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trial? with seven senators breaking from party lines. voting to convict. and now, facing backlash in their home states. >> reporter: mr. graham. >> not guilty. >> reporter: acquitted again. >> the senator judges have responded donald john trump is not guilty as charged in the articles of impeachment. >> reporter: the second time in history that the majority of republicans firmly stood with the former president pailing to convict him for inciting insurrection. >> the failure to convict donald trump will live as a vote of infamy in the history of the united states senate is. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi is working to establish the creation of a 9/11-type commission to investigate the deadly siege on the capitol. while seven republicans broke party ranks to join all 50 democrats in voting for the former president's conviction,

the senate still fell ten votes short. >> this was the opportunity to say, this is not what we are. and to split from him and if they just hold him accountable one time, the allure, and the magnatism and power he has over people will disappear and they didn't do that on saturday. >> reporter: yet those seven votes that led to the most bipartisan vote ever to conviblconvict a president. highlights the growing divisions in the gop, a party whose members are divided in their ideologies as they debate over the role of trump and the future of the party >> i want think we have a battle for the soul of the republican party over the next couple of years. >> reporter: republican nikki haley who had stood by the former president is now calling for her party to break ties with him. telling politico, he went down a path he shouldn't have and we

shouldn't have followed him and we should not have listened to him and we cannot let it happen again. some republicans disagree, lindsey graham appeared on fox news saying the former president is ready to rebuild the republican party, starting with next year's mid terms. >> i will go down to talk with him next week and play a little golf in florida and i said, mr. president, this maga movement needs to continue. and trump plus is the way to go in 2022. >> i think he is making the wrong call. i don't think that the future of the party or the country is tied with trump. >> republican, elizabeth newman used to work for trump's department of homeland security and now has joined forces with three other republicans to take back the gop from being the so-called party of trump. >> we have an up hill battle, somebody has to stand up to this bully and trumpism and say no more and we want to purge the party of people that think what

truch stands for is our future. >> her organization called the republican accountability project has pledged to help and defend other republicans running for office who do not align themselves with trump's maga the doctrine. >> we decided that we are going to raise $50 million, and do two things we are going to get the backs of those republicans who have told their constituents the truth that the election was not stolen and if they are primaried, we will use that money to help defend them in their next election. and for those republicans who have done the most damage, we are going to use that money to remind their constituents at how they have been lied to by these politician ans, we put up billboards and they are simple. saying senate cruz, you lied, and we will continue to hold them accountable throughout the next two years as we lead up to

the next election cycle. >> the recent censures of representatives like liz cheney and bill cassidy in louisiana show there's a need for their organization. >> these are men and women who had the courage to both tell the constituents that the election was not stolen and they voted their conviction is. those are the people that we are looking to help us as we figure out the path forward for where the republican party goes in the future. >> reporter: according to a new abc news poll, more than half of americans say that trump should have been convicted. 56 said the same last week before the senate voted to acquit. and in a statement celebrating the acquittal, president trump said our historic patriotic and beautiful movement to make america great again has only just begun. today, trump made a drive by appearance in a trumppresident's

day rally waving to the support ers. it remains to be seen how many had in the gop would back his agenda. >> before you start talking about the former president's political future, you have to think of his legal future. i mean, for some of the crimes he is being investigated for, he could serve time. >> reporter: these words from senator mcconnell left many shocked. >> didn't get away with anything, yet. yet. we have a criminal just ic systm in the country and we have litigation, and former presidents are not immune from being accountable from either one. >> reporter: mcconnell who voted to acquit is foreshadowing the potential legal battles that the former president is expected to face. >> i think that the two that the president should be most concerned about are the fulton county d ainvestigation in to efforts to overturn the election and the manhattan the da

election in to president trump's businesses with the possibility of bank fraud, tax fraud and insurance fraud. >> reporter: it's yet to be seen if he will have a day in court. but in the meantime, the gop must figure out how to convince american voters of the way forward. >> they need to say they are about real issues. they have become, i think more the party of corporate interest and trump was able to galvanize these people that were left out and he the did not do it on issues. he did it on hate and division. so, if there's any way for the republican party to try to appeal to people who don't respond to those crazy extreme ideals, but still want to be heard, i think the republican party needs to get back to making sure they are meeting the needs of regular, every day people in their party. >> we have to get past the language of hate for our political enemy. we have lost the basic sense of humanity and dignity and we have

to go back to that to rebuild from here. >> reporter: earlier this evening i spoke with an impeachment manager, eric swalwell, congressman, thank you so much for joining us tonight, we at least expected an acquittal, the outcome of the impeachment trial was not a surprise, but you say that it was all worth it. what do you think was accomplished and do you think any of form er president trump's most staunch supporters were swayed at all by any of the evidence presented. >> we were trying to sway the american people that you cannot incite our own people to attack our capitol the day that we are voting every american's vote. we showed our country that we could have an accountability exercise like impeachment, the most bipartisan impeachment vote ever, in the house and in the senate i senate. and in the court of public opinion. 60% of americans believe that donald trump should be qualified from holding office again. so while legally he may not be

disqualified. by showing the country what he did, i think functionally the voters will disqualify. >> what you just touched on, how many americans wanted to see president trump held accountable. it remains to be seen yet, how much influence the former president will still have over the republican party. but now with the second acquittal in the senate, the do you worrier that we have not seen the last of donald trump in washington? >> i don't think that we have seen the last of holding donald trump accountable. in the trial i quoted churchill, we are not at the end of the exercise or the beginning of the end, perhaps with impeachment being over, we are at the end of the beginning. but he has just an avalanche of on criminal and civil cases coming his way. rightfully so. and he is going to have to defend those and i think he will be busy living in courtrooms. >> we heard mitch mcconnell say president trump has not gotten away with anything yet.

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♪ ♪ the u.s. today recorded the lowest single day increase of cases since october. dr. jennifer ashton has been covering the pandemic since day one. and now has written a new book to help us cope. >> do you think we will ever get back to the old normal or is the

new normal the new normal forever? >> i would encourage you to not think of the words getting back to normal. right? we all lost something. but we might be gaining things and createtivity and it's a waste of time, and you miss the present when you do that. >> throughout the pandemic, her advice has been calm and crystal clear. cutting through the fear and uncertainty. >> when you are trying to contain or respond to an infectious disease outbreak, you are always behind so we need to take the aggressive steps now. this is the routine surgical mask. this will keep viral particles in. your bubble is there for a reason, it is to protect your people and the people outside. >> reporter: a respected journalist and mother.

she shared wave after wave of facts and figures on covid-19. despite her expertise, she too was overwhelmed at times. you mentioned a moment where you hit a wall and you recognized, i have covid fatigue. >> it all started the night it was announced that president trump and the first lady had covid. and within seconds, i was put on the air first by phone, and then got on the air with byron pitts on television to talk about president trump's covid. and that was about two, 3:00 in the morning. >> president trump had an array of people and protocols to prevent him from getting covid and yet, he still contracted the viru virus. >> diseases do not discriminate based on your job title or address or how much money you make or anything else. i had to take a step back and realize we were talking about the biggest medical story in the

world. the most powerful political leader in the world and walking that fine line between respecting the patient's privacy but informing the american public when the patient is our president. and at that point, i thought, i am really over this t. >> it's a sentimen. that we can relate to, and when the day feels paralyzing, she has a prescription. embraces the new normal. >> it's taught us that it's not going away. >> that shift she named her book the new normal. she hopes to empower readers to take their physical and psychological health in their own hands. you took up a mantra, facts over fear. how did you incorporate that to get over anxiety? >> i said, i am scared of covid,

what if i die and leave my kids without a parent and then i went back to the statistics that, you know, roughly 80% of cases don't require hospitalization and then, by age, at 50, i have less than a 1% chance of dying at the end of the day. we can't worry about the what ifs or the unknowns or anything like that, that is a slippery slope. >> anxiety and fatigue, and an uptick in mental health crisis, dubbed the second pandemic. often those hardest hit the working mothers. >> even in the time right now with the covid-19, i can't afford not to work. >> biggest issue are dishes, to serve lunch, dinner, keeping them clean >> i want usually get about an hour or so of uninterrupted work time. so -- there is also the fun fact

that my son is in band. >> working mothers have suffered the worst sort of moral injury and stress and anxiety and burden throughout the pandemic. >> i'm getting emotional just thinking about it, juju, because we have all lost something in this pandemic. i think that if you don't acknowledge that loss, and how tough it's been on our spirit, then, we can't move forward to heal. and of course, you know, women can be disproportionately affected by that. >> as a nutritionist, she said having to grapple with the tough moments have has forced many of us in to unhealthy habits. you admitted that you fell off the exercise regimen, which was easy for all of us to do in the pandemic. >> for me, exercise before the pandemic was my major form of stress relief, so i literally

did what i advised patients on not do. i let everything get disrupted. i stopped my meditation and exercise and i was not paying attention to what i was eating and by the time june 2020 rolled around, i was not if fefeeling . i spoke to myself as if i was my own patient. figure out a way you can do it and it took a couple of months. but it did get me back to where i was before. but it was hard. despite all up h h upheaval, the pandemic can teach us all, however difficult to choose gratitude. >> we have learned new ways to stay connected to people that we care about. my new hobby was raising backyard chickens. >> you have become a suburban farmer. >> i totally have. two years ago if you had said that to me, i would say, no, no, that is not for me.

and so, i think there's silver linings in the there, you have to look for them. >> a lot of people are feeling hopeless and negative out there, what would you say, what's the one over arching message for them? >> i think our resilience for sure is being tested and i think we are stronger than we sometimes give ourselves credit for and i believe we will get through it stronger than we were before the pandemic. >> the doctor's new book is available in stores now. up next, paying respects to trail blazing actress cicely tyson. ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs.

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