john king what do you think?ber one we know turn out will be down from the presidential election. it is normally in these run-off elections down dramatically so drew is absolutely right. in fulton county the largest population center again known for atlanta, the suburbs around it, the aurirport just to the south but a predominantly democrat area. the reason there was a run-off is jon ossoff was able to keep david perdue under 50% because of his support in the democratic areas. see what happens tonight. in fulton county he has to be at or above 80%. keep pushing it up to offset the republican turn out otherwise. one of the key tests for david perdue and kelly loeffler is in the suburbs. we think of atlanta, fulton county here but the suburbs here, suburbs here traditionally more republican in georgia. without trump on the ballot does it change? turn out will be down. by the end of the night the question is by how much. georgia has already shattered records for a run-off. yes it will be down from the presidential b

john king, once again, we're standing by for this formal ceremony. it's called an engrossment ceremony. the speaker will actually sign the article of impeachment. we'll hear from her, presumably others, and then they will go forward. she will have to make the decision when to actually submit the article of impeachment to the senate where they will go ahead with the trial. >> and this is essentially the last act of speaker pelosi in the trump presidency, in the sense he has one week left. the senate will try him after he's gone. and speaker pelosi going to send this over she's going to make the case for house democrats that they had no choice but to do this, even though the president is in his final days, he asked for this, he deserved it and this is the only way to have closure and justice, is to hold him accountable for what he said at that rally one week ago before the rioters hit the capitol. her words are very important here. so too are the next words from the president of the united states because now the big question is how many republicans wil

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go to john king at the magic wall. y been a few weeks since georgia voters we want to the polls. in the seismically disruptive outcome. right? georgia turning blue in the presidential election in november. what do you take away from that? >> that is the biggest lesson, erin. look at georgia's recent history last couple of decades, especially the history of runoff elections in georgia statewide. you have to say loeffler and perdue are favored. history tells you. 2020 tells you georgia is changing and democrats can win. joe biden winning by 11,779 votes. roundal up in atlanta in suburbs, up in augusta, chatham county. need to be near perfect, democrats, but can defy georgia's history. the recent history republicans win state-piwide. register nor african-americans, more younger voters, this state a purple state, used to be red state purple leaning red. it's possible. joe biden proved. not since bill dpclintonen in 1992. georgia is in play. democrats need to be near perfect. the challenge today but they can win. >> numbers

i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing a busy day for us.acked hour ahead. president biden's pick gets his vote. racial equality is the big biden them today. the new executive actions target police conduct, improving prison

i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this very important day with us. it is day two of the biden presidency, and there is big change just about everywhere you look. but also some very big immediate challenges for the new president, too. 900,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week. that report from the government this morning reminding the new president he inherits an economy wounded by the coronavirus pandemic and right now bleeding jobs. a big new stimulus plan is part of the biden solution, and the president is calling congressional leaders to the white house tomorrow in an effort to get right to work and to prove democrats and republicans can work together. but there is still no agreement on how to run the 50-50 senate, and team biden worries something else it inherits. a trump impeachment plan will speed a return to polarization and slow work on the biden agenda. the senate can't set a firm schedule for that trial until the house sends over the paperwork, which, listen here, still tbd. >> if you can put any finite point on

john king picks up our coverage right now. ♪ >>> top of the hour.ello, everybody, welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very busy news day with us. some important coronavirus news this hour, some of it encouraging, some of it concerning. >>> and a new push just moments ago from president biden. he says the economy is reeling from this pandemic and the congress needs to abt ct quickln his covid relief plan. >> the choice couldn't be clearer. we have learned from past crises, the risk is not doing too much, the risk is not doing enough. >> we heard from the president there just moments after the latest briefing from his new covid health care team. the encouraging news from that briefing is there is a third vaccine now on the horizon. dr. anthony fauci says the data on this johnson & johnson single dose vaccine is encouraging. dr. fauci says americans should not be skeptical of a reported 56% effective rate. getting shots in arms is taking on even greater urgency now because of the growing number of variants

>> john king is with us, michael smerconish. , what do you think if they start this trial, the impeachment trial on the floor of the senate. all 100 senators have to be there for this trial. how much is it going to set back potentially the agenda that the new president has? >> i think you raised a great question. it just adds to the dizzying number of events and the collision of things that are going to happen in the new washington. yes, a democratic president. yes, a democratic president as well. the impeachment will stir up the partisan tensions and questions. we've talked about the big open question is how much can joe biden cooperate with republicans at least on some things. mitch mcconnell gave a floor speech where he says he hopes it's possible to cooperate on some things. that would be progress. on a covid or stimulus, that's possible. mcconnell doesn't agree to what the president wants. the rules are for the impeachment you have it in the afternoon. it's a former president. it may not be the chief justice but most of the

i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this busy news day with us.re is the white house focus as president biden presses his plan to quickly put policy returns on the agenda. and you can stop listening to anyone who suggests that republicans are serious about a clean break from donald trump. the top dog is

john king, it is a moment in american history to think about what is happening here, right, that you just had jamie raskin, the lead manager, go to the floor of the senate and read that article for the former president, donald j. trump who, f of course, is no longer in office. they are making the case that this is important to prevent anything like this from happening again and to prevent him from ever serving in office again, which is a compelling case and one he made a very clear point in making. >> right, and erin, anyone's views at home, whether they think the president should be convicted or whether they think this is the democrats overplaying their hand, we're watching a very important ritual, an indelible stain on the former president. twice impeached now, and they're walking through a crime scene. this is a ritual march, as you're saying, it's part of the ceremony, but it's taking place in a crime scene, a building that 19 days ago was attacked by people holding trump flags, by screaming, "hang mike pence," by looking for speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. and this is indeli

i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this busy news day with us. health care is the white house focus as president biden presses his plan to quickly put policy returns on the agenda. and you can stop listening to anyone who suggests that republicans are serious about a clean break from donald trump. the top dog is at mar-a-lago to patch up his relationship with the president. we hear from the current president next hour. he will open an insurance exchange for a new special enrollment period. president biden will also start a ban on tax dollars going to organizations that provide abortion services. the top economic challenge and the focus of the biden legislative push. a new number this morning makes that effort quite clear. the united states economy shrank 3.5% last year. that's the worst since 1946. the president is open to narrowing his ask and wants a package that can garner 60 votes in the senate. but the white house press secretary says any talk that the president is open to splitting that package into smaller pieces is just not accurate. and

john king is still with us. john, so many people are emailing me, texting me, they're accusing the president of being an accomplice to what these rioters and these mobsters were doing up on capitol hill. >> well, again, he will say he did not encourage them to break into the building or to break glass or to violet security rules and go into the chamber or go into the speaker's office, that is what the president say, but the president encouraged those people to march on the capitol. the president keeps saying, even in his third statement he released today, that the election was stolen when it wasn't. the president is try to rewrite the truth, as he has done almost every day in the last four years, but he incited this, encouraged this and supported this, because he wants to continue this fantasy that the election can be overturned. so now wolf, here we are, two weeks from the end of the trump term and the drama continues and what you could call domestic terrorism, certainly disruption, illegal conduct continues her

john king picks up our coverage right now. ♪ >>> top of the hour.ody, welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very busy news day with us. some important coronavirus news this hour, some of it encouraging, some of it concerning. >>> and a new push just moments ago from president biden. he says the economy is reeling from this pandemic and the congress needs to abt ct quickln his covid relief plan. >> the choice couldn't be clearer. we

i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing a busy day for us. we have a packed hour ahead. president biden's pick gets his vote. racial equality is the big biden them today. the new executive actions target police conduct, improving prison conditions, expanding housing opportunities and addressing covid-related racism and discrimination targeti ing asia americans. the filibuster is still alive, but there is no paper commitment from the democrats not to try to do away with it down the road a bit. the new president plans a speech on battling the pandemic this afternoon. the biden team now says mid-march is its goal for signing a big new covid-19 relief plan into law. that is an ambitious timeline, anyway, all the more so with an impeachment trial on the horizon set to freeze the senate for most of february. a ritual step in that process a bit later this afternoon. senators take an oath to service jurors in the second impeachment trial of donald j. trump. let's get straight to the white house and begin the hour with cnn's phil mattingly. phil, one

we have john king, the person to do this for us. let's do first things first, john. continue into 2021. that would be one way to put it. let's go back in time. in seven hours we start to get results. these are two incredible consequential runoffs. they determine who controls the united states senate. go back in time to 2020, a couple months ago. number one, narrow biden victory in georgia is a huge deal, the president of the united states still contests it, but joe biden won fair and square. look at the senate races. this is why we got here. back to the senate races, david perdue beat jon ossoff, didn't get over 50%. that's state law in georgia, you have to have over 50% to win the election. david perdue was just short. ossoff was close. that's why you have the runoff for the six year term. david perdue is an incumbent senator. this is for a full six year term. then the more complicated race here, raphael warnock got the most votes in this race, but remember, you had republican congressman doug collins, crowded primary, for the special election to replace senator isa

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america correspondent john king reports. we are at the corner of 14th street and ask and we are just away from the national mall the national mall is basically all this area is what's called the red zone it's in the d.c. metro area it is all locked down the streets the bridges the tunnels it's been like this for basically a week but it's really over the last 24 hours you know the amount of security the amount of intensity has ratcheted up you can see just yesterday when we were out here as i mentioned earlier it was pretty quiet couple media people like myself out here doing reports but now there's actually national guard members troops standing on the street you know information and that's the case behind me here you see the white tent that's one of the many checkpoints the way this works is in the red zone all the streets you have to go through checkpoints and that's already happening in a lot of these checkpoints in fact my photographer rode 17 miles incredibly from his house this morning he wasn't allowed to bring his bi

riotous service members are routinely screened for extremist connections to america correspondent john king reports from d.c. . so we're at the corner 14th street and street just just down the just south of here is the national mall so basically all of this area has been shut down the streets the bridges the tunnels as we get closer to on the ration day and the fencing that you see behind me right there this is throughout the area basically every street has this fencing up and if you follow me as i walk out on the street there are no vehicles only security vehicles only police vehicles but just over my shoulder here as you look south you see the concrete barriers and then you see a white tent well in order to get through into this area you have to go through various checkpoints along the way on the major surface roads here on the major streets you have to show your i.d.'s in some cases they're checking bags i didn't have that issue when i came from my hotel which by the way is full of national guard members i'm not going to say which one for security reasons but that's really the case here

. >>> joining us now, chief political analyst gloria borger and john king. john, you and i have covered a lot of these presidential inaugurations over the years. did you ever expect you would cover one quite like this? >> absolutely not. wolf, this is number nine for me. it will be the fifth in which you have a transfer of power from oa president of one party o the president of another country. could he unify the country, in 2001, george w. bush, lost the popular vote, president only because of the supreme court. giant question, could he unify the country? but nothing like this. nothing like this. joe biden will take office after a convincing win, let's make that clear. but in the middle of a pandemic, an economy bleeding jobs two weeks to the day after the insurrection in the capitol building that will be right behind him. one week to the day to the second impeachment of donald trump in the capitol building that will be right behind him and with the continuing denial of the president, who is leaving town. donald trump will not be there. he continues to deny

john king is with us. you and i spent a lot of time over the years at joint base andrews, used to be called andrews air force base, flying in and out as we were white house correspondents. he will be received, the preside president-elect, we're told, by the commander of the 89th air lift wing, and his wife katherine snellson. there will be a little formal event going on but not much. >> the rest of the government is trying to treat this like a presidential inauguration even though the outgoing president, wolf, is not. when joe biden gets off this plane, this is the last time he will fly on a private plane for a very long time. he will be the commander in chief at the joint base an trues. as abby noted what make this is moment so extraordinary is the collision not just of the crises but so many personal and political dynamics. we're watching the scene at joint base andrews. president trump will leave. his farewell ceremony will be there in the morning. he will not even attend joe biden's inauguration. at th

i'm john king in washington. this is a special martin luther king jr. day edition in the newsroom.mp presidency ends and the biden administration ends. there is a quiet chill in washington right now. security hovers over our inauguration preparations. the nation's capitol is a view of checkpoints and bomb-sniffing dogs. a guard contingent deployed across the city under complete scrutiny at this hour. people worry about

cnn john king. >> and was a dark pessimistic view of where we are at the moment. >> it's a giant challenge powerful beginning. >> laura: well, all the funding would open for her peers up to criticism and "the washington post" media columnist sullivan issued the warning. the media can be glad for the biden white house's return to normalcy, but let's not be low. when you read beyond the headline, her real intention becomes obvious. there's a difference between holding power to accounts and grandstanding. it's the latter that gave rise to ridiculous dust stops and overplaying of the email scandal during the 26 campaign. in other words, don't actually go hard on old joe ever, especially when it could cost him politically. it should come as no surprise that trusting in traditional media is in an all time low according to the annual trust barometer. 56% of americans agree that journalists and reporters are trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations. joining me now, glenn greenwald, pulitzer award-winning author. do you expect it to change at all as biden

joining us now, our chief national correspondent john king. cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. john, the acting capitol police chief now calling for permanent fencing around the u.s. capitol. backup forces not very far away at the ready. what does that say about this new reality that all of us are seeing here in the nation's capital? >> it's an incredibly sad statement about the severity of the threats and the belief among law enforcement officials that these are not passing threats. that they will stay with us. on capitol hill and from the department of homeland security and others, at least through the impeachment trial. that means at least through the month of february. many law enforcement officials think it will go on even after that as those being prosecuted for the insurrection have their trials. you're already hearing some pushback from members of congress. day don't like the fencing. you heard shimon talking about how the d.c. mayor doesn't like this. without a doubt, wolf, fortress washington is with us for the foreseeable fut

i'm john king in washington. this is a special martin luther king jr. day edition in the newsroom. it's a monumental week. in 48 hours the trump presidency ends and the biden administration ends. there is a quiet chill in washington right now. security hovers over our inauguration preparations. the nation's capitol is a view of checkpoints and bomb-sniffing dogs. a guard contingent deployed across the city under complete scrutiny at this hour. people worry about insider attacks, that some those in charge of protecting the inaugural is where the president's focus lies and the inaugural could be interrupted. the president-elect today spending this holiday morning, you see him there, packing goods for families in need. that's in philadelphia. joe biden enters the office wednesday with a big challenge. americans believe his win is illegitimate. an empty cabinet that counts on a more competent, and yes, more active government. critical agencies finally get senate hearings tomorrow. one day one issue, rebooting the coronavirus strategy. >> nearly 4,000 deaths a day, almost 400,000 deaths

i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this very important day with us. one day, 24 hours from right now, until donald trump is a former president. the intervening hours are filled with tension and with uncertainty. a giant security challenge. a potential pardon spree. negotiations over sharing senate power and vital confirmation hearings for the biden team. sources describe the outgoing president as joyless and disint disinterested. he did tape a farewell address monday evening which we're told does include an address to the incoming administration. the plan is to release it sometime today, along with a long list of pardons which includes a corruptor and a rapper with gun charges. president trump ignores the pandemic. you see those flags right there? the president-elect today visits that national mall memorial, a tribute to the nearly 400,000 americans killed by covid. the pandemic and the security threat will make for a most unusual and anxious inauguration. the "washington post" reporting a new fbi intelligence bulletin warns conspiracy theory follower

i am a huge fan of john king fairbank. he died i think early 1990s.t this, this, the great chinese revolution is a wonderful book. and in china by sheraton is older, but in some ways it's easier to read than some of the new stuff that gets very political. now, the best book on the era, 1911 to 1949 is by this woman sally payne. she teaches at the navy war college up in newport and she's brilliant. her husband bruce elman also teaches up there and also is a china scholar. so, they, they do great work on china. so, if somebody said what book should i read? it's the two end. the may 4th movement and then read "the war is for asia." those two would be a great place to start. >> how did the birth of communist china impact china's current relations with taiwan? >> that's a great question. i don't want to go through the history of taiwan to see when it was part of china. but during the ming dynasty at the end of the ming dynasty some of the ming leaders escaped to taiwan.th taiwan is an anomaly.Ñ7lrsç it is the last remaining territory that was not brought u

i spent the whole evening breathlessly watching john king and steve kornacki with their touchscreens,ark. >> 50,000 votes difference, right? or 40,000 votes difference. 130,000 nick says mr. sterling was saying, 171,000 votes. >> you're sitting on 170,000, 180,000 or so votes to be reported out, right, where i think you can certainly expect democrats to be getting at least 80% of those votes, and probably more. >> stephen: got it. i'm crunching the latest numbers out of georgia, as they continue to trickle in. we're watching particularly military ballots right now. i'm going to pull up chatham county, okay. annnd... nothing. i guess the results are all in from chatham county. let's look at this area. is it here? is it-- where do i-- is it cobb? this voice-activated, jim had? ca-baba. can we put up a weather map or anything, jim? i'm being told this touchscreen is broken? it does not work. it never worked. it's not a touchscreen. and i've been told that before. is there math to be had here? >> there is math-- there is math to be had here. >> you can do the math here: 54 and 29 and 83 a

i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this big news day with us. it is a history-making week. president donald trump impeached for the second time. when the senate impeachment trial starts, how long it will last, how many republicans will vote to convict, and if the senate can bar president trump from another presidential run, all unknowns this hour. this, though, is certain. the top republican mitch mcconnell holds giant influence here. mcconnell said he will listen to the legal arguments, meaning a vote to convict is possible. that makes the second public impeachment trial very different. remember, mcconnell was a firm no from the beginning in the first. five or six votes are against the president, but 17 would be needed to reach what's needed for conviction. follow the leader is very much a thing among senate republicans, so mcconnell's choice will very much heavily sway the final math. the president is vexed that his aides and allies, including mitch mcconnell, are not rushing to assist him. the impeachment trial just one of the daunting day on

john king, give us a sense of the climate in georgia. people are voting right now. everything is this coronavirus pandemic. >> it is. we're here on election night. normally we talk about red and blue. i want to put this up. the deeper the red, that's the higher the rate of covid in these counties across america. let's go to the state of georgia as we look at this. look at all of the red. covid is everywhere. across america. in the middle right now of the fall into the winter peak and the surge but look at all of this red. look especially where it is. it is everywhere in georgia which was at the forefront of the reopening debate. governor kemp siding with president trump. they are rivals now in some ways. rural georgia, in trump country, that's why you see those numbers so hard. everybody is being hit by this. everybody is seeing a personal health care effect or economic effect. as the months have gone on, covid is everywhere. it's changing how people are voting. that's why we're seeing all of these mail-in ballots and early voting. wolf, georgia is going through wha

here with john king. the joint session at the top of the hour normally, normally we cover this over the years, ceremony, choose highlights, these are not normal times. >> this is supposed to be another one of the rituals laid out by the founders, a ritual to celebrate the peaceful transfer of pow er, re-election of a president. this is the firewall to stop the scorched earth attacks. we've been through the process already. the states meet. the electors vote in december. not normally supposed to be drama. those votes are then sent to d.c. boom, january 26th, they come in to session to count the votes. supposed to be a secelebration. spelled out clearly in federal law. when? the sixth day of january. 1:00. this is all done to show the strength of democracy every four years to reaffirm the strength of democracy but this time it is interesting. normally two senators, two members of the house from each other party are tellers. the clerks to move the process along. here's arizona, alabama, routine process. the

let me bring john king into this. sident bill clinton and hillary clinton will be there. former president george w. bush, laura bush will be there. barack obama, michelle obama will be there, and the current vice president, soon to be former vice president mike pence will be there as well. current president will not be there. >> always a critical part of a presidential inaugural to show the peaceful transition of power. a day which partisanship is not supposed to matter. all the more so important today because the president who is leaving town, who has now left town, does not respect those traditions. and the president who has now left town inspired an attack on that building you're seeing on the screen right now where the inauguration will take place. all the more important the united states said a signal to the world that democracy survived and repelled an attack from within. an attack inspired by the very president of the united states. and i think what jeff zeleny just said about the tone is very important. we sat

let's get to more with all of this, chief national correspondent john king is with us and chief medical expert dr. sanjay gupta. what went through your mind as both a doctor and a journalist as you watched the first official biden administration covid-19 briefing earlier today? you've been calling for more transparency. are you satisfied with what you saw and heard today? >> yeah, wolf. i mean, i think there was a lot of information that was given. this is the sort of briefing that i think we have been hoping for, for some time. very specific details. what are the adverse event rates with the vaccines? we talked about those allergic reactions. dr. walensky said somewhere between two and six in a million. we got a better idea on that. how effective are these vaccines against the variants? big question. dr. fauci addressed that today, and the news was encouraging. where are some of these vaccines? we hear about the numbers that have been distributed but only half have been administered. why is that? andy slavitt sort of addressed that. there's still going to be questions. obviously there'

i am john king. we begin a consequential work week.re signs of global progress in the fight against the virus. the uk rolling out a third vaccine, even as the prime minister says additional restrictions are needed to tame rising case load there. here in the states, the first nurse to receive the vaccine in california gets a second dose and hopefully immunity

i am john king. we begin a consequential work week. there are signs of global progress in the fight against the virus. the uk rolling out a third vaccine, even as the prime minister says additional restrictions are needed to tame rising case load there. here in the states, the first nurse to receive the vaccine in california gets a second dose and hopefully immunity. vaccine rollout is well behind what the trump white house promised and the new year includes a question asked too many times in 2020, why and how did we screw this thing up. the president lashing out at the surrender caucus, by that, he means republicans that won't back up his baseless election fraud challenge. the fresh attack is the day after response to a simply stunning tape that exposes the depth of the president's election obsession and frankly, the depth of his corruption. after weeks of trying, the president got the georgia top election official on the phone saturday. the call about an hour. the president did most of the talking. the leader of the free world, threa