eric: the conned versie is continuing on this sunday, big tech cracking down on the conservative social media app parler. google and apple suspended its app from its stores. amazon said it will no longer let the company use the web hosting services, citing parler's failure it says to take action against violent threats by its users. hello, welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hello, i'm arthel neville. the move comes after twitter permanently banned president trump's account over concerns he could incite further violence after last year's deadly terror

attack on capitol hill. earlier this morning parler's ceo said it's impossible for them to keep tabs on every single post. >> we've never allowed any of this stuff on our platform. and we don't even have a way to coordinate events on our platform. they somehow want to make us responsible and this seems to me like an excuse to just basically eliminate free speech at a convene p correspondent time, you know, -- convenient time, you no foknow, for them. we've grown so much. arthel: let's go to charles watt tonwatson, live in atlantah more. >> reporter: the latest moves to remove parler from platforms could deal a major blow to the quote, unquote, free speech app. amazon is threatening to suspend parler from web hosting services by midnight which could take parler offline completely. saturday, apple banned parler

from the app store, meaning it could no longer be downloaded on the phones of millions of users. parler has attracted a large conservative audience. it has failed to demonstrate it can address threats of violence. the chief policy officer says the company is being targeted because of its large conservative audience. >> we're not necessarily being singled out by those tech companies but certainly by the people who of have been putting pressure on them and in fact we think we're being set up in a lot of ways because in looking at some of the content, these are accounts that have been he created two days ago. >> reporter: parler says that it does not condone violence on its platform and has been working to remove some of the violent content that had been posted. however, that process was slowed down due to an increase in traffic after it was rumored president trump would move to the platform following his ban from twitter and you know, arthel, a ban from twitter is

one thing but when a company like parler can't host its app on platform that are dominated by companies like google, apple and amazon, that could really be a threat to the company's survival. arthel: understood. charles watson, thank you very much. eric: we're joined by steve hayes, editor and ceo of dispatch and a fox news contributor. what's your reaction to the lockout? >> eric, i think this is a difficult set of issues that we're working through now and we're likely to be working through for many months if not years. i don't agree with twitter's decision to ban president trump in the sort of broader argument, broader context of an argument that more speech is good speech. twitter doesn't like what president trump is doing, should allow people on twitter to make counter arguments, to challenge him, to present new facts that show that, for instance, the election was not stolen and most of the claims the president was

making in those regards were false, were untrue. but this is not an easy issue. you sometimes hear politicians talk about this and they try to pretend it's black and white and it's obvious what should be done here. you know, parler, which is supposed to be the ultimate free speech social media company, just deleted tweets or deleted posts by lin wood, calling for the execution of mike pence. i think that's appropriate for parler to do that. i don't think that lin wood should be able to call for the execution of mike pence. i think that's clear and obvious and dangerous. eric: it took them a few days to get that. lin wood supposedly put on parler, let them in, get the firing squads ready, pence goes first. i mean, here's what apple says. they say we've always supported diverse points of view but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence, illegal activity. parler was not taking action,

with the president of parler saying they can't police what's on their own business. >> well, he can police what's on their own platform because he just did with respect to lin wood and that's what i think apple is asking them to do, to not allow parler to become a place where people can be planning or -- planning attacks or threatening attacks. i think that's entirely appropriate. i think the bigger challenge is what if anything is to be done legislatively. i think that's a knotty question. i'm pretty sympathetic to some of the argument that's conservatives make about the big tech companies being slanted to the left. i think there's some evidence for that, certainly if you look at the donations and other things, there's some evidence for that. but i don't think that that means that conservatives should somehow try to legislate away their protections under section 230. i think that would be a big mistake. eric: finally, steve, i mean, how do you think this could potentially get resolved? how does a company become a

responsible corporate citizen without encouraging violence, misrepresentation, bold-faced lies, disinformation, propaganda, that could lead to what we you saw last week? >> yeah, i mean, this is what makes this a knotty question. i think that's a really right way to frame it. this is a line drawing exercise. more than anything else. and all of these companies are going to be engaging in it. the big tech companies, companies like parler as we've discussed, that's what this is about, trying to make exactly those of determinations that you're talking about. to me, there's a clear line. you can't allow incitement, plotting and planning of attacks. we applied those standards by the way to islamic extremists over the years. they're not allowed to do that. i think twitter sometimes needs to be better about enforcing those. you've seen claims of suicide bombings from the taliban and other jihadist groups that i

think should. howie:shouldn't be allowed.it'se lines. for the big tech companies to try to increase the confidence that people have, drawing them with a clear set of stated principles, and not seeming to act as i think both facebook and twitter have throughout this entire process, on something of an ad hoc basis, sort of making decisions as they go along. eric: yeah, you know, i just went on twitter. there's ron at the un, there's ayatollah, there's talking of destruction of the u.s. so it's out there. good to see you. >> thanks, eric. eric: arthel. arthel: meanwhile, house democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against president trump tomorrow. speaker pelosi accusing the president of inciting an armed ininvestigatioinsurrection lasta rally that ended in deadly terror of attacks on capitol

hill. what are you hearing from lawmakers, david. >> reporter: lawmakers are looking at a potential impeachment with president trump who has been inside the white house all weekend. we haven't heard from him because he hasn't been tweeting. that was his primary way to communicate since 2009. a twitter spokesperson said the tweets incited violence. as you mentioned, he has bigger things staring him in the face including impeachment. he could potentially be the first president in united states history to be impeached twice. this is if the house goes through with it. it would be in two separate congresses. democrats have prepared, arthel, one article of impeachment called incitement of insurrection based on what happened wednesday in and outside of the u.s. capitol. if the house impeaches, the senate would hold a trial. today, a second republican senator came out to announce he wants the president gone today. >> i think the best way for our country, chuck, is for the president to resign and go away

as soon as possible. i acknowledge that may not be likely but i think that would be best. >> reporter: five people including capitol police officer brian thicknick died after a violent mob raided the capitol building. vice president pence in the senate chamber at the time to certify the election for president-elect joe biden was rushed to a safety bunker in the capitol. a source close the vice president confirms to fox news, during the entire assault that lasted several hours inside the capitol, president trump did not once call to check on his vice president to make sure he was okay. the president also has not come out to condemn the calls from rioters and others to execute the vice president as eric and steven were just talking about. rioters repeatedly in multiple video clips screamed hang pence over and over after the vice president announced he would follow the you law and certify the electoral votes for joe biden. as for president trump, he has 10 o10 days least in his office,

this is his last full week cocking up. he'll head to the south texas town of alamo to check out the border wall and also president trump said he is not going to the inauguration of president-elect biden, that's the first time a president has not done so since andrew johnson did that to general ulysses grant in 1869. i'm told vice president pence and the second lady, karen pence, will be attending the inauguration on january 20th. arthel. arthel: and president-elect joe biden said wel well he welcome vice president and second lady. thanks so much. eric. eric: speaking of president-elect joe biden, he is also reacting to the horror that we saw during the capitol hill riots and the impending second impeachment of president trump that could start tomorrow or tuesday. but the president-elect says his focus is on getting the coronavirus pandemic under control with plans to speed up vaccine distribution and boost the economy with a bigger

stimulus package. jacqui heinrich has been following the biden transition, she is live in bloomington, delaware with the latest. hi, jacqui. >> reporter: hi, eric. as democrats consider a second impeachment effort with a senate trial playing out in the opening days of bidens' prat presidencye president-elect resisted urging congress to move one way or the other, while reiterating his feelings toward president trump. >> if we were six months out, we should be moving everything 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. >> reporter: house democrats are eager to impeach the president for his role in stoking the events that played out at the capitol last week but there's talk that there may be a push to wait until after biden's cabinet is confirmed to fully pursue it. if president trump is convicted,

the senate could vote to bar him from holding office again and this is motivating democrats regardless of the timeline. but biden doesn't just have his cabinet to worry about. he said at the current rate of vaccine distribution it would take years, not months to vaccinate the whole country and to speed it up he will reverse the policy of holding back vaccine doses for the second shot in order to get more vaccine out. it's important to note, this is not the same idea that scientists pushed back on which floated cutting the dosage in half, some have called this biden idea a bit of a gamble. biden's team said everyone would get the full two doses but without the government withholding large volumes of vaccine behind in a freezer, many manufacturers would need to produce the vaccine more quickly. >> the president-elect supports distributing most but not all of the currently reserved doses and will take action to make that change when he takes office. we have seen that the manufacturers can produce enough

vaccine to ensure people can get the second dote in a timely manner. we will use the defense production act as needed to ensure supply. >> reporter: the full details are expected on thursday. it will include plans for huge federal vaccination sites where thousands of people potentially could get vaccinated per day and also some mobile units to get that vaccine out to rural and harder the reach communities. eric. eric: jacqui, we'll be talking with dr. nicole saphier later on in our newscast about the vaccine, the new developments, and how our viewers can get one. thanks. arthel. arthel: concerns about more violence after trump supporters stormed the capitol as congress was certifying the electoral college votes. so how did they get past security? we'll discuss it with a former d.c. police detective, coming up next. research shows people remr commercials with nostalgia. so to help you remember that

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eric: a fox news alert about members of congress, turns out the attending physician on capitol hill is now warning our representatives that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus while they were hunkered down together as those pro-trump rioters breached the capitol. a memo from the physician urges

all lawmakers to get tested for coronavirus this week and also says that the representatives and senators should continue to wear masks and practice social distancing while they're up on capitol hill. in fact, one video that was sent out showed delaware democrat congresswoman lisa blunt rochester handing out masks to her colleagues. at least six republican members of congress refused to wear those masks, rebuffing her offer, one saying that they did not want to become political. >> so this is an ongoing, clear and present danger to security at the capital and of course to the integrity of our democracy and i'm hired to playing defense. i don't like seeing fences go up around capitol hill and the white house. we may have to do that but that's defense. we need to be playing offense. we're done playing with these

people. arthel: that is new jersey congressman tom mallnow disski, tearing into trump supporters while congress was in session, this comes with concerns leading up to the inauguration. let's bring in ted williams, a former detective and a fox news contributor. i want to start by asking you what question has been replaying in your mind since the attack on the capitol building? >> one question, arthel, that is consistently replayed in my mind is how woul were they not readyr what took place at the capitol. they knew days before that these groups were going to invade the capitol. they made it known that they were going to invade the capitol. so that was one of the -- the foremost questions in my mind, why was the capitol not more

secure. arthel: and who is criminally liable and should the net be cast beyond those who physically breached, desecrated, defiled the capitol building? >> absolutely. i think from the president of the united states to his son, donald jube i don't remember ju, all of those individuals who encouraged those individuals and incited those individuals. if you notice, at one time even the president said to these demonstrators that he would go and march up to the capitol with them and when they got up to the capitol, unfortunately, they even called for harm to the vice president of the united states. so there's a great deal of individuals that are culpable in this matter. arthel: what more can you tell us about the chatter swirling around the internet about plans of events on january 17th and

january 20th, which is inauguration day? >> you've got the right wing groups, the proud boys, qanon, they are planning to come back to washington for another demonstration on january the 17th and as you know, january the 20th we have the inauguration of the president of the united states. now, what has happened is the secret service are going to be better prepared than they were on january the sixth, meaning law enforcement. and that there is something called a national special security event and that event is where the secret service gets together with law enforcement officers and military people from all over the country to protect and preserve the inaugural process and make sure there's a peaceful transition on the 20th of january. arthel: and president-elect biden seems to be -- he says

he's confident that the inauguration will be safe because secret service is in charge. >> i'm confident too that it will be a safe inaugural event because not only is the secret service involved but you're going to have the u.s. military involved. you're going to have national guard you units from all over the country. you're going to have law enforcement officers, state and federal and local law enforcement officers, they're going to be from all over the country and they're going to ensure that there is a safe inauguration on january 20th, i believe. arthel: and finally, do you think that it would help if president trump, he doesn't have twitter or social media, but he's the president, he can come before the cameras, tv cameras. everybody would take it. would it help if president trump came out and spoke to those supporters who are planning to come back for inauguration? >> i think it would absolutely

help. trump controls a lot of these people and their movement and what they do and i think they would stand down. i was hollering at the cameras the other day when this invasion took place. donald trump, get out there, talk, get your people to leave the capitol. instead, he got out there and he talked about the election and he gave this luke warm scenario about please leave the capitol or don't destroy stuff on the capitol grounds. that's ridiculous. the president of the united states needed to have been more of a leader and unfortunately he wasn't in this instance. it's an em bearingment to this country -- embarrassment to this country. arthel: i'm out of time. i have to leave it there. i do thank you, ted williams and we'll see you again. thank you. >> my pleasure. arthel: eric. eric: arthel, chicago has been a city under siege. last year's murders in the windy city hit a record high, up 50% and it appears the new year has

not stopped the gunfire there. at least five people are dead after a shooting he spree yesterday, adding to a surge of shootings that are occurring in major cities across the country, this as the biden administration plans to reform police departments. alex hogan live in new york city with more on those plans. alex. >> reporter: hi, eric. after this shooting spree in chicago, police say there is still no motive but they did lay out a timeline. police say that 32-year-old jason nigh nightin del nightings responsible. he shot a man sitting in a car, ten minutes later he shot and killed a fee mall security guard before hiring at a 77-year-old woman of getting her mail. the chicago man is accused of stealing a car, driving to a store and trying to rob it before killing a 20-year-old man inside and shooting an 81-year-old woman as well. she remains in critical condition. police say he shot a 15-year-old girl in the head in a moving

car. she remains in critical care at children's hospital. police say he drove off to evanston. at an ihop he took a woman hostage before shooting her in the head. police shot him in a parking lot, marking an end to the crime spree. >> but for the brave conduct of the police officers confronting the suspect, many more people would have been injured. >> reporter: department in large cities across the country responding to more murders and gone violence last year. chicago ended 2020 with 769 homicides, the most since 2016. president-elect joe biden laying out his plans as he nears his inago -- inauguration. among them, vowing to expand funding for mental health research, focusing on departments engaged in systemic misconduct.

there's an investigation underway today in los angeles after a shooting overnight leaving one person dead and two people hospitalized. eric. eric: all right, alex. thanks so much. arthel. arthel: eric, researchers with good news after a more infectious strain of coronavirus is discovered in several states. what a new study is suggesting about the pfizer vaccine. that's up next. [♪] when you have diabetes, managing your blood sugar is crucial. try boost glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. boost glucose control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. try boost. up to one million dollarsx in new scholarships through this month, because hope fuels opportunity. see what scholarship you qualify for at phoenix.edu

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publicly, at least. mark meredith live in washington with the very latest on this. mark, you think we're going to hear from the president soon? >> reporter: eric, i don't think it will be today. the white house has indicated they don't expect the president to speak to cameras. we're hearing from lawmakers as they are praising social media companies for disabling the president's account while others fear this will set a bad precedent and lead to more censorship down the road. president trump's twitter account disabled friday night. the company said they took action to prevent the risk of future incitement. facebook, instagram, snapchat did the same thing over similar concerns. some lawmakers fear this is a slippery slope. they worry it will translate to increasing censorship of speech. marco rubio spoke about this on sunday morning futures. >> facebook, twitter, these are not moral champions. the reason they're doing this is because the democrats are about to take power. they view this as a way to get on their good side to avoid

restrictions or laws being passed that hurt them. >> reporter: the president is vowing to still reach out to people online, potentially through a new social media platform. it's unclear what that will be or if he's going to start doing this before he leaves in office in 10 days. mark warner is praising tech companies for suspended the president's accounts. warner says they need to do a better job controlling the content online. he write these platforms served as core organizing infrastructures for violent far right groups for several years, helping them recruit, organize, coordinate and generate profits from violent extremist content. twitter says they're constantly monitoring for potential abuse of the platform and is monitoring chatter of more armed protest potential for next weekend. it's something they're aware of. they want to make sure it doesn't spread on their platform. eric: those have been out there. mark meredith, as always, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, president trump expected to travel to the southern border this week to

inspect progress on the wall one last time. meanwhile, is a new caravan of migrants prepare aing to make its way north from central america? let's go to christina coleman, live in los angeles with some answers, perhaps. >> reporter: trump will travel to alamo, texas on tuesday to highlight his administration's work on the wall and mark the complete of 400 miles of the steel structure, much of it a replacement of what was already there. the wall is a hallmark of trump's efforts to reform what his administration calls a broken immigration system. the acting commissioner of u.s. customs and border protection mark morgan says the incoming biden administration would undo improvements that have led to a decrease in border crossings over trump's term in office. >> now what we're seeing is the numbers rising, and why, because they know with the biden administration, the border is going to be open. they're talking about it. and it's driving the numbers

even greater and right now with the open border strategies we'll see a crisis if he continues. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, biden called the border wall an obsession for trump and vowed to stop work on it. biden plans to get rid much of trump's immigration agenda in the first 100 days in office, including the stopping the remain in mexico program and lifting limits on refugees, promising to implement what he calls a more humane immigration agenda. >> i will introduce an immigration bill, immediately, and have it sent to the appropriate committees to begin movement. i will, in fact, countermand executive orders that the president has in fact initiated that are contrary to what i think is either his authority and/or contrary to the interest of the united states. >> reporter: all of this as migrants who have been stuck in mexico while the trump administration's remain in mexico protocols are in place,

are now demanding safeguards from the mexican government to travel to the border. also customs and border protection reports another group of migrants are planning to make its way north from hurricane-ravaged honduras. arthel: christina, thank you very much. eric. ♪ eric: well, there seems to be some good news on the covid-19 front. a new preliminary study suggests that pfizer's vaccine can protect against that new more infectious strain of the coronavirus. the nation's top infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci described how the study was conducted. >> you get serum from people who have been vaccinated. the antibodies are the things that you hope protect them against infection. you find out if those antibodies specifically block the mutant virus or not. that's what you do.

that would be testing the impact on the vaccine. eric: let's translate that. dr. nicole saphier is with us, fox news medical contributor, and author of the book, make america healthy again. doctor, is this a breakthrough? can we be reassured and comforted perhaps that this vaccine can take on that new version, the new variant that sounds pretty scary? >> well, eric, as dr. fauci was explaining, pfizer in collaboration with ut galveston put together a small covert trial, took blood samples from 20 people, and did in vitro testing, they took the antibodies from the blood samples and tested them against the new u.k. virus. a certain mutation against it. and the good news is, they showed that the vaccine was effective of blocking that certain mutation. now, here's something that's very interesting from me. yes, good news on the horizon, pfizer vaccine does look like it

is going to be successful against the u.k. variant. also, we can anticipate moderna, maybe astrazeneca will probably have similar results. they're undergoing their own trials right now. we haven't seen that a data. if pfizer is showing efficacy, we can assume they probably will as well. something that is causing interest is a south africa variant. i want to make it clear that mutations in virus, certain viruses, is normal evolution, when it comes to how viruses behave. it is not uncommon and it's not surprising that we have multiple variants coming on right now. a variant in south africa, it has 20 different mutations in the virus. and one of those mutations were actually shown not to be -- unfortunately was resistant to the pfizer vaccine in that trial and a recent case in brazil just popped up in the last 24 hours of a reinfection of covid-19 with the south african variant.

so i'm extremely curious to see as more information becomes available on the south african variant. the good news, looks like the u.k. variant which is more trans miss i'll doesn't seem to -- transmissible, doesn't seem to be more dangerous but it does seem our vaccines will be effective against it. i'm a little more concerned about the south african variant which is not in the united states as of yet that we know of. i want to see more testing to see if our vaccines will be able to detect that variant. eric: can you explain why a variant like in south africa would be different. what does a virus do? how does it replicate. what does it do? how does it know to be resistant against something where as you said the others aren't. >> you have to remember, eric, since the very beginning of this pandemic, we have seen many variants. what was circulate inning the north either in -- circulating in the northeast was a different strain than what was in the northwest. the northeast looked like it came from europe and the northwest came from china.

viruses you mutate. that's what they do. they want to mutate because they want to survive. if they go to a host and they kill the host, meaning the you human, that's not very good for the virus. the virus is going to change its behavior so it can survive longer. it becomes more contagious. but oftentimes when it becomes more contagious, it does tend to be either the same severity or less in severity because it doesn't want to kill off the host. just like humans make changes, think of evolution over the years. we have adapted to our surroundings. viruses do that, at a faster pace. they adapt to surroundings because they want to survive. eric: finally, doctor, give me a sense how long do you think this will go? when do you think we can get it under control? or will we be able to finally defeat covid-19? >> well, eric, we've been dancing with this virus for almost a year you now and i can tell you, we're having a

real issue with our vaccine administration right now. we should be -- we should have vaccinated millions of more americans at this point. the delayed vaccine administration is going to delay our defeating this virus. we have to reach that level of herd immunity. it is not safe, it is not ethical to reach it naturally which is why we need the vaccine and so we need to make sure that states and federal governments are working together and doing everything they can by utilizing that private sector to get as many vaccines in the arms of americans that want it as soon as possible. the sooner that happens, the sooner we'll be over this and defeat this virus. eric: it is overwhelming. it has sent some hospitals into certainly crisis mode across the country, california and other states still on it. dr. nicole saphier, thank you for explaining that. thank you for joining us. good to see you as always. folks, we'll have more news here come right back.

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>> i'm proud to announce we have finished naming our cabinet. saving the best for last here. 24 outstanding women and men who will get our country moving again and who are going to restore trust in our government again and who -- all of whom are ready on day one. we've done our job. we've begun my job of naming these people and it's my expectation and hope that the senate will now move to confirm these nominees promptly and fairly. arthel: president-elect joe biden expressing urgency, saying his cabinet is ready to go to work on the first day of his presidency, that's 10 days from now. as house democrats plan to introduce an article of impeachment against president trump tomorrow. phil wegmann joins us now, a national politics correspondent at real clear politics. i want to work through this if i

can with you. first of all, president-elect biden has tenure and experience in d.c. vice president-elect harris is fresh out of the ranks of the senate. how much will their relationships be able to get their administration going from zero to 60 in four seconds? >> well, the incoming president and vice president, they know how things work and what we saw is that president-elect biden, he has named his cabinet. he wants them to be ready on day one. the problem is, though, that that he could walk into the white house and into a h very empty cabinet room if senate republicans don't move more quickly. of course, he could have a lot of those picks serve in acting capacity as donald trump has had throughout his four years. but consider the fact that republicans are being asked to do two things right now and they find it very uncomfortable. they're being asked to confirm biden's picks while at the same time they're being asked to impeach the current president.

arthel: why is that uncomfortable? what does one have to do with the other? >> the one thing know about impeachment is, we learned at the beginning of 2020, impeachment is something that devours the senate calendar. house democrats impeached president trump, senate republicans acquitted him. that entire process, even when we knew what the outcome was going to be took more than three weeks, that's three weeks for president biden not focused on covid, not focused on confirming cabinet picks. biden is going to ask the senate and lean on the he relationships perhaps to have congress chew gum and impeach at the same time. arthel: to your point of this impending impeachment of president trump for a second time, how does this potentially perilous political conundrum you're pointing out of pursuing accountability and yet moving on

and getting the work done for the american people. they've got control of both chambers. it may be easier to get things moving including senate approval for the 15 positions that need confirmation. >> it's one of those tricky situations where biden wants to move on from the trump era. at the same time, democrats who have lived for the last four years that, want not just a symbolic victory, there's also thoughts of a significant victory here, you know, the president could be barred from running again, perhaps, in 2024. arthel: phil, do you think that would happen on wednesday, january 6th, just a minor thing that should be looked over? do you really think this is being driven by politics? because you have folks on the other side of the aisle as well saying that was unacceptable and, yeah, i think it was pat toomey this morning saying that he's up for impeachment as well. just saying with that in play,

perhaps, maybe it wouldn't take as long and be beyond politics. >> certainly, we've seen both republicans and democrats, there's been a shift in their condemnation of trump. there was a crossing of the rubicon with with what we saw last week. this is not something we're accustomed to in american politics. from my reporting i think we'll figure out what the world's greatest body can do, if they can do it quickly, that's a task for elected members of congress to figure out. i think it will bleed into biden's first 100 days. arthel: do you think the people who put the people in office from top down, do you think the american people have an a appetite for this continued gridlock in congress? are they over it? >> we're going to see what appetite they have. there are a lot of people in the republican base who want republicans to fight biden on absolutely everything moving forward. but we saw in the senate chamber that what happened changed

things. you had a number of senators who said i was going to challenge the electoral college count, now i'm not going to. we're going to see how significant the ripple effects are from what happened this week when it comes to policy. i think that clearly the momentum is with the incoming administration. arthel: phil wegmann, our time is up. it was a pleasure speaking with you and we'll see you another time. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, arthel. arthel: take care. we'll be right back. ♪

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eric: officials in indonesia say they now know the location of the flight data recorder of that boeing 737 that went down off the coast yesterday. search and rescue teams have found human remains they say at the site. 62 people were on-board the plane when it crashed into the java sea moments after takeoff. kitty logan is following the very latest from london. kitty. >> reporter: hi, eric. that recovery operation is continuing throughout the night where officials believe the plane went down into the sea. we can see that divers have been serving under water. they've already found pieces of wreckage as you say, bits of the plane's fuselage and tail, some human he remains also.

good visibility helping that search. the aircraft was a boeing 737-500, operated by sri jawa air. it was flying on saturday. the departure was delayed by an hour because of bad hour. the plane lost contact four minutes or so after takeoff. indonesia has a poor safety record for aviation. but this is the first crash in the country since 2018 and so far the cause of the latest crash is not known. search teams have picked up signals from transmitters from the black boxes. that's a good sign. they're hopeful they'll be able to recover those quickly. data from those black boxes will of course be key to the investigation and finding out the cause of the crash of course providing some comfort eventually to grieving families, all passengers and crew on-board were indonesian, seven children

amongst them, families desperately waiting for news of loved ones. there is sadly no signs of survivors. it is vital to boeing and the aviation industry worldwide to have some answers about what caused this crash. eric. eric: yeah, it was not the 737 max that had those two previous crashes and was grounded for a while, the max now back in the air. this a 26-year-old plane. kitty, thank you so much. arthel. arthel: it's really sad, just really sad. we hate to see that. listen, we're going to take a break for now. eric and i will be back again at 4:00 eastern. we hope you can join us. more news now from washington. ok everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health.

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