donie? >> hey, anderson. in the last few minutes, all these demonstrators, activist supporters of the people, the j- sixers inside the jail all rushed towards the main door of the jail. we're not sure quite what is happening. there are some people -- it looks like there are some officials right inside the door. we may see some people released in the next few minutes. i just got off the phone two or three minutes ago with rachel powell who is one of the people in the jail at the moment. she said she hasn't been told anything about being released. but it's unclear what sp hag -- is happening right now. watch there, andrew. thank you. okay. some of the people inside this prison are hoping to make to it the inaugural balls tonight. they have been told that if they are released -- okay. we're going to move down here, anderson. we're going to move out of the way. all right. unclear -- unclear why there was such a rush to the doors of the jail right there. but there does seem -- there is something happening. right i

donie o'sullivan joins us with that story.ater, the legacy of former president carter, who will lie in state tomorrow in the capitol rotunda. lesley stahl will join us, having interviewed the former president over the years. >>> after nine years on the job and in the headlines, canada's prime minister justin trudeau headed for the exits, saying today he's leaving office and stepping down as leader of canada's liberal party once a new leader is chosen. more tonight from randi kaye, who joins us. what led to the resignation? >> reporter: well, anderson, justin trudeau billed himself as a feminist, environmentalist, and after donald trump took office in 2017, he really attempted to differentiate himself from donald trump. and when president trump ordered÷÷that temporary ban on the -- the muslim ban on the muslim countries, trudeau went to the airport and pretty much defied him and welcomed the syrian refugees to canada. not all canadians were happy with the refugees. he pushed for the restrictive measures during the pandemic. peo

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this comes as cnn's donie o'sullivan witnessed all of this unfold as he was marching from the ellipse trump supporters that day covering the riot all through the night. as cnn's ellie reev e was also at the capitol. donie, just for you being here today in that span about four years, 1,500 people were criminally charged for what you both witnessed that day. and now you were at the d.c. jail where those convicted are being held. what are they feeling? >> yeah. >> two weeks away from trump taking power. >> outside the jail here in d.c. where some january 6 skposkts people who are waiting trial are being held, people have been holding a vigil for almost 900 nights here. every single night support yerpz, family members of people who are locked up who want those people to be pardoned and they are pushing trump very, very, very hard for these pardons. we have some shots from outside the jail tonight. they say they are not going to accept anything other than total pardons for everybody, from the proud boys all the way down. >> i mean, and they actually call in from inside the jail to a speake

this comes as cnn donie o'sullivan witnessed all this unfold as he was marching from the ellipse to thetrump supporters that day, covering the riot, all through the night. cnn elle reef was on the scene at the capitol speaking to rioters who broke in that day. they are both my sources tonight. i'm so glad to have both of you here given that. donie, just for you, being here today n that span of that four years, 1,500 people were criminally charged for what you both witnessed that day. and now you were at the d.c. jail where those convicted are being held. what are they feeling? >> yeah. >> two weeks away from trump taking power. >> i would say the jail here in d.c. where some january 6th convicts and people who are waiting trial are being held. people have been holding a vigil for almost 900 nights now. every single night supporters, family members of people who are locked up who want these people to be pardoned. and they are pushing trump very, very, very hard for these pardons. and we have i think some shots from outside the jail tonight. they say they're not going to accept anything o

donie said, people could be walking tonight.s not dividing between the nonviolent offend, the violent offenders, giving that mass pardon issue, that is not what some people at least expected. perhaps they should have been. that's what president trump has been talking about at campaign rallies, every one we have gone to over the last two years. >> unbelievable to think about the breadth, the scope. i want to bring in to discuss all of this, former assistant u.s. attorney kim wayly, also senior political correspondent. good to have you both here. we know a lot of these actions took place at the white house. kim, many people talked about the pardons. i wonder which he'll pardon, the violent offenders. it was a very broad stroke. you surprised that he pardoned or commuted or dismissed all of those january 6th cases? >> yes and no. i mean, donald trump duds things that are somewhat surprising. the traditional criteria for a pardon under the department of justice guidelines excludes pardons for people who can go on to commit violent o

everybody else. >> our donie o'sullivan is outside the d.c. jail where families and friends and supporters of the pardon january 6th defendants are gathered, expecting their release. i just want to go to him. if we can play the rest of the room, so if we can get sound so the senator can hey, i can hear. >> donie, go ahead. can you talk about what's going on there? >> anderson, yeah. really incredible scenes here tonight. we've done a few stories from this jail over the past few months. there is a lot of families, friends, supporters of these january 6th prisoners gathered up here. they're receiving calls from people in prisons across the country. there are a number of we think maybe about a dozen or so actual inmates in or this, in the d.c. jail, including rachel powell, who is a mom and grandmother that we featured on "ac 360" to several years in prison. she broke a window at the capitol with a pickax. she actually just called us in the last few minutes from inside the jail. she said they're hoping to get out tonight. they're excited in there

um, notes, i guess they're calling it donie o'sullivan takes a look at some of the misinformation that'sut there right now. >> california has a lot of problems that sort of baffle the mind as far as. why they do things. >> mel gibson on fox news prime time after losing his home in the california fires. >> and then in the events like this, you sort of look, oh, is it on purpose? >> which it's an insane thing to think, but one begins to ponder whether or not there is a purpose in mind. what could it be? you know, i don't know. do they want the state empty? i don't know, conspiracy theories spreading like wildfire. >> this is an obvious land grab. they get them out of their homes this way, and then they can build whatever they want to build. >> from the common refrain that it's all part of a government plot. >> this is siege by design to suspected a.i. generated video and images falsely showing the fires approaching the iconic hollywood sign, fact checkers working for meta have been debunking some of the misinformation on facebook and instagram. >> hey everyone! but last week, mark zuckerbe

donie o'sullivan appreciate it. thank you for being there. joining us now is new york democratic congressman daniel goldman. congressman, what is your reaction we're seeing tonight? president trump defending his pardons, people who assaulted police officers while claiming no president has ever been as good a friend to law enforcement as he has. >> anderson, i'm absolutely horrified. and just devastated to see these pardons for so many reasons. first of all, these are violent criminals who were convicted either by a jury or admitted their own guilt for assaulting police officers, for assaulting about 170 men and women of the metropolitan police department and the capitol police department who defend u.s. elected officials every single day. i don't want to hear anybody, especially donald trump, tell me or anyone else that he backs the blue when he just pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted the blue, who assaulted police officers. but this is incredibly dangerous as well, because he has now emboldened and uplifted these far right extremists,

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so yes, to me, they're heroes. >> and donie o'sullivan joins us now.ms like the pardons have certainly emboldened a lot of a lot of these people. >> absolutely. as you heard in that piece there, i mean, don hazzard. um, it's and it's a familiar tale for most of these guys. you know, they pled guilty, but now they say this that was a setup, or they had to take that deal. >> to me, that they're all saying that they were lured in, that these guys who, you know, some many have military training, were somehow tricked and lured in by unnamed people. >> on the left. antifa, nancy pelosi, black lives matter, you know, name whoever you want. and you know, i pushed him a bit on that. and and it's hard to know whether these guys truly, really believed that because, i mean, they were there that day. you know, they're smart people. i mean, yeah. >> not easily tricked. i don't think. >> yeah. um, and i think for whatever chance there might have been for reflection or expressing remorse and of course, a lot of these people to get their plea deal had to, um, uh, expre

our correspondentjohn donis and said it was a celebration after a period of nervous anticipation.0 prisoners being released, we are expecting around half to arrive in ramallah today. john told us one thing that's very different from last week is that last week, when the first prisoners were released, there was a noticeable show of support for hamas. today, hamas�*s rival, the fatah movement, are out in force, keen to show their backing for the palestinian prisoners. you can see their�*s yellow flags. we've also seen a helicopter landing at an israeli hospital carrying those four hostages who were held by hamas in gaza and have now been returned to israel. you can see the helicopter that landed at the hospital. let's start by getting a round—up of all of today's events so far with middle east correspondent. another show of force by hamas, its fighters lining up by the ruins in gaza city. with the red cross ready and waiting, the first glimpse of the israeli soldiers after 15 months in captivity, in army uniforms. daniela gilboa, liri elbag, karina ariev and naama levy, all aged 19

donie, thank you. >>> joining me is bill steppian. he was the campaign lead in 2020. he was part of the video testimony that played during the hearings. bill, what happened today, if we're being honest, is that donald trump pardoned almost everyone. the violent ones, the ones who broke and entered, the ones who used weapons to break into the capital, who broke past police lines. all of them. and a handful more, the sentences were commuted with the possibility they could be later pardoned. are you surprised he went that far? >> i think pardons are always optically messily and unseemly. but democrats lost a ton of moral high ground when biden pardoned hunter. it was so much politics that biden put upon them out the door. jump was up front with his intentions. he planned to do this in the campaign. he played videos and songs from the prisoners at many of his rallies. america didn't slap him down in november. they voltvoted for him in november. would you expect him not to issue the pardons? he was clear with his combinations. >> i mean, bill -- >> and did this on day one

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and you know who is going to pay for that, everybody else. >> donie o'sullivan is outside the d.c. jail where families and friends and supporters of the pardoned january 6th defendants are gathered expecting their release. i just want to go to him. if we can play this to the room. i don't know if you have an ifb. >> i can hear. >> go ahead. can you talk about what's going on there? >> reporter: incredible scenes. we have done a few stories over the past few months from this jail. there's a lot of families, friends, supporters of these january 6th prisoners gathered up here. they are receiving calls from people in prisons across the country. and there are a number of dozen or so inmates in this -- in the d.c. jail, including rachel powell, who is a mom and grandmother that we featured on ac360 who was sentenced to several years in prison. she broke a window at the capitol with a pick ax. she actually just called us in the last few minutes from inside the jail. she says they're hoping to get out tonight. they're excited. the news has trickled into the jail. and they want to get out t

joining us for that is cnn's donie o'sullivan, also, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and former republican congressman and january 6th select committee member adam kinzinger. donny, what are you hearing from some of these? the most notorious people who are granted clemency? >> yeah. >> i mean, just spending the last few days in washington, d.c. quite surreal to see oath keepers and members of the proud boys proudly walking around the capitol, even through the halls of congress tonight. and speaking of the proud boys, the leader of the group there, as you mentioned, was speaking to alex jones yesterday. and i want to play a little bit more of what he said. have a listen. >> now it's our turn. i'm happy that the president is focusing not on retribution and focusing on success, but i will tell you that i'm not going to play by those rules. the people who did this, they need to feel the heat. they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted. we should put merrick garland, at the very least for 90 days in federal prison and give him a taste of his own medicine, of what

donie o'sullivan. thank you.spective from scott galloway, professor of marketing at nyu stern school of business. he's also host of the markets podcast and co-host of pivot with kara swisher. scott, what's your reaction to this decision by meta, especially the timing, the political backdrop, obviously. >> well, the timing is pretty obvious. this was i mean, essentially, mark zuckerberg is one of the most brilliant businessmen in history, and we should stop using the term stakeholder value. it's all about shareholder value. and this will reduce their safety and content moderation budget which was $5 billion in 2022. so if they can cut that in half without the need to moderate content and reduce their safety and security team at a pe of 30, you're looking at a $75 billion increase in market cap. this is $10 billion in zuckerberg's. pocket. uh the more meta effect, if you will, is it will weaken democracies. uh, one of the keys are the three pillars of really strong democracies are trust in our institutions, shared

other officials who will have the courage to act and decide civilly, the only way that this can be donis to prohibit by law at once the raising of a single bale of cotton in all cotton growing states. during the yr 1932, the used to have their cotton and if action is immediately taken along this line, they will benefit of t price bause. cotton had gone down to $0.06, $0.06 a pound, and it was an absolute. so the governor of texas and the governor of of of louisiana decided that they were going to pass laws and they actually passed laws that you could only use 30% of your property in cotton. and this was going to solve the problem. well, it did create was an enormous exodus to north from from hundreds of thousands of cotton workers whom who moved who immigrated to the north. in 1931. there a growing movement movement the cotton holiday was promoted by huey long and was part of a promise to make ordinary people's lives better. in hindsight, we can see clearly it was like so many other plans of his a ruse. sound familiar. lillian rogers parks wrote a book called, my 30 years backstairs at t

. >> donie, are any of the people you're talking to over there differentiating between j6 prisoners, people who broke the law and who did so with violence than those who did not do so with violence? i mean is the group there aware of the differences between the violent ones that will get commuted and the non-violent ones will get pardoned? >> no, jake. and in terms of the world in which they live in, they saw the actions of january 6 as justified because they bought into the lies about the 2020 election. and we have seen their understanding, and how the facts of what happened on january 6, 2021 at the u.s. capitol, how that has been turned upside down. and for many in the maga trump movements, it is everybody else's fault, apart from the trump supporters who stormed the capitol where there are conspiracy theories about all sorts of other different actors that are being involved. and so it is a combination of the election lies and also how that truth has been worked over the years. >> okay, donie, thank you so much. here we go, president trump is in the president's room in the capitol

. >> i'm donie o'sullivan on capitol hill and this is cnn. >> all right. from greenland to the panama canal and canada. donald trump pitching a major land grab when he takes office. during his first press conference of the year, the president elect mused about how the u.s. would achieve those goals. >> can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? no. >> you're talking about panama and greenland? no. i can assure you on either of those two, but i can say this. we need them for economic security. the panama canal was built for our military. i'm not going to commit to that now. >> well, trump senior was talking about greenland and florida. trump jr. was traveling to the territory. he included a bobblehead of his father and a message from the president elect. >> he says hello. >> okay. >> we were talking to him yesterday, so he says hello to everyone in greenland. >> all right. back in florida. on the topic of annexing canada, trump ruled out military force, but seemed to think

. >> our donie o'sullivan, our reporter, has been out talking to them, but just, just just to kind of put a button on this, you know, he did talk about pardoning some of them, but i think, you know, for people in your own party, i think the thing that concerns them is the violent offenders attacking police officers. i mean, this republican party has been known to support the police law and order, and they're getting a free pass here. and i think that is what seems to be bothering some, like thom tillis, senator lankford. i mean, do you share some of that concern, though, that this could set a bad precedent? and, you know, raise safety concerns and, and that kind of thing? >> well, obviously, we support the police. i support the police. we've always been there to make sure we didn't cut the budgets of the police force, make sure they had bulletproof vests and the equipment they need to be able to protect themselves. we certainly don't, you know, condone violence against police. i think that this is a question that that president trump will be asked. and i think that he'll certainly giv

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here's donie o'sullivan report. >> we're frantically. >> working to get. >> them done. >> i already have two. jay sixers living on our property. >> this is jenny cudd. she's opening. her home here in the texas countryside to pardoned january sixers. so you are building basically small homes. yes. so there are about 300ft÷ and. will ultimately. >> build five. >> of them. >> there's not very many people. >> that get a. >> second chance at life for could. this is very personal. she was sentenced to two months probation for entering the capitol on january 6th. >> we did. break down the, um. >> nancy pelosi's office door. i had death threats. >> for two years. >> i had over 1001 star reviews. >> on my business card has raised more than $50,000 for the project. the j6. >> road home project. >> is a comprehensive. >> healing program, so. >> we already have in place a national telehealth network. and then we have jobs lined up all over texas that are just waiting for these guys to get here. >> one of the pardoned january 6th convicts arrived while we were there. >> you are. it is. >> don hazzard

they each spoke with cnn's donie o'sullivan and reveal the reality of a family that's been torn apartthe aftermath of january 6th. >> if trump pardons your dad, what's your biggest fear? >> you know, just getting shot in the street, i don't know, by your father, by my father, by someone he knows. there's a bunch of people that i don't know, and i don't know their intent. so you want to help me lift this? sure. this is jackson reffitt. >> do you want me to take this end here? yes, please. he says he's moving out of his rental home and into hiding for his own safety. >> he bought a gun because i got so paranoid and moving out because i'm scared. >> do you know how to fire a gun? >> yeah, i've been shooting it. >> do you have it on you right now? >> yeah, i have two, uh, wear it around the house kind of often just to get used to how it feels. okay. but i'm part of that. like, jackson's dad is guy reffitt, who was a member of the texas three percenter militia. i just kept going. >> go forward, go forward. >> i couldn't even see bro. >> he's serving a more than seven year sentence for his

cnn's donie o'sullivan has more. >> if you're a true patriot. >> i don't even know what to feel. i mean. >> i guess i should. feel joy. i just, i maybe i'm just shocked. >> the end of a long road for rachel. >> powell. >> pardoned by president. >> trump and released tuesday from a jail here in washington, dc. rachel became known as the pink house lady when footage emerged of her breaking a window at the capitol with an ice ax during the january 6th attack. a mom to eight and a grandmother to seven, i interviewed rachel before she began what was supposed to be a years long prison sentence last year. >> how do i have time. >> to plan. an insurrection when my life is busy like this? >> on her release on tuesday, she was met by activists who gave her new clothes, new boots and a new pink hat that. >> would glory. >> hallelujah! >> thank you lord. >> this man came from. >> the philadelphia jail. he got out at 3 a.m. that doesn't make sense. he's wearing prison. shoes and philadelphia's finest prison gear. >> in january, sixers from elsewhere began arriving in washington. like william

. >> i'm donie o'sullivan on capitol hill and this is cnn. >> we are following the breaking news out of southern california, where the pacific palisades wildfire is devastating an area the size of at least 2100 football fields. the trustee at the l.a. unified school district, nick melvoin, joins me now. nick, it's almost incomprehensible. think about the scope of this fire, and it's raging on, including overnight. i understand that the fire has reached the high school and possibly other schools as well. what can you tell us? >> yeah, i mean, as we've heard, things are moving quickly and the winds are picking up. but pali high, palisades charter high school is currently engulfed in flames. we know that there are firefighters working heroically who are on the scene now to preserve the main structures. but the baseball field, tennis courts, some bungalows, athletic buildings have been destroyed. but again, we are we know that the fire department is there now trying to preserve the structures. palisades elementary school, not too far away, also on fire. and we have a few other schools. m

rioters and donie o'sullivan reported that actually they got rid of the database, even go to to see whoas charged. in that case, he fired inspectors general for more than a dozen federal agencies, floated eliminating fema. he stripped security protection from people trump considers political enemies, reverse president biden's efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs. he mandated that the federalprocess to end birthright citizenship, which, of course, is going to be has all kinds of legal challenges. cnn's tom foreman joins us now. so, tom, beyond the headline, what is the real impact of some of these orders during trump's whirlwind first week? >> some of them. virtually nothing. they're sort of a dog and pony show, but then others could have a real impact. let's look at this question of tariffs. to begin with. he said that he was going to do this giant crackdown on tariffs day one. day number one. we're a week into it. they have not happened. he has not done that. he threatened a 25% tariff on all imports from canada and mexico, 10% tariff on chinese products. now he's kind of pu

also, my colleague donie o'sullivan did an interview with the woman who became she had a pink hat onhe used an ax to break a window. and then he interviewed her outside the dc jail because of course, she's now been released. so michael smerconish, i'm always grateful to have you. if it's friday, it's a friday, so see you soon. and do all of you at home remember to tune in to smerconish. it's tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. eastern. it's right here on cnn. all right, 53 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. tomorrow, four more israeli hostages set to be released by hamas. sources say the fate of the other hostages expected to be released over the coming weeks, could also come into focus tomorrow. although president donald trump says he hasn't met or spoken to any of the january 6th rioters to whom he granted clemency earlier this week, he said he's not opposed to hosting them at the white house. >> i don't know, i'm sure that they probably would like to, i did. i did them something important, but what they did is they were protesting a crooked election. and, you know, i mean,

donie o'sullivan is at the capitol security barrier for us, the same area where he was reported aroundtime four years ago. take us through that moment four years ago and contrast it with what you're seeing now. >> reporter: hey, jake. i was right about exactly right now actually this time four years ago that we made our way with trump supporters who had marched down pennsylvania avenue here, from the ellipse where donald trump was speaking at the time by the white house. and came down here to this intersection of third street and pennsylvania avenue. these gates were not here. this barrier was not here. in fact, the supporters that we were walking along with made their way to what is ironically given what happened called the peace monument. and that is where trump supporters which turned into a violent mob, first pushed over the barricades that had been set up by police. by the way, the barricades at that point were nothing like this. they were the small barriers that come up to your waist that you see at a football game or a concert. it was in that moment when we heard the gates crash