on the other side some of the 20,000 national guardsman arriving here in washington right now. the security threat is real. the pentagon said it is worried about more improvised explosive devices, pipe bombs like those leftowd of the rnc and the dnc and the het of the metropolitan police department said there is a reason why they want downtown emptied out now. here is what he said. >> as the mayor has encouraged residents and encouraged visitors from around the country, we're not asking people to come to d.c. for this. there is a major security threat and we are working to mitigate those threats so again we are just intently focused on the job that is at hand. >> the fortress here is nothing short of impressive and you could see some of the national guardsman hereef heavily armed with m-4 guns and they would be met with a lot of fire power. we're not sure the extent of the new threats and we might find out more later on today when vice president mike pence meets with fema about this inauguration like no other. poppy and jim. >> fortress washington. new reality. pete muntean, th

more than 20,000 national guardsman will be deployed by january 20th. i have to share, i've traveled the world for more than 25 years, i've never seen a military presence like this outside of a war zone. we are now also getting new video of the rioters in helmets and tactical vests during the deadly mob attack that left five people dead. poppy, it is the organization, the preparedness of this that is most alarming. >> that is right. and the group going on to sing the national anthem as they defaced a see symbol of american democracy, the people's house, those people showing distorted sense of patriotism. they terrorized brave police officers sworn to serve and protect. one of the officers said the rioters even threatened to kill him wiz w -- with his own gun. >> they are were pulling the badge on my chest. they ripped my radio off my vest. some guys started getting ahold of my gun and they were screaming out, you know, kill him with his own gun. >> wow, we're covering all of this with our team of reporter this is hour. let's begin with jessica schneider

you mentioned 25,000 national guardsman on ground. they are giving them more layers of vetting to head off any insider threats but officials saying they don't have specific intelligence indicating that there are insider threats among the national guard and the chief spoke about that not long ago. take a listen. >> it is not a threat for me. i'm not concerned about that at all. when we look at our national guardsman, we vet them throughout the process. and we don't allow extremism of any type in our organization. and when we look at this as a national special security event, the inauguration, this type of vetting is standard with all of these events. >> reporter: so, you've got the vetting of the national guard and many layers of security. i'm going to show you an extraordinary one right here. we're on the 14th street bridge. what is amazing to look at is just look behind me. they're letting traffic go from d.c. to virginia right there. but no trax coming from virginia into washington. extraordinary because this bridge is never shut dow

even if someone did get on the other side of this, there will be met by national guardsman with m-4 gunsvery serious here. we may get a little bit of an update about the extent of the threats from mike pence later on as he meets with fema about the inauguration like no other. >> it is almost unbelievable to see what you're looking at right now. thank you for setting the stage. >>> joining me now is jason crow from colorado for more on this. it is unbelievable to see that on the national mall at this moment. >> it is unbelievable, kate. i haven't seen a sight like that since i was in iraq in a war zone. it is truly heartbreaking to see the pam pee on of our democracy, a place that so many hold so dear and sacred to us to be turned into a war zone like that. we saw the birth of a domestic terror movement last week and we'll have to deal with that in the months and years ahead. >> congressman, i was struck when talking about inauguration security, you told my colleague john berman that you didn't know yet if you felt the inauguration was going to be safe. why is that? >> well, i went into j

people charged in the riot are current or former military, including at least one off-duty national guardsmanhe fbi is part of it. the secret service is part of it. once they are certain that there's no insider threat than that soldier, guardsman or airman is given a credential. >> the military has had obviously an issue for several years of troops being radicalized in some form or fashion. the issue i see is you can't vet 25,000 people in a few days it's not realistic so we'll have to see how it works out. >> all unfolding under the looming shadow historic second impeachment trial for president trump. what's is clear there's growing rift in the republican party, contentious divide after ten moving over to impeach. >> would need 17 republicans to vote to convict, unclear if that happens, would be surprising but not impossible. what significant is many republicans haven't said or ruled out voting to convict him. >> a post-trump white house is less than 48 hours away. leaving his 74 million voters to write the next chapter. >> i'm not too concerned about our party coming back together. i think

. >>> finally, the music teacher and national guardsman doing double duty and inspiring america.e's gadi schwartz >> reporter: there is something stirring about the images of the soldiers in the capitol and among them, there is one whose head is filled with the sounds of the bassoon. dr. jacob cohen, elementary school band teacher and sergeant in the d.c. national guard still finds time in between protecting congress to teach class from his humvee. are your kids ever worried about you? >> i try to talk about it at the beginning, just saying don't worry about me we're good over here >> reporter: just like so many others, when the call came, he answered >> the boots are there, right in the next room, with the uniform and it's always ready to go so you know, that's just who we are. that's the way we live you will start with your - >> reporter: for dr. cohen, at least there's zoom >> during this time especially during the pandemic, things have been so turbulent and uncertain that if i can provide a little bit of stability, i'm all in >> reporter: now teaching lessons of duty and musi

one police officer, brian sicknick, a former air national guardsman, died from the assault.tester was shot dead and several others perished from what were described as medical emergencies. all this happened because the president wouldn't accept not just an election result, but the rulings of judges and, ultimately, the decision of congress. finally on thursday, two months and an incalculable toll in damage to the fabric and reputation to american democracy, the president backed down. >> i would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the united states capitol. like all americans, i am outraged by the violence are, lawlessness and mayhem. now congress has certified the results. a new administration will be unaugust rated on january 20th -- inaugurated. my focus now turns to insuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. this moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people. gerry: now let's be clear, we've said it on this show before, and we will say it again. much of what happened in the 2020 election was hi

the ones that are able to get close to joe biden and they are heavily armed i spoke to one national guardsman today and he said of course yes there are both sides of the political aisle representatives within the national guard and there are certainly trying supporters some that are very frustrated of old joe biden selection victory many that don't believe that victory of course and again they are armed so it's a big challenge certainly but the f.b.i. also remains optimistic that they have the situation under control that's now been nearly 2 weeks since extremists stormed the u.s. capital what is the state of the investigation into that. so several hundreds have been arrested so far 2 in washington d.c. over the last days i witnessed one the other one have been earlier in the in the last week where an armed individual with 500 rounds of ammunition was cause she was trying to get inside the capitol perimeter with fake id credentials so really tensions are running high here what also became clear in the investigation is that lawmakers were involved in planning the attack on the capitol some 3 r

the ones that are able to get close to joe biden and they are heavily armed i spoke to one national guardsman today and he said of course yes there are both sides of the political aisle representatives within the national guard and there are certainly trying supporters some that are very frustrated about joe biden's election victory many that don't believe that victory of course and again they are armed so it's a big challenge certainly but the f.b.i. also remains optimistic that they have the situation under control that's now been nearly 2 weeks since extremists stormed the u.s. capital what is the state of the investigation into that. so several hundreds have been arrested so far 2 in washington d.c. over the last days i witnessed one the other one have been earlier. last week where an armed individual with 500 rounds of ammunition was called he was trying to get inside the capitol perimeter with fake id credentials so really tensions are running high here what also became clear in the investigation is that lawmakers were involved in planning the attack on the capitol some 3 republican law

security issues when you go back and look at the people who raided the capitol we see that national guardsman veterans military veterans police from around the nation were part of those. insurrectionists that hit the capitol we have to ask ourselves what is we just had because the joint chiefs of staff sent a letter to every member of the military service saying that they swore an oath to the constitution essentially as a way to remind people you know who have been potentially radicalized within their services in the military in the national guard that there is no role for that so there is a bit of a fear of what do we have with in our security. services it is sitting and it is like a cancer or an ulcer growing there that we haven't seen before so yes the nation is divided but there is a cancer that can be cut out i think that needs to be cut out. and we must not make make the mistake of thinking that all republicans share these views they don't . stay very great talking to extraordinary times is going to be an extraordinary inauguration the secret service indeed going to be i was saying that

national guardsman surround the building. there were about 100 people ho showed up today. and roughly a dozen came armed. this man was one of them, he said he represents the boogaloo boys of michigan and didn't want to tell his name. what is the purpose of coming armed? >> just a thing, kind of our thing what we do. >> are you antigovernment. >> i mean, not exactly. we don't like the massive overreach of a lot of branches of the government. >> are you far right. >> no. >> are you extremist. >> no. >> are you a militia? >> i mean, not really. we're just kind of loose, everybody has got their own ideals. >> reporter: michigan's capitol has experienced armed protests before. back in april armed demonstrators went inside the capitol. then, in october, state and federal officials say they foiled a militia plot to kidnap the governor gretchen whitmer. a new cbs news poll out today finds more than 70% of those surveyed thinks the u.s. democracy is threatened. and a majority of people expect political violence to increase. >> we are seeing an extensive amount of concerning online

enforcement in the military so a series of vetting procedures about the backgrounds of individual national guardsman for instance in this case that are deployed to washington d.c. . that goes on on a routine basis it's accelerated because of the inauguration and the unique circumstances but the there are well defined processes that. f.b.i. and other other agencies follow to sort out what kind of connections to groups extremist groups or or other sort of pronouncements of disloyalty or or hostility to the federal government. the unprecedented security arrangements in the pandemic make joe biden's integration very different from those in the suburbs hansen reports from washington d.c. . joe biden is calling on the public to stay away from him nor girl events a request he'd already made due to the pandemic but one that's taken on added emphasis since the riots of january the 6 nonetheless seats have been installed on the west side of the capitol where biden will take the oath of office at noon on january the 20th it's clear that the president elect felt it was important that the entire inauguration not

enforcement in the military so a series of vetting procedures about the backgrounds of individual national guardsman for instance in this case that are deployed to washington d.c. . that goes on on a routine basis it's accelerated because of the you know your ration and the unique circumstances but the there are well defined processes that the f.b.i. and other other agencies follow to sort out what kind of connections to groups extremist groups or or other sort of minutes of disloyalty or or hostility to the federal government or other other government entities it's interesting that the f.b.i. have described these far right groups on paul with isis do you think that the current situation the concept from these far right groups is as bad as that. yeah i think i think. the u.s. department of homeland security in this past october did its annual national threat assessment and they identify extremist organizations most of which domestic extremist organizations most of which are are white nationalist organizations as the most pervasive in significant domestic terror threat in the united states so it's a

under tight security to prevent similar scenes to those witnessed at the capitol 2 weeks ago 12 national guardsman been stood down because of suspected links to far right groups. here we are today. are very.

and with news that at least one off-duty national guardsman has been arrested for storming the capitol and other veterans part of the siege, all of the guardsmen are being vetted for possible insider threats. >> the fbi is part of it, the secret service is part of it and once they are certain that there's no insider threat, then that soldier, guardsman or airman is given a credential. >> reporter: meanwhile, federal law enforcement continues to round up rioters. jon schaffer, an indiana heavy metal musician, turning himself in sunday. a former acquaintance of riley june williams, authorities say that's her in the green t-shirt, told them williams was trying to sell a computer taken from nancy pelosi's office to russian intelligence. authorities say she's still on the run. and couy griffin, a new mexico county commissioner who leads the group cowboys for trump, promised in this meeting to return to d.c. with guns. >> i'm going to leave either tonight or tomorrow. i've got a .357 henry big boy rifle, lever-action, that i've got in the trunk of my car. >> reporter: the fbi says griffin wa

other story that's what they're protecting against and that's why they're interviewing those national guardsman. john hendren reporting live from washington d.c. many thanks joe. at least 20 people have been killed in sudan and south stands for regional fighting between rival tribes dozens of people injured in the charter wheeler more than 100 were killed in violence in neighboring west of 4 on sunday al-jazeera skipper morgan as the latest from khartoum. well we spoke to the tribal chief of the most highly that is a dominant tribe there in south dark core and he said that at least 20 people have been killed dozens have been injured but this does not start on monday this started back on past a day when fighting between the 2 sides the most obvious and the arab led to death of one of the people fighting one of the herders in involved in the clashes and then they try to ease the tension further travel to said that they've tried to hold talks they've tried to restrain the situation and get it under control but failed to do so which is why on monday morning clashes erupted between the arabs and the

confirmation hearing via video link right now she'll be the 1st woman to serve in that role and 2 national guardsman brought in to help with what the state's an ok ration of been dismissed because of links to far right militias the f.b.i. has been running background checks on all 25000 troops over fears of an insider attack. security forces in guatemala blocks thousands of refugees and migrants from central america from trying to reach the united states traveling at a large group known as a caravan they reached the town of votto hondo where a fierce wall of resistance awaited them john holdren reports. the moment. what's modern police broke up a caravan of thousands of people from honduras. they were trying to get to the u.s. but they hadn't made it far just about to turn 50 kilometers into guatemala the 1st country on their route to the un was the security forces stopped them on saturday saying they needed covert tests and papers to pass since then they've been camped out on the highway well a huge traffic jam build up behind them. now the lorries are running again but the problems of these people

day on wednesday itself they're being put off by the sheer show of strength more than 20000 national guardsman you have the u.s. marshal service secret service park police metropolitan police and a number of other agencies that are ready to move in at a moment's notice and also discussions between the secret service and the department of defense so you can see that they're trying to leave no stone unturned we know that on thursday there was a paper exercise which was carried out essentially the bosses all thinking of every possible scenario that could come their way and seemed to be relatively relaxed that they had the numbers available and of course with some of those who were involved in the incident last wednesday finding themselves on the no fly list they will find it incredibly difficult to get into washington d.c. a state a city that has some of the toughest gun laws in the united states and you had media oboes a reference that saying that it's up to businesses to put up signs saying no guns welcome here and to report to police anyone they see carrying weapons or island folks who are tel

national guard. but they are vetting the guardsman further. more and more layers of vetting for the guardsman just to make sure. here is another layer, this is the 14th street bridge from virginia to washington, d.c. extraordinary scene here. empty. this is one of the most heavily trafficked bridges in the mid-atlantic region, part of the 14th street bridge shut down only to people who are -- to everyone except for people who could prove they live in this area or security vehicles. but really hardly any traffic coming this way. they are letting traffic go from d.c. into virginia. but this extraordinary measure, this bridge seeing no traffic on this is really incredible because between these two bridges and the two others, the memorial bridge and the theodore roosevelt bridge to the north of us, those are also shut down. about 800,000 cars a day pass over those two bridges. so to not see any cars on the bridges, an extraordinary visual and extraordinary example of the security measures here. >> totally. and remember why it is happening. it does

he's a national guardsman himself and he believes that there's any sort of insight threat which has been discussed in the recent news in recent days. he believes they will find it before anything happens. he believes that they will have this area secure and he is very confident in that. >>and kelly any idea what to joe biden will be saying tomorrow after he gets sworn in. >>we're expecting him to address healing in his first address as president of the united states, healing bulls from the ongoing pandemic as well as from the attack on the u.s. capitol which happened 2 weeks ago tomorrow when he makes that address at the capitol we're told he's been working on this speech through the weekend and he's expected to address both healing and unity kelli meyer live for us washington dc kelly, thank you very much. >>well on the eve of his final day in office president trump released a farewell video address posted on a white house twitter account. >>this week we had a great day, new administration. and pray for its success in keeping america safe and prosperous want to thank the american people

. >> bill: mexico sent another 1500 national guardsman to its southern border and six buses to deport any who get through. remember these hondurans are in a foreign country and they don't know the roads. one message our producer asking the best way to cross into mexico. she said, however, they do know that president trump is leaving tomorrow and anticipate biden will open the border. they want to get in line. what we don't know and biden has not said is when or if he will suspend title 42. that's the blanket denial of entry imposed by trump because of covid. which is raging south of the border and inside the caravan with no distancing, few masks, 21 who tested positive and sought medical attention. >> it is a human petri dish opportunity for the transmission of a very trance missable virus. >> covid right now is allowing incoming president biden to buy time. irony is they haven't figured out a way to reject everything trump and are afraid to reject his policies without resuming a surge on the border. harris. >> harris: may already be too late for that. when you look at the pictures th

i mean, a bulletin talking about armed protests in all 50 state capitols and now more national guardsman in d.c. by factor of four than in all of afghanistan today. at least. >> yes. and so this is now pre-positioning because we're taking this threat seriously. as you know, i have been arguing, this is domestic terrorism. we're in the largest domestic terrorism effort i think against an internal threat that is not the civil war. and we have to treat it as such. we have been too nice, i would say, so far as trump began to radicalize his extreme supporters and we weren't calling it what it was. now that we're calling it what it is, you're seeing the fbi move forward into a traditional counter terrorism effort. get ready because we don't know what will happen and secondly massive arrests. the public arrests are purposeful because they are saying to the radical element within trump supporters, he's not saving you. he is not saving you and that is a good thing. >> you have to that point exactly, julia, had a new piece in the atlantic this morning and you write viewing trump's insurrection unl

to prevent scenes similar to those witnessed at the capitol 2 weeks ago 12 national guardsman have been removed from duty 2 of them because of suspected links to far right groups. let's start with the coronavirus situation in the u.s. and again i joins us live from miami florida and it's an extraordinary numbers and it really isn't in the last few minutes lauren president trump has announced he's given commendations to the entire speech team but if you look at how we got to this point 400000 people dead 400000 americans that's about the same number that died in world war 2 we've had a completely failed federal response in terms of ministration never put a joined up plan into place but it's not just on them the states failed to put mask mandates in place because of course it became a political issue and over the last year we've had so much dissin from ation that people are simply lost as to how to tackle and deal with this pandemic so here we are at this point where last month we had 300000 deaths and it only took a month to get 240-0000 let's see what this pandemic is doing to this nati

a mob starts pushing through a gate or a checkpoint, what are the responsibilities of that national guardsman? they are there to monitor and shore up. the police officers, police department and others and law enforcement would actually be charged with dealing with that particular situation, but again, there are a lot of americans saying, why wasn't anyone shot? why weren't there warning shots? clearly, it had moved past any possibility of de-escalation. lives were being put at risk. people were already being trampled. mob rule had already taken over. not for my purposes, but i figured everyone else will know about it. what are those levels? we are not just talking about securing a building. we are talking about securing a building in which the electors and the certifications are being certified. this is the heart of our democracy that would be interrupted. how does that aspect play into how they should respond? that is not just a normal interaction where you can go normal rules of engagement. there is an inauguration. president-elect biden has to make his way to the white house at some clearl

same violent people will return and that's one of the reasons we're seeing the deployment of national guardsmantory of six yesterday. they've lined the capitol building with higher fencing, similar to the white house right now. by not attending is the president further fuelling folks like that not just to not accept his loss but to protest on that day? >> it's an interesting question. i'm not sure about that. my hope would be -- of course, hoping anything trump to do that's decent usually is in vain -- but my hope would be he would tell his followers to stay home. he's not going to be there, they shouldn't be there. and i think that would be -- i think it would be -- it would lessen these concerns. we'll be in a period for months to m come when higher security alerts are going to be prevailing all over washington. don't you feel that? it's in the air here. i've heard a couple stories the last couple days about the security. security concerns were skyrocketing. >> it's not just a feel, david, i will tell you that risk has been mentioned to me because these groups have not disappeared. and by the

announced it's vetting each of the 25,000 national guardsman deployed for inauguration security. uesday morning, two national guard members were removed from the post, reportedly because of ties to right wing extremist groups. >> let me be clear: extremism is not tolerated in any branch of the united states military. >> nawaz: but beirich says the pentagon, like many institutions, has long failed to take seriously extremism in its ranks. >> it's pretty late in the game to be figuring out if u've got a committed white supremacists who's already inside the security barriers. >> nawaz: fears of inauguration day violence also have state capitals across the country on high alert. more than a dozen have activated their own national guard. but the f.b.i.'s previous warning of potentially violent activity leading up to the inauguration has not borne out. a sunday protest at the michigan statehouse was attended by heavily armed members of the“ boogaloo bois,” a right-wing extremist group, but remained peaceful. here's one of their members, 22- year-old timothy teagan: >> the 6th changed ev

i know governor abbott was upset, questioning an army reservist from new jersey, a former national guardsman from massachusetts and the fbi this morning reported they're seeing some ramblings online that some people are allegedly planning to disguise themselves as national guard members. one of the reasons they want everyone vetted. it's not that they don't trust the national guard. it's they don't trust some fringe element extremists that have the mindset of those involved last week on january 6th. >> harris: but cohen didn't actually say that though. emily? >> right. respectfully, leslie, i think your point goes to exactly why they are vetting, but i do think that there's a tremendous casm between vetting the national guard and the thought that these troops would somehow betray their country. this is irresponsible, unsubstant kwraeuted to those men and women who are putting their lives on the line to protect the transfer of power. i come from a really strong military family, but i don't think you have to, to see how offensive this is. to me, it interferes with concept of duty and honor tha

his daughter and most recently he lost his son beau who we all know was an amazing hero, a national guardsmanhe opportunity to talk about how he is expected loss and how so many other americans have experienced loss through the coronavirus of late. and he'll pivot toward moving america into a better place and one that everybody can come together so we can come back. so many issues facing americans. >> all right. thank you. so for your time. greatly appreciate your insights as always. >> thank you. >>> as we've been reporting, a lot of developments on capitol hill and it certainly continues to be that way. we are just learning that chuck schumer is meeting with mitch mcconnell in hoifs. minority leader schumer telling our news team, quote, we have a lot of issues we can move forward on. this as confirmation hearings are still underway for president-elect's cabinet. when will his nominees actually get confirmed? we'll have more on that with bob casey coming up on the other side of this break. the other side of this break like heart disease, risk s diabetes and raised triglycerides,... ...vascep

the ones that are able to get close to joe biden and they are heavily armed i spoke to one national guardsman today and he said of course yes there are both sides of the political aisle are represented within the national guard and there are certainly trying supporters some that are very frustrated about joe biden's election victory many that don't believe that victory of course and again they are armed so it's a big challenge certainly but the f.b.i. also remains optimistic that they have the situation under control that's now been nearly 2 weeks since extremists stormed the u.s. capital what is the state of the investigation into that. so several hundreds have been arrested so far 2 in washington d.c. over the last days i witnessed one the other one have been earlier. in the last week where an armed individual with 500 rounds of ammunition was called he was trying to get inside the capitol perimeter with fake id credentials so really tensions are running high here what also became clear in the investigation there is a lawmakers were involved in planning the attack on the capitol some 3 repu

right now is you're going to hear knock, knock, knock on the door and you're going to hear a national guardsmangot another 92,000 of these vaccines here and i don't know where to put them because the warehouse is full. while we're developing, you know, a system or a strategy or whatever it may be, you've got people dyeing. i mean for crying out loud, you can't have all of these vaccines setting in a warehouse. even today, alex, you've got 49,000 that have been distributed and 27,000 -- i'm sorry, 49 million and 27 million that are in somebody's arm. we're screaming in west virginia for vaccine. why in the world we don't go to different states and pull some around and shift some around because really at the end of the day, all states are americans and every hour that goes by, somebody is dyeing and we can save lives if we move. but if we don't and we continue to do what we're doing and hoard and try to protect and do all of that kind of stuff, we're going to have bad stuff happen. >> absolutely. it seems like you have to keep an eye on many different balls, juggling them all at the same time to

buildings are chained, have fences around them, razor wire around the top, every few feet a national guardsmanrrying military-type weapons. it looks like we've been occupied by another country right now, and it's just -- it's not a sign of liberty. it's a sign of force, it's a sign of a new administration which many are fearful of as it rams socialism could down our t. we've got to back off. we are a land of the free, we've got to act like it, and we've got to quit this show of force and intimidation. charles: yeah. yeah, no, i get the political shenanigans that go on on both sides, but the national guard should never be used as a prop. congressman hice, thank you very much, appreciate it. we've got a fox business exclusive right now. sources say republican lobbyists are targeting some key democratic lawmakers to take out some elements of president biden's covid relief plan. charlie gasparino has the details. charlie. >> yeah, charles, and i heard what your last guest said about the biden-planned green new deal, $1.9 trillion in covid spending,nd go on and on. but i think one of the reasons wh

but then we have to staff all those places, and that's why the use of national guardsman suggestion i think is good, but we're going to have to do a lot more, train a lot more people in allied health forces, try to get, as you said, medical students, retired physicians, pharmacists, everybody that we can get trained to administer this. the other thing is we need better systems to identify people who need to be vaccinated. it's easier to identify health care workers, easier to identify long-term care facility residents, but what about everybody else who's over 65 or an essential worker? you know, potentially people who may not have a job right now or who may not have health insurance right now. and so, states will need to do a lot better job of creating registries to identify those people so we can get people moving through those vaccinations. >> these all sound like amazing ideas. in an hour, i'll be talking to celine gounder, who is part of the task force from the biden administration, so we're going to talk more about this, because all of that stuff that you just said needs to happe

so i'm confident that the numbers, the thousands and thousands of national guardsman and law enforcement who will be around will make the capitol safe. and i'm also very confident that the fbi and other law enforcement agencies that are out there tracking down people are doing their job as well. so there is a very aggressive response to this and that's about all we could say about it. we don't want to get too much into the specifics because a lot of the communication has dried up for a number of these people because they've been banned from some of the social media platforms like the president has. >> congressman, if you could stick with me, i do need to jump over to the capitol. rules committee is getting underway. here is the chairman of the rules committee. congressman mcgovern. >> -- ignoring his repeated lies in court decision after court decision. the president openedly called for the vice president to ignore his constitutional obligations and block the certification of joe biden's victory in the congress on january 6th. when the vice president chose his oath to the nation, over pe

. >> mexico has sent another 1500 national guardsman to its border with guatemala and six buses to deport anyone they apprehend. what makes this difference from previous caravans is covid. the virus is raging in both countries. yesterday the mexican president said they would stop the migrants from crossing into mexico but he also supports a bill to legalize the roughly 6 million mexican and 5 million northern triangle migrants living in the u.s. illegally. former ice director tom homan says it will only encourage more caravans. >> stop the illegal behavior first. congress can fix it three loopholes to close for three years. stop the surge from coming. that has to happen first. >> the fear in mexico is that they will be overwhelmed once again in places like tijuana streets filled with people from haiti, cuba, central america. finally, because the united states is not letting people in because of covid, probably for several more months, you will have that backup and that would be a repeat of the scenes we've seen back in 2018. dana. >> dana: interesting different situation but still the sam

yeah, i mean, look, the qanon conspiracy theory of, well, someone could go and pretend to be a national guardsman and sneak in, that sounds a little bit more like a tv show and not necessarily a good tv show. but this insider threat is a different question, and i think when you see the number of ex-military and ex-law enforcement involved in the violence and congress, there is a much greater concern now among the ranks. do we have a problem here? is anyone here, you know, radicalized to the extent that they might do something? that's a real worry that they have to worry about that in a way they haven't had to before. >> it's a terrifying state of affairs. devlin barrett, thank you for spending time with us. claire and donna, i'm thinking of both of you. claire, your time on the homeland security committee, donna, your time and your service. is there an appropriate historical parallel for a crisis like this one? >> there isn't a historic -- there is no parallel. this is completely and totally different. now, i will say that over the years, beginning with oklahoma city bombing, and once again rampe

in that regard i want to thank all the national guard including 300 kentucky guardsman at local and federal law enforcement to help supplement our own capitol capitol police in the wake of january the sixth. your congresste in your country appreciate all you've done to secure the capitol and the inauguration. later today i'll have the honor of meeting a number of my kentuckians live in helping out here at the capitol. it's going to be the highlight of my day. in the near future congress needs to spark a transmission towards us more secure presents keep in the capitol said cannot and will will require huge numbersre of uniformed troops ad emergency fencing should remain in place forever but the inauguration behind us we should find the right middle ground between the unacceptable left three weeks ago and extraordinarily short term measure put in place since that time. in the meantime we need to make darned sure that we look after the men and women who look after us. mr. president on a totally different matter what business proceeds on the florida democratic leader and i continue to flush up

the fbi vetting national guardsman. they have been briefing the biden campaign in recent days. one of their real concerns would be for this influx of out of state national guardsmen or other law enforcement agencies, local police worried there could be a threat posed from within. they have been leaning on the biden camp to really consider. let's be clear. the secret service always looks for the most safe, cautious approach. they will represent the principal on a variety of options. there has been growing intensity in the last 72 to 96 hours, fears that something could happen. we have been on high alert since the capitol attack. they are urging the president-elect to really consider moving something indoors to a more secure facility. to this point biden and his team are saying no. there will be incredible security lockdown, incredible presence. this inauguration was going to look different anyway because of the pandemic. there are some visitors but a much smaller group than usual because biden told me, celebrate at home. it is not safe because of the pandemic. now of course there

he was a state policeman from virginia, an active duty national guardsman. that has military officials concerned and they have put out letters to the force saying as much and calling for calm and telling members of the u.s. military to follow the law. back to you. >> sandra: thank you, jennifer griffin live at the nation's capital. >> it is not just in d.c. a lot of states are stepping up security ahead of wednesday's inauguration. california governor calls in the national guard to help protect the state capitol and other government buildings. workers are installing fencing around the capitol building in sacramento. crews are adding concrete barriers around the state capitol building in new york in albany. >> sandra: let's bring in bill mcgurn, former speech writer to president george w. bush and fox news contributor. it's something for all of us, for the american people to see the added security measures happening in washington just to secure the inauguration. 20,000 troops in our nation's capitol. what do you think when you see that? >> well, i think it's

of course we've seen the images of the national guardsmen, the armed guardsman inside the capitol. they slept there last night. they'll be sleeping there at least through wednesday, we're told. thousands of guardsmen descending on the capitol after what we saw unfold last night. it looks like one additional congressman has voted. oh, look at that. two additional congressmen or women have voted as we get ready to start this debate. to your point earlier, hallie, when this debate does start, this historic debate, we are committed to bringing it to you over the next few hours as these lawmakers make the case for and against impeachment. leigh ann caldwell will also of course be watching and listening closely. leigh ann, for folk who is don't do this for a living, walk us through what we are going to see and hear unfold. we know that house speaker nancy pelosi will be speaking first. what happens after this? >> reporter: speaker pelosi will speak first and that's a strong signal how important this is and how historic this is. speaker pelosi doesn't speak often on the house floor for de