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of power, usually a celebration of democracy. now an inauguration on high alert. >> there's a major security threat, and we are working to mitigate those threats. january 6th, a deadly insurrection at the capitol. >> donald trump is a clear and present danger to our country. >> and three days away from january 20th, security is priority one. >> i have great confidence in the secret service. >> joe biden will take the oath as a pandemic rages, as an impeachment trial looms and with a nation on edge, fueled by donald trump's lies. >> work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy, of decency, honor. >> and an inauguration that will see a monumental first. >> while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last.

>> three days away from "a transfer of power." here now, is lawrence o'donnell. >> tonight, as we look forward to the transfer of power, we will be joined by dr. anthony fauci, who will be advising the new president on the coronavirus pandemic and by experts including john brennan to address the breaking news of this hour. "the associated press" is reporting that the fbi is now vetting national guard troops, because of concern about a possible insider attack or other threat from service members assigned to provide the security for the inauguration. we'll have more details on that breaking news in a moment. jerry reed and eugene robinson will join us on the list of

executive actions joe biden plans to take on day one, and we will be joined by ruby bridges who was the subject of this 1963 norman rockwell painting. we will get ruby ridge's reaction to the historic inauguration of vice president-elect kamala harris at the end of this hour. tonight the u.s. capitol is more fortified than it has ever been before. it is surrounded by strong, temporary fencing seven feet high. this is the kind of fencing that has surrounded the capitol for recent inaugurations, but pete williams all rights that the restricted area is much bigger than it has been for previous inaugurations. pentagon officials said 15,000 national guard members from all 50 states and three territories had arrived in washington, d.c. by saturday and that as many as 25,000 could arrive by wednesday, when joe biden and kamala harris are inaugurated.

task and purpose reports that donald trump will leave office with vastly more troops in d.c. than in afghanistan, iraq and syria combined. in the breaking news of this hour, the ap is reporting u.s. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing president-elect joe biden's inauguration, prompting the fbi to vet all of the 25,000 national guard troops coming into washington for the event. army secretary ryan mccarthy told the associated press that officials are conscious of the potential threat, and he warned commanders to be on the lookout for any problems within their ranks, as the inauguration approaches. so far, however, he and other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats, and officials said the vetting

hadn't flagged any issues. the security forces provided for the biden-harris inauguration will be more than five times greater than the security forces provided for the 1965 an inauguration of president lyndon johnson, which was the first presidential inauguration ceremony after the assassination of president john f. kennedy. today the chair of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff said this. >> it reminds me of visiting baghdad, going to the green zone and seeing so much military presence and barricades. i never thought i would see that in our american capitol or that it would be necessary. but there is a profound threat from extremists as the nature we saw on january 6th. they are coming to the washington, d.c. area and bringing weapons, and we see threats to all 50 state capitals. i think the inauguration will

proceed and proceed safely, but there will be gatherings of individuals, and those gatherings could turn violent. so there's a very high level of risk. >> a woman was arrested saturday morning for impersonating law enforcements officer and fleeing police. linda mcgovern, 63 of stratford, connecticut said she was an officer and parted of the presidential security area. she presented a pocket-sized medallion typically given out by military commanders. the woman was taken for evaluation at the d.c. psychiatric emergency program and later process at capitol police headquarters and transferred to the d.c. central cellblock. leading off our discussion, john brennan, former director of the cia. he is an analyst for msnbc and

the author of "undaunted", my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad, and also former director of the national counter terrorism center. the fbi is vetting all 25,000 national guard troops heading to washington, d.c. is that even possible to conduct a meaningful vet of that many people? >> well, lawrence, i certainly think it is prudent, in light of the fact that the assault on the capitol was undertaken by individuals from across the entire country, including current and former members of law enforcement and the military. i think it is absolutely necessary to ensure that those individual whose had the responsibility of safeguarding not just president-elect biden but all the other individuals who will be assembled at the capitol on wednesday are going to be looked at carefully.

it's really rather appalling that we're going through this right now. i agree with chairman schiff, these are the things that are reminiscent of what me, michael and i have seen with other governments. but unfortunately, what we've seen over the last several months is the growing crescendo of what amounts to an insurrection. so i think the vetting while it's possible, is certainly something that the fbi and other authorities need to be doing at this time. >> the ap report doesn't indicate that there was any tip to the fbi about this. it seems like an action that the fbi is taking as a precaution, and so far, the ap report says they haven't found anything troubling. >> lawrence, i think that's right. as john said, the military's a cross section of our society. and the national guard, most of these troops, are even more so.

if you take 25,000 people in the country today, a little less than half of them may well have voted for donald trump, and a small percentage of those may well have been influenced toward extremism. and, as john was saying, this is challenging all over the world. we face this when we train troops in iraq and afghanistan. it is horrifying that we even have to think about it. but on the other hand i think it is heartening, it does show that the inauguration is taken with the seriousness of security precautions, frankly ones that weren't present on january 6th and that obviously contributed to the violence that we saw. >> inauguration security is very, very heavy under so-called normal circumstances. and when i've seen them, it seemed impossible to me to penetrate. this is going to be even more secure.

what is your confidence level tonight about what we're going to see on wednesday? >> well, i'm confident that the authorities, law enforcement, home land security and defense, are taking the appropriate measures. as michael said, should have been in place before january 6th, because i don't think we would have seen that same type of assault if they had pushed out the security perimeter f they had put in the barricades and barriers going up now. if they had restricted access to that capitol area. if they had the appropriate personnel with protective gear and riot control equipment and weaponry and reenforcements at the ready to be able to be deployed very quickly. so i do think the measures that are being taken now are very comprehensive. i think they are going to ensure there is a heightened amount of security at the inauguration, so what authorities have to do is make sure that troublemakers in other places, whether it be in

the district of columbia or state capitals, there needs to be vigilance across the country because these individuals have been whipped up into this frenzy, because they have been so misled, unfortunately, by so many people, including, at the very top, donald trump. >> and michael, the "new york times" is reporting that the fbi is also vetting hundreds of possible airline passengers, putting any who've been identified among the violent protesters at the capitol on a no-fly list, trying to make sure that none of them return to the capitol for wednesday. these measures are being taken, and in effect, advertised, aren't they, to basically communicate to these people, don't come back, don't try to get on airplanes. >> absolutely. this is a deterrence, just like the international terrorism watch list used since 9/11, a deterrent to keep international

terrorists off airplanes. like john, i feel very, very confident of what will go on in washington, d.c. and the safety and security of the inauguration. a much bigger challenge is state capitals where you don't have a no-fly list to drive to the capital. and some states have the ability to carry semi-automatic weapons near those capitals and softer targets. those are at much higher risk i think than washington, d.c. and all of that, a domestic no-fly list, the vulnerability of these state capitals, that highlights the longer-term challenge beyond january 20th, which is having the policies, laws and procedures and people and organization to spread out and try to deter and defeat this violent extremism that we're seeing here in the united states. >> let's listen to something that chairman schiff said today that's going to be very important starting the day after the inauguration. >> there's no circumstance in

which this president should get another intelligence briefing, not now, not in the future. i don't think he can be trusted with it now. and in the future, he certainly can't be trusted. indeed, there were, i think, any number of intelligence partners of ours around the world who probably started withholding information from us because they didn't trust the president would safeguard that information and protect their sources and methods, and that makes us less safe. >> mr. brennan, your reaction to that? >> i certainly hope that donald trump never, ever receives any type of intelligence briefing after he departs the white house on wednesday. i, i feel so badly that he has been given access to so much intelligence over the last four years, given that he has disparaged and denigrated the great men and women of the intelligence community. so therefore, i don't see any earthly reason why he should be

given any type of intelligence, nor do i have any trust that he would treat it with the appropriate safeguards that they require. >> john brennan and michael leiter, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> the transfer of power will see a big change in how the nation changes its approach to stopping the coronavirus pandemic. joe biden's future chief of staff had information and dr. anthony fauci will join us next. anthy onfauci will join us next.

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in the final days of december, in an interview with me, our next guest, dr. anthony fauci, said this. >> unfortunately, i think that january is going to be a bad month. i would imagine as we get a couple of weeks into january, things could get worse than they

are now. it is likely that we'll see an uptick in everything, in cases followed then by hospitalizations and then followed by death. >> that sad prediction has come true. so far in january we have suffered 52,067 deaths from the coronavirus, bringing the total number of reported deaths from covid-19 to 398,175 as of tonight. today the man who will be white house chief of staff as of 12:00 noon on wednesday, ron klain, said this. >> virus is going to get worse before it gets better. i certainly expect we will hit 500,000 deaths sometime in the month of february. we're inheriting a huge mess here, jake. we have a plan to fix it. we believe there will be adequate supply to give people their second shots, and more importantly, we believe there will be continued supply and distribution of that supply to hit that target of 100 million

shots in 100 days. >> next we are joined by dr. fauci at the national institutes of health and will become an important part of president biden's administration. >> i think the plan that has been put together, i totally agree with about really all hands on deck approach to this, to make sure, and i believe it's do-able. i have confidence that we'll be able to do it, is to get 100 million people vaccinated within the first 100 days of president-elect biden. also call for the country to have 100 days at least of everyone wearing a mask, putting aside all of these politicization of public health

and pull together as a nation, particularly a much stronger relationship between the federal government and the states in getting the job done. and above all, the thing that he told us, you know, when we were together on a zoom call of the team, the covid team, to be completely honest and transparent in everything we do, to level with the american public about the things that might go wrong and about the fact that as ron klain said very honestly, that things will get worse before they get better, because when i was with you last time, lawrence, i mentioned to you that i was concerned that january was going to be a very bad month, because of the holiday season, gatherings and travel. but when you get more cases like you showed on the screen, there is always lag from cases to hospitalizations to critical care to death. so we're still going to be seeing, even though things might

actually plateau with regard to cases, the lag of people who get seriously ill and ultimately die will be a matter of weeks as ron klain had said correctly in the clip that you just showed. >> dr. fauci, we all saw you get your first shot on december 22nd. have you gotten your second shot yet? >> no, coming up on the 19th. coming up. >> so yours is scheduled. what do you say to people out there in the country who have received their first shot but are not sure about when their next shot is going to be scheduled? >> they will get their second shot. if they are on the moderna or pfizer. moderna will be 28 days after the first shot. the pfizer, those who get pfizer will be 21 days. it is made clear there was some confusion about that, that there now is enough of a rather

consistent flow, general perna who i speak to last night and again this morning about the flow of doses coming in, without a doubt, the people who've gotten the first dose will get a second dose. there was some confusion about that. but we really want to clarify that, that the cadence of doses that are coming out and available will make second doses not only possible but available to people who've received their first dose. >> i just want to go over this one more time. i heard you on meet the press this morning with this, and at the end of your answer you said something like "i hope i've clarified that", and i tell you, i needed to listen to it again. let me say what i think you mean and then you correct me. i think that might be the best way for the audience. there was the suggestion that there was a stockpile being held for the second doses for people. >> right. >> then we discovered there isn't a stockpile. and what i thought i heard you say this morning was we don't need the stockpile, because the

vaccine manufacturers are manufacturing quick enough that we can guarantee you the second shot when you're supposed to have the second shot without us holding a stockpile. >> right. right. lawrence, that's exactly correct. that's the reason why i double-checked with general perna last night and then again this morning. in the beginning, when there were not quite confident that the flow of doses that would be coming out from the two companies would be able to guarantee that you'd get a second dose, they held back what would be the second dose. so if they had 50 million doses that went out they would keep 50 million doses. after a couple cycles, it became clear that they were quite confident that the companies would be able to keep up with the steady flow. so what they would do is essentially vaccinate everyone who has all the doses that were available. and when the next flow came in,

the first preference would be to guarantee that people would get their second dose. and then everything else above that would go to the first dose to the next group. and on the next cycle the first doses that would come out would be garptsed to those who got the first dose so you can now give them a second dose. so it was a matter of increased confidence that the companies would be able to have a steady flow, that you wouldn't have to worry about people missing their second dose. >> what has to change to meet the biden goal of 100 million vaccinations in the first hundred days? >> well, what would change is that the doses that would come out now are in an escalating way. when you look at what's planned for the month of february and then the month of march, and then the month of april. if you do the calculations, by the time you get to president-elect's 100 days, you would have 100 people who have

received the vaccination. excuse me, 100 million people. >> there's a lot of talk of new variants of the coronavirus. we had the british one, now we're hearing south african, and i think i heard you suggesting there could be several more as time goes by. we talked about this the last time you were here, doctor, and people were very pleased to hear what you said at the time, which was you don't have to take any extra, new precautions against these new variants. you just have to keep doing what you've been doing that works. washing hands, always wearing masks, always socially distancing, staying home as much as possible. we've had a few more weeks' experience with these variants. is it still your feeling that we don't have to take any extra measures than what we've been taking to fight the original strain of the coronavirus? >> lawrence, yes, but i want to emphasize that that means you have to adhere to the things

that we've been saying. you don't want to do, people say, well, should i wear two or three masks as opposed to one mask? what you need to do is strictly adhere to the recommendations. universal wearing of masks. avoiding congregate settings. those types of things we know work. there are a number of studies that show that they work. regardless of the virus that's out there. if you get careless, if you slip a little, then you're going to put yourself at an increased risk, because this is a new, the variant is, which is not dominant in our country right now. it is here, but it's not dominant. it is more transmissible than the wild-type virus that is already here. i don't want people to think it's nothing to be concerned about, it means you need to double down and make sure that you are very careful to follow

the recommended public health measures. >> when you say congregate setting, doctor, is that the most dangerous thing? assuming someone is doing a good job of hand washing, wearing masks in the proper settings, is it the congregate setting that is the most dangerous opportunity? >> you know, it is. it's things that are, lawrence, seemingly innocent, where you have a social event, where someone comes into your home that you don't know where they've been. it's someone you know that you recognize. so you have this false confidence. they look well, they feel well, but since we know that 50% of all of the transmissions come from someone who either is not symptomatic and will never be symptomatic or someone who's presymptomatic, mainly, don't have any symptoms yet, but they're going to be getting symptoms. so, when you bring someone like that into the home in a friendly congregate way, there is a risk. that's why we say, as difficult

as it may be, try to keep the situation that you have of when you're in your home, that you have a dinner or something, it's with the people who are there as part of the household. i know that's very difficult to do, from a social stand point, but right now, as you've shown from the numbers, lawrence, we're at a very difficult situation. so we've got to do everything we can to prevent the spread, realizing that 50% of the spread is from someone who has no symptoms. >> dr. anthony fauci, every day, i know, is a long day for you, including this sunday. i cannot thank you enough for staying with us and joining our discussion tonight, really appreciate it. >> good to be with you, thank you for having me, lawrence. >> thank you, dr. fauci. up next we have a new memo showing the biden administration

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incoming white house chief of staff ron klain has issued a memo to white house senior staff describing a fast start for the biden-harris administration in the first ten days. the "new york times" reports that according to the memo on day one president-elect biden will rescind the travel ban on predominantly muslim countries, extends limits on evictions on loans during the pandemic and work to reunite children separated from their families at the southern border. the "new york times" reports that president-elect biden also plans to send sweeping immigration on his first day in office providing a pathway to

citizenship for 11 million people in the country illegally. on mr. biden's second day in office he will sign executive actions related to the coronavirus pandemic aimed at helping schools and businesses to reopen safely, expand testing and clarify public health standards. joining us, joy reid, joy will have a special interview with house speaker nancy pelosi at 10:00 p.m. on msnbc. also joining us, eugene robinson, he's a msnbc analyst. we used to talk about the first hundred days ever since fdr's first 100 days. biden's administration is impatient for that, it's the first ten days. >> and he's doing this under the ah spiss of us having to have

d.c. as an armed camp because trump supporters are dangerous and have to be considered so by law enforcement, et cetera. i look at the lists, and i think of two of those things that are going to cause immediate upheavals, one being the mask mandate, that's going to ring pretty loudly throughout trumpy america. and the second is immigration. this is the whole reason donald trump has such a lock on, you know, 60% of white american voters, is this fear of demographic change. so an immediate effort to reinstitute protections and maybe expand protections for lots and lots of non-white immigrants. that's sending a message that the new america is who he's here to represent and expand. that is going to be another source, i think, of stress, and i think that we're going to have to make sure that we're protecting communities of color, not just on inauguration day but

ongoing. >> there's also something else plain in the ron klain memo. we're not going to have government by surprise, you're not going to wake up on wednesday or thursday morning and say oh, look what they're doing that they didn't tell us they're going to do. >> the past week i've had several, numerous interactions with the incoming biden team, varied parts of the team. and it's just, it's night and day. it's, it's, you know, this universe versus whatever universe the trump team was in. i mean, they're, they're responsive. they're informative. they're factual. they have plans. it's like a normal administration. but a normal administration on steroids, because there's so much to do. i mean, ron klain's list of day one and day two. it's an incredibly long and powerful list. but it's only a fraction of the

list of what the new administration's going to have to deal with as it tries to deal with and also uncover some of the policy vandalism that's been committed by the trump administration in the last days. secretary pompeo is a prime offender of he's just breaking the crockery on his way out the door. one thing he did was des ig nate houthis in yemen as terrorism organizations. you make it difficult to provide humanitarian aid. and that needs help from international organizations. but now we'll have difficulty doing that. so reversing all this stuff that's being done, gratuitously, and i think intentionally at the

last minute the way no other administration has ever done in its final days is going to be a huge task for this administration. >> and joy, this administration is facing something no one else ever has, which is they take office, and then the previous president is the subject of an impeachment trial in the united states senate, where oh, by the way, they're trying to confirm their cabinet through the same body. ron klain said today quite accurately that the senate in the past has divided their work day between impeachment proceedings and other business, and they can do that again in this time. >> yeah, indeed. they have to do that while the neville chamberlain of our attempted insurrection, lindsey graham is cater walling that all they need to do is apiece the outgoing president, the ex-president at that point. the biden team has to cast a

balance. you can't try to reunite the country, by the way which wasn't very united anyway. they're going to get a chance to crack open the books in these agencies that have been denuded, gutted, sabotaged from within by donald trump's people. they're going to need to get in those books, and i suspect they're going to find not just malfeasance but incompetence and maybe crimes. and while joe biden wants to be sort of the great, he sort of wants to bring everyone together and reach out to everyone, he really cannot avoid having to bring accountability to what happened, not just by donald trump but everyone under him was authorized to be corrupt, and they practiced corruption openly. he's got to root that out. he's got to root people out that were left behind by the current administration, as eugene said, to sabotage the new administration. biden may not want to come in and fight. he's not going to have a choice. we cannot move on until we have

accountability and justice for what we've seen happen over the last horrible four years. >> and gene, as much as the senate might get slowed down at least half the day with an impeachment trial for a week, maybe two, the house of representatives is open for business, and nancy pelosi's in a position to move quickly so that chuck schumer will have a stack of bills from the house of representatives ready to go after that impeachment trial. >> absolutely. she'll have, she'll have them, you know, like, like planes circling at laguardia trying to land. that's a big help. and it's a big help that yes, it will be chuck schumer who's the majority leader and not mitch mcconnell. and while it will be a 50-50 senate, and that's not quite the same thing as having a majority, it's much better than being in the minority. i would add one thing, joy, i'm not sure you're entirely fair to

neville chamberlain. he was a statesman, he was tragically wrong on one really, really big thing, but lindsey graham. >> you're right, i apologize to neville's ghost. you're absolutely right. >> we'll have to leave it there, joy reid, gene robinson, thank you very much for joining our discussion. and joy's interview with nancy pelosi, tuesday night, 10:00 p.m., nancy pelosi and joy reid. up next, the history that will be made when kamala harris takes the oath of office as vice president of the united states of america. this image has gone viral since kamala harris' victory in november. up next, the woman who is the little girl in that image. ruby bridges, who was the first student to desegregate her elementary school in new orleans in 1960 will join us and tell us

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she was raising her two daughters in an america where we would very likely be treated and approached based on our race and gender. so my mother raised her two daughters to be very proud black women. >> in 1960, 6-year-old ruby bridges was escorted into an elementary school in new orleans by her mother and a team of u.s. marshals. a screaming mob gathered outside the school throwing tomatoes as ruby bridges became the first black student it attend that elementary school. norman rockwell painted an image of her first day of school titled "the problem we all live with." that became a symbol in the 1960s. an artist has re-imagined that moment as kamala harris walking with ruby bridges. ruby bridges' mother lucille passed away november 10th, 2020

just days after joe biden and kamala harris won the election. it was her mother who allowed her to take the test to allow her into that all-white school. when her mother died, ruby bridges wrote this tribute on instagram. today our country lost a hero, brave, progressive, a champion for change. she helped alter the course of so many lives by setting me out on my path as a 6-year-old little girl. our nation lost a mother of the civil rights movement today and i lost my mom. i love you, and i'm grateful for you. ruby bridges will join our discussion next. l join our discussion next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. [ cheers and applause ]

because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. >> joining us now is civil rights activist and icon ruby bridges. she is the author of the book "this is your time." ruby bridges, i was wondering when we just heard kamala harris say, i may be the first, but i won't be the last. when you were 6 years old, first black student walking into that elementary school in new orleans, were you thinking, i may be the first, but i won't be the last? >> you know, larry, i wish i could say that. i always say what protected me at that moment in time was the innocence of a child. i was 6 years old and didn't really understand what was happening at the time. thinking that it was mardi gras

because that's exactly what it looked like in my eyes, you know, being a resident of new orleans. took me awhile to understand that i was walking up those stairs and changing the face of education across the country. >> so all of that yelling that you heard and throwing things and throwing tomatoes, that just seemed to a little girl like, oh, there's some kind of mardi gras thing going on? >> absolutely, that's exactly what i thought. you know, if you think about it, none of our babies come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another. it is something that is taught and passed on to them. so i had no idea what racism was all about and just didn't understand what was happening around me. >> do you remember what your mother lucille said to you before going to school? >> absolutely. my mom said, ruby, you're going to go to a new school today, and you better behave. and that's what i was concentrating on, behaving.

being a mom myself and a grandma, i totally understand now what she and my father was going through. it was quite different for them. you know, my father lost his job and it was really, really hard for them. so i know what a huge sacrifice it must have been for them. even today, i don't think i would have the courage to excepted my child into an environment like that and just pray all day that they would come home safe, which is what she said she did. >> what is your feeling when you see that new image that's been -- that was reworked a few months ago with you walking along with kamala harris? >> you know, i was so moved by that because i've given it a name myself. i call it shadows and shoulders, because that's what it reminded

me of, you know. seeing that reminded me that all of us, we are standing in the shadows of so many other people that came before us or standing on the shoulders of other people. there were lots of people even before me that made huge sacrifices so that i would be able to go up those stairs. and i think kamala felt the same way, that standing in that shadow, that somehow it paved the way and opened a door for her to be able to take this position, that i am just so excited about for her. >> what are you expecting to feel on wednesday to see her raising her right hand and being sworn in as vice-president of the united states of america? >> you know, i think for all of us -- for all women, no matter what race you are, you know, there was a time when we as

women were not -- voices weren't able to be heard, wasn't able to vote, and now to see a woman in that position, for me it is -- it's renewed hope and faith in the country that we live in. definitely there's so much more work to be done, but we have to also be able to look at the strides that we make, and this is truly one for all women, and especially for black women. >> do you feel that the strides you took that day walking into that school are connected through the years of history to the strides kamala harris will take as she walks through the capitol to that podium to take that oath? >> you know, lawrence, i really do. it only reminds me of the first time that i had an opportunity to meet president obama and, you

know, i knew he had been president and was excited about seeing him for the very first time, but it did not hit home for me until i actually saw him in person in the oval office. so to be able to see her stand there and raise her hand and take the oath, at that moment in time i am pretty sure i am going to be so filled with joy and emotion. i cannot wait to see that. >> well, it is a victory that you had a hand in. ruby bridges, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> i appreciate you having me. thank you. stay safe. >> he thank you. and we have some programming notes for inauguration week this week here at msnbc. joy reid will have a special interview one on one with speaker pelosi tuesday at 10:00 p.m. here on msnbc. and then on thursday, the day after the inauguration, white house chief of staff ron klain

will be among my guests for a special last word, inside the biden agenda. that's thursday night, 10:00 p.m., and i'll be back here tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. for "the last word" right here on msnbc. >> in less than 72 hours, we will have a new president of the united states. from nbc news in washington, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." at least 15,000 troops are in washington, d.c. as the country prepares for president-elect biden's inauguration. the national guard has cots to sleep on now set up inside the capitol visitor center. they had been sleeping on the marble floors. cold comfort for troops working to prevent more violence both at our nation's