vinjamuri: we've heard from president trump.t that message out, saying we needed to accept the results, that there needed to be an orderly transition, but the fight would continue. when we listen to this president, and i'm certainly hoping we won't have to listen a whole lot longer, when we listen to this president, we are listening to see how any different audiences he is speaking to in a single sentence. he manages to say just enough to make him moderately legitimate, and that is getting really tough, while still sending dog whistles and signals to that very slim hard-core base, that is willing to violate the most basic norms of our democracy. we saw that last night. that is not emblematic of even all of his base. that is a minority of thugs and extremists that were willing to take it far beyond what most republican voters and most of donald trump's base. tom: i stand corrected if i am wrong but the bottom line is that they listened to a speech by the president, walked down the path to the capital and then we saw what we saw.

us, leslie vinjamuri from chatham house. joe biden focus on foreign policy as opposed to domestic issues? leslie: well, if you listen to the biden team, as we all have come and continue to do, they are making it very clear that domestic policy and foreign policy are two sides of the same coin, strength abroad has got to be premised on what works for americans, what works for the u.s. middle-class. i think we are going to see an immediate move into thinking very strategically about america's foreign policy from day one, reinvesting in alliances in order to do that, really working very carefully with e.u., with europe, with u.k. on the challenges of china, of trade and investment, on the question of a jcpoa, the iran deal, and any number of broader strategic questions, clearly the domestic agenda will occupy so much of the president's time, and i think the fact that he's taken susan rice and put her in a domestic role shows both the intentions to integrate the two sides of the biden agenda, domestic and foreign, but also of su

francine: leslie vinjamuri, chatham house head of the u.s. and america's program. let's get to first word news with karina mitchell. karina: the biden administration is trying to get republicans on board with a plan. the measure is 1.9 trillion dollar price tag has led to growing opposition from republicans. president biden's pickford treasury secretary is leaving the door open to a tax increase. -- pick for treasury secretary is leaving the door open to a tax increase. the money would be used on infrastructure and expanding social safety nets. infectious disease expert anthony fauci says it feels "liberating" to work with president biden, that after donald trump tried to sideline him often in the fight against the virus. dr. fauci: says he had to -- dr. fauci says he had to contradict the previous president at times. and a bleak picture of the virus warning that new strains may lead to longer, more restrictive lockdowns, and there is no indication of when the lockdowns will be lifted. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at bloomberg quicktake, powered by more t

leslie vinjamuri is the head of the u.s. and americas program at chatham house.d day after saudi arabia agreed to cut crude output. in an exclusive interview, annmarie hordern spoke with saudi energy minister prince bin salman about the kingdom's surprise decision. is due to commercial rather than political choice or political aspiration or objectives. annmarie: i want to get a sense about why the turnaround yesterday. time bringingt of the laggards in and you said --t you spent a lot of time bringing the laggards in, and you said many times to me last year that saudi arabia will not go it alone. you want everyone to cut equally and share the burden. now, you are sharing a big burden with this one million barrel per day cut. why the u-turn? >> we did not consult with anybody. we felt that asking our partners for additional restrictions is going to be too excruciating for all of them. we opted to take that option which is a simple, easy option. we know for certain that we could do it. as you have just said, it is going to be confined to a two month period, which i

let's talk to dr leslie vinjamuri, director of the us programme at chatham house. to you so much over the course of this year. give me your perspective on the events we saw on wednesday and what might be the longer term indications of that?|j think longer term indications of that?” think they were deeply disturbing. watching them in real time, many of us were watching them in real time, many of us were stunned. not because we didn't expect protests and some might turn violent, but nobody imagined quite what we would see. it was also difficult to tell what was happening. in the days since, we have seen video clips from inside the capitol. we have seen the scales of violence. there were many elements gathered in the mall and in the capital. some were supporters of trump but were peacefully protesting. then there was a disturbing deep far right using violence and inside the capital. now, we have seen people having to ta ke now, we have seen people having to take a clear view as to whether they will, not only disassociate themselves from the violence on capitol hill, t

leslie vinjamuri, thanks so much. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >>> now, parler that social media platform has been effectively shut down. apple and google have removed the app from their online stores and amazon will revoke its web service on sunday night and that of course pretty much renders it homeless out there on the internet. the app is popular among u.s. conservativ conservatives, but both apple and amazon terminated service saying parler hadn't done enough to prevent the spread of dangerous and illegal content. this comes after u.s. president donald trump and his campaign team were permanently banned from twitter due to a future risk of, quote, further incitement of violence. >>> big tech companies have been struggling to get a handle on president trump's online activity for years. earlier i spoke with veteran journalist lawrence pintack and asked if the attack on the u.s. capitol will be seen as the culmination of the president's time in office. >> small lies set the stage for the big lie. the de

let's get more on this and speak to dr leslie vinjamuri, director of the us programme at chatham houseed, hadn't he, about his plan to try and combat the virus, 100 million vaccines in his plan to try and combat the virus,100 million vaccines in his 100 days in office, his first 100 days, people wearing masks, getting children back to school, boosting the economy. this to $1 trillion package, what sort of inroads could that make and is he going to be able to get that through congress quite easily? to get that through congress quite easil ? ~ ., . ~' to get that through congress quite easil ? ~ ., ., ,, ., easily? well, it would make an extraordinary _ easily? well, it would make an extraordinary difference, i easily? well, it would make an i extraordinary difference, remember, congress has been fighting over this and only managed to agree a very small portion of it at the last minute. after many months of deep partisanship, so the question now, as you rightly say, is will he be able to get this through? it would make a massive importance to many americans because the focus, of course,