tonight, a nation on edge, as america prepares for its next president, a sitting president plans his fair farewell. how one supporter responds to a historic impeachment now new video of capitol scenes. and fbi investigation, who planned the rally that incited the insurrection. plus on the offense. pressure after the deadly riot and fighting fears, why the fbi is vetting the national guard. and looking to martin luther king, jr. for hope and healing. >> this special edition of "nightline" will be right back. try boost® high protein...

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♪ good evening, thank you for joining us. tonight the political storm brewing in washington, just two days before the next president of the united states is sworn in. the stakes have never been higher with the second impeachment, a failed insurrection, and fears of new attacks across the country.

>> shouts of treason piercing the air, an insurrection on full display in this latest video released by the new yorker. reporter captured the mob rush past security as they climb scaffolding and rush their way into the building. once inside, the crowd making the case their president sent them to do this. >> hunting for party leaders, including house speaker nancy pelosi and the senate chamber you can see others -- a bizarre prayer led by the so call qanon shaman.

>> thank you for allowing united states of america to be reborn. >> lone capital police officer pleading. >> this is the sacredest place. >> i'm going to take his chair because mike pence is a [ bleep ]. >> leaving an ominous note for vice president pence. >> only a matter of time justice is coloradoing. >> in -- is coming. >> more than 80 have been rounded up by federal law enforcement. among them, this person with a stun gun triggered multiple times had turned himself. a report by fbi adding insurrectionists setting up mechanism in advance, making it clear there was planning involved in the riots. new questions over who was involved in organizing the r58 that rally that turned into a riot. president organizing the event for weeks. >> we're going to walk down to

the capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congress men and women because you'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength, and you have to be strong. >> now sources telling abc news, staffer who's worked on the president's 2020 campaign were involved in the promotion and logistics of the event. campaign denies any active members of its team were involved in the organization or operation of this event. >> the president's political organization to warrant hand in hand with the people organizing the rally on january 6th. those ties, those connections, in terms of both organizing the rally, getting the permits, promoting the rally, those will be undoubtedly looked at in the impeachment trial. >> security threats now extend beyond d.c. the fbi has been reporting that there's been threats from every state in the union. capitol buildings now lined with the national guard. >> this is the biggest law

enforcement and military presence for an inauguration in u.s. history. >> over the weekend thousands of troops deploy to the nation's capitol, there will be 25,000 by inauguration. but officials say they are worried about an insider attack. after some of the people charged in the riot are current or former military, including at least one off-duty national guardsman. >> the fbi is part of it. the secret service is part of it. once they are certain that there's no insider threat than that soldier, guardsman or airman is given a credential. >> the military has had obviously an issue for several years of troops being radicalized in some form or fashion. the issue i see is you can't vet 25,000 people in a few days it's not realistic so we'll have to see how it works out. >> all unfolding under the looming shadow historic second

impeachment trial for president trump. what's is clear there's growing rift in the republican party, contentious divide after ten moving over to impeach. >> would need 17 republicans to vote to convict, unclear if that happens, would be surprising but not impossible. what significant is many republicans haven't said or ruled out voting to convict him. >> a post-trump white house is less than 48 hours away. leaving his 74 million voters to write the next chapter. >> i'm not too concerned about our party coming back together. i think we'll work it out. we always have. we're a strong party and good people. we'll be fine. >> nancy is a staple for cincinnati politics, and lifelong republican who feels the events of january 6th leaves an opportunity for growth within

or her own party. you describe yourself as a moderate republican, where do you see yourself now? do you have a home right now? >> i do, one president, one incident doesn't change my values and my perspectives and my -- my patriotism. i know the republican party has some rebuilding to do but the republican party that i know under duress, under stress, will come together and will move forward. >> reporter: we first met nancy in august, 2019, she was on her way to her first trump rally in cincinnati. 16 months and two impeachments later -- >> -- do you remember last time we spoke i asked what would be your threshold to impeach donald trump. >> if the president skilled somebody. >> you said the red line would be he would have to murder somebody or then would have to do something super egregious. >> i guess the red line would be

he'd have to murder somebody or there would have to be something super egregious. >> what say you now. a cop's dead. our capitol was trashed. >> i think it's up to people doing the impeaching. >> no, no, no, no, i'm asking you. you gave me your threshold for impeachment last time. >> lauwmakers are trying to impeach him for something that is not making sense, what i think i'm hearing, they're saying something he said at the rally sent people to the capitol. what i think where the real issue was is that it was really unfair for the president to give false hope to all these people who put so much trust in him for four years and appreciate what he did and liked his policies it was unfair for him to give them the false hope that by showing

up at the capitol that the election would be overturned because that was never going to happen. >> how would you describe your four years with donald trump? >> it was a roller coaster ride, for sure. never in my wildest dreams would his presidency would have crashed and burned like this after the election. >> do you think donald trump based on what has happened donald trump should run for president again? >> i can't imagine he would have the support to run again federally after this. >> could you support him moving forward? >> no. there's so much division. we have got to move forward. we've got to move on and we can't just keep going backwards. we've got to move forward. >> today with our nation's capitol on lockdown the country is poised to begin another historic chapter, vice president elect kamala harris formerly submitting letter of resignation for senate seat as she prepared to get sworn in as first black

asian be and firstwoman to hold seat. both harris and joe biden took place in service in honor of martin luther king, jr. >> we know the fight dr. king was engaged in is still a fight in america. >> dr. king offered a dream in the midst of america's darkest times, a darkness that made its way to the nation's capitol two wednesday's ago. this wednesday will it be a dream deferred or a dream renewed. coming up from the historic inauguration to the unprecedented second impeachment what's next as our nation remembers martin luther king, jr. ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme.

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♪ dr. martin luther king, jr.'s life-long struggle for civil rights taking new meaning in america tonight as the nation confronts a dark past and complicated future. i spoke with abc news contributors earlier tonight thank you all for joining us elz let's start with you, i spoke to trump supporter who denounced the violence at the capitol but said it is now time for the country to move on. what about republicans not ready to move on. what will it take? >> i'm not quite sure what moving on actually means, if it means let's forget january 6th then i don't want to move on because that's not going to help the country move forward and heal. we've been down this road where we've tried to placate to racism in hopes of unifying the country only to find out when you placate to racism you only make

the country worse. so i don't know what it's going to take for us to move on to get the republicans on board to have a peaceful transition of power and help joe biden and kamala harris get this coronavirus under control but i am cure yow-zaious as curious what the definition of moving on means to republicans as well. >> by the video we seen by the new yorker, with what impact will it have an already-fractured republican party. >> he think it forces them to have to face the fact that donald trump incited this, there's no running away from it, there's tangible video evidence being repeatedly shown as if they forgot there was a violent insurrection that cost lives just a few weeks ago. it's an escape. what-aboutism, trying to blame everyone else, the american people, i this i, have had enough. er it's very jarring to watch

the videos. i encourage people to watch the video from the new yorker and pro-publica. people need to see what happened and there needs accountability. can't begin to heal without repentance and accountability and then we can talk about unification. >> black voters have been a enormous force especially in key swing states where it counted the most do you think black political engagement is here to stay. >> absolutely. black political engagement has been there forever, they've been well-informed but different thing about 2020 despite geri mandering and all of these road blocks in front of black voters to prevent them from voting, black voters have become essentially untethered or at least have escaped the choke holds on them by white voters across the country for the last

several decades, last several generations, really. so we're beginning to see black voters have the ability to realize their political power that they've always had. or that they've had all along. . >> today is martin luther king, jr. day in the beginning of a historic week in this country. you said there are two americans, do you think the biden-harris administration can unite them? or are we hoping for too much? >> we definitely are hoping for too much if we think two people can overcome centuries of division. you can't legislate harmony. you can try to legislate or punish those who try to disrupt it in a violent fashion but at the end of the day you have to work towards changing hearts and mines if you want to talk about unifying the country again. i do believe that they do see that but i think it's ridiculous if we believe that now that we have, you know, democratic senate, a democratic house, and

obviously a democratic president that now things are automatically going to be better, no, it's going to take interpersonal reaction to one another, at groeshtry store, in our churches, at the mall. that's how this country will get better. it's up to us. >> leah, in the spirit of today, celebrating the hope that dr. king his dream inspired and the darkness the civil rights era exposed we saw darkness at the capitol two weeks ago, this wednesday where's the dream stand? >> i think one of the things to keep in mind is that when dr. king was alive he was a deeply unpopular figure amongst the majority of the country. in fact the radical king that we rarely talk about was actually murdered for his views and view point which i think exposes the great lengths that power, particularly racial power and hierarchyal power, the great lengths that that power will go to in order to keep it, in order

to prevent progress. and i think we're in one of those moments right now. we've seen increasing political advancement, particularly for black and brown people an indigenous populations in this country. so as we move into this moment and are here on martin luther king, jr. day and moving into this inauguration and the next political administration, presidential administration, i think we should be very cognizant of the fact that progress always comes with backlash and those things are intertwined. so we haven't got that far with dr. king's dream. we still have so much more to go. >> tara, final thought for you about this week. what we saw two weeks ago and what you hope to see this coming wednesday. >> you know, i just think that it is a collective, national sigh of relief on wednesday. the country is ready to have adult leadership, competent

leadership, and tackle the problems and the searched earth that donald trump has left in his failed wake of his presidency. as we celebrate dr. king today and look at the historic nature of what is happening this week with vice president to be kamala harris and the choice that republicans face as well since they'll be in the minority party, how will they move forward? how will they react in this moment? it reminds me of martin luther king who said the ultimate measure of a man is not in a moment of comfort and convenience, it's in a time of challenge and controversy. and we're in that time right now. and i think a lot of people, the republican side, need to decide which side they're standing on in this time. >> tara, do i hear optimism in your view of what this week could be? >> 100%. i mean, the point we're at now it can't go any further down. it can only go up. >> all right. thanks again to all of you for your time. we'll see you down the road.

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and finally tonight, dreaming of a better nation. in the face of troubled times, the words of martin luther king, jr. giving strength to a weary nation now and then. delivering this speech before his assassination. >> i just want to do god's will and he has allowed me to go up to the mountain and i've looked over and i've seen the promise land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. >> and historic baptist church in atlanta where dr. king once preached incoming u.s. senate around pastor raphael warnock remembering the civil rights icon for paving the way. >> dr. king was faithful until the very end.

i just want to suggest to us tonight that it is left to us to finish. >> in honoring a legacy to love instead of hate. and the church said, amen. that's "nightline" for this evening. see you back here tomorrow, same time. thanks for the company, america. good night.