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this morning. the news continues on cbsn bay area. >> cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day. . welcome to cbs this morning. the assault on the capitol on january 6th shook america. we all thought we knew what happened during the attack, but yesterday during former president trump's second impeachment trial, we got to see and to hear moments that gave new perspective on that terrible, terrible day. these pictures make up today's "eye opener" on this thursday, february 11th, 2021. >> we lost the line. we've lost the line. all of pd, pull back. pull back to the upper deck.
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all of pd, pull back to the upper deck. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: you can see the mob attacking officers with a crutch, a hockey stick, a bullhorn, and a trump flag. >> this is now officially a riot. >> 13:49 hours, declaring it a riot 6789 >> while vice president pence was being evacuated in the senate chambers were breaking into the capitol. >> the assault -- >> reporter: as they break into the building, the second man through the window is wearing full tactical body armor. >> they're still taking rocks, bottles. they're seizing the flag. they're using initiatives against us. they have bear spray in the crowd. >> reporter: officer goodman passes senator mitt romney and directs him to turn around in order to get to safety.
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>> get behind the line. >> insurrectionists who are still inside the building are fighting with police who are overwhelmed and trying to get them out. 1033, west side of the capitol. we've been flanked and we've lost the line. >> we started the broadcast a little differently before. we've never really done that where you have one single topic. this was so important for people to really see and understand. i watched it yesterday afternoon sitting in my kitchen. and i go from anger to great sadness about what we were witnessing. >> at the center of all that is that those people, those rioters were told by the president of the united states that their democracy had been taken from them, and that was the result. >> what you really see is how close so many of the lawmakers came to these -- to the mob itself. i mean, in many cases it was just moments. >> split seconds. >> what i keep thinking about are the police officers. the police officers who did a heroic job, more than we ever knew. that's where we're going to
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begin today. we'll get more arguments today from house impeachment managers making the case against former president trump. mr. trump's lawyers will begin their defense tomorrow. nikole killion is on capitol hill with more on the story. the power of that video evidence is so undeniable. what's going on, what was going on in the chamber as it was shown? once you've seen it, you cannot unsee it. >> reporter: that's right. the mood was tense. most senators were focused and attentive. some were visibly angry. others at the edge of their seat. a capitol police officer in the gallery above had tears in his eyes as some of the most brutal footage played out. on the trial's opening day, senators heard and saw for the first time how close they came to danger. >> i'm angry. i'm disturbed. i'm sad. >> it was gut-wrenching. the bravery of our police officers is incredible. >> reporter: majority leader chuck schumer was among those
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shown in newly released capitol security footage being whisked away by his security detail. in another video, senator mitt romney runs after being directed to turn around by officer eugene goodman. the same officer who single handedly diverted the mob from the senate chamber. >> i was very fortunate that officer goodman was there to get me in the right direction. >> reporter: the harrowing scenes were part of a methodically laid out narrative of the insurrection through graphic details. >> more than 140 police officers were injured, including cracked ribs, smashed spinal discs, one officer will lose an eye. >> reporter: and personal testimony. >> terrifying banging on the chamber doors. i will never forget that sound. shouts and panicked calls to my husband and to my sons. >> reporter: laying the blame squarely on former president trump.
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>> donald trump surrendered his role as commander in chief and became the inciter in chief. >> reporter: the president's legal team hit back, accusing the impeachment managers of playing to the cameras. >> they're just hoping to drum up emotion and get their last shots in at president trump. >> reporter: but the managers argued the capitol attack didn't just start on january 6th but was months in the making. >> massive fraud -- >> reporter: claiming the former president started and then perpetuated a big lie of a stolen election. >> this was not one speech, not one tweet. it was dozens in rapid succession with the specific details. >> president donald j. trump ran out of nonviolent options to maintain power. >> reporter: house impeachment managers will wrap their presentation today. one told me last night they're proud of the team and stressed this is important to do.
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many democrats and even some republicans say the case they've laid out thus far is powerful. but keep in mind the former president's team still has to make their case and promise it will be impressive. >> nancy cordes was inside the capitol during the insurrection. we just saw how close it could have been, the mob moments away from interacting with lawmakers. what are republicans saying now that they've heard the case? >> reporter: you have some republicans coming out of day one of these opening statements saying the case the impeachment managers made was compelling, tying the president to what happened that day. lisa murkowski of alaska said you can't watch that and think that president trump should ever be commander in chief again. senator john thune of south dakota said something similar. but then you had republicans like rick scott of florida who called it a big waste of time. josh hawley of missouri said we learned nothing new here.
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i speak to a senior gop official to get his take and he said he believes at the end of the day, at the most, ten republican senators will vote to convict. any more than that, he said, would require an act of political courage that he hasn't seen in this town in a while. but still, ten is a lot more than republicans would have been predicting a couple of weeks ago. i think things are still fluid and no one seems to know where republican leader mitch mcconnell is going to come down at the end of the day. >> i think ten would surprise a lot of people. the trump team begins making its case tomorrow. what do we expect from the former president's lawyers? >> reporter: well, they are going to argue that he did absolutely nothing wrong at all, that the kind of language he used urging his supporters to fight is the kind of language that lots of politicians used and that, of course, he didn't want his supporters to turn violent. but they're going to have to explain, anthony, why it is, then, that he did so little after they stormed the capitol. why he didn't urge them more forcefully to stop and why he called them great patriots.
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>> nancy cordes at the white house, thank you, nancy. let's get more on the legal side of this from cbs news election law expert david becker, he joins us now. david, good morning to you. impeachment, of course, is a political process, not a legal one, but theegal boundaries still matter. so with that in mind what did you think of the house democrats' case yesterday? >> well, they laid out a very strong case yesterday. they laid out the why, which is the big lie, the president whipping his supporters into a frenzy for months and months going back to the spring, about how the election was going to be rigged, even though we knew that was false. second, they laid out the what. the harm, the incredible damage done to congress and the capitol that day, january 6th. but probably most importantly they laid out the how, which is that the president, every time he had called his supporters to a place to michigan, to the capitol, to an election official's house, to texas, to
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d.c. on december 12th, his supporters showed up and they often showed up armed and there is often violence that ensued. so that case is very, very strong right now. >> so let's shift to the president's defense, speech of course is free in this country but it is not unlimited. how do the president's lawyers deal with the fact that he repeated this election lie about it being stolen from the american people and then his supporters showed up to take it back? >> yeah, thest git's going to b difficult case for the defense in this case. this is a political trial and there are a lot of senators who want to find a reason to acquit. and it's going to be difficult for them to really make the case that the president didn't know this could happen, didn't want this to happen, and then, of course, he didn't act for hours while it was ongoing, even though he was begged repeatedly, including by members of his own party. so they're likely going to try to distract, they're going to bring up some constitutional issues, most of them are frivolous, things like the chief justice not presiding over the
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event but that's a frivolous issue. vast consensus is that that is fine in this case, a former president, not the president. so they're going to try to distract with issues related to perhaps some what aboutism, like other times when democrats or others have tried to -- have said things that were probably not the same. >> david, quickly, we've mentaled it's a political trial. could it at some point be a criminal trial? >> yes, this is not an either/or. there could absolutely be criminal charges. the prosecution of a former president is not something that a prosecutor will take up on a whim though. they're going to look at this very, very carefully over time and, in fact, you heard the president's lawyers suggest that the proper remedy for this, and it was a little bit odd for them to say this, the a criminal prosecution of the former president. >> david becker, thank you very much. and we will bring you our coverage of day three of the historic second impeachment trial of former president trump in a cbs news special report. we expect the senate to begin around noon eastern, that would be 9:00 a.m. pacific.
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turning to the pandemic, 1 million coronavirus vaccine doses are on their way to pharmacies across the u.s. word of a new federal program to expand access. across the state right now, later today, but here's the teal, they are only getting 15,000 doses. and that's in a state that has more than a million eligible people that are struggling to find the shot right now. irene kozad's daily quest for a coronavirus vaccine starts early. >> of course when i get up, first thing, on the computer. >> reporter: the first thing you do when you get up in the morning is check the computer? >> yes. i may have my coffee. but i'm on the computer checking. and i don't know how much more i can do.
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>> reporter: kozad is desperate for the vaccine. eshe and her husband mark both have underlying conditions, he has congestive heart failure and she spent 2019 fighting colon cancer, after surgery and 12 rounds of chemo, she beat it, then covid hit. >> and it just -- i feel like i've lost two years of my life to things that were beyond my control. my husband and i over the years, we were able to travel. he said one time, stick with me, baby, and i'll show you the world, and he did. and i really miss that. >> reporter: the 70-year-olds' vaccination options are limited. she says the nearest mass vaccination site, the amusement park complex, is first come, first serve with people sleeping in their cars overnight. can you do that? >> i just couldn't do it. not with my husband and -- >> reporter: and your health. >> and my health, yeah. >> reporter: alabama ranks last among all 50 states in
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vaccinations per capita. most health department vaccination sites are already booked through april. the federal government is trying to expand access by directly shipping to pharmacies like walmart. micah mathews is the market health and wellness director of this walmart in mobile. he says his store is already being flooded with calls. >> there are hospital options here, but with covid, it's so much harder for the community to get to the doctor. and we're in a perfect proximity to help people that maybe couldn't have made it to one of the large clinics. >> reporter: kozad lives more than an hour away from that walmart. for now, none of the stores around her are getting doses. how does that feel? >> disheartening. it's almost like where i thought there was hope and light at the end of the tunnel, now i'm getting depressed about it. >> reporter: are you ready to give up? >> yes and no. i mean, i've been through the
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cancer so i'm a fighter. >> reporter: kozad tells me she is struggling to find the vaccine and struggling to get answers. we contacted the state's health department. they tell us now the biggest issue is just getting the vaccine here in alabama. they can't have enough -- they don't have enough doses now to actually put on those mass vaccination sites seven days a week, so they're relying on community health centers and small pharmacies to get out to a lot of people in the rural areas. even those places book up in a matter of minutes once the appointments are made available. gayle? >> we feel for ms. kozad. that's a daunting picture. we're joined by dr. ashish jha. good morning to you, dr. jha. you just heard mireya's report. even eligible people are having a hard time getting the vaccine, it's so badly needed. what needs to be done to turn this around? >> yeah, good morning. thanks for having me on. a couple of things. first of all, we need more vaccine doses. it's frustrating to wait.
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the second is the complexity has to be made a lot more simple. i don't understand why people have to get up early in the mrning and be on the computer all day. we should be able to come up with much, much simply systems. when you look at states doing a great job, they've made it simple and easy for people to get vaccinated. i think all states should be following that rule. >> i know. everybody agrees with you. this should not be this hard in 2021. e this hard in 2021. let's talk about the new direction from the cdc yesterday that two masks are better than one. you're more effectively covered. a, do you agree with that recommendation, and b, how in the world are we going to get people to wear two when people are argue about wearing one? >> right. so two things -- first of all, i do agree with the recommen recommendation. that's what i've been doing for a month or so. it's nice to see cdc come out with data on that. the point i think that's really important for people is you don't need to wear two masks at all. when you're out and about in the public, if you're not around --
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in crowds, one mask is totally fine. the two-mask situation is really for high-risk things. if you're going to be in a grocery store for any extended period of time, indoors with a lot of people who are not part of your household for any extended period of time. you start with that surgical mask, and you put a closs management on top of it -- cloth mask on top of it. you get a better filtration. it is much safer. hold shows for high-risk situat situations. >> why did you start doing that a month ago and didn't tell us about that? i didn't know you were doing that. maybe i should have been wearing two. what made you start doing it a month ago? >> yeah. i don't mean to hold out on you, gayle. the reason i started doing it is because of these variants, especially the uk variant which is so much more contagious. as soon as it was starting to take off, i started changing some of my practices. >> okay. >> there are other alternatives, as well. you can get a high-quality mask.
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i do think it's important to be wearing good masks. >> let's talk about the variants. do you think they're outpacing the vaccines? >> that's what i'm worried about. i think those variants, especially the uk variant, is here, it's probably in every state in the country. it's doubling, the numbers are doubling every ten days of that. by mid-march to late march it will be everywhere. we've got to get high-risk people vaccinated by then. some state will do it. i'm worried that other states won't. >> let's talk about the opening of schools. the biden administration sid the other day that they're now going to focus on mitigation efforts like wearing a mask as opposed to focusing on vaccinating the teachers. what do you think of that plan? >> i think that's exactly right. i think we have very good evidence now that if you do mitigation, if you get people to wear masks, if you make sure there's reasonable ventilation, if you can do a little testing in schools, all of that makes schools very safe for kids and teachers. again, look, if we had plenty of vaccines, it would be great to vaccinate the teachers.
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i don't think that's an essential feature of getting kids back to school. >> all right. it's always good to have you here. thank you so much. ahead, a new twist this the battle by britney spears to determine who legally controls her life. that's a big question for her. we'll look at the issues before a court today amid resurfaced accusations against her
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." there will be a hearing later today as pop star britney spears battles to have her father removed from her conservativeship. spears' father has controlled her finances and health care since 2008. britney spears is now 39 years old. reporters claim that also includes c control of m most o dailily decisions. there is renewed interest in her casese after the release of the "new york k times" dococumentar called "framaming britntney sps" ththe film explolores her risis fafame and t the contentious relationship that she has with her dad. carter evans is following her story and joins us from los angeles with mother nature. good morning to you, carter. >> reporter: well, good morning. britney spears has said through her attorney that she no longer
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wants her father in control of her fortune. today's hearing could be a small step in that direction. it comes as there's increased interest in britney's private life and how she ended up fighting for control of it. ♪ britney spears catapulted to fame in the late '90s delivering hit after hit -- ♪ [ cheers ] >> reporter: while capturing an entire generation of loyal fans. ♪ >> reporter: with fame came intense scrutiny. spears' actions and struggles were under a media microscope. in 2008 after an apparent mental health crisis, her father, jamie spears, was anamed a conserveve by a judge. what is a conservative corrship? >> the same as a guardianship.
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it usual lly happens for people ill physically or mentally and they're older. the court appoints someone to take charge of that person's affairs. >> reporter: under the california conservetor ship, jamie spears is able to control his daughter's f finances and d dailily life. she spokee about the pressururen aa 20088 dococumentary. >> if i wasn't under the restraints that i'm underer now withth all the lawawyers and dos and d people analyzing me every day and all that kind of stuff, like if t that wasn't there, i' feel so liberatated and feel li myseself. > reporter: i in 2019, jamie spears stepped down from the conservatorship temporarily citing health issues. at the time a temporary personal conservator was appointed. through her lawyers, the 39-year-old recently asked for that to be permanent. last year, a company was also named co-conservetor with her father to management her estate. >> reporter: what she's saying is i like theis county havana appointed trustee. i'm okay with there company that
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has a fiduciary responsibility that they deal with my finances for now. but i don't want my father telllling me i if i i can h hav of cofoffee or not. >> reporter: in the recent documentary from "the new york times," spears' father is described d as mostlyy a absent her r life at ththe heightt of celelebrity. but inn 200808, swowooping in t control every aspect of it. after the documentary's release, fans and celebrities began chiming in in social media in support of spears. many sharing the hash tag #freebritney. >> i don't think the judge is going to pay attention to the movement of free britney. >> reporter: other celebrities have this conservative topships during vulnerable times including amanda bynes and the late radio legend casey kasem. if you have a conservetor, what does it take to end that? >> she would have to show that she has reached a point in her life where she has stability in
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all facets of her life. >> reporter: spears hasn't addressed the conservativeship but performed her hit song "toxic." ♪ i'm addicted to you and i know that you're toxic ♪ >> reporter: she wrote in the caption, "remember, no matter what we think we know about a person's life, it is nothing compared to the actual person living behind the lens." the court proceedings and reasons for the conservetor ship have mostly been kept private. there's a lot we don't know. today's hearing is expected to look at the roles of jamie spears and the trust in regards to britney's estate. we reached out to jamie spears, but he declined to comment. guys? >> thanks. >> i know i now want to see that documentary. >> so many people talking about britney spears partly because of that documentary which raises all the issues of how she was hounded by the paparazzi back in the day and that led to her -- disruptive moments in her life. >> remember that meltdown, too, how she was treated back then. people would not stand for that
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today. how she was ridiculed and made fun of. that would not go over today. the statement that she said in instagram, very telling. ment toic -- >> some people are taking that as her response to the documentary, although she doesn't mention whether she's seen it. >> 13 years is a long time to not be living your life under your control. >> this woman has performed regularly in that time. you wonder why she can't be in control of her own life. aer are mi er er are -- a r can subscribe to the "cbs this morning" podcast and hear the top stories in less than 20 minutes. coming up, saudi arabia releases a woman's rights advocate after locking her up since 2018 for, uh-oh, cover the children's ears -- she dared to. this is ththe truck that n never stopsps workin.
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and, valid, you will of course remember that over the months i've introduced you with soaring compliments from your adoring fans. we like that. one woman delayed her knee surgery to watch your segment. >> that's extreme. >> this morning i've got much more specific complimentary writing from a viewer. really on the nose. it's for all of us. >> okay. >> describing us as, quote, mature professionals with a moderate amount of pleasant humor. >> manafort aoderate amount? >> they go by jesse and like the spurs on -- >> that's a tweet. >> that's a tweet. >> moderate amount. >> the goldilocks effect. >> we should put that in the promo. >> thanks. here are stories we think you'll be talking about today -- larry flynt, founder of "hustler" and outspoken supporter of the first amendment, died yesterday. the controversial publisher launched a magazine in 1974 and used it to build an adult
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entertainment empire. he was left paralyzed when a gunman tried to murder him in 1978. the shooter admitted he did it because he opposed "hustler's" photography of a mixed race couple. flynt fought several heel battles and -- legal battles. he spoke to erin moriarty in 2014 for "cbs sunday morning." >> do you think what's the social benefit of offensive pictures or offensive speech? >> you pay a price for everything. and the price you pay to live in a free society is toleration. you have to tolerate things that you don't necessarily like so you can be free. >> flynt died of heart failure in los angeles. he was 78 years old. love him or hate him, he was a controversial figure. but he really did change the way people thought about the first amendment. >> that's absolutely true. he was also -- it's interesting, he opposed the death penalty, he favored same-sex marriage. he spoke out against the u.s.
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invasion of iraq. politically he was very progressive. he was not what you would think that larry flynt was going to be. >> exactly right. yeah. >> some reader of "hustler" left a copy in a construction site when i was ten. it changed my life forever. >> did it? >> here you are on "cbs this morning." >> how about that? >> that might be a little bit over the moderate -- >> we should put that in the promo. >> that's great. all right. here's another story -- gayle told us yesterday. >> thank you for sharing. >> yes, yes. >> 10-year-old tony with "hustler." >> all right, tony dokoupil. >> on to this story, the dallas mavericks stopped playing the star spangled banner before home games. this time they did play it, forced to reverse course after the nba enforced the league this all teams must include it as part of the pregame ritual. the nba said teams were free to run operations as they see fit. mavericks' owner mark cuban told
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espn he didn't cancel the anthem and made the decision to skip it after listening to the community. >> we have no problem playing the national anthem at all. that isn't the issue at all. the real issue is how do you -- how do you express the voices of those who feel the anthem doesn't represent them? >> i did some interesting research into the history of playing of the national anthem at sport games. they started doing it in the civil war, that was the first time. it picked up steam during world war i and ultimately during world war ii. it's been a tradition for a long time in sports. >> i appreciate the efforts to try to raise the conversation and see bring awareness to what many believe is still injustice in this country. i think he was trying to shed a light on that. now it's a polarizing thing. >> given its patriotic roots tied to war and sacrifice, you can understand why some people have a visceral reaction to it not being played. >> it's not my favorite song, to be honest. never has been. i think there are other patriotic songs that i like better. i mean, the philadelphia flyers for many years would play "god
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bless america." it became a lucky charm for them. so you know -- i understand the patriotic aspect that people feel at the beginning of a game. >> i do, too. i understand the other side, too. >> exactly. >> police headquamerica can be country without being the favorite song. >> who did we have on -- people need to rethink sometimes. the buccaneers celebrated their super bowl championship in a pure tampa bay style. players boarded boats and floated down the hillsborough river yesterday to revel in their victory. hundreds of fans hit the water, too. and thousands more watched from the shore. so little bit more tom brady news. here he is doing it again. throwing this pass -- there's the boat -- he's tossing the lombardi trophy to a teammate in another boat. it's seven pounds sterling silver and made it back to shore intact. a lot of people thought that gronk had caught it. but apparently gronk is not allowed to touch the lombardi trophy after remember in 2019 --
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yeah. >> i do remember that. >> he's not -- he dented it. he's not allowed to touch it. >> i'm sure the nfl when that pass took off was having a heart attack. >> i know. also -- >> i was surprised he did that. clearly no pain -- you could hear his daughter going, "daddy, and no!" >> do we think he had a little -- >> he said nothing to see here. lime tequila. misspelled a couple of words in the tweet. i think yes. >> it's never little, tony. >> thank you, vlad. ahead, our coverage of former president trump's second impeachment trial continues with senator amy klobuchar. stay with us.
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first, here's today's eye opener at 8:00. >> the power of that video evidence is so undeniable. once you see it, you cannot unsee it. >> a capitol police officer in the gallery above had tears in his eyes as some of the most brutal footage played out. >> we mentioned it is a political trial, could it at some point be a criminal trial? >> there could be criminal charges. the prosecution of the former president is not something that a prosecutor will take up on a whim, though. >> he contacted the state's health department. they tell us now their biggest issue is just getting the vaccine here in alabama. >> first of all, obviously, we need more vaccine doses and that's coming. the second is the complexity has to be made a lot more simple. i don't understand why people have to be up early in the morning and be on the computer all day. >> we heard from congresswoman madeleine dean who introduced herself completely. >> i'm a lawyer. i'm a former professor of writing. i'm a sister. i'm a wife. i'm a mother. >> i'm a joker.
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i'm a smoker. i'm a midnight toker. some people call me the space cowboy. some call me the gangster of love. some people call me maurice, to which i say -- >> i remember that song very well. all i could think of -- >> steve miller did it right here. >> i remember that too. i keep thinking about was what we all watched at the capitol yesterday. >> yeah. wall to wall coverage and i couldn't get enough of it. we're going to start with that, minnesota senator amy klobuchar who was in the senate chamber yesterday as that evidence was presented. she was also among those who were rushed to safety on january 6th. she joins us now. senator klobuchar, i'm so glad to see you. >> thanks, gayle. >> listen, we all knew it was a dangerous situation. we were watching it in real time back january 6th. i think yesterday we got to see how dangerous it was. i'm so haunted by the police officers where you can hear the fear and the urgency in their voice as they were trying to protect themselves and protect you all. what did you learn yesterday
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that maybe you didn't know? >> well, i, from the beginning, had always thought about those police officers because bottom line, a lot of us weren't as scared as maybe we should have been. but we weren't scared because the police officers were there. and that moment where the officer is shrieking in pain, literally putting his body and got wedged in a door between this angry mob and all of us to protect us is what you don't forget or the african-american officer after being called the n word 15 times being impaled with poles, with the american flag saying to his friend, is this america? those are things i don't forget. so i think people are finally realizing these cops, over 100 of them were injured. this was very, very dangerous for them. and they were the front line victims. >> senator, there have been reports that some of your republican colleagues were quite troubled by the video they have seen in the last couple of days.
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is -- do you get any sense that there is any movement on the republican side in terms of this impeachment vote? >> well, we know there was one senator that surprisingly changed and voted with us when it came to allowing the case to proceed to a trial. senator cassidy of louisiana. and we have to think of it this way, that initial vote to alou it to go forward and say it is constitutional to have the trial, that was one vote. but after that, to me there is a reset. you basically say, okay, this is the law, it gets to go forward. now you got to make a decision on the facts. so you don't know where they are right now if some of them will decide to vote to impeach the president. i don't know how you get away from the facts. not only what he did, but what he didn't do when he didn't call in the national guard and the vice president had to do it when his vice president had -- was in peril or he didn't tell his very firmly tell his people to get out of the capitol to leave to
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stop with his family members telling him to do it, with governor christie telling him to do it. you can't get away from those strong facts. >> what he didn't say was just as important as what he didn't do was just as important as what people thought that he did do. i'm wondering what was the reaction as you all were watching it together as a group. there are reports that senator hawley, for instance, was kicked up -- was kicking back on the top level, either reading a paper or reading a magazine. a, is that possibly true, and, lindsey graham tweets that the presentation was offensive and on s absurd. how do we get together when there seems to be so much -- or maybe indifference as to what people saw yesterday? >> well, let me say -- >> is that true about senator hawley? is that true? >> i wouldn't be able to see him because he would be above me. the senators were allowed to go up there during the trial because of covid to space out. most people just stay in their chairs. i didn't see him do that. i don't understand why anyone culd say this was offensive.
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it was just the facts. yeah, the facts are offensive. the facts are horrific, hard to watch. but it is what happened. and so i do think, though, you see other republicans that are very moved, horrified, looking down, looking upset, so who knows what they will do and where their conscience will guide us. this is a moment of patriotism. you got to do what's right for the country. >> senator, the capitol has always been a remarkably accessible federal building. house for the people in effect. you're on the rules committee. do you see that having to change after this? >> as a chair of the rules committee, we are going to have hearings in the next month on exactly that, what happened, what went wrong, what kind of intelligence did they have. and what happened with the perimeter. you heard many times the cries, they breach the line, we lost the line, we lost the line, that was one of the scariest things. so, yes, i think that we'll have to look at where that perimeter
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is, what kind of presence of law enforcement and even potentially national guard, not in the numbers we have now, which is needed because of the heightened risk, but what we do around the capitol and, of course, that should be something. you just can't go back to things like they were. you can still have accessibility for the public you can still have tours, those things can happen. but to protect not just us, but to protect the officers, the people, we're going to have to look at some changes. >> all right, senator klobuchar, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. thank you.
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as a part of our black history month coverage, "cbs this morning" is taking a look at the challenges black americans face when trying to find a job or climb the corporate ladder. research from 2019 found black americans only made up 3.2% of senior leadership roles at large companies. according to a new linkedin survey, 81% of black professionals say seeing other black people would make them see more resultant. we spoke with two people about what they say their experiences have been with racial inequity at work. >> it seems like it's a little bit difficult for people to either remember my name or pronounce it correctly or correctly.o pronounce it so they would often ask for, well, what's your middle name?
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do you have a nickname? which definitely makes me feel ashamed of my name at times because it seems like i'm not good enough or i'm stereotyped as a youchk black in corporate american, folks are said all sorts of things about me, too ir grant, too aggressive, not aggressive enough. too proactive, not proactive enough. >> looking for a job in the corporate world, i had two resumes. both were the same except one resume had shiniqua on there, the other had charlie. i put about ten resumes out. about seven came back for charlie, seven phone calls to offer a job or offer an interview, came back for charlie, and about two came back for shinique. >> i was doing my thing. i'm killing it. i'm doing all types of work, working in and outside of my business unit. i am doing above and beyond.
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i find out i've got a white counterpart, he quits close to the top of the year, and then he comes back right before this promotion decisions are determined. that guy got p promoted with me. so equal outcomes, but effort was not equal. what i alsoo realized is, i'm nt the only person out there experiencing this. i created living corporate, emphasizing black and brown folks at work. gestures are cool, d days off a cool. the realility is, if you're not letting black and brown folks make actual decisions that can impact systemic change, you're not doing anything. >> linkedin career expert andrew mccaskill joins us with more on race and equity in the workplace. good morning to you. way on the to get to the resume issue because it's fascinating and disturbing. you also spoke with black professionals about what they face in the workplace. what did you learn and what
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needs to change? >> a lot needs to change. what we learned was that black professionals overwhelmingly saw that -- responded that things that were barriers to their advancement were not seeing people who look like them in senior leadership, not having access to mentorship and sponsorship, not feeling a sense of belonging in the workplace, and finally, just feeling like there was no path for them for advancement. all of those things culminate to black professionals feeling like there's more opportunity outside of the workforce in working for themselves than working for companies and corporations. >> let's talk about the resume issue. we heard shinique say when she sends out the resume with the name charlie on it, she gets seven callback, if she sends out the resume with shiniqu, she only gets two. that matches up with your findings and other people's research. what's going on there? >> what happens is oftentimes
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unconscious bias is in place. sometimes actual bias is in place, but people with equal qualifications and skills don't always get equal outcomes. the unfortunate fact is that a lot of professionals are starting to feel like they have to whiten their resume or remove racial distributors to their resumes. i went to morehouse college, i can't imagine thinking i have to take that off my resume. the onus is on the corporations to put things in place to make sure that racial discrimination in their hiring process doesn't creep in. you have to be intentional about it. it doesn't just happen organically. >> let's talk about the intentions, because i love zachery and shinique, what should kpliers do to put that in place and be intentional. give us two top things they can do today? >> today is they can do blind recruitment where they look in the hiring process and start to
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just only look at qualifications and skills. the other thing that they can do is that they have to be -- hold themselves accountable. they need to start to measure and think about the number of people from underrepresented groups who are applying for roles and opportunities and then juxtapose that to the number of folks who actually get callbacks and get hired in the end. this is not the responsibility of the job seeker. it requires extra effort for inclusion, and that has to be something that everybody at the corporation is willing to go along with. it requires extra effort. >> you know, they also talk about fear of retaliation, black people in the workplace, when they speak up about it. so you're looked at as complaining or causing trouble. what other obstacles do they face and how to navigate that? >> there's so many other obstacles they face, but i think, gayle, one in four black respondents say they fear
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retaliation. that means that we have to have allies in this process, is that, if you are a leader, you should be talking about inclusion because that sets the tone for culture. people are not leaving -- they're not just leaving their jobs, they're leaving toxic cultures and not wanting to have to deal with things like micro aggressions at work or feeling like there's hopelessness at work. one thing people can do, if you're a leader, talk about this. have the hard conversations. it shouldn't just be black people and people of color or people who are other talking about inequities at work, because one in four black folks said they felt like they would receive retaliation when they talk about inequities. we need our non-black counterparts to jump in and talk about it. >> it may be a hard conversation, but it's a necessary conversation. drew mccaskill, good to see you. thank you for joining us. ahead, a new apology from country star morgan wallen after he was recorded using a racial
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i let so many people down, and it would mean a lot to me and who have given so much to me, it's just not fair. i've got many more things to learn. but i already know that i don't want to add to any division. this week was a big lesson that sometimes we can do just that without even knowing it. our actions matter. our words matter. and i just want to encourage anyone watching to please learn from my mistake. there's no reason to downplay what i did. >> that was country singer morgan wallen apologizing and asking fans not to defend his use of a racial slur caught on camera last week. in an instagram video posted last night, the country star says he used the language at the end of a 72-hour bender. he says he's now been sober for nine days, and that he's accepted invitations to be
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educated by black leaders. since the tmz video surfaced of him using the racial slur. wallen's music has been pulled from radio stations, and he's been suspended by his record label. we should note his actual sales soared after this. >> his record sales are going up. i think he wants people to know he didn't want to be rewarded for bad behavior. >> yes. exactly. >> that's why he's saying, okay, you know -- buying the music -- he doesn't want people to think that's an endorsement of his bad behavior. >> there's obviously a lot of conversation about this. there were people saying forgive him and others saying it's too soon. he's been saying the same thing here, it's too soon. i'm in the learning process. >> why are people rushing out to buy the records? >> they're trying to show that they support him. not for nothing, his music is good. i like morgan wallen's music. he does want to send the message that this is not okay, what i did was not okay. >> i think that's important at this point. >> glad he's taking that tactic. and he admits he's got a lot of learning and growing up to do. ahead, we'll meet the woman set to become the youngest
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female ceo of a public company today. wait until you hear her age. we'll talk with bumble founder, this is whitney wolfe herd, about the dating site and why she says the last year has been, well, good morning. it's 8:25. trading app robin hood being sued by the family of a 20-year- old who died by homicide last summer after he thought he owed more than $730,000. the lawsuit says he panicked and tried to reach to robin hood but failed. workers rallying outside of brius healthcare striking against with a they're calling unfair labor practices by management. organizers say they want better wages, safe staffing and health insurance. mount diablo unified school district voted unanimously last night to send kids back to
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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." time to bring you some of the stories that we call "talk of the table." and anthony, you're up first. >> yeah. remember that new jeep commercial we saw in the super bowl featuring bruce springsteen? >> i loved that ad. >> it is off the air after it was revealed he was recently arrested for alleged drunken driving. the national parks service confirms springsteen was arrested november 14th inside the gateway national recreation area in new jersey. he was issued citations for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and consuming alcohol in a closed area. a park spokesperson said springsteen was very cooperative. that jeep ad with springsteen aired for the first time, of
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course, during the super bowl. it g got a very strong response from viewers. springsteen is due to appear before a judge via video conference later this month. but there's been no comment from the springsteen camp. but the "asbury park press" said the content was .02. like a quarter of the legal limit in new jersey. there's a lot of questions about why he was actually arrested here. he has no prior dwis, traffic, or parking tickets on record. so there are a lot of questions. if his blood alcohol was low, that's like one drink. >> and he's not an irresponsible person. when you hear arrested for, you know, driving under the influence, your mind goes all the way to z and then you hear the details and say, wait. >> then it says reckless driving, but he's in a national park. >> a lot of questions there. the upsh a congressman tim emmer
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spoke to a house committee yesterday. >> we must make sure that our nation's sole proprietors and the smallest of small businesses receive timely -- >> will the gentleman suspend? i'm sorry, mr. emmer? >> yes? >> are you okay? >> i am. >> you're upside down, tom. >> i don't know how to fix that. >> i don't know how to fix that. that's maxine waters who is chair of the house financial services committee. and that is not the wizard of oz. that is a representative from the fine state of minnesota. >> that's how i feel almost every day now. >> if the tape played a second longer, one of his colleagues yelled, "at least you're not a cat." love it. >> i think we have to have young people in the room. all the people of a certain age,
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myself included, go i don't know how to fix that. >> the congressman said, i turned it on and turned it off, but it's still the same. >> i don't know how that works. when you're on it, do you not know you're upside down? >> i don't know -- >> i think you should be able to see that. i see my own on zoom -- >> he's okay. he's okay. >> all right. we have a followup to the indiana woman when had a wonderful reaction, i love this, when dozens of runaway cows ran past her car on the highway? here's a clip of our discussion. >> oh, my gosh. now this is fabulous! >> this is one of those ones where you wish you could see their face. "this is fabulous." i want to know what she looks like. that was nice. be careful what you ask for because -- guess what we received yesterday -- a video yesterday. here's a face behind that voice. >> everybody's calling me now because i'm the cow lady. and now after your rendition of my voice this morning, i'm fran
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dresher. so anyway, thank you for such a great clip. it was fabulous! >> she got a kick -- her name is melissa kazmanski. i hope i'm saying that right. in my mind i pictured her being grandma-like or aunt clara-like or aunt esther-like. i didn't -- she's young, she's fun. she's got a great sense of humor. >> does she work by the hour for us? what i loved is she was putting out into the universe a desire to see wildlife. then the cows came. apparently her thoughts are very powerful. >> i like melissa. thank you very much. thank you for watching. i'm glad she saw it. our next guest leads the dating app that famously puts women in charge of making the first move. now that company's taking a bold new step in the business world. this morning, bumble launches its initial public offering on the nasdaq stock exchange. the platform has 42 million active users. today's ipo could bring the company a valuation of up to $8 billion, that's with a "b," dollars. it will make bumble's founder,
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whitney wolfe herd is her name, the youngest female ceo of a public company right now. how old is whitney wolfe herd? she's 31. she joins us now for an interview that you're seeing first on "cbs this morning." whitney wolfe herd, congratulations to you. i think, okay, not only are you the youngest ceo, but you're also by the end of the day, you could be a billionaire, whitney. so did you sleep last night? i'm wondering what you're feeling right now. did you get a good night's sleep? >> well, i have a 14-month-old, gayle. so i did not sleep that well. but we're really excited this morning. it's so great to be with you. i wish i could be there in person. >> i wish so, too. whitney, i remember in 2014, let's go back, you said it was a very dark place. you were going through some things, personally and professionally. now you've clearly come out on the other side. what are you thinking about today about your journey to get from there to w that
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anything is possible. and anybody can rebuild themselves just starting over, taking that first step, making the first move. and they can reinvent themselves when they go through hardship. >> without going into all the details, why did you think your career could possibly have been over in 2014? just give us a cliff note version. >> oh, i had left my previous company, and you know, all of the sudden i was being harassed on the internet by complete strangers, and i lost all of my confidence. what i realized was you can lose confidence, but you can never kill ambition. and i was able to get back up and try to turn my pain into something purposeful. and that led to the creation of bumble. >> you said after today bumble, it will still be business as usual. how is that going to be possible for you, whitney? >> we are so focused on our commitment to our community and to our mission and to driving a
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good and ethical business. and we're just going to stay committed to that. we are going to really focus on the long term. >> so whitney, i mean, a stock ipo is about investment in today's company but also growth. one of the things i was interested to learn bumble does is networking for business. if my wife caught me on bumble and i said networking, that would not be an acceptable answer. please explain. >> well, so what's interesting about bumble is we have a bunch of accountability features to allow you to use the product for more than just dating. we actually allow you to disable the dating feature. and it's timestamped for accountability so that your partner or anybody that you might want to show that you're really using the product for something blah tonically or professionally will know you're doing just that. we encourage accountability into our product and allow you to meet new people no matter who you're looking for even beyond dating. >> let's talk about dating for a second. we had a match.com adviser on
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yesterday that told us match.com had seen a dating renaissance during the pandemic which surprised a lot of us. are you seeing the same thing? >> we have seen some really remarkable shifts in behavior through the pandemic. one of the most profound is slow dating where people are really taking time to get to know each other digitally first before venturing into the real world. and of course, this was really imposed due to the quarantines. something quite beneficial came out of this, that people are really getting to know each other on a deeper level and understanding if they're compatible before they go and meet a stranger in real life. >> when you started bumble, whitney, those years ago, were you hoping to go public? was that your goal when you first started this company? >> our goal has always been to just build a really meaningful business brand that creates impact for our customers and changes the paradigm of how we connect. and the fact that we've made it this far is a remarkable feat
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for us. but we see this as day one of the next chapter, and we're so excited for what's ahead. >> another remark aniable thing the tech industry is not known for having women out front. your board is 70% female. your leadership team is 50% women. how have you achieved this in the tech industry? >> there are incredible women out there, and we have really, really tried to empower women not only from our product standpoint but internally, as well. and it is really important to walk the walk. so we've really prioritized gender diversity in our business. >> you also mention that you became a mom 14 months ago, bo's mom, your most important title. but you also said it's been one of the most challenging times in your life, too. you talked about postpartum. can you share how you're feel being that? how you navigated that? >> well, mothers are remarkable. i have so much respect for mothers and going through what everyone has gone through in
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this pandemic. mothers have really had a big burden imposed on them through this. it's been devastating to see what's happened to women in the work force. and you know, i'm very fortunate to have a healthy child. but postpartum is hard. and navigating postpartum while running a business and going into a pandemic was a lot. but most importantly, what i've learned coming out the other end of this is just how strong and remarkable women are. and i'm honored to be in this seat today. >> what's your favorite color, whitney wolfe herd? >> same as gayle's. >> well, gayle, take a guess. i think ever time i've come on your show i've been in yellow. you know, i think i know your favorite color, too. >> i know. >> also yellow. >> it's sunshine and happiness and butter, all good things to me. so congrats to you today. >> and bumble. >> and bumble. you're right. >> all right. whitney wolfe herd. on the precipice of being the youngest woman to run a publicly traded company. and by the end of day, might be a billionaire. let that sink in. we appreciate you being on with
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us this morning. all right. ahead our "a more perfect union" series meets a former restaurant industry worker who reinvented himself as an online trivia host. how he's bringing people to [female na ator] whether scho
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the pandemic has cost almost a quarter of all hospitality workers their jobs. that is far worse than any other industry. one jobless bar and restaurant consultant has landed on his feet by remaking pub trivia for pandemic times. and as adriana diaz shows us, his success is keeping people both connected and doing good at the same time. good morning, everyone. >> reporter: life on line can put us all in a box. >> welcome to your day -- >> reporter: from first dates to court dates -- >> probable cause -- >> reporter: but like a lot of us, steven walsh hadn't even heard of zoom until last march. >> the restaurant industry is reeling -- >> reporter: when covid crashed his baltimore event business. >> my inbox was full of cancelations. i said to my wife, we're in trouble here. >> reporter: wow. you must have panicked. >> when you think you have a business and it's been going pretty well, and all of a sudden in a few days it's gone. >> reporter: but the irereland natitive's l luck turneded arou. when else, st. patrick's day, he took an old hobby and brought it
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on line hosting trivia on zoom. 1,000 games later, he's reached players in 87 countries. >> it's definitely the most i've earned in my life. it's turned into a career that i don't plan on moving back from. >> reporter: regulars often play with friends in other places -- >> she wrote her most famous book, a classic of its genre, at age 20. >> reporter: his questions that make you think may be the biggest draw. >> that was mary shelley. >> welsh trivia, it's hard. >> reporter: so hard, walsh attracts "jeopardy!" contestants and other hosts like laketha smith from north carolina. >> a trivia game is only as good as its host. steven does a great el paso of keeping the audience -- job of keeping the audience engaged. as a trivia host, it's difficult in person. let alone over zoom. >> reporter: after so much talk of trivia, i had to try it myself. >> what is the country that is home to the most people with a
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name starting and ending with the same letter? >> reporter: i'm assuming it's a country that starts and ends with a. >> yes. >> reporter: a lot of countries end in a. oh -- australia. >> so this is where i trick you. everybody puts australia. >> no -- >> argentina. argentina. >> reporter: walsh crafts questions he calls google proof. >> one team high survived and kissed. >> reporter: instead of competing for cash, weekly champions pick a charity and pay it forward. because of this, so far walsh has raised more than $100,000, holding whole games to benefit autism and alzheimer's research. baltimore's ready initiative for low-income college students and philadelphia's youth sentencing and re-entry project. after 31 years in prison, john pace is now helping others with their second chance. >> i think they begin to trust me that i was able to go through that experience. i made poor decisions, i was able to transition out of that. and i'm making better decisions now. >> reporter: how do you feel having started this as a way to just get by for your family, and
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now you're able to help others? >> it's been a really, really fantastic -- like people are so up. >> reporter: people come back not just for the questions but for the co-hosts. >> correct answer. do you know? >> reporter: 2-year-old jamieson -- >> number one -- >> reporter: and now his baby sister, katerina. who just three weeks ago -- >> my wifee was like, are you going to host a game from the hospital room? check in and find out. >> reporter: turns out the hospital wi-fi wasn't strong enough. >> she's giving you the evil eye back. >> reporter: whashl also had his hands full with his greatest win yet. for "cbs this morning," i'm adriana diaz. >> everybody looks like they're having a great time. >> yeah. i mean, what a great turnaround from being in trouble in this pandemic and then starting this. who knew you could make a business out of that? >> maybe we need trivia on the back end of our show. why do people love trivia so much? i get it. >> i love that he made it google-proof. that must mean it's really good.
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>> i thought adriana diaz was brave to do a question on camera. >> yes, she could edit it. it wasn't live. >> it was not live. morning." thank you for that. we'll be right back.
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retire better i'm still thinking about how you can use bumble for non-dating purposes and what you might tell your girlfriend. >> you can't -- >> turned off the dating part, would that work? >> no. >> i turned it off. you can also turn it on then. the app is on your phone. it is a temptation. the door is there. if you walk through it, you're in trouble. >> i think bumble's a great idea. i'm proud and so happy for whitney wolfe herd. she's always such a lady, such a class act. i've asked her before, isn't there a part of you that's like, yeah, look at me now? when she went through the bad time -- she goes, no, i never think about that. i just think about doing a good job and moving forward. she's very cautious today.
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san francisco's china town is the oldest in the nation. good morning. i am gianna franco. we look at the roadways, easing up nicely for your commute. just a hiccough along 80 west bound near east shore freeway. we have a crash east bound but west bound is where we are seeing brake lights near gill man. traffic is slow toward berkeley. your travel times are mostly in the green, good news for the altamont pass commute. if you are ready to take 101 north out of south bay, 38 minutes from san jose to sfo. the roads are dry for now but that's going to change. here is mary. good morning, gianna. i am tracking a series of storm systems to push across the bay area, first one arriving later today. we'll see increasing rain with daytime highs cooler, mid to upper 50s in many locations. it is turning breezy as well. the rain is arriving first for
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north bay and pushing across the rest of the bay >> o'donnell: this is a cbs news special report. i'm norah o'donnell in the nation's capital. house impeachment managers will finish presenting their case today in day three of the senate impeachment trial of former president donald trump. we expect the focus today to be the aftermath of the assault on the u.s. capitol, including the harm caused by the riot, bothfin trump's apparent lack of remorse. yesterday, the managers showed
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powerful, previously-unseen footage of the riot and used much of trump's tweets and speeches to show he lit the fuse. they have eight more hours before trump's lawyers begin their defense. let's bring in cbs' nikole killion covering the trial on capitol hill. nikole, what are you hearing will be the focus today? >> reporter: managers won't get into a lot of the specifics on what they will present or whether they will show any new video. they say this is the part of the trial where they will get into the impact of former president trump's role in the attack, and what they believe was his lack of remorse. they will also focus on the harm that was caused beyond just the physical, and they'll delve deeper into the law and again make the argument why they feel conviction is warranted. norah. >> o'donnell: nikole killion, chief washington correspondent. major garrett, and chief white house correspondent nancy cordes
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are with us here again. nancy, i'm going to start with you. what's left for the house managers to lay out? >> reporter: they want to make the case what we saw on january 6 was horrific, but the fact of it is still reverberating. even today, the capitol is a fortress. that security costs tens of millions of dollars. you have still got many national guard members who are there at the capitol, and that people are still suffering emotionally and physically from what they went through. and they're going to juxtapose that against what we heard, if anything, from president trump about this. has he shown any regret, any remorse? "maybe i should have toned things down. maybe i shouldn't have told thosealize for so many months." spoiler alert: he hasn't said anything like that. to this point he has not officially conceded the election. he never said out loud, "i lost, president biden won." he skipped town before biden was even inaugurated. so they are going to argue that
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that is further evidence that what we saw on january 6 was exactly what he wanted to happen. >> o'donnell: some of that never-before-seen videos showed senators literally running for their lives. >> reporter: right. >> o'donnell: away from the mob. some of the republican senators said they were very moved by that. >> reporter: how could you not be, to know how close you came to a very perilous situation. and part of yesterday's presentation was to delegitimize something that has already begun to percolate in conservative media, which is wasn't all that bad on january 6, and it wasn't all that dangerous. yesterday's presentation put the lie to that. no, it was that dangerous. it was that toxic and it was that violent. now, it's not a separate article of impeachment-- it could have been-- to say the president's actions on january 6, as this was unfolding, did not uphold his oath to the constitution. it's not, but it's going to be a very big part of what today is about. because even if you don't believe the president's tweets and rhetoric incited this, he had an absolute responsibility to do something about it once it

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