hell off the steps and mat fplas and that would have been ugly and hard to do without superior force. >> the videos show trump supporters entering the security perimeter with little resistance. in another post, people are appearing to pose with selfers with those in uniform. after the breach, 1100 national guard troops were deployed and hundreds of federal law enforcement officers were sent in to assist. and compare that to june. when around 5,000 guardsmen and 1600 active duty troops were brought to the did d.c. area in the advance of the protest following the death of george floyd. >> if this was a group of young people organizing under the banner of black lives matter we would have seen triple the number of law enforcement. >> he is the president of the naacp. >> it was irresponsible to put lawmakers in danger the way law

enforcement agencies did today. but it's equitable when you compare what we have seen all summer, peaceful protests and a response that was not consistent. >> gainer said that those who did break in to the capitol could now face felony charges. >> there's some pretty clear pictures of people in hall ways and hanging from the walls in the senate chambers. be wear. i hope we are with coming for you. >> and so police say 52 people arrested in all here. 26 people arrested here on capital grounds and there will be more arrests in the days to come. in the past, president trump's tweets have characterized black lives matter protesters as thugs, yesterday, tony, he called the mobs who breached the capitol here, great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. >> that was jeff pegues outside the

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let me start by saying you clearly take covid seriously, we are sitting out here, and nobody is complaining. >> i'm just saying, it's like -- one, two, three, four, five -- like 15 people in your house? come on. i don't know that guy, gail. what is your name? lazarus could get us all killed, gayle. >> so we are staying put on the patio of his new jersey home. the house as you see is off limits and everything else, with the divorced 55-year-old comedian is wide open. you are single. >> i'm single. we are all single, gayle. you and i should just get married. we like to travel. >> i do. >> we -- >> i will. >> my friends that are in bad relationships are happier in on covid than my friends that are single. >> seriously? >> absolutely. >> really? >> absolutely. like i hate -- damn, i'm happy she is here. >> being happy is more than a

punch line for the comedian writer and director. it's a process. a personal one that he has no problem taking public. in the past, he has admitted to adultery and being addicted to important. a candid conversation about self help should not be a surprise. did you go to therapy before covid? >> i did, but i really jumped in to it after covid. i do about seven hours a week. >> seven hours a week, like every day you are doing something? >> yeah. >> they say about therapy, it only works if you are prepared to tell the truth. >> you have to tell the truth. >> what is the hardest truth for you. >> sometimes i was not kind. a sometimes i was not listening and selfish and ultimately who do you want to be? >> what have you learned about yourself? >> on the outside it looks like i'm this daring, you mow know - >> yes. >> -- person, but boy, can i play it safe and i meade to jump in the pool a little bit, you

know what i mean? >> and jump he did did, both figuratively and literally. >> i learned to swim this year, gayle. >> you had never swam before? why? >> because i grew up in the hood, and you know, with, you can't swim in a fire hydrant and it was something in my head that said if i can learn to swim, i can do anything. ifi can conquer this, in my 50s, i can do anything. >> so we are heading down to the pool, chris rock. oh, yes. were you nervous about learning to swim? >> yeah, you kind of almost drown a lot. >> when you look at your life standing here with the swimming pool and you have a beautiful houses and beautifully landscaped, what grade -- how old were you when you dropped on out of had high school? >> i was probable million the tenth grade. >> what was your game plan? >> my game plan was to keep working at red lobster, get my truck driver's license will. >> that was it? >> and then kind of drive a

truck like my dad. like, you know, and honestly, gayle, if you would have offered me in like 1989/90, right before i was on saturday night live, if you offered me a job that paid $10, $12 an hour i would have never told a joke in my life. >> really? >> there's no work for good plain old white people. the word honky never caught on like i thought it would. if you call a white person honky, they will say, tharngs a lot. >> 30 years later, he is considered one of the greatest comedians of all time. >> kids are -- mean. you -- kidding me? when my kid was 2, she was biting kids on the playground. you think i taught her to bite kids? >> on january 12th, his special total blackout, the tamorine extended cut.

>> i know it's hard being a cop, i know it's hard, i know that -- is dangerous. i know it is, okay. but some job withes can't have bad apples. okay. some jobs everybody got to be good. like, pilots. some jobs you have to be totally accountable and have a zero. >> tolerance. >> zero tolerance for any shenanigans. and most of my dealings with the police have been good. >> good. >> but, yes, there's a percentage that's like, i had a cop a couple of years ago, was like, what are you driving around here for? >> he stopped you? >> yeah, what did he say? you don't live around here do you? and i'm looking at him thinking, you don't live around here. >> eddie murphy, the did he help

you? >> what about the help i did for eddie. >> rock's career began in comedy, and lately he took a more dramatic turn. >> maybe he feels like these italians on you, but you have no idea what it feels like to be owned. >> he is getting great reviews for his part in fargo. >> you are going to help me win the war or i will put you underground, you hear me? >> that was a part that i probably was not only good enough actor maybe ten the, 15 years ago. i did not have the gravitas, i have not lived the life, you know? but, now, i have lived the life. and now, i can use those things in the, you know, in my acting. i can use actual pain and loss. >> would you like more serious roles. is that what you want? >> i would like more serious roles. yeah, i just want to be in good

stuff. you know, i hey, comedy is great, comedy has been good to me. >> much of his comedy comes from honesty and the pain he felt as a child growing up in brooklyn are. you feel damaged by the bullying in school? >> i do. but i forgive. and i forgive. it made me who i am. i'm also like people get better and people change. so, i mean, right now, we are going through this thing where we are punishing people for thinking and feeling and saying things, 20, 30 years ago. you know how easy it would be for me in one of my specials to name a name? or show a picture and say, this person called me -- in fourth grade and ruin someone's life. i'm going to sit here and assume

all my bullies are better people. i will hope and pray to god that what they did to me shames them on some level to teach their kids better. >> that's your wish for them? >> eager to roll up his sleeve for a covid free future. >> there's a vaccine available. >> yaes, a vaccine, can't wait. >> there's trepidation among many people and black people in particular about taking the sachs. >> do i take tylenol? do i know what's in it? no, i know my health care is go -- my head ache is gone. do i know what is in a big mac? no, i love it. i don't know what is in the sauce, gayle. >> a calmer way of life. can you say you are in a happy

place now? >> i'm in a happy place, i'm in an optimistic place. >> are you happy?

with all that is going on in washington, you may forget for just a moment anyway, that america is in the grip of a pandemic. in many parts of our nation, frontline health care work ers are overwhelmed, treating a flood of covid patients while administering tests and vaccines.

unfortunately even some patients have had a difficult time showing their appreciate for the hospital heroes. but one man, fighting for life while intubated shows his love in his own special way. ♪ >> he a request from the icu bed, and it was one that his medical team probably had never heard before. the retired music teacher used paper and pen to ask if his wife diana could bring his violin so he could play for the doctors and nurses. was he speaking through the violi (. >> this was the only way he could speak. >> what was your reaction when you first heard him may? >> i cried.

>> she was so inspired she piped the music in to the hall ways, so her colleagues could hear. >> how important was it to you that he did this for you? >> one of my co-workers described it as a light in the covid darkness. >> he played his heart out and it touched hers. >> this was something that will follow me for the rest of my career. >> sometimes music is the very best medicine for the patients andthose that heel. -- heal. as the son of a music teacher i was told, music is theniversal language. and that's the overnight news for this friday, for some of you, the news continues, for others check back later, for cbs this morning and follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm chip reid.

. it's friday, december 8th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, a capitol police officer dies following a violent siege at the u.s. capitol, while president trump calling for healing in a new video. finding the rioters, the trouble they face, where they came from and who they blame instead for the damage. security in the sky, how major airlines are responding in the wake of the chaos. ♪ good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. there are breaking developments overnight in the wake of the capitol riot. we are learning that a