and twitter doesn't want to be a part of that any longer. griff: andy, you're an attorney and you saw in that report from charles watson,

blumenthal mentioning what leslie is saying. what do you say? >> i think there's misunderstanding about this. i work for national review now, i have no problem with an outfit being into content discrimination, if you want to run, you know, charl marx's view of the world, you're probably not at national review, i don't think anybody has heartburn over that. the problem with twitter, they're pretending to be nothing, but an interactive computer platform where all viewpoints are equally welcome and in fact, they're a content discriminator and they're allowed to do that, there's nothing wrong with twitter be left of center site just like the new republic or slate or whatever. the problem is, they shouldn't get an immunity that's different from what a publisher or a content distributor or discriminator gets. if they want to discriminate on

content they're allowed to do that, but they shouldn't be protected from things like libel suits and that's the problem here. a lot of their discrimination is done under the guise of, we're worried about threats of violence and hacking, but what they're doing is discriminating because of their political bent which they're allowed to have, but then shouldn't get immunity. griff: leslie, picking up where andy left that, is it time to revisit in a congress controlled by democrats about the repealing of section 230, which of course gives the shield of cover to do just what they're doing? >> actually, democrats and republicans, this is one area where there's bipartisan agreement with regard to section 230. it doesn't mean repeal necessarily, but definitely revisit and make some reforms. also, with regard to what andy said regarding the platform, if, in fact, twitter was just a

left wing social media network, it would have banned all of the accounts of, you know, all the conservatives, vice-president pence, senator mitch mcconnell and that's not the case and i just want to say one thing about parler. i've seen with my own eyes people sent to me things on parler that talk about people that are trying to recreate january 6th on the 16th of this month and on inauguration day. there has to be some responsibility when we look at what happened in our nation on the 6th by some of these platforms owners and distributors. griff: we'll see what happens. let's talk for a moment and shift gears, if i can, andy. let's look at the first 100 days likely for president biden's administration. he's going to do a lot of things. he's trying to do from distributing 100 military covid vrac vaccine doses and opening schools and wearing masks on buses and trains and buildings.

and that's the tip of the iceberg of very ambitious agenda. what do you think we will see? and do you think it will do enough to really reunite our country? >> oh, no, i don't think this is going to reunite the country. i think, you know, it's a big boon for them and a difference for biden that they won both seats in georgia because that creates a very different dynamic in congress than otherwise would have been there. so what i would expect you'll see is while they have that margin, thin as it is, there's two things they can do. one is, anything that can be tied to the budget, whether it's climate type stuff or health care type stuff can be done through reconciliation, i would expect they're going to get aggressive and try to bang that through and the second thing that would be important for them. every judge in the country including justice friar who could retire or go senior,

there's a lot of pressure to do that because they can basically assemblyline, confirm whatever judges they want to confirm. griff: just about 10 seconds, leslie. ask you quickly, does the biden administration have an obligation to try and reunite the country in its legislative agenda? >> well, i think any administration does, quite frankly, especially in light of the pandemic that americans are living through, the physical and economic financial impact covid-19 has and continues to have on americans and of course, in light of what just transpired in our nation's capitol january 6th. it will be difficult, but even as a pessimist, i think it can be done. griff: alicia. alicia: the navy making a grim discovery off the coast after this.

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>> fox news alert, the indonesian navy has confirmed the location of a missing passenger plane. the boeing jet went missing shortly after taking off from jakarta. hi, ryan. >> hi, griff. air traffic controllers lost contract with that boeing 737-500 with 62 people on board just four minutes after it took off from jakarta, the capital of indonesia, for what was supposed to be a routine 90-minute long domestic flight. air traffic controllers say they had just been speaking with the pilot and he had just requested permission to continue his ascent up to 29,000 feet. everything appeared to be going normal when the plane vanished. fishermen were amongst the first to spot the wreckage in the water just north of jakarta and the search conditions for survivors. not easy conditions. jakarta is 12 hours ahead of

you, it's the middle of the night and dark. this was a boeing 737-500, it was not a 737 max-8 and did not have the automated flight control system that us kaed the max 8 to be grounded for most to two years. you may remember a max eight went down in roughly the same area in a little over-- a little over two years ago. that's of course little consolation to the families gathering at the airport. indonesia has a long history of aviation tragics and infrastructure and poor enforcement of safety standards are often the cause. keep in mind that indonesia is comprised of quite literally thousands of islands. air travel is usually one of the easiest ways to get from point a to point b. those search and rescue teams are out there, but we're still five hours from sunrise. griff. griff: thank you, ryan. we'll continue to bring you the latest as we get it. alicia. alicia: and griff, with uncolorado mayor deciding to

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>> as covid-19 cases surge across the country, local lawmakers are working to help their communities. in addition to that, the homeless situation across the country has just been devastating and let's bring in aurora, colorado mayor mike kaufman, mayor, thank you for being here today. for folks who don't know, you spent seven days undercover in the homeless community. can you tell us about your experience and what you learned? >> sure. i had no money or food with me. a backpack, sleeping bag, tarp and some other things and basically went out as a homeless person, didn't tell anybody i was doing it except one reporter and a local cbs affiliate. and what was fascinating about it, i spent time in different shelters and encampments, if the extraordinary difference between those in the shelters

and those in the encampments and that they never-- the two, completely separate groups that never cross. if you're in the shelter you never stay in the encampment. if you're in the encampments, never in a shelter. the encampments remind me in growing up in the late '60s, '70s, the hippy movement, the counter cultural movement of dropping out and drugs were a common denominator, but then it was marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs, but here in the homeless encampments the common denominator was hard drug use, meth, heroin and it was crack cocaine. >> so knowing that, and we see the expanding problems throughout the country, what is it that you think can be done in your city and beyond? >> well, i would say this, in the shelters, i had access to all kinds of services that were

offered to me, whether it was drug and alcohol rehabilitation, whether it was job training, short programs, long programs, an amazing amount of opportunities should i want or the homeless people there want to take them. but in the encampments, i mean, they don't want to go into the shelters, quite frankly, because they have rules, the shelters have rules and one of them is no drug use inside the shelters. so, we have got -- these-- i know there are c.d.c. guidelines that say you shouldn't dismantle these encampments during the pandemic, however, there are two caveats there, and one is if it's a threat to public safety and threat to public health. these encampments are a threat to public safety and public health and they do need to be dismantled and they have access should they choose to do so

have access to services in the shelters there. alicia: does that mean this part of that community needs to be approached in a more targeted way when you're talking about drug abuse there and it sounds like you're saying the choice not to go into the shelters. do you need to-- do you suggest going into the fields that they be approached as they are and deal with the person who they are, to help them? >> let me just say i never met anybody in the encampments that was interested in moving on that was interested in getting a job, that was interested in bettering their life. this was-- they have settled into a life style choice that is very destructive, where they-- it's kind of communal in nature. they have almost social structures, they have their own leadership that evolves from these things. and people, what i found, in the surrounding neighborhoods, much better in the encampments

than in the shelters by people bringing food out to us and these are a much younger group of people than are in the shelters, tend to go older. there are certainly drug and alcohol issues in the shelters, for people that are dependent, but they don't -- you know, there are rules about not doing it in the shelter or bringing drugs in the shelter. but i think people have to understand that. alicia: right. >> the fact that, now. alicia: mayor mike coffman, i'm running out of time. we appreciate your perspective. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted.

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mark: president trump used twitter listening before he got into office with 80 million plus followers relied to criticize congress, complement supporters and direct his staff. now that's no longer an option. on twitter if you search for the president's accounts you see the words account suspended, photo is gone and messages no longer readable. you can't see who he was following or who followed him. twitter said it shut down accounts after fear the president would use platform to spark violence similar to the unrest we saw at the capitol earlier this week. twitter explained writing, quote, we have permanently suspended account due to risk of further incitement of violent. the president is vowing to fight back, potentially creating his own social media form in the future. twitter says it's closely watching other accounts like at potus and white house account limiting which messages can be posted and set up fire storm on capitol hill as reaction mix.

democratic lawmakers applauding twitter and many asking why it had taken so long. virginia senator mark warner, this is an overdue step but important to remember this is much bigger than one person, it's about an entire ecosystem that allows misinformation and hate to spread and fester unchecked. while others say this could lead to censorship for conservatives overnight and twitter criticized for hang mike pence, some conservatives are deactivating accounts in solidarity including rush limbaugh who had millions of followers of its own and president vowing to go online to reach supporters, how he would do this and when it is launched, unclear at this point. griff: house democrats could introduce articles of impeachment as early as monday.

david spunt with the latest. david: president trump is at the white house this afternoon and there's a real that donald j trump that can become the first president of the united states to be impeached twice. that would be history-making, democrats are not messing around. house speaker nancy pelosi and others are chomping at the bit. it would take the majority to do so which would likely pass in the next week or so after all the president has only 11 days in his term. speaker pelosi and others plan to send an article, one article called incitement of insurrection, pelosi said she will move forward with impeachment, one, the president doesn't resign or two, the vice president decides not to invoke the 25th amendment to bring the cabinet on board to remove the president from office. those two scenarios sources tell fox news are likely not going to happen so pelosi may move forward with impeachment. white house sources say there's no appetite grip for the vice

president to invoke 25th amendment. the senate would hold another trial, but that may not be i should say until after joe biden becomes president. if the president is convicted in the senate on a separate vote, that may mean that he cannot run again for office, public office, the current white house pushing back on impeachment top but former white house top aide, while she's not pushing for impeachment she does openly admit the president was wrong over the last week, listen. >> i think there's a lot of the america first policies that we are going to continue to fight for and to grow this party but we also need to heal and in a time when the president could have called off the mob, he did not decide to do so and to me that's just a breaking point. david david griff, in addition to impeachment talk, pelosi had conversations with chairman of

the joint chief general mark milly who assured her there are multiple controls regarding nuclear launch codes and the house speaker worried about the president acting in anger over the last 11 days and pelosi releasing a statement to colleagues, the situation of unhinged president could not be more dangerous and we must do everything that we can to protect the american people from unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy. the white house has called a lid today, journalistic coda will not do anything publicly on camera. he can't tweet to 88 million followers, if he does do something over the next week or so, it would likely be through a statement, press office or potentially something on camera but griff, as you know, donald trump has been the twitter president, he's hired, fired, he's made policy and pardoned people on twitter, griff. griff: yeah, david, you mentioned it's his preferred method of communication. i have to ask you a quick follow-up, can you give us a sense for what the mood is

there? david: west wing, this is a saturday, it's essentially cleared out. that's not completely unusual on a weekend but our sources, though, during the week that are here said that the white house west wing, a lot of people huddled in their offices just kind of finishing the business of the white house really for the last 11 days or so and as our chief white house correspondent john roberts has robertoed, a lot of people that are advising against more top resignations, we saw betsy devos and elaine chao, those people want to make sure there's stability in government over the next 11 days, griff. griff: all right, david spunt at the white house. david: thank you. alicia: joining us henry cuellar, congressman, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. alicia: first of all, i want to get your reaction to the president being suspended permanently from twitter and

other social media forms? congressman: after what we saw on wednesday and he incited the crowds, of course, this should have been done. that's his favorite type of platform, so it would be interesting on what he's going to do now in the next 11 days. i was there, we saw the crowds, the crowds were there not to exercise the first amendment, protect activity, a large group of them, broke in, broke windows, went inside the capitol and really just vandalized the capitol. alicia: i want to get your response from your colleague on the other side of the aisle, we talked to congressman tom, republican from california in the last hour on that note. take a listen. >> what we are hearing from the democrats now in response, that's called freedom of speech and the moment we begin punishing that or censoring that, we lost our first amendment and we may never get it back.

alicia: congressman, is that a fair argument, this is a censorship of free speech of the most powerful person in the country? congressman: you know, keep in mind that the president and some of my republican colleagues, you know, incited these individuals. some of my colleagues incited these folks also were hiding when the crowds came in. look, you know, words are one thing and we know what the first amendment says but when you turn those words into actions and -- and have the -- the capitol mobbed the way it was, i think what it's the first time since 1812, are we going to take this and just allow mobs to go in and just vandalize, you know, one of the most important buildings that we have in washington, d.c.? that's the people's house, no, look, first amendment is one thing, but what we saw, if anybody cannot see what happened on wednesday, i don't know what reality they're living in. alicia: but as you know,

congressman, republicans and conservatives far and wide have condemned the actions of the rioters on wednesday, the white house itself has, does that say nothing to democrats about republicans, you know, condemning this? congressman: i think the white house very reluctantly at a late time did that. the fact is they -- the president incited these folks to go to the capitol to do one thing and that is stop the certification of the electoral votes which is part of the peaceful transition. they went in. i mean, look at the rioters, they were there with zip ties, what were they doing with that? they were looking for folks so they can go ahead and arrest them? it's amazing. just to be there. i have a window where i could see everything going in and i saw this crowd and usually when people protest, they stay in the area, these folks went beyond the grounds, climbed and went

inside the capitol. alicia: no doubt. incredibly frightening and i hope you and your staff are doing well. i can't imagine what you went through this week. having said that, do you support impeachment effort and do you think it would be something that would be healthy for the country at this point? congressman: yes, i do. i do support it. why? because of what the president did. he incited a crowd to go and corrupt the certification of the -- of the electoral votes. it was purposely done. who would do that to send a mob over to the capitol? alicia: congressman, if democrats want to help heal the country as the president elect said he wants to do, could this be a moment in taking that first step? congressman: let's take the first step, well, the first -- let's do the impeachment. practically we know that time is very short, what do we have 12 days and all that.

i know what the practicalities are and i know the practicalities are of 25th amendment. that's probably not going to happen. on the impeachment, i know the time that it takes. i know that there are some practicalities, but, again, we cannot allow an individual -- this is more than donald trump, this is what attack we saw on our democracy. alicia: and we will continue to have this conversation, congressman henry cuellar, thank you for the conversation. griff: raising concerns for the upcoming inauguration, joining us now deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli on what is being done to keep everyone safe, thank you for being here. good afternoon to you mr. secretary? what are you doing to ensure that it is going to be safe and we will not see a repeat of this

past wednesday? secretary: so first of all, understand, we've been preparing for the inauguration with the secret service and the lead for months and we've been doing it in a covid environment so we've accounted for all the unusual variables and we -- we account for the kind of violence you saw on january 6th, we are already planning for that before january 6th. not because we expect it but as a contingency for which to be prepared. america can be very confident and so can the president elect and everybody who will be present that day that will be a safe event from start to finish. and january 6th doesn't change that a bit. it may heightened a lot of people's attention but we have been engaged with all of the law enforcement including national guard out of dod elements for months. something like 8 months up to now planning for this. we are prepared and it will be safe. griff: mr. secretary, i'm sure that given the recent events at

the capitol, you perhaps changed some of your approaches to this. i think a lot of people wondering, will we see the inauguration, the swearing in on the west front, will there be changes that you foresee from years past? secretary: so the only changes from years past would be covid related. we were planning for the possibility of violence like you saw on january 6th and more. we are more than prepared for any contingencies that happen on the inauguration. the secret service is very thorough about this undertaking, about this effort, there's great confidence. i've met every day with fbi, with national guard, with the washington metro police and so forth and the capitol police as well and there is not a lack of

confidence in terms of the ability to keep the events safe. what we are focusing on now and it's reflected in our conversation here is it's important that you and all of our fellow americans understand and believe it will be safe, sort of the judicial example is propriety and the appearance of propriety. so we are confident, we are going to have an enormous amount of resource to keep the event safe. it will be safe but it's also important that americans believe it will be safe. griff: mr. secretary, there wasn't a lot of confidence on leon pinetta, secretary of defense, former cia, here is his reaction to law enforcement's response on wednesday, listen. >> what the hell was law enforcement on capitol hill thinking by not having secured the capitol today? everybody knew that there would be people who were interested in doing nothing else but creating

havoc in the capitol? griff: mr. secretary, your response? secretary: yeah, no, i think that's a very legitimate question and it's being asked everywhere including by us. remember, the capitol police are solely responsible for that jurisdiction. they have to request assistance. the most they requested our assistance first through the secret service, they got it. they got it in the hundreds of officers from the department of homeland security over the course of the day and we were prepared for that to respond but we cannot affirmative i will go -- affirmative i will go into their jurisdiction without their permission and neither can anybody else and for the department of homeland security, the prerange circumstances exist with the washington metro police, perhaps with the fbi. so, you know, people are going to look at the capitol police and analyze why were they overwhelmed so easily and that's a very legitimate and important

law enforcement question. but let's not kid ourselves, no other law enforcement entity was responsible for that. and should they have asked for support sooner, yes, i think so. nonetheless, they were in charge. griff: there are, indeeds, lessons to be learned. ken cuccinelli, thank you for being here. secretary: good to be with you. alicia: californians signing petition to recall good -- gover newsom. christina coleman live from los angeles. hi, christina. christina: organizers believe that they can do it. also former san diego mayor recently joined the effort. take a listen. >> there's a growing frustration throughout california. we need new leadership and when we look at what hasn't been happening from the governor's office, the conflicting rules

and regulations in terms of covid, the hypocrisy, just frustration across the board. this is democrats, republicans and i -- independents. christina: the la times reporting that with within a month of newsom going to ill-advised dinner at french laundry, the recall collected more than 420,000 signatures. that's 380,000 more than what was collected in the 5 months prior. now while some democrats urge newsom to take recall seriously, the governor is moving on with business. 227 billion-dollar budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, it devotes more than 14 billion to covid relief initiatives, more funding for vaccine, 2 billion to safely

reopen classrooms and $1.1 billion in immediate aid to small businesses. all this while defending the state over big businesses that have recently moved to other states. >> this budget reflects the state is doing pretty damn well. we have a lot of work to do to help small and medium-size businesses. folks at the top are doing damn well. i don't begrudge that success. i admire it and respect it. christina: recall efforts continue, organizers have up until march 17 to collect signatures needed to trigger election. alicia: thanks, christina. give griff what the company says is behind of the suspensions next.

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griff: welcome back, big debate this weekend over a move by twitter to suspend the president's account along with the campaign's account. facebook blocking the president's account indefinitely. joining us now to look at all the fallout, media buzz host howie kurtz, howie, thanks for joining us.

howie: sure. griff: how is it that twitter justifies the drastic move? howie: twitter claims it's about the glorification of violence but maybe you can make a case for 12-hour suspension while the capitol riot was going on and president trump was tweeting about stolen election and he told people to go home. but for twitter to make permanent ban and continue while donald trump is a private citizen seems pure political payback on a president that worked to strip legal immunity and finger in the eye of 88 million twitter followsers that signed up to see what he has to say. griff: howie, his favorite means of communication, has the president responded to being banned? howie: he decided to do it through the old-fashion way with white house reporters. twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech and respondent, last night twitter employees coordinated with the democrats and the

radical left in removing my account to silence me and you the 75 million great patriots who voted for me. i don't know about coordinating with the democrats, but the tweet, one of them that twiggerred -- tweet, twitter claims that this has been perceived by some of the president's followers and prompted them somehow to start tweeting threats about a second insurrection at the capitol next week. i don't know how you pin that i'm not going to the inauguration, and by the way, right now today trending on twitter, at least 14,000 tweets or more as we are speaking the phrase hang mike pence which one of the rioters was supposed to have have said. how is that not glorification of violence? how is twitter not taking that down? seems wildly inconsistent while banning the president's account.

griff: that's a great point. the allegations, howie, that twitter is biased against conservatives. it's not a new debate. we talked about it. you and i on your show media buzz. when you drill down, is there any evidence that twitter is biased against conservatives? howie: there's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence where prominent conservatives have had their tweets, for example, minimized, or blocked, putting warning labels on them. during the election twitter repeatedly not just to president trump but trump campaign but didn't do it to joe biden and prominent democrats. that seems to people on the right to be one sided. i feel like this is sort of like, you know, donald trump is this great money-maker for twitter. this feels like kicking him on the way out the door when he's not quite a viable as franchisor won't be as a president and celebratory mood on many journalists online and elsewhere. this is great. not even pausing to consider the free speech implications an how

they would react if somebody it was on the left that was suddenly being kicked off incredibly platform that all journalists read. griff: what has been twitter masses reaction to all of this? howie: for conservatives there are a lot of complaints that they are abruptly losing a dramatic of followers, for example, tom fitton, lost 22,000 followers, brian keel -- kilmeade lost 30,000. it's hard to neglect if this is a house cleaning of bots and often suspicions and conservatives are going to say the heck with it, i'm going to parlor or other platform because they are not made to feel welcome on twitter. griff: remarkable evening news. howie, you and your guest will have much more on the fallout of twitter and facebook president

trump. secret, i'm going to be on it. thanks, howie. alicia. alicia: as governors are extending restrictions as coronavirus cases rise across the country, lawmakers are helping communities through the challenges. let's bring in one of those local officials boston city counselor at large, anissa, councilor, thank you very much for being here today. i do want to put up numbers so people can get an assessment in massachusetts. the number of cases, 419,721. it was 12,985 people who have died. can you just give us an update on the situation there and how restrictions are going and what you're doing to address it? >> sure, thank you very much, alicia, for having me onto talk about boston, to talk about

massachusetts. as an at large city councilor, as a parent of 4 students in the boston public school, former teacher and small business owner, this time is certainly a critical time for all of our residents and business owners and local economy and for our kids. and it's certainly challenging times as we navigate this pandemic, we navigate this crisis and we work to make sure that we have this crisis under control here in the city of boston. alicia: you personally are doing something yourself. you own a business and have been contributing to the effort, have you, can you tell us about that? >> yeah, we have been trying to make reusable clothes, washable masks. we have been doing it out of my small business, stitch house, we have been able to teach during this time but spent some of my time making masks, showing pictures here for our residents and first responders, for our

children and for many of our families in our shelter system. ails they are -- >> alicia: how are things going on the vaccine? >> we have had great success getting them to medical providers, those in front lines in the hospitals and caring for those who are sick. last week especially on social media we have seen lots of posts from nurses and medical staff and doctors and first responders especially our frontline first responders getting second dose, so critical and so important that they are getting the second dose and seeing that as it happens. it really says a lot of what is happening here in boston and massachusetts. alicia: while i have you here, boston mayor's walsh has been nominated by the president elect as secretary, do you have any designs of jumping into the

mayor race in 2021? >> i'm excited for mayor walsh, somebody who grew up in the same community that he will be representing working families and workers across the country as our secretary of labor for the entire country. just excited about that and really excited about the future of our city and what is next for what i call home. alicia: you will keep us guessing. thank you so much for your time, appreciate it. with control of the senate soon to be in democratic hands, president-elect biden is promising to move swiftly to undo trump tax cuts, what this could mean for a struggling economy next. 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health.

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boeing, the maker of the plane releasing a statement, quote, our thoughts are with the crew passengers and their families. we are in contact with airline customers and stand ready to support them during this difficult time. alicia: fears of a double dip recession on the horizon as the latest data shows the u.s. economy netting loss of 140,000 jobs in the hospitality industry suffering under the weight of covid lockdowns, for more on this, democrats control both chambers, mitch roschelle, mitch. thank you for being here. happy saturday to you. how concerned are you about democrats having all of this control and what this will mean for the economy going forward? mitch: the thing that worries me the most more taxes and more

regulation, is the last thing that struggling businesses need. you mentioned small businesses, order of magnitude out, those that have thousand less created more than the big ones. what we can do help small businesses, more taxes and more regulations, not it. alicia: i want you to take a listen to what the president elect said back in october. take a listen. >> you're going to raise the corporate tax, raise the taxes on the wealthy, why do even that when the economy is as it is weak right now? >> absolutely. it's about growing the economy and, george, the reason why i'm optimistic about economic

recovery more than aye ever -- i've ever been is we've had four crisis and we will invest great deal of the money into infrastructure and to green infrastructure. we are going the put 500,000 charging stations. alicia: mitch, what's your reaction to that? you have corporate tax hike on the horizon, what do you have to say? mitch: i'm all for infrastructure. in fact, that's one of the few things that is probably bipartisan. the question is what does that look like? if you look back at the biden-obama administration, when they used infrastructure as means to stimulate the economy and they wanted to start jobs, the requirements to be shovel ready per in bureaucracy and red tape that they never got off the ground. we need a bureaucratic way and i

worry that regulations will be the impediment. alicia: let's take a lack at the economy policy lists and wants by the biden administration. this is what we are going to be looking at and this is just in part. we are looking at -- he's counting on the simple majority in the senate to help him hike taxes of households with income of 400,000, raising corporate tax rate to 28 from 21. osha more attention and expanding the affordable care act, at the same time biden is being pushed on this covid stimulus check, the 2,000-dollar check, but he's being met by resistance by the centrist democrats in his own party. is he going to be able to get this done if he's up against that? mitch: listen, i think the first agenda items are clearly 2,000-dollar universal income check. the problem with that it's not targeted. if they found a way to targeted those who really need it, then i think it would probably pass.

i think the tax reform, the items you had in the list, those may fall to the bottom of the agenda because infrastructure probably come before it and perhaps healthcare reform, so tax reform or whatever shape it takes may not make it until 2022 legislatively. alicia: markets like the stimulus talks, though, record close on friday, right? mitch: 100%. they addicted to stimulus, whether it comes from congress, whether it comes from the fed, they love it and the fed continues to buy, you know, 120 billion with the b dollars worth of bonds every month and keeping interest rates low, the markets will continue to rejoice. alicia: mitch roschelle, thank you for your perspective. have a good one. mitch: nice to see you. alicia: thanks, griff. griff: new york governor andrew cuomo facing backlash over the state's slow vaccine distribution. more details coming up

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griff: as covid-19 vaccinations are off to a slow start in the country president elect biden announces his plan for distribution. alex hogan live with the latest, good afternoon, alex. alex: hi, griff, what is a race between vaccinations and the climbing cases of covid-19 as of yesterday, friday, 6.1 million americans have been vaccinated but that is a pace much slower than expected. the biden administration announcing a new plan to bring that number up rather than holding on to the second dose to make sure they are available. president elect joe biden says he will release all of the vaccines, the arizona state health director welcoming the move to speed up the process. >> if we got access to a large number of doses, i think that that would allow us to expand our distribution greatly and to utilize some of those places where people normally go to get

vaccinated, like where you go to get your flu. your doctor's office, your pharmacy, community health centers. alex: on friday 8 governors issuing letter to u.s. department health of human services asking for expedited vaccine distribution starting month in new york, 2.3 million new yorkers will get their turn at the shot. phase 1b is made of teachers, police and firefighters, public safety workers and that include correctional officers, public transit workers and those over the age of 75. governor andrew cuomo warning that without increase supply it would takes 4 weeks to vaccinate the state's 1a to b groups, cuomo expanding the people that could give the drug and includes nurses, pharmacists, mid wives or dentists. the process varies state to state. some cities center transformed department stores into testing sites and those first medical workers who were vaccinated back in december will now they will be receiving that second dose

starting this new wave of second dose vaccination. griff. griff: alex hogan, live from new york, thank you. alicia. alicia: experts sounding the alarm about toll remote learning it's taking on children's mental health. one organization says they can help those parents and students, what they are doing next ♪

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alicia: parents across america are dealing with their children's mental health struggles in the wake of the pandemic and remote learning. one organization is working to bring america together by helping parents and students create a positive home environment and joining us now is bright promise's foundation katherine corey, katherine, thank you so much for being here. appreciate you today. >> thank you so much for having us. alicia: absolutely. can you tell us what is social, emotional learning at home? >> social, emotional learning at home is a program that was launched in 2016 before the pandemic and the focus of the program is to help parents create positive home environments that support their children's mental health and their healthy development and supporting skills like empathy, regulating stress, building positive relationships and really creating safe homes that help children thrive.

alicia: this is already a tough goal without a pandemic, can you tell us how that has changed during covid and what it is that you're doing to help folks? >> absolutely. the need for this program and the demand for this program has increased so much since the pandemic started and we are really lucky that we already had incredible partnerships in place as well as knowledge of what programs really work, so when the pandemic hit, we were able to respond to that need and really start to serve those families who were most impacted by covid-19. alicia: when you're saying most impacted, who exactly are you talking about? >> the low-income children and families that serve, many of them are frontline and essential workers and many are also living in communities where they don't have access to those mental health services that ultimately can help them to support the well-being of their children. alicia: just so folks can get an idea of what we are talking about here with mental health and younger kids and kids who

are teenagers as well, take a look at the numbers that we have, these are mental health visits, how they have increased, mental health related visits 5 to 11 increased 24%, age 12 to 17 increased 31% in 2020. the isolation that comes with staying safe for covid has a cost, doesn't it? >> absolutely. our children and youth are as impacted by the stress and anxiety by the pandemic where we are all and adults have better skills with coping with that stress, we need to be able to teach those skills to our children and we believe that the best teachers are children's parents and caregivers, through our work we are really helping to help support parents 'emotional well-being so they can in turn model coping behaviors and teach skills to be

able to scope with the stress and and -- an anxiety. alicia: that's like so impossible. i've seen so many parents struggle with this. >> absolutely. it's overwhelming for any one and for the families that we serve who are already under increased stress and experiencing greater vulnerability, it's even harder and so we are really excited and grateful for the opportunity to not only help support these parents but connect them to other parents and networks of support and giver them tools to create those at-home learning environments that are rooted in social-emotional learning so that while kids are out of school they can help support children's growth. alicia: it's so important because so many kids don't have access to technology, the level of technology that they need,

that they are missing out, we know that there are students who have been absent from their online classes. how concerned are you going forward about what will happen in the future years to these students who have missed out on some of the educational opportunities that they've had? >> you know, one of the great things about social, emotional learning it does continue to support academic readiness and ability to succeed in school. so while we certainly see some students struggling especially given challenges that you described and we expect that many youth will struggle but use of social and emotional needs, it will set them in right track to recover what they lost and be able to thrive during and beyond the current pandemic. alicia: if folks want to learn more about this, they can go to

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griff: time knew for a look at headlines. president elect's biden received covid-19 today and virus was not detected.

biden will receive second dose of covid-19 on monday. a woman who police say lied about black teenager stealing her phone is behind bars, the 22-year-old was arrested during traffic stop in california. police believe she is the woman seen here on video tackling a teen after pressuring him to see his phone. the woman has been extradited to new york to face charges. and this, baseball legend tommy lazorda has died, long-time los angeles manager died suffered aheart attack, led team to two world series wins, he was 93 year's old. well, that's all for us here in washington, america news headquarters, we will continue alicia, it's been so much having you here. i will leave our viewers with big prediction and that's washington's football team against all odds are going to beat tom brady and tampa bay bucks and one first playoff in 5 years. alicia: we will stick to that prediction here and follow up

with you later. griff: so much news coming out of washington. don't touch the dial. it continues into the next hour. alicia, thanks. turn it over to new york. eric: social media shutdown on this saturday. twitter permanently banning president trump's account and other big-big tech companies taking action limiting action from others from going online. the account could be used to further incite violence following capitol riots that we saw on wednesday as threats of violence, yes, even assassination threats are now being reported on other internet sites. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean and arthel is back. hi, arthel. arthel: nice to be back with you, eric. i'm arthel neville. twitter's move, eric, is coming after months of f