>> there's a door to the right. >> downstairs. >> guys, i've been in the other room. in the other room on the other side of this door right where they're standing, there is a glass and it's broken. you can drop down into and there are two doors in the other room, one to the right as you go in. so people should probably coordinate together if you're going to take this building. >> it's unclear when that rioter was in the other room or how any of them got that information, but it's striking especially alongside representative cheryl's concerns. democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio chair of the appropriation subcommittee which overcease the capitol police have confirmed there is an investigation into allegations that some members gave tours to groups that later besieged the building and there is troubling news from inside the capitol

chamber on january 6th. several lawmakers have tested positive for covid since the attack including 75-year-old bonnie watson-coleman of new jersey, a cancer survivor who blamed gop colleagues for refusing to wear masks while sheltering in tight quarters during the attack. russel honore will lead a review of capitol security of the attack. he is best known of the commander of the task force to hurricane katrina in 2005. the five says its received more than 140,000 photos and videos related to the capitol hill attack. fbi director chris wray had this message for those who participated in the siege and may have any future plans. >> we're looking at individuals who may have an eye toward repeating the same violence, from january 6th alone we've identified over 200 suspects.

so we know who you are, if you're out there, and fbi agents are coming to find you. >> this while preparations are under way, and they continue to be under way as the swearing in of joe biden as commander in chief four days ago. the transition period is a special time and often joyous and a period of change and renewal, but this year the mood is different. in fact, two separate federal agencies say the national mall which is the area between the united states capitol and the lincoln memorial will be closed to the public on inauguration day. instead, the event is being handled as a defense of democracy. barbed wire, fencing now the norm in preparation for wednesday's inauguration and the city has been largely militarized and strategies will be put in place to keep those involved in the ceremony to protect it from extremist insurrectionists. tens of thousands of troops were brought in on the ready and not only in d.c., but in state capitols around the nation. they've been tracking extensive online activity related to armed

protests by far-right extremist groups and white supremacists. >> it's hard to contextualize the enormity of the moment before us. all of this happening is as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage. according to the cdc, a new forecast shows a dramatic increase in the death toll from covid-19 over the next three weeks. the 25% rise will prove deadly for an additional 92,000 americans. as of this morning the death toll from the coronavirus stands at 393,303 in the united states. 23 million people -- 23,660 have been infected by covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. late this week, president elect joe biden teased his $1.9 trillion rescue plan to battle covid and to steady the economy. >> we not only have an economic comparative to act now. i believe we have a moral obligation. in this pandemic, in america, we cannot let people go hungry.

we cannot let people get evicted. we cannot watch nurses, educators and others lose their jobs we so badly need them. we must act now and act decisively. >> getting that legislation passed will now likely coincide with another senate impeachment trial of donald trump. on friday the speaker of the house nancy pelosi summarized the turbulent events of the past two weeks which included for the very first time in history the second impeachment of a sitting u.s. president. >> on january 6th there was an act of insurrection perpetrated on the capitol of the united states incentivized by the president of the united states. one week later, wednesday to wednesday, that president was impeached in a bipartisan way by the house of representatives. so urgent was the matter that we are working on taking this to

trial. >> during his final days in office, trump reportedly remains isolated and angry. reuters reporting quote, trump had wanted to join the hard core followers, and the secret service couldn't guarantee his safety if he went ahead. he relented and hunkered down in the white house to watch television images of the mob rioting that he is accused of triggering. justice correspondent julia ainsley and garrett hake. julia, let me start with you, after the massive capitol riot on january 6th, how are authorities going to do better in the next few days other than what you're seeing around me with fences that go up all over the place. >> that's a big part of it. one thing we saw and this name might not sound familiar to you and gary gaynor is the dhs secretary and he took over after

wolf's departure last week. he declared this as an ssse, which is a national security event which is typical of the inauguration, but he had it start on the 13th, earlier than we thought in order to bring in the security that you're looking at now, ali and to try to coordinate across these agencies the very thing that probably should have been done going back to january 6th. people i've been speaking to saying dhs, fbi they all should have seen what was coming and dhs should have put a designation in place just for that january 6th protest that turned into riots. now we are seeing an enormous response not only where you are, but across d.c., we understand that there could be road closures and there are actually ways that they are planning for this, ali that we won't know about until the day of the inauguration or in the days closer to the inauguration because they don't want to give out their entire plan about how many people and how many personnel they'll have and what

will be closed and what will be open entirely because they don't want these people who are going in to the corners of the dark web that ana then explained to come up with the new plan to be able to come into the united states. another big part of this is just the investigation into those who came on january 6th as we heard from director wray who had identified 200 people. we also heard from the acting u.s. attorney for washington. everyone's acting right now. he said yesterday that they had 98 people charged and he expected by the end of the day yesterday so we think about now over 300 open cases and finding those people responsible for january 6th is also a big part of the preparations going into the inauguration to make sure that those same people aren't just going back, re-arming themselves and coming up with new plans and inspiring more violence. ali? >> garrett, talk to me about this very unusual week which is going to see an inauguration and in a normal week that might be

the biggest thing that happens this week, and there's this impeachment. where does it stand now and it's supposed to go to the senate and mitch mcconnell is not that interested in dealing with the impeachment. >> speaker pelosi talked about for an urgent need for the president to be impeached in the house and while that's true, there's no way to quickly move the impeachment through the senate. the earliest possible moment that the senate could take up an impeachment trial is an hour after donald trump stops being president of the united states. so part of the cal claegz that's going on among democrats on capitol hill in particular is when do they want to move this thing over? if you move it over to the 19th you essentially step on the inauguration. you literally will have senators who will go from the inauguration platform right back into the chamber to start a trial and you step on the confirmation of joe biden's nominees and the process beginning to move the $1.9 trillion rescue package through. so there is some discussion about the possibility that article could move to the senate later, and when it does move to

the senate that the trial could be comparatively short and a matter of days and not a matter of weeks with relatively new evidence and some of it will depend on the defense that the president puts up. these are the calculations that need to be weighed by lawmakers and they urgently move to impeach the president and they will hold that over him until he's out of office on wednesday, but there's just no way to do a trial until he's former president trump anyway. so the urgency to remove him it's gone and then it's more of a punitive measure and perhaps that's the kind of thing that could wait until after the biden administration gets up and running a little bit. so those are the considerations taking place as we stare down an inauguration and possibly a trial and biden's appointees are set to begin on monday and tuesday, i believe. so we'll start seeing the wheels turning on the start of this new government right away, ali. >> thank you to both of you for joining me this morning. my good friends julia ainsley

and gary hague. >> the contributor with the grillo and politics and journalism. jason, good morning to you. i have to say i still can't get past, we'll keep the inauguration safe and donald trump will not be president and the administration will deal with what they need to deal with, but there are still republicans in the house that do not could the right side of a democracy that an attempted coup is absolutely the wrong side of democracy and there is no gray area. >> ali, here's the thing. because they're not committed to democracy. it's not that they don't understand, they just don't care, right? we have to understand that just because we have a system that people can partes pate in it doesn't mean they believe in the system. how many years have we had republicans saying hey, i'm running for education secretary, but i don't believe in public schools and you have republicans who say i want to be a member of congress, but i don't believe in the democratic process and at

the core of this i keep saying and you and i are familiar with this, we've both worked in international coverage before. if we were talking about another country, a country constantly racked by ethnic conflict is being taken down by an interm coup led by white nationalists and that is what's happening. >> and essentially the republican party has become the sinn fein to maga's ira. >> i want to talk about this with you, a man named eugene goodman. you and i have had conversations about policing in this country and the things that have to be made better and i always say to myself and you and i have had this discussion. all cops are not bad. a lot of them put their lines on the line for their safety and one man did that. eugene goodman was one of the many capitol police who was on the right side of history, he re-directed a crowd that could have gone into the senate chambers and caused real danger.

this is a guy we have to remember not to forget. >> this is the thing what eugene goodman did was absolutely amazing and as we've gotten further reporting throughout the week, these terrorists were only a hundred feet or so from mike pence and they had been chanting hang mike pence and when they weren't following him for a while, he pushed the leader of the terrorists and made sure that they stayed on them. he's like the guy in the jurassic park movie saying t-rex follow me, follow me, don't kill the scientists. he was brave and that an african-american man did this and when we keep talking about democracy and when people call republicans heroes saying we will vote against impeachment. we need to talk about the country who african-american cops have been at the center several times even in a nation that was abusing black people just last summer for protesting about our basic rights. >> jason, what do we do about the polling that we've seen that

republicans are not putting the blame on donald trump for this and don't think something is really, really wrong and not vote for republicans until you guys sign on to democracy? >> look, i -- i think it's kind of it. the polling suggests that this is an intractable problem and it will be the responsibility of the democrats coming into power at the federal level and the state level to hold these people accountable. i think this is key because, look, if you still want to vote for trump, if you still want to be a trumpist at this point. that is your right. we live in a relatively free country, but you can'ten game in political violence and republicans who support people who want to engage in political violence have to be held accountable as we see lots of other different groups of people. i don't think there's much space anymore for trying to flip these people over. jamie harrison probably understands this, the new head of the dnc. we have to get rid of this idea that there are trump supporters that can be brought over to the democratic side.

no. these people are committed to an insur ekdz and committed to violence and this country has to move ahead with the new majority and not trying to convince people that are living in the country not led by white men. >> jamie johnson, msnbc contributor. as joe biden counts down the days to his inauguration, the covid pandemic this as the u.s. saw a record number of deaths and the variants that could shadow the spring. could biden's plan be good enough? more attack on democracy after this. enough more attack on democracy after this

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the united states by march. this is really serious. it's not more fatal. it's more contagious, but the end result is that more people will die, many more will die. now that we're more than a month into the vaccine rollout, only 12 million americans have been inoculated. many vaccine doses are waiting in freezers waiting to be put into people's arms. 12 million, far from what the trump administration's initial goal 20 million by the end of 2020 was. to get more vaccinations, the biden transition team announced that the new administration would push to release all of the doses of the vaccine instead of holding a second dose in reserve. except it turns out there were no extra doses in reserve. those shots were being doled out. the president elect biden does have a plan to vaccinate the masses and achieve his goal of 100 million vaccinations in 100 days. an average of a million a day and 100 vaccination centers run

by fema. reimbursements by states to use the national guard to accelerate the manufacturing of more vaccine doses. i wonder why nobody thought about that before. the black doctors covid-19 consortium. she is at her brand new vaccination facility, vaccination site in philadelphia. the doctor has been on the front lines of the pandemic since it began in march. great to see you. thank you for being with us. you've heard me say that we need to replicate what you and your colleagues with the black doctors covid-19 consortium have been doing to test people in large auditoriums with lineups that go around the corner. i think you were testing 900 people a day or something at one point? >> that is correct. that is correct, and we are here today with our first vaccination clinic. we are in north philadelphia which you know is a primarily african-american community. we are coming to the people just

as we did with the coronavirus testing. i was excited to hear president elect biden talk about going to underserved communities and communities that have been hit the hardest and also talking about mobilizing mobile units. well, we've been doing that. that is our model we've been doing now for ten months so it was easy for us to switch and say, okay. yesterday we did coronavirus testing. today we're doing coronavirus vaccine and most importantly, we are in the community that serves african-americans primarily. we are serving them. >> so i'll put up a poll that shows that there's still some resistance of getting the vaccine. 62% of whites and 58% and less trust among hispanics and 46% of blacks which is a little higher than the numbers you and i talked about, but not much. tell me about this because you were testing in black communities and now you're administering the vaccine in

black communities. >> so here's the thing that i -- it feels like the new administration is listening to. it matters who is giving you the vaccine, and it matters where you're getting the vaccine. we put a link out on monday as all of this talk was going around about there's no vaccine on the shelves. there are more non-black people receiving the vaccine than any other group although african-americans are the most affected. we put that link out and in 24 hours there were 1,000 people that signed up. today over 5,000 people have signed up, primarily are african-americans and there are white, latinx and asian people and we can look at our analytics and see and we have to stop the narrative that african-americans don't want it. you have to listen to what they're hesitant about and educate and accept the fear that they have. allow them to be vulnerable when you have that conversation and most of those people, we're

finding, just based off the fact that it's only been a week over 5,000 people. we don't have enough vaccine for all of the people who have signed up to receive it. >> yeah. you have been listening and you have been addressing people's specific concerns. i always thought that if we're going to replicate and get to a million people a day and we'll use the big rings as auditoriums and testing centers that yours would be a model for it. is there any reason not to? in other words, did you have any problems when you were testing and now you'll be vaccine vaccineating people. there was a deejay, and i don't think you guys organized it, but some people were playing music while they were in line. there is no reason why we can't multiply the way we're vaccinating people by doing it in this mass fashion. >> i agree. i hope the administration, the biden-harris administration is listening to you this morning, ali because what we have been doing for ten months works.

we have tested over 22,000 people. we are private doctors in con jurngz with the philadelphia health department and montgomery health department to take care of the most vulnerable that are being impacted and they have acknowledged that what we're doing works so i'm glad there's these new ideas and you don't have to reinvent the wheel ask send those national guard people to help us because most of the people here today are my doctors, nurses, friend sxsz surgical colleagues that brought me sharp containers from the o.r. so we can get this done today so support what is working, please. >> that is exactly right. dr. stanford, thank you for what you and the black doctors covid-19 consortium do. it is want just a service, but an example for how we will get a million people vaccinated every day. god bless you and your folks out there. please give them my best regards from philly. >> we are coming to you from d.c. and not philly.

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it was just chaos. it was just pure chaos, and i just remember people still swinging metal poles at us and they were pushing and shoving and they were spraying us with, you know, mace and pepper spray. >> i was being beaten with a thin blue line flag and guys were trying to grab my gun and they were chanting kill him with his own gun. >> kill him with his own gun. the same people who preach blue lives matter wanted to murder police officers on january 6th. those officers and many more are heros and heroic acts should be rewarded which is why a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to award capitol police

eugene goodman with a congressional gold medal during the siege. at first it looks like a mob trying to back a police officer in the corner and goodman was trying to make a methodical decision and he glances to the left toward the senate chambers and where lawmakers and staff were sheltered and it was unguarded and he lures the angry mob to a corridor where there's reinforcement and he prods the leader to follow him. for 85 seconds a lone police officer faced down a crazed mob of violent white extremists. didn't lose his cool. didn't take out his gun. officer goodman's quick thinking may have saved lives. he was the only thing standing between that mob, possibly and democracy in action. americans can sleep better at night knowing that police officers like eugene goodman

exist in this world and there are plenty more cops cut from that cloth and the reality is there were many more law enforcement officers who sympathized and aided. ten more are being investigated for misconduct. one officer was suspended for taking a selfie with a looter -- a rioter. one wore a maga hat and that's according to tim ryan, a chairman who oversees the capitol police. two off-duty police officers from virginia are facing federal charges for participating in the riot and taking pictures and posting them to facebook which helped get them arrested. >> a houston officer resigned. the officer will likely face federal charges. black cops have been worried about racist officers within the capitol police department for decades and according to a report from pro-publica, since 2001 hundreds of black officer

his sued the department for racial discrimination. they alleged that white officers called black colleagues slurs like the "n" word and one found a hangman noose on his locker. cops take an oath of honor at the beginning of their law enforcement careers. it reads i will never betray my badge, my integrity, my character or the public trust. i will always have the courage to hold myself and others accountable for our actions. i will always uphold the constitution my community and the agency i serve. the officers who participated in the attempted takedown of our government might as well rip up their oath of honor because there is more -- there is nothing honorable about dismantling democracy. i want to bring in sonia pruit, a retired captain of the montgomery police department and a founder of the black police experience and former chair of the national black police association. good to have you here.

you've talked about this for a long time, that there are a lot of black police officers in the united states and many of them feel this and they feel this pressure between holding their departments to account and their colleagues to account and this thin blue line to which they are held to stand firm with. >> yes. thank you for having me, ali. this is a really, really important topic. it is true that black officers have been complaining about discrimination and bias in their police departments since time untold. the profession itself was never created to embrace us, and so we had to fight to become police officers in the 1800s and so here we are and it's 2021 and i tell you, black police officers are having the same fights probably that our police ancestors had back in the 1800s, trying to do our jobs, be accountable, taking that oath of office seriously, but at the same time having to fight discrimination and bias.

>> discrimination and bias for a police officer, and a black police officer is different than it is for me, for instance, because if i have colleagues who are racist, generally speaking my life is not in danger. if you're a black police officer who draws attention to racism on your force you could be imperiled. >> yes, and i would be one of those police officers, maybe 20 years ago or so i brought attention to something that wasn't even race related, however that gave officers an opening to attack me. there were threats on my family. i was called out of my name as a black woman, and it made it very, very difficult for me to navigate through the police department in terms of making rank and promotion and assignments after that. >> let's talk about police unions who have been very strong and vocal in the last year. sometimes not on the right side of things. where are they here about rooting out the racism from their forces?

>> police unions have been eerily quiet especially since last week. a couple of unions came out in support of the rioters who were taking the capitol by siege and then after they found out that that was not popular they became very, very silent, but unions have a lot of power -- police unions have a lot of power in this country and i want to point that out to the public. to actually attack this systemic racism issue and policing, there has to actually be an acknowledgement. if there ever is an actual acknowledgement to make some sort of reconciliation with people in this country, and not just black people, but the country as a whole then there has to be deep work done state by state, even. for instance, in the state of maryland we have the law enforcement officers' bill of rights and we have a police commission and then you have a union and then you have police leadership and all of those things can be obstacles to

handling the systemic racism issue. >> you know, it must have been interesting for the police where these protesters who in theory with the thin blue line people and supporters of the police were turning on them and threatening to shoot them in fact there was one white protester who was tackled by the police and held down and he yelled out. it was a remarkable piece of video and he said you're treating me like a black person. wow! that was very, very telling. >> you know, the people who participated last wednesday knew exactly why they were there. they may not have said it out loud, but white supremacy in this country is a very base issue and when white officers were attacked that way when they were feeling safe as well, but now they know what it feels like to be a black officer and see,

with black officers sometimes those threats come from your peers. >> no kidding. sonia, you've been talking about it for a long time with us and i didn't think we'd have this conversation. sonia pruitt, former national chairperson of the national police officers association and the founder of the black police experience. the right-wing has used images of violence to spin stories about protests creating narratives that undermine the fight for justice and equal rights for all and they're unwilling to condemn the pro-trump mob that overtook the capitol last week even as they rioted and threatened lives on the hill and the truth about contextualizing violence is up next. ntextualizing violence is p next far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! ...going up against this guy... and pitching your idea 100 times. no, no, no! no. i like it. -he likes it! ...and you definitely love that. intuit quickbooks helps small businesses

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on the night of thursday, may 28th, i was standing in front of a burning liquor store on the corner of east lake street and minehaha avenue. three month his passed since the killing of george floyd and i was watching and reporting on the frustration growing. i talked about it for 90 seconds. i described the scene in detail with my colleague brian williams who was anchoring in new york city i was and concerned about the impression a viewer might get from watching a police station overcome was that of a riot and minneapolis itself was burning and i wanted to emphasize and remain that there was an overwhelming of the protesters who were peaceful and not participating for any violence and i did for about 20

seconds after my minute and a half report and that was the only part that the right-wing media continues to circulate. an inaccurate blending of the events of those days became a regular laugh line for donald trump who repeatedly told rally goers some version of the story about how the media embraced, downplayed and encouraged violence. that 20-second clip of my reporting without the context made its way to the floor of the congress as part of a hearing, but here's the truth. most of the media did not excuse or condone violence. some of us, like me, did work hard to contextualize it and there is a distinction between the violent protests and protests that have violence. critics wonder why is there widespread revulsion at the violence at the capitol when i and others have spent months saying that violence can be a necessary part of protests. for starters, the capitol is not a liquor store. the rabbi joseph rabin from the jewish center said of the

capitol, when someone breaks its windows. it's not criminal mischief. it's an assault on democracy and decency, and that is the point. violence must always be understood in context. the violence of the anti-apartheid move, the civil rights movement, the indian independence campaign and any violence at all borne of the failure of other means and methods of redress. the killing of ahmaud arbery by white vigilantes are facts authenticated and witnessed on video by millions. violence that means to spread democracy and encourage fairness in the application of the rule of law has nothing at all in common with the wanton anti-democratic riots of january 6th fueled by donald trump and qanon conspiracy theories of an election that was stolen. january 6th was a violent insurrection in support of a coup attempt and should be met with nothing, but universal

scorn and if you doubt the severity and determination of that mob, we learned that while the secret service says vice president mike pence was secure they moved him to a nearby safe room just one minute before the insurrectionists got to the senate floor. they apparently wanted to hang him. the effect of violence, the loss of life of property and the potential for prosperity that often hits those people who were on the same side as the protesters cannot be ignored and has not been ignored, but to compare the underlying goals of protests about injustice that have become violent at their edges to an anti-democratic uprising with violent aims at its core fueled by lies and conspiracy theorys is simply to ignore history. ♪♪ in a year of changes.

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there's something broken in the culture of policing and it's been broken for decades. over the summer millions of americans took to the streets uniting against systemic

inequality and police brutality and only to be met with more police brutality, most of those rioters walked away without handcuffs. systemic racism and now in an unprecedented move new york state attorney general letitia james is aiming to excise it from the nypd. james is suing the new york police department for reportedly and blatantly violating the rights of new yorkers using excessive force and making false arrests against new yorkers most recently during racial justice protests in 2020. no one's ever done this before. it's the first time in the state's history that an attorney general has sued a police department. new york attorney general letitia james joins me next to talk about it. don't miss it. document. the most striking detail is her age.

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welcome back. before the break, i discussed a new lawsuit filed by new york attorney general letitia james

against the police department including ongoing excessive use of force including last summer's george floyd protests. thank you for being with us. you and i were in correspondence last summer because i was witnessing some of that. it seemed heavy-handed. tell me what you have gathered that relates to this lawsuit? >> this lawsuit seeks to end the long-standing practice of nypd of excessive force and false arrests on new yorkers during largely peaceful protests. we had a hearing over three days where 100 individuals came forward, and what we uncovered with 30 incidents involving use of pepper spray, 50 incidents of use of batons. punches and shoves, and these came after the first wave of protests in the aftermath of the

death of george floyd. also important to note that essential workers who were exempted from the curfew that was issued by the mayor of the city of new york were also arrested. medics were arrested, legal observers were arrested, many in violation of mayor's executive order, and there were a number of terrible assaults. this is just one -- these protests obviously have had historic significance. unfortunately the police officers' failure to respond to large-scale protests go back to the protests relating to the war, protested relating to occupy wall street, protests relating obviously to all that is happening in our country, and unfortunately -- it's unfortunate that there were individuals, including the mayor of the city of new york and the leadership of nypd, which basically condoned this, and, for the most part, indicated that these protests were largely peaceful. >> there are different ways to

reform police departments. some are internal, so are with oversights, some with the federal government. what does your lawsuit seek do? what are you looking to change? >> it's important to note that the department of internal investigation and the city of new york documented these abuses and reports. in the end, they put forth recommendations. however, in tend, we believe there should be a monitor appointed by the court to oversee these changes and these reforms. in addition to that, this conduct of the nypd needs to be declared unlawful. i've had discussions with the leadership of the nypd and the mayor of the city of new york. we disagree with regard to the monitor, but it's fundamentally perform that these reforms be in place and this conduct of the

nypd be declared unlawful. >> john miller responded specifically saying that this lawsuit does not show a pattern and practice required by federal law for a monitor to be appointed. what's your response to that response? >> i fundamentally disagree. we've got authority and it's really critically important that we've laid out again through the three days of testimony of 100 individuals, 300 other individuals who have submitted written testimony. we've received 1,300 complaints, and more are coming in from individuals, again, detailing the conduct of nypd. it lays out a pattern and practice and includes conduct such asiquetteling with contained individuals and then they decide to engage in this mass arrest of individuals, the unlawful use of tear gas, again, the use of batons, and, again, assaults on individuals who were

exempt from the curfew. our complaint lays them out in detail and establishes a practice, and i fundamentally disagree with the findings of mr. miller? >> what happens next. >> you disagree with deputy commissioner miller and the police department and the city on this. what happens next? does a judge will adjudicate this. we will respond and we have a number of witnesses who will come into court to detail their injuries including concussions, cuts to their bodies, individuals who were subjected to excessive force by the police department, police officers who used their bicycles, who used their batons, who used excessive force, who used unfortunately

pepper spray, all of that and more, again, in response to individuals who are protesting the racial reckoning in this country, and i will defend individuals' rights to peace pli protest in new york and beyond. unfortunately it's unacceptable that this behavior has gone on unchecked for a long time, and it's really important we get a monitor in place and web respect the fundamental right to protest. >> attorney general letitia jones. we thank you for your time. i'll be back after the inauguration. we're going to continue the coverage of the attack, "attack on democracy." it's going to be a jam-packed show. i'm going to speak to donald trump's niece and others and karl racine, the attorney general for the district of columbia. have yourself a great morning.

"cross connection" with tiffany cross starts right now. ♪♪ i was told on the way up here -- on the way over here that he indicated he wasn't going to show up at the inauguration. one of the few things he and i have ever agreed on. it's a good thing, him not showing up. >> it's a good thing, he says. good morning. i'm tiffany cross, and today on the "cross connection" we're following the neigh. i'll be speaking with cedric richmond, the co-chair of president-elect joe biden's incoming committee and vaccine yore adviser to the incoming president. but first four days away, the capitol is still reeling from the violent insurrection