mayor bowser:? mother -- mayor bowser: yes, sir.eporter: mayor bowser, if you were a governor, how would yesterday have gone different lever you? what would ash differently for you -- differently for you? what would you have been able to do? mayor bowser: the difference would be when we become the 51st state, our congresswoman has a bill in the congress right now to give the mayor control of the d.c. national guard. what is different is we would not make a request to the secretary of the army for guard support. we would not be restricted in anyway from how to deploy the guard, so we wouldn't have to clear a deployment plan with the secretary of the army. we could be nimble in how we change it. if we have a deployment plan that was approved, for example, that limited the guard to the traffic box or 2 9th street, if we find out during the course of the response that that needs to change dramatically, then i as mayor/governor would make that determination. that is the big difference. what wouldn't be different as toernor would be my ab

mayor bowser: sure. we put up on our first slide, and we can go back to it, road closures in place as of this morning. i will ask residents to stay alerted by signing up for one of our alerts because that is subject to change. i am aware that the united states secret service is considering some other closures inbound to washington, and i think they will announce those when those decisions have been made. as it relates to a curfew, we will continue, as we do, with every event to evaluate the use of a curfew as a tool. >> possibility of people's cars being searched when they come into washington, d.c., or come into any of the areas near the perimeter? mayor bowser: let me ask the secret service, agent miller, and chief contee. agent miller: thank you. to amplify the mayor's response on the closures, as you saw on the graphic, there are written street closures across all of the various law-enforcement and public safety partners, so whether it is the secret service of social media site, the district of colum

mayor bowser: thank you. good afternoon, everybody. i am muriel bowser, t mayor bowser: thank you. good afternoon, everybody. i am muriel bowser, the mayor of washington, d.c., located in the walter washington convention center. i am here to provide an update on preparations for the 59th presidential inauguration, which, by now, everyone knows has an unprecedented level of preparation and execution. i am joined by members of my administration, as well as our federal partners. let me start by introducing matt miller, the special agent in charge of the washington field office of the united states secret service. the united states secret service is, of course, the lead agency for national special security events, including the 59th inauguration. marianne tierney, who is the regional administrator for the federal emergency management agency, we will hear from ms. tierney, her but she will have to depart following her remarks. jeff reinhold the superintendent , of the national mall and memorial parks for the national park service, stephen booker, the acting assistant chief for the unite

hour.s just under an mayor bowser: good morning. today, i am joined by members of my public health and public safety teams. we will begin today with a public safety update, then provide updates on covid-19 and finish with a brief recovery update. will bery 6, 2021, it remembered as a seminal day in american history. while we understand there is an immediate threat to our democracy, we know that there is hope and we will get through this period. we know that trumpism will not die on january 20 but our american values and our values are stronger than one extreme ideology. we will overcome this extremism together. i want to once again thank the men and women of the metropolitan police department and d.c. fire and ems. when the u.s. capitol called us for backup, mpd answered the call and performed heroically. they were called a lot of names in 2020 but today our city rightfully calls them heroes. i want to thank our neighbors in maryland and virginia for their guard and law enforcement on january 6. both jurisdictions provided support a

mayor bowser: when you say escorts, what do you mean?> leading a group, ensuring there is peaceful demonstrations. >> that is kind of a game day determination depending on what is going on. we see whether that support is needed. sometimes that support is in place to prevent traffic issues to move crowds along. certainly that would not be proper in an incident where we are dealing with violence, rioters, anything like that. >> you used the term medical emergencies for these people who died. i am reading they were trampled to death. can you give us information? mayor bowser: i do not think i can confirm any specifics about causes of death now. as soon as we have that available, we will make it available. >> you described one of your officers being beaten during the attack. can you update us on his or her condition? chief contee: it is a male officer. i got a chance to greet him as he was discharged from the hospital. he is doing better, obvious the very shaken, appalled, angry, but he is doing better. he is healing and getting better. >> w

mayor bowser: when you say escorts, what do you mean?> leading a group, ensuring there is peaceful demonstrations. >> that is kind of a game day determination depending on what is going on. whether that support is needed. sometimes that support is in place to prevent traffic issues to move crowds along. certainly that would not be proper in an incident where we are dealing with violence, rioters, anything like that. you used the term medical emergencies for these people who died. i am reading they were trampled to death. can you give us information? mayor bowser: i do not think i can confirm any specifics about causes of death now. as soon as we have that available, we will make it available. >> you described one of your officers being beaten during the attack. can you update us on his or her condition? chief contee: it is a male officer. i got a chance to greet him as he was discharged from the hospital. he is doing better, obvious the appalled, angry, but he is doing better. and gettingg better. >> where the rioters trying to take his

ma r bowser: yes.m more confident with every hour that the system, the structure of how this event is supported is strong. it has been in place for every inaugurati and i have asked all federal partners to stepp in light of the january 6 attack also in light of the threat across the country, it is requiring a national approach to supporting the inauguration of joe biden and kamala harris. amna: brieflyefore we go, there was some reporting about capitol police, not d.c. police, capitol police being suspended or arrested bause they were taking selfies with those protesters or putting on a mega hat. do you come -- have concerns about d.c. being sympataetic to the ers? mayor bowser: i do not. our police were called to back the united states capitol police. that is a position we take with aloe for our federal partners on eir facilities. -- all of ourederal partners on their facilities. i know my officers acted valiantly. they were ab to help get control of that buiheing and exit rioters out of the building

will joe biden be inauaton on j0 >> muriel bowser: absolutely. and kamala harris will take the oath of office right here in washington, d.c. on january the 20th. >> pelley: muriel bowser is the democratic mayor of washington. she took us to the ground, trampled by the mob, to show us a capitol and tradition restored. >> bowser: you see the balconies there? and that is where the next president will take the oath of office. you see the red drapes just behind the podium. that's where the president and special guest will enter. >> pelley: ritual is returning after the greatest attack on the capitol in 206 years. in the aftermath of january 6th, mayor bowser asked the federal government to reassess security. they're adding reinforcements and imposing a larger, earlier, lockdown around the white house, capitol and national mall. this exclusion zone of seven foot fences and military roadin, six days sooner than planned. >> bowser: what we know is that not only is the inauguration itself a target for these extremists who stormed these capitol steps and p

don't think about it says muriel bowser, just give her more power. >> first, we must get statehood on the president's desk within the first 100 days of the 117th congress. congress must immediately transfer command of the district of columbia national guard from the president of united states and put it squarely under the command and control of the mayor of the district of columbia. >> tucker: never let a crisis go to waste. tom cotton is a senator from the state of arkansas, we are happy to have them on tonight. two part question, can this be the pretext of the unconstitutional act of adding the worst one city in america to the flag? and can you stop it? >> good to be on with you, happy new year. yesterday should not be the pretext for d.c. statehood because d.c. should not be a state, it was designed to be a federal city by our founding fathers, it would be an unconstitutional act but i wouldn't put it past the democrats to try to do it. the circumstances are unclear about where and how the national guard was mobilized. it was muriel bowser who thought the national guard should not

administrator tierney. >> thank you, mayor bowser. while fema is not a law enforcement agency, public safety is our number one priority for the inauguration. fema has taken several actions to promote good public safety for this event. the president has declared an emergency that has enabled fema to do several things. the first thing is we have deployed a national management team to work in support of our district partners. we have also deployed regional assistant management teams to both maryland and virginia to support their planning and actions. we have been working with the district to identify resource requirements. for example, we are currently working a mission to prestage ambulance resources and we have moved commodity such as food, water and supplies closer in to support the district if that is needed. fema has also conducted several exercises in response to requests from the secret service as well as other agencies to help prepare since january 6th. that is all i have pending any questions. >> let me now introduce jeff reinbo

mayor bure ye muriel bowser joins me now. thank you, mayor bowser, for being with us today.plate. pentagon officials say capitol police and d.c. officials turned down offers to provide additional national guard troops in advance, before the mob broke out. what fed into your decision? >> oh, andrea, i have to correct you, or them, because that couldn't be further from the truth. >> them. >> i know that you know that we plan for first amendment demonstrations all the time. part of that planning is whether d.c. police, who patrol d.c. streets who keep our city safe, will need additional support. so on december 31 i requested the d.c. national guard. let me, for your viewers, make very clear how it works in the district. the district doesn't actually have its own national guard. i don't have a guard under my command, in other words. the d.c. national guard reports to the secretary of the army, who reports to the president. so when i need national guard support, i request it from the secretary of the army, which is what we did. our national guardsmen were deployed in the district

. >> yesterday washington dc married mayor muriel bowser a briefing with reporters. she spoke about last week's attack of the capital and provided updates on three preparations surrounding inauguration daynext wednesday . this runs in our area class good morning i should say i'm muriel bowser, mayor of washington dc . today i am providing a situational update. the residents of the district of columbia on twoimportant topics . the district's response to iocovid-19 and preparation for the 59th residential inauguration ofjoseph biden . and the inauguration of vice president, harris. we will also plan to have a future briefing on the presidential inauguration activities in the district. of course, exactly one week ago there was a violent insurrection at the capital of the united states. that has impacted the way we are approaching or working with our federal partners and planning for the59th inauguration . we have asked americans not to come to the washington dc event but instead to participate virtually. and we know that is the right choice and the best way to keep ever

schumer: we talked to mayor bowser on the phone, and she was ready to send the dz national guard and quickly. it took the dod too much time before they got there. thank you, everybody. good. pelosi's moveker to do input -- impeachment. should the house impeach, i will do everything i can to get the senate to move as quickly as possible. thank you, everybody. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> use your mobile devices and go to c-span.org for the latest video, live and on-demand, to follow the transition of power. president trump, president-elect biden, news conferences, and news coverage at c-span.org. book tv on c-span two has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. coming up this weekend, saturday, at 7:00, cheryl atkinson on her new book. how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. eastern, ceo john mackey and his book "conscious leadership." and sunday at 9:00, on afterwards, catherine flo

i am muriel bowser, i am the mayor of washington, d.c.m here to provide an update to provide the public with the district's fostering update on

thank you, mayor bowser. i am mary ann tierney, the regional administrator for the federal emergency management agency. while fema is not a law enforcement agency, public safety is our priority for the inauguration. fema has taken several actions to promote good public safety during this event. the president has declared an emergency that has enabled fema to do several things. the first thing is we have deployed a national incident management team to the d.c. emergency operations center to work in support of our district partners. we have also deployed regional incident management assistant teams to maryland and virginia to support their planning and actions. we have been working with the district to identify resource requirements. for example, we are currently working a mission to prestage ambulance resources and also we have moved commodities such as food, water, and shelter supplies closer in to support the district should that be needed. we continue to support the secret service in their efforts to plan f

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one thing we did see was incredibly leadership by mayor bowser and chief contee. when they called us over at the pentagon, we started getting awareness yesterday afternoon about the breach within the capitol and quickly worked to move our resources forward in support of metro pd and the capitol police and responded and truly saw some incredibly heroic things from the metro pd and our d.c. guardsmen. very proud of those men and women. at present there are the entire d.c. national guard has been mobilized. we have also received the report from the state of virginia, maryland, pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware and new york. there will be 6,200 guardsmen in total by the weekend here in the national capitol region in support of the d.c. metropolitan police department as well as the capitol hill police. at present we have over 150 personnel up on the capitol grounds, and we will have 850 on the capitol grounds by noon today. at 9:00 a.m. this morning, we began erecting a seven-foot non-scaleable fence which will be from constitution to independence and first avenue to

mayor bowser, not easy these days having your job. thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective with us. >> thank you, chuck. >>> let's turn now to the senate impeachment trial of president trump. i'm joined by democratic senator cory booker of new jersey. and senator booker, there's so much on our plate as a country, so much on your plate at the united states senate. so, the first question, when should we expect this trial to start and be done with? >> well, i think to get technical off the bat, there's some frustrations about getting time lines set. you need the republican leader to cooperate in terms of time agreements, but i fully expect it to happen as quickly as possible, and i think what's also is going to happen is we'll do a lot of things at once. i think we should, if we can get the time agreements from our republican leader, we can actually hold impeachment trials as well as do other urgently critical things, like getting key national security personnel confirmed as well. >> is there -- it's interesting you say it that

mayor muriel bowser, district of columbia. malcolm nance, author, a commentator terrorism, intelligence and insurgency. alecia garza, black lives matter cofounder, congressman hakeem jeffries, chairman kim of the caucus. congresswoman maxine waters, chair financial services committee. congresswoman sheila jackson lee, congressional black caucus parliamentarian, congressman bennie thompson, chair homeland security. welcome and thank you for being here virtually. the witnesses will be recognized for five minutes each to give an oral presentation of their testament. i asked that you respect the witnesses time by ending your oral testimony timely. without objection the witnesses written statements will be made a part of the record. at this time i recognize the distinguished gentleman from south carolina, majority whip, former congressional black caucus chairman and our later, congressman james clyburn for five minutes. >> thank you very much, madam chair. i hope i unmuted myself successful. thanks for your significant leadership a

. >>> joining me now is the mayor of washington, d.c., muriel bowser. thank you, madam mayor, for people with us tonight. i know, ms. mayor, madam mayor, you have been asked this all week. but for our audience, please take us through what wednesday was like for you. having watched this kind of violence for the better part of last year, now it reaches what we hope was its climax our capitol violated, dozens of your officers injured and several people dead. and i know how meticulous your office goes through protests. i have had some, you and i have talked even last year before the big march, and you all tried to make sure that federal agencies work with you and cross every t and dot every i. and for whatever reason, it seems like the capitol police and others fell apart on this. i know that's not how your city has operated under you. take us through how you dealt with this. >> well, thank you, al. and thanks for those questions. and i think certainly many americans have had the experience of going to a protest or demonstration in washington, d.c. and we w

you have got, connell the mayor of washington, d.c., muriel bowser telling everyone has to be off the:00 p.m. you have had a massive police presence here. metro police department, d.c. city police department has come here to assist capitol police. right now seems to be dissipating. but again thousands of people are still here and all the way up into the capitol. so this isn't finished yet, connell. connell: yeah. 4:34 seems like a heavy lift to get everybody off the streets of washington by 6:00 p.m. rich, ask you a question, may be difficult for you to hear and difficult to make a judgment, you know washington pretty well, capitol hill police a organization, so well-respected, when you got there was there heavy enough police presence? were they not ready for this? reporter: absolutely overwhelmed. i have to say the capitol complex is big. you have the capitol building and the office complex on either side. the capitol hill police department is robust. they typically, if it were a week ago or a few days ago they have got a perimeter around here making sure there is no, you know, odd v

bowser says her military are committed to a of power. muriel bowser/city of washington, d.c.ill be an unlike any other." biden's communication director says his team will director says communication biden's biden's communication director says his team will start daily meetings today with the outgoing administration's national security and law enforcement leaders to make sure they're ready for any scenario after he's sworn in. thanks jessi. make sure to tune into kron 4's inauguration day coverage this wednesday. the formal ceremony begins at 8-a-m and will conclude with the "celebrating america" concert at 5:30-p-m. let's get a check of the forecast. weather.weatherweather. the u-s is in store for some the u-s is in the u-s is in store for some dark weeks ahead. the incoming c-d-c director sys the country is set to hit 500 thousand coronavirus deaths by mid-february. president- elect joe biden's pick for the job-- doctor rochelle walensky made that prediction in a recent c-b-s interview. the c-d-c interview.recent c-b-s prediction in a that walensky made rochelle doctor the j