. >> the congressional black caucus held a hearing on the u.s. capitol attack. civil rights activists, the mayor, and counterterrorism expert spoke about their experiences and racism. they spoke about president trump's role in the attack, flaws and security at the capitol building, and their response to the attack. this is about 90 minutes. >> we begin today's hearing by giving special -- special acknowledgment to rev. al sharpton, and the president and ceo of the national urban league . to all other guests and congressional black caucus members, thank you for joining our power, our message of fight for justice. we are here to explore the horrific events that took place in our nations capital exactly one week ago. the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus during our historic 50th anniversary, i look forward to building upon the legacy of our 13 founders, my predecessors who have honorably served this noble organization and the members who have and continue to serve as the conscience of the congress. as we watched wednesday's attack on our capitol building

thank you so much our newly elected chair of the congressional black caucus.i thank you for immediately taking leadership and organizing this very important meeting based on our recent experience with the invasion of the capitol of the united states by right-wing domestic terrorist organizations. i would like to share with you that what al sharpton had to say to you and what he was advising you of, was extraordiarily important because in the final analysis, our security has not been attended to by us. we have left our security in the hands of those who are absolutely supposed to be in charge of security for the capitol and all of us. but i, as an african-american woman, member of congress, have been basically targeted so many times to be killed and have gone to the capitol police and to the sergeant at arms, and i had to force a meeting with bennie thompson to try and make them provide not only security for me, but for others and other women of color in the caucus, and in the congress because our lives were being threatened. and so, with the knowledge that the

of how each agency plans to spend congressional appropriations. currently these valuable budget documents are sent directly to congressional appropriators and are posted across hundreds of disconnected agency with webpages. this makes them extremely hard to track down. h.r. 22 simply requires the budget justifications of every agency to be made publicly available on a single web silte. to do this, the bill requires the office of management and budget to issue a full list og agency budget justifications in the individual agency webpages where they are posted. this will assure the public that they have complete access to these authoritative budget resources. it also thrires u.s. treasury department to centrally publish all the materials on usaspending.gov as open data. as established in 2014 by the data act, usaspending.gov is quickly become the primary public resource for the public to track how the government is using their tax dollars. adding congressional budget justifications, the usaspending.gov will provide better context to agency spending a

are we going to get big bang congressional reform like. the '70s and 1940s. anytime soon, not least because the leader of the chamber -- neither chamber leader is into it and it's not going to happen but i do think small ball congressional reform will continue. the select committee may or may not be reauthorized to continue its work. if it's not that would be a shame but the house committee on administration has been taking all these recommendations flow select committee and milling them into policies, and the whole process of having a select committee is basically taken a bunch of members and turn them into ledge branch reformers some of them left like cochair tom graves of georgia gut others remain and these are people who realize with a little time and effort you can move the ball forward make congress a little bess miserable place to work, a little press frustrating place to work. so reform will keep churning forward. >> thank you very much to all three of you, wonderful conversation, very important book, called "congress overwhelmed." it's our out in fro

. >> the congressional black caucus held a hearing on the u.s. capitol attack. members of the counterterrorism -- they spoke about their concerns related to racism and white supremacy connected to the january 6 attack. they discuss president trump's role in the event and how they should responded to the incident. this is about 1.5 hours. >> we begin today's hearing by given special -- giving special announcement to rev. al sharpton for our like-mindednwaaa -- like-mindedness in needing to call this to order. thank you for joining our power, our message, our fight for justice. we are here to explore the horrific events that took place in our nation's capital one week ago. as chairwoman of the congressional black caucus during our historical 50th anniversary, i look forward to building on the legacy of our 13 founders, my predecessors who have honorably served this noble organization as chair and the members who have and continued to serve as the conscience of the common thread. as the world watched the attack on our capitol, many of us were participating in the s

i want to dig into this idea of congressional capacity.we hear a lot of conversation, it's almost become a sort of point to say that congress doesn't work, congress is broken, congress has given up its constitutional role. we have been hearing about "the broken branch" at least for a decade and a half. i think what we have really dug into in the legislative capacity, working group and this volume "congress overwhelmed" is kind of a big claim that congress lacks the fundamental knowledge and resources to perform its legislative oversight duties. this is an divine individual members or i think there was often a kind of narrative that tends to say members of congress just need to buck up and get their act together. but what we're trying to do in this larger body of work is to just understand the environment in which members of congress and their staff are working in, and the extent to which we are asking them to do the impossible. i have been thinking about this in the context of this pandemic this year in which we have been asking doctors an

so yes, on early dig into this idea of congressional contents under capacity. i hear a lot of conversations, almost become a sort of a to your point, to say that congress does not work . is broken. congress is using up its constitutional role . and we been hearing about the broken branch for at least a decade and a half now. and there was a book with that name. i think what we've really dug into is the legislative branch capacity working group in this volume of "congress overwhelmed". it is basically the congress lacks the fundamental knowledge and resources to performance legislative event oversight duties. this is not to blame individual members or think there is often a kind of narrative that tends to say that members of congress just need to buck up and get their act together. but we are trying to do in this larger body of work is to just understand the environment in which members of congress and their staff are working in. in the extent to which were kind of asking them to do the impossible. i am thinking about this in the context of this pandemic this ye

among the many other important congressional committees, is the committee on appropriations.ction is to review and make recommendations on the massive expenditures required to finance the many branches of our federal government. committees are many and vary. the armed forces committee works closely with the department of the defense, ensuring the legislation and congressional support needed to provide for the common defense. ♪ the department of defense is the largest of all executive departments and agencies, and its budget is more than half of the total budget of the federal government. when committee hearings are completed, bills move to the floor of the house or the senate, where they still can be altered and amended, debated and discussed. final passage requires only a simple majority in each house, but such action by congress does not automatically make a bill a law. to become a law, a bill must be approved by the president, or if he vetoes it, by an overriding two thirds vote of congress. the presidential veto power illustrates a unique system of checks and balances tha

it becomes a bill or resolution, and then is referred to the congressional committee dealing with thect or area of the proposed law. the committee's town -- the committees handle thousands of resolutions every year, only a small percentage reaches the floors of congress for confirmation. the rules committee is among the most powerful in the house for it can determine when and if a bill will be sent to the full house for action. among the many other important congressional committees is the committee on appropriations, its function is to review and make recommendations on the massive expenditures required to finance the many branches of our federal government. committees are many and vary. the armed forces committee works closest with the department of defense ensuring the legislation and congressional support needed to provide for the common defense. the department of defense is the largest of all executive departments and agencies and its budget is more than half of the total budget of the federal government. when committee hearings are completed, bills move to the floor of the house

elections held in every state and every congressional district across the nation.e enshrined in the library of congress is one of the most important documents in the history of freedom. it controls these elections and the lawmaking processes which flow from them, the written constitution of the united states. so that the laws which are made may be constitutional and useful, lawmakers must constantly study. to meet this need, there was established in 1846, effect-gathering agency that operates on an assemblyline scale. the reference service. with 150 full-time employees to keep congress fully informed. here is a member of the foreign affairs committee seeking information about china from the director of the service. the congressman wants more facts about a recent government report so that he can draft a bill more intelligently and participate more effectively in the deliberations of the foreign affairs committee. this particular request for information is but one of thousands received each month. some of them can be answered with a word, and some of them can require

likely have to check in with congressional leaders before making such congressional discussions. >> nbc national security analyst jeremy. where is this investigation going? >> well, incriminations are flying, joe. the national guard folks saying they offered to support the january 6th events and the capitol police denied it. the reality is what you are seeing all of this activity by fbi, by law enforcement to go after and people, that's all great. but it is all right of the boom. you want to be left of the boom,s way out ahead of the events. and i think we will have to reset our entire approach to these white supremacists militias, the dangerous ultra nationalist organizations. the fbi is going to have to run confidential sources.

the elections held in every state and congressional district across the nation. here in skopbgs one of the post important documents of history of freedom. lawmaking processes that come with them of the written constitution in the united states. so the laws that are made may be constitutional and useful, lawmakers must constantly study to meet the need that was established in 1946, a fact- gathering agency that operates on an assembly line scale. the legislative reference service. with 150 full time employees to keep congress fully informed. here is a member of the house of representatives foreign affairs seeking information from china. the congressman wants more facts about a recent government report so he can draft a bill more intelligently and participate more effectively in the deliberations of the foreign affairs committee. this request for information is but one of,ands received each month. some of them can be answered with a word and some of them require weeks of research and book-length reports. regular or special congressional committees like the armed se

in the congressional review act, it is not applicable. it's also not a major regulation as far as the cost is concerned. under both funds, this would not be subject to the congressional review act. >> about suggest it's more of a management decision. for you and future administrators how you want to run an honest agency that reports to the public the best way possible. have you had conversations with transition teams or other folks about maintaining and implementing this rule going forward? >> no, to my knowledge, we have not had any questions in the transition team about this. we've made of the transition team, thousands of pages on different topics that are put together over the last year. and after the transition team is certified, they request three and i think we have conducted over 50 things for them but i don't believe it has been one of those briefings. i do want to hit on something you said, it seems like internal management. it is an internal management regulation. it codifies a lot of what we do however, it's never been done by

sometimes they are given by congressional leaders.imes, they are given by up and coming members of the party. sometimes governors will give the address. it is a way for the opposition party to highlight its message in a response to the state of the union address by a president. after moving it to prime time -- you might think what more can you do to innovate the state of the union address? what more can presidents do to reinterpret or reimagine this constitutional directive? when ronald reagan entered office in 1981, he did not allow his essential conservatism to prevent him from expanding the spectacle that the state of the union had become. reagan is also a master of stage craft and at storytelling. in 1982, he adds something we had not seen before. [video clip] >> just two weeks ago in the midst of a terrible tragedy on the potomac, we saw american heroism at its finest, dedicated rescue workers saving victims and we saw the heroism of the one of our young government employees who when he saw a woman lose her grip on the helicopter

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one way to think about -- >> commitment to live congressional coverage. the house meets next to consider an impeachment resolution against president trump in response to the attack on the u.s. capitol that led to five deaths. the capital flag at half staff, honoring one of those. also, resolutions to remove president trump before the january 20 inauguration. to punish memories of congress who supported the election challenges. live coverage is on c-span. >> waiting for the house to gavel in which should be a short pro forma saturation. torump supporter was trying break into the lobby. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. january 11, 2021. i hereby appoint the honorable debbie dingell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. merciful god we enter these

as does the congressional spanish.he latinas from the congressional hispanic caucus sent a letter saying we want to see two latinas on that cabinet. in high level positions. it's important. and the congressional hispanic caucus continues to push that. there are good candidates out there that we are saying these are amazing candidates. they bring the kind of experience, knowledge, deep knowledge on the subject areas that you need to look at. we are hoping for more. we are not being silent about it, either. we have, as i pointed out earlier, 70%, we have to keep faith. and we need to be seen. we need to be listened to. we are hopeful that we are going to see more. they say just wait. so we are waiting, but not waiting in silence. >> the incoming biden administration has a huge agenda, both from the regulation administrative side, as well as legislation. it's a question of order. what is joe biden -- what should he be pushing for? what are the top issues, top three issues you would like him to do when he gets in on day on

and in earlier book called congressional. i know a lot of the members he writes about in these things and no matter what somebody does in washington it is a reflection of who they represent and what their interests are and what their understanding in the world is and we've got to lose that. sometimes we study politicians and we forget there's another part of them that isn't in washington, d.c. that shapes what they do in washington, d.c. so a lot of reading this summer. >> congressman, there seems to be a theme of what you are reading and that is of world war ii. a. >> it just happened to be there. like everybody else, i am always fascinated by it. the shaper of the century and really the post-world war ii era to understand the time in which we lived and the rise the united states was a great power before the second world war but it became the superpower after that so understanding what the country went through and how it changed who we are, how we think is kind of an indispensable grounding that you have to have if you want

review act, the congressional review act is not applicable. it's also not a a major regulan as far as the cost is concerned. so for under both prongs, this would not be subject to the congressional review act. >> that would suggest it's more of a management decision, right, for your future administrators how you want to run an honest agency that reports to the public and the best way possible. have you had conversations with transition teams or other folks about maintaining and implementing this rule going forward? >> no. to my knowledge we have any questions from the transition team about this. we have made available to the transition team literally thousands of pages of binders on different topics that we've been putting together over the last year. and then after the biden transition team was certified by gsa i believe, they've requested a number of briefings and to think were conducted over 50 different briefings for them but i don't believe this is been one of those briefings. i do want to hit on something you said. this seems like an int

then come wednesday, we'll all get to watch congressional sausage being made. that was guaranteed by the decision of missouri senator josh hawley to object to congressional certification of the electoral college results. it means that a regularly routine roll call of states could be interrupted, forcing two hours of debate in both houses, whenever a member of each raises objection to a state's certification. both chambers of congress would have to disagree with a particular state's slate of electoral votes to reject them. with democratic control of the house and mitch mcconnell's desire to spare his caucus having to choose between the president and the electoral college, that won't happen. the election will not get thrown into the house where voting would be done by state delegation. instead, vice president mike pence will be put in the same position as richard nixon after the 1960 election and al gore post 2000. he will preside over the certification of an election in which he lost. democracy sometimes requires such discomfort. and no doubt that's what was fel

♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] [three cheers for the red white and blue] ♪ [applause] >> the joint congressional having escorted, now seat the presidential parties on the platform. [applause] [cheers] >> mr. president, mr. vice president, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of this great representative republic, we are here today to inaugurate the 35th president of this union of free people. it is my high honor to begin this event by presenting the united states marine band under the direction of lieutenant colonel albert sholper, which will play a special arrangement of a song we all cherish. "america the beautiful." ♪ [america the beautiful] ♪ >> the crowds remained hushed until the completion of "america the beautiful." ♪ [applause] >> will the audience now rise as his eminence, richard kushing, announces the invocation. >> in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, amen. in this year of our lord, 1961, we ask thee almighty god to enlighten us and we may know as men our personal responsibility. and we may know as americans our political, social and humanitarian res

>> i think there's a lot of debate among constitutional scholars, the congressional research service has that report not too long ago saying the most scholars believe congress doesn't have the ability to impeach for in thena abilityoes have the to try an ex officio, this happened in the 1800s with the secretary of war, most of the majority of the senate but not two thirds but they did have this authority. this is unprecedented. theree is a question at the senate or ultimately to convict trump, theoretically he could go to the supreme court or even frankly during the trial could appeal to the courts and say this is an unconstitutional act, unlikely the courts will really get involved. the last sunday supreme court had a case about impeachment powers was a couple decades ago.ou they said the senate has the sole authority. this is a politicalea question. it's a different supreme court now so we will see price effect that brings up who was presiding february 8, why is it chief justice john roberts doing it? who is doing it instead andnd why? >>-- if the presidents being tried in the sena

let's take another congressional district here, this is the second congressional district, again, roughly, roughly speaking here, this is the southwest corner of georgia. it's about a 51% black district. there's a lot of rural counties here that are either majority black or that have like 40% plus black populations. what did democrats say in the early voting period for these georgia runoffs? they said in the early voting period they were turning out more black voters, black voters who hadn't turned out in the november elections, and they were doing it in rural counties of the state. that's what you were going to see on election day. how was turnout in this more democratic, black-heavy area of georgia? it was at 90% of the november 2020 level. so they got 90% of the way there in the second district. and up here in the ninth district, you're -- excuse me, 13th district, you're talking about 85%. so republicans did not get the kind of turnout in their core area that democrats were able to get in one of their core areas. i think democrats achieved something there and republicans failed to ach

with the 117th congress in session we are taking preorders for the congressional directory, every c-span shop purpose help support ends c-span's nonprofit organizations. shop today at www.c-spanshop.org. >> i am excited to hand things off to her main event for tonight, the conversation about howard mortman's new book "when rabbis bless congress". howard mortman, not morris, i sometimes send emails to the wrong process, howard mortman is the medications director c-span, the privately funded public service providing television coverage of our u.s. congress, he is a veteran of dc media organizations, he's observed congress from positions at msnbc, and the broadcasting board of governors, new media strategies, he's a native of washington and grew up attending temple i got and his families are member of temple shalom in northern virginia. "when rabbis bless congress: the great american story of jewish prayers on capital hill" is his first book. he's going to be in conversation with carl cannon, the washington bureau chief of real clear politics and executive editor of real clear media group,

mailbox because our congressional phone lines essentially were overrun and i had the bright idea or the congressional mailbox can serve 247 where as the phone lines people need to get an answer they need to note that they were receptive to it and i think we had over 30000 inquiries command from congress on behalf of constituents through the congressional mailbox so that we backed off of that and we hired a contractor during the process and we created a phone system where the fault thought was to answer as many questions with a recording and at the end of the recording you could pitch to a live assister who was a contractor and cannot give you specific information but they could give you information as to the ip's and from there to us. >> let me ask you, i will tell you and i will be full disclosure, i was one of the people trying to get in touch with you. i had to wait nine months for a refund which i finally got december 30. you couldn't get to anybody? the problem is you would get on the phone tree and get to the end of the phone tree and they would say sorry, were busy and they w

reynolds is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and she studies conked with a focus on a congressional rules and procedures impact governance and molly reynolds, , the major actn house for today will be a vote on the house rules package for the 117th congress. what you people11 know about how democrats want to run the house in the 117th? >> guest: sure. it's great to be here. thanks for having me. the rules package is a standard part of the start of the new congress and think if you look at this year'slo we see a couple of places where democrats are responding to things that if happen in the house, not just over the past two years but kind of longer than that. a great example of this is a reformed to something called the motion to recommit, which is an opportunity for the minority party, so the republicans now to offer one last amendment before a bill comes up for a final vote. over the past several years, the past two years of democratic control in particular republicans have really tried to use this motion to embarrass democrats, to divide the party on the floor. in response democrat

ors as you heard are outright embarrassed on ashamed that she's the one bringing the congressional district into the national focus, and as i mentioned before we're not seeing the next steps coming, at least from congressional republicans in it a real substantive way. we do know gop house leader kevin mccarty is supposed to be speaking with marjorie taylor greene next week. we don't know there will be any tangible steps to strip her of her committee assignment or censure action. the ones who support her are not swayed by the continuing record on what was already known about her conspiracy theories and the actions putting forward. >> again. the remarkable responses from you. thank you so much, amanda golden. let's go now to the latest on the capitol hill riot force and bring in former double agent and "newsweek" editor-at-large. great to have you here. fbi agents are working to unravel all the events that led to the attack on capitol hill. there's an alarming new article by "the washington post" which writes investigators cautioned there's an important legal distinction between gathering lik

but we grow with quickening congressional efforts to remove president trump from office or power. democrats have already drafted the articles optical impeach j. one of the drafters, congressman ted liu is here with us. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> glad you're ok. you were a u.s. air colonel. what went through your mind? >> i was in an office. they came up and told us to evacuate immediately, so we did. i previously served in active duty in the u.s. military because i believe america is an exceptional country and i never thought i'd see that scene that we saw that day, invading the capitol, causing property damage, having five people die, including one member of law enforcement. >> do you think those who entered the halls of congress would have done harm to you had they had the chance? >> absolutely. i've seen some of the videos taken of the rioters and they were very angry. they weren't invading the capital because we were debating corporate tax cuts. they were invading the capitol to stop us from accepting the electoral college results that show that joe biden and k

the act itself in terms of name still is on the congressional record. frank, what kind of curious stuff did i send you and make you go through? frank: the biggest thing was threeg through the full information, the list based upon chinese sounding names. and trying to figure out if robert e. lee from version and robert e. lee from california theywhat, whether, were chinese or english ancestry. and there was a couple other names where the european name and the chinese last name are the same. and that meant going and searching, finding a person, and then doing a genealogical search on them to find a who their p arents were. samantha: the research aspect of this book was huge. and we were very, very fortunate to have teams of young people who were paid. everybody was paid. no one worked for free. so, who helped support and research this effort on our behalf. tyler: it must've been especially challenging because like a lot of immigrants, chinese-americans they did change their name sometimes willingly, sometimes out of necessity. and then that would make tra

and to those who broke the law, you will pay. >> reporter: congressional democrats say that's not enough at least 230 are demanding president trump be removed now just days before his term is over but with two sources telling nbc news vice president pence does not support invoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office, now the calls for impeachment. >> i think the american people has seen enough, and they are ready for us to do the job of impeaching this man. >> reporter: tonight lisa murkowski, the first republican senator to call for the president's resignation, telling "the anchorage daily news" i want him out, he's caused enough damage. but republican senator lindsey graham heckled today at an airport for criticizing the president. said another partisan impeachment would further divide the country tweeting it is time to heal and move on if speaker pelosi pushes impeachment in the last days of the trump presidency it will do more harm than good other republicans agreeing. >> i think it's a ridiculous discussion to have. you don't have the time for it to happen even if there was

when you look at the congressional record because of what's repealed. however, the actual act itself in terms of name still is on the congressional marker. >> and speaking -- >> but kind of curious stuff that i sent you, and make you go through? >> the biggest thing was working through the full three information, the list based upon chinese sounding names, and trying to figure out if robert elie from virginia, and robert elite from california were chinese or english ancestry. and there is only a couple other names where the european name and chinese last name are the same. and that meant going in, searching, finding the person, and doing a genealogical search on them to find out who their parents were. >> the research aspect of this book was huge. they were very fortunate to have teams of young people who are paid, everybody was paid, no one worked for free. so, who helped support and research this effort we. >> it must have been especially challenging, because like a lot of immigrants, chinese americans did change their names sometimes willingly out of

we opened up a congressional mailbox because our congressional phone lines essentially were overrun. had the bright idea, well, a congressional mailbox we can serve 24/7, whereas the phone lines people need to get an answer and know that we were receptive to it. and i think we had over 30,000 inquiries come in from congress on behalf of constituents through the congressional mailbox. so then we backed off of that. and we actually hired a contractor during the process. we created a phone system where the thought was to try to answer as many questions with a recording. we got to the end of the recording. you could pitch actually to a live sister who was a contractor. couldn't give you specific information but they could give you information as to the ips. >> let me ask you, though. and i'll tell you, i'll be full disclosure here. i was one. people trying to get in touch with you because i had to wait nine months for a refund which i finally got on december 30th. you couldn't get to anybody. the problem is you would get on a phone tree. and you get to the end of the phone tree and they'

johnson did not tell the congressional leaders about the 34a operations, which were still secret, and he described the north vietnamese attacks as completely unprovoked. we did nothing to deserve this attack. long story short, the tonkin gulf resolution sailed through congress with minimal debate. it passed knunanimously 416-0 i the house of representatives and 88-2. only wayne of oregon and ernst of alaska voted for it. only wayne morris subjekted an administrative figure to difficult questioning. morris gave johnson quite a fight for three days. on august 5th, 6th, and 7th he railed against the resolution, challenged the account of what happened, he predicted johnson would use the resolution as a functional declaration of war. if you read them today, the diatribes are almost uncanny in their accuracy. had those diatribes been delivered by somebody else, really anybody else, they might have influenced more members of congress to reconsider their position. but wayne morris was not influential. he was about the least popular legislature in washington. people considered him a sanctimoni

senator hawl hawley's decision says, o n facebook, when we talk in private i haven't heard a single congressional republican allege that the election results were fraudulent, not one. two questions for you. is senator sasse a monday on an island here, or do other republicans feel that way. what's been the reaction inside the white house to the moves by senator hawley and also the criticism by people like senator sasse? >> we've heard of a couple other senators, for example, maine's susan collins who says she'll certify the election results in favor of president-elect joe biden, cementing his victory in november. we've heard from texas senator

representation which was his last a list 2013 that called congressional traps but again a regular view of congress. i know a lot of the members that you writes about in these things and it's just fascinating as reminder of how often what somebody does in washington is really a reflection of who they represent what their interests are, what their understanding of the world is . and we kind of lose that dimension sometimes when we study politicians. we forget that they have another part of them which is not in washington dc actually washington dc so a lot of reading this summer. >> is, there seems to be the only history books that you're reading about worldwar ii . >> just happened to be there, no deliberate design. i mean what else i'm always fascinated by it there have been other books to read: how facebook the indian world of george washington, that fascinated me as well no question, world war ii has been several conflicts cheaper she the century really post world war ii era, obviously you have to understand were leading into it what came out of it to understand the time in which we l

some of president elect joe biden's nominees appeared before congressional panels tuesday, this beginning the confirmation process that will allow the new administration to get to work. we will bring you more on that. in france, the health minister has said that the coronavirus is still circulating at a worrying level, but he stopped short of recommending a third national lockdown. this as the country gets used to a 6:00 p.m. curfew, which was brought into effect last saturday. ♪ >> we start in washington, d.c. where the countdown is on for joe biden's inauguration and the end of a tumultuous donald trump presidency. the outgoing president will not participate in wednesday's ceremony at a departure from usualrotocol. donald trump has not been seen in public for a week, but is expected to depart from washington to mar-a-lago ahead of the inauguration. washington, d.c. has been transformed into a fortress with 25,000 national guard on the streets, perimeter fences erected. we are hearing reports of 12 national guards being suspended after being vetted by the fbi, all of this for a largely v

that requires congressional action.t part is caught up in congressional negotiations so this is what the biden administration can do on their own to strengthen the affordable care act and it suggests a posture from the biden administration that they obviously care about this law. joe biden thinks obamacare is quite important and he's essentially announcing it's stl open for business and we're going to keep supporting it. amna: that is sarah kliff reporting there. thanks so much. always good to see you. sarah: thank you. amna: turning back to capitol hill and some of the forces at play. there is a split among republicans whether to denounce or erase the lie the president said about the white house being stolen. one week after the attack, house speaker mccarthy said this. >> the president bears responsibility for the attack by rioters. amna: one week after, that mccarthy changed his tune. >> do you believe that former president trump provoked? >> swrobblings if you listen to what he said at the rally. amna: and this week