griffin was a talented senator. he made clear that he had heard rumors about fortas being fortas being unethical. if people had information, he says call my office. when he finds out is that fortas have been given a substantial cash bonus, 15,000 dollars. in 1968, it's not an insignificant sum of money, to teach a very short seminar at american university law school. that's in d.c., less than a couple of weeks. that this money had not come from american university. it had instead come from a handful of private donors who were friends of fortas. this sounds uncomfortably close to being a bribe. that these people are paying fortas to do a token amount of work. the dean of american university law school says 15,000 dollars sounds like a lot of money, but fortas was doing more than just teaching a class. he had to prepare a syllabus. as we know, preparing isil abyss is expensive work. this is not a credible allegation. the committee invites fortas to come back before it and explain what exactly he did for this 15,000 do

what griffin is doing here, griffin has seen the polls. by june of 1968, nixon has assumed a fairly healthy lead over hubert humphrey. so what griffin is saying, he's confident that nixon is going to win and saying i want a republican to make this nomination rather than a democrat. if the polls were flipped, let's say we're in an alternative world and hubert humphrey were ahead of nixon by 15 polints in the polls, i suspect griffin would have said, let's go along with this. we have 19 senators who were signing onto this statement. and, remember, we have 11 senators, 10 of whom are democrats, who oppose thurgood marshall. at least on paper, we have almost 30 senators who seem to be skeptical about a possible johnson nomination. but the johnson white house staff doesn't detect this. so just at the time that the griffin round robin is coming out, johnson's legislative liaison team, the office in the white house that basically counts votes in congress, prepares these documents for lbj. and what they say is, this is a shoo-in, we have roughly 7

what griffin is doing here griffin has seen the polls.by june of 1968 nixon has assumed a fairly healthy lead over humphrey. griffin is saying he's confident nixon is going to win a once a republican to make this nomination rather than democrat. if the polls were flipped lets they were in an alternate word world and he is on free were ahead of nixon by 15 points in the polls, i suspect that griffin would've said let's go along with this. but he doesn't. he gets a significant chunk of senate republicans. 19 senators were signing on to the statement. remember we have 11 senators ten of are democrats who oppose their good marshall. at least on paper, we have 30 senators who seem to be skeptical about a possible johnson nomination. but the johnson white house staff doesn't detect this. johnson's legislation liaison team in the office in the white house, that basically counts votes in congress prepares these documents for lbj. what he says this issue. and we have 70% of the support in the senate. we have a handful but we don't need to worry, f

griffin posted videos of himself at the january 6th events and said he would return to d.c.weapons. he is arrested and he is being threatened to be ousted from office if he does not resign. and betancourt, posed at the capitol with a confederate flag and he was on probation, he went to the riot and posted a picture on social media and he was wearing an ankle monitor so his parole officer tracked him there with gps coordinators and then jenna ryan, a real estate agent and a life coach too, flew on a private plane, was boast abouting on why they were there, said she was armed and dangerous and now she is asking this. >> i do not feel a sense of shame or guilt from my heart, i felt like i was following my president. i would like a pardon from the president of the united states. i think that we all deserve a pardon. i'm facing prison sentence. >> mr. trump is reportedly considering issuing more pardons, it's unclear if he will issue them to these folks. in looking over dozens of affidavits for the suspects, there's a lot of them that think they did absolutely nothing wrong. >>>

cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffin identified some of them, all clearly visible in photos taken during the riot. man dressed in what looks like buffalo horns and is shirtless is a guy named jake angeli from arizona. he has referred to himself as a qanon shaman, qanon conspiracy theorist. he not only broke into the senate, he posed on the senate dais. man who broke into speaker nancy pelosi's office is richard barnett, a gun rights supporter from arkansas who has at one point referred to himself as a white nationalist. we mentioned him at the top of the program. tim gionet is a far-right activist who live streamed himself inside the building for more than 25 minutes. nick ochs is a member of the proud boys group in hawaii. then there's another man, an elected state representative from west virginia, a republican named derek evans. he can be heard shouting, "we're in, we're in, baby," while moving among a crowd of rioters through a capitol doorway. evans' attorney released a statement saying his client is an independent activist and journalist who did nothing wrong an

discuss, cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, and cnn senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. good evening, gents. evan, let's see. let's start with you. and let's talk about the capitol police chief, steven sund, resigning earlier today, after nancy pelosi and others called for his resignation. what are we learning about this security failure that unfolded yesterday? >> it is a huge, embarrassing, security failure. and in addition to the resignation of the capitol police chief, we also know that the top-security officials in the house and the senate, the sergeant of arms, for both bodies, they both -- stepping down, as a result of what happened yesterday, don. and what we're told is that, simply put, you know, there were all these meetings, in the weeks planning before the president's rally. and there were plenty of warnings that there were -- there were people, who were believed who were possibly going to be violent. and the capitol police kept telling the other agencies, the fbi, secret service, the u.s. attorney's office, that they had it in hand. that they were ready bec

our pentagon correspondent jennifer griffin tweeted about it today. we have 15,000 u.s. troops at the u.s. capitol today right now. we have a picture of some of them last night sleeping on the floor of the u.s. capitol. i mean, it's enough to make you want to cry, jesse. it's unbelievable. that is three times the number of troops that the united states has right now stationed in afghanistan and iraq. combined. if you have to wonder about where they domestic terror threat is for the united states right now, the major terror threat i think you can see it's right here at home. it's a function of domestic terrorism. that's a reality. that's a fact, as confirmed by that awful sight of our young men and women having to defend our own congress against domestic actions by people who are loyal to president trump. >> jesse: katie, do you take issue with anything that your colleague juan just said? >> katie: i'm glad that the national guard is in town. i love the capitol building. being protected from people who want to do the people inside of it harmon who want to destroy it. let'

i mentioned jennifer griffin a moment ago. trying to piece together the story about what did and did not happen in the days before wednesday afternoon. jennifer griffin has that part of the story. what did you find out, jennifer? >> army secretary ryan mccarthy says he was not asked for national guard troops to protect the u.s. capitol ahead of the mob storming in wednesday. he said we were not precoordinated or asked for support by the capitol police. the capitol police has the responsibility and jurisdiction. they're a separate branch of the government. they have to ask and request for support. >> we engaged with the capitol police last week and into the weekend. they confirmed to us after our request that they were going to come to us with any request for assistance on sunday, 3 january, that they weren't doing to have any request for assistance for dod. >> i'm told the mayor was reluctant to have any national guard in site of the protests during calls that included the pentagon, justice department that was in the lead and

griffin is a county commissioner and founder of the cowboys for trump group the video showing him inside the building during last week's attack griffin had vowed to return to washington with firearms to protest the inauguration of president elect joe biden he was arrested in d.c. on sunday. more now from. the white house. we've been told constantly actually from national guard leadership that members of the national guard are routinely vetted for any potential dangers in their backgrounds any links to extremism and so on the new development it's been reported is that the f.b.i. is now getting involved it's not just the national guard relying on its usual mechanisms to ensure that those within the service radicalized in some way some ways the reports we've got now is the f.b.i. is also taking a look at the some 25000 troops who may be deployed in the capital by wednesday that's 2 and a half times more than normal inaugurations that's the new bit so the f.b.i. apparently has been doing this according to the associated press at least and this is the announcement is new but apparently the f.

it can't happen fast enough. >> drew griffin joins us now. hopefully much more vaccine will be available. it sounds like the biggest problem is knowing how much is on the way. is there a plan to straighten out the supply chain? >> reporter: anderson, that's one thing the biden administration announced today. they will try to tell states three weeks in advance what you'll get three weeks from now and that will hopefully end the hunger games type situation going on in the states and also for the people at home trying to get online and get appointments, it will be able to schedule them three weeks out instead of having these mad dashes when appointments open up on websites. anderson? >> drew griffin, appreciate it. >>> perspective from dr. sanjay g gupta. sanjay, how was biden's covid coordinator able to tell governors the vaccine allocations would increase around 16% starting next week and why couldn't this have happened last week or yesterday? where are the doses coming from? >> right. they seem to be primarily moderna doses that are coming th

and coy griffin, a new mexico county commissioner who leads the group cowboys for trump, promised in this meeting to return to d.c. with guns. >> i'm going to leave either tonight or tomorrow. i've got a .357 henry big boy rifle, lever-action, that i've got in the trunk of my car. >> reporter: the fbi says griffin was, indeed, found blocks from the capitol on sunday, with his guns. and wesley allen beeler was arrested friday with a gun in his truck at a security checkpoint. he was trying to get to work at a security job and forgot to leave his gun at home in virginia. >> so, let's bring in martha raddatz back with us again tonight. martha, i know hundreds of thousands of tips have now come in and what's also notable, many of the people actually tipping authorities off. >> reporter: david, there have been more than 200,000 digital tips and many from family and friends of those who stormed the capitol. and as you said earlier, david, the rehearsal will continue. we are surrounded by armed troops here on the ground, but several thousands say nobody y'all troops took part in that inaugur

and that's a move griffin story.he there >> you go. >> so speaking of which, you are very close to your geography, that you stay close to hollywood, so do you have a lot of hollywood actors coming to visit, you know like i see the titanic was an opportunity to engage, in all to the hollywood industry, but on a year to year basis. >> on a regular basis, not as much anymore years ago we had much more, because they were alive and a lot of them are passing on now, but with exhibits like titanic were lincoln, we do attract them obviously the relationship that the president and mrs. reagan had bode well for that. so that is tapering off, and it just depends on what is happening here. because if we do a big event like the debate, you will get all stripes here. so. >> so i have a couple more questions, and we have a little factoid we want to put up on screen to finish up. so did nancy reagan speak at the funeral? >> at the president's funeral? we now know. >> then a personal question for you and for younger folks who are wat

griffin so he can buy that view, what does he do? >> what he has said he is going to do is support robinhood as a trading platform in any way he can. it does raise questions about that relationship, potential conflict, since ken griffin was also an investor in the market. what he wants to do, i assume, is make sure that the markets are functioning properly and will do everything he can to make sure that order for that comes through citadel continues. looks like that's going to happen today. tom:o we will see. executiveur -- we will see. our executive managing editor. i am going to call it a modest rollover at that in very early trading. coming up, and exceptionally important and timely conversation with the former governor of the bank of england, mark carney, special envoy for the united nations on climate action. the rules have changed with the administration in washington. mark carney on the new climate change. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> i don't think a rate cut is coming right now. it's only a week ago since the gover

and on hbo max and i'm excited to have been asked to host this conversation with author nicholas griffin. a journalist and author of four nobels and three works of nonfunction. his writing has appeared in the times in the uk, financial times, foreign policy and other publications. his look back was short listed for awards in both the u.s. and the uk, and hely news book, be year of dangerous days "was rae individual by "the new york times" as utterly absorb, i concur, and more importantly, they wrote it's impossible to read griffin's timely and searing account without thinking about the implications for the current moment and nicholas, who lives in new york, with his wife and two children and 100-year-old dog is joining us live from there i hope i imagine your dog is sleeving off in a corner. >> [inaudible] >> time to update the bio. >> i should have updated the bioi sent you. i've been living in miami for seven years. i guess i but and pasted you the old bio. >> i got the miami part. it's the unornate -- i'm sigh for the passing of your dog. wafflings is covid related. >> it was not covi

drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> drew, thank you so much. join me right now is tjuliette chiyim.as struck that one expert in drew's piece says this is not over. >> that's why what we'll hopefully see is a combination of efforts to at least inmise the risk. you're not going to eliminate it in time. that is going to include a tremendous force presence on the 20th if not sooner. because there's other dates being mentioned. i also believe the arrests you're seeing around the country, a coup dozen now. more over the weekend and next week, are really essential. because they show the fbi is serious about putting these people in jail. and finally i think it is important to isolate and essentially eradicate the influence of trump as an inciter of domestic terrorists. so keeping him off the perimeters. all of them are going to mat to at least minimize the risk in the next ten days to come. >> so, you know, in the coming days, as you've mentioned, is joe biden's inauguration and so far he is saying that he's still wanting to stand on the west front of the capitol for his swearing in. the im

they are whining about kathy griffin holding a mannequin head for tearing up a piece of paper toughen up. >> sean: i wonder if a conservative had a severed head of joe biden like kathy griffin data, what the left's reaction would be. for all of the cancelpe culture people out there, anti-free free speech extremists, we made fun of you, but we never tried to cancel your show, i don't care for canceling shows or boycotts for shows, i don't ever want tou shut you down or silence you even as you spew reckless conspiracy theories and hoaxes and lies to the american people rday in and day out. you did it for years, did it on russia and ukraine every second of every day and if you don't like it, there's a secret to life, no one is forcing you to watch it. you don't have to watch the show. i would like you to watch the show even if you want to tear me to shreds after but as long as you're watching. how about we let the american people decide? that's called freedom. that would be then constitution and the first amendment. that something of a concept called liberty, great concept may be time fo

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jennifer griffin reports the guard soldiers will arrive armed and able to defend themselves. meanwhile, in the u.s. capitol police riot shields have been faced it nearly ever entrance flage the capital, and the is at half-staff staff in honor ck whoicer brian sickni died from violent injury sustained during the attack last week. nancy pelosi announcing in a letter to lawmakers last night that she will put a bell on the floor today demanding that vice president pence invoke the 25th amendment when it comes to president trump. giving him 24 hours to take action on that. if not, nancy pelosi saying she will move toward impeachment. this week on capitol hill, when it comes to those efforts to remove president trump from office, we are asking whether you think either should happen. phone lines as usual, democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. , (202) 748-8002. derek in randall's town, maryland. a democrat. caller: good morning. absolutely, pelosi should go ahead. this guy needs to be impeached. the guy is mentally ill. we know that. he doesn't care about anybody bu

taylor griffin, republican — choice yet. ok. taylor griffin, republican strategist, - choice yet.ght more than 2,000 homes were evacuated. we note the river mersey there is at record levels. you can see the snow on either side, which was overnight, of course. and these were some of the scenes in north wales yesterday. you get a sense of how high the water is there. homes and gardens were flooded. while in ruthin the high street was partly submerged. you are getting a real sense of some of the problems caused. we can speak now to richard kilpatrick, a councillor for west didsbury. you personally have been hit overnight. what happened? yes. overnight. what happened? yes, that's right- _ overnight. what happened? yes, that's right. so, _ overnight. what happened? yes, that's right. so, when _ overnight. what happened? yes, that's right. so, when we - overnight. what happened? i2: that's right. so, when we got notification that the flood warnings were in place, i actually left my flat, which is about 300 metres from where i am stuck now. i started to set up the local mosque for anyone

shannon. >> shannon: jennifer griffin, thank yo. the president-elect delivering an economic message that his administration such prioritize minority and women owned businesses when it comes to access to covid relief resources. correspondent jacqui heinrich taking a look and she is live in wilmington. >> good evening, shannon. president-elect joe biden received a second vaccine shot today but behind the scenes he is bearing down on his current virus response team amid concerns he may have over projected his vaccination goals. political reports joe biden himself dropped the hammer on his covid coordinator and his deputy made worried that the goal of 100 million shots of the first 100 days may be too lofty. biden's surgeon general designee told politico we are uncovering new information each day and we are unnerving more work to be done. describing a disjointed federal response. transition official confirms they are on track to reach their target and consider it doable but a source also detailed hangups including time loss for the bide

drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> thanks, drew, for that.this programming note take a look at these times. cnn takes an in-depth look at the storming of the u.s. capitol in the trump insurrection airing sunday night in the u.s. of course, here are the times on your screen. >>> so, that wraps up this hour of cnn. i'm robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me the past two hours. the news continues. the new myww+ is our most holistic weight loss program ever. you can choose any workout you want to fit within your time frame. there are a ton of zero point foods that i love. i never feel restricted. the new myww+. kickstart your weight loss with the ww triple play that doesn't happen. ofn asthma attack... this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is a different kind of asthma medication. it's not a steroid or inhaler. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it's one maintenance dose every 8 weeks. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. nearly 7 out of 10 adults with asth

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the it can't happen fast enough. >> our thanks to drew griffin for his reporting there.e chaos to a mass vaccination site which is where we find our paul vercammen live for us. paul, you just got new data on l.a. county specifically, right? what are you learning? >> well, we learned that for the first time in a while we are seeing what many might describe as a major glimmer of hope. these numbers are encouraging. now, let us say that we don't know if there was some sort of lag in the testing or if some numbers were possibly not turned in. that hasn't been mentioned yet, but let's get right to it. a dramatic drop in the number of new cases. more than 1,000, a big plunge in the number of people who have died from code of in the last 24 hours and then we're seeing a drop in the hospitalizations and it's more than 1,600. this will explain why county leaders were so optimistic and decided that they would ease many of the stay-at-home restrictions at the top of that list of what we've been seeing all weekend, that's the reopening for outside dining at los angeles county's rest

jennifer griffin on capitol hill. the long arm of the law tracking down and arresting the rioters on capitol hill. more suspects from last week's riot in custody and the effort to find the others has intensified. correspondent david spent shows us how from the justice department. >> from generate sixth alone we've already identified over 200 suspects. so we know who you are if you are out there and fbi agents are coming to find you. >> a stark warning from the fbi director is a bureau continues to track suspects from last week's riot. a federal law enforcement source tells fox news kevin siegfried the man identified parading through the hallways of the capital with the confederate flag turned himself in this morning. his son hunter was also arrested. the cleveland mayor made a second appearance before the federal judge and he's accused of coming to washington with the intention to kill house speaker nancy pelosi on live television. authorities say he traveled from colorado with an assault rifle and a 2500 rounds of am

. >> bill: thanks, jennifer griffin. on the the hill getting arrested an charged. a man seeing carrying a confederate flag turned himself in today. david spunt has more. >> authorities say his name is kevin seyfried. he and his son turned themselves in delaware today. the fbi put out a wanted poster for him. it has several images of him in the capitol, parading around with that confederate flag last week. authorities have been searching for him for a week. according to the source, his son hunter facing very similar charges. as i speak to you, bill, social media accounts are going dark. twitter purging them following the riot in and out side the capitol. twitter suspending accounts that violate the terms. many of them deal with people at the riot or associated with that riot. with sites like twitter and facebook cleaning up the space, parler with an uncertain future, the banning of the posts according to law enforcement experts, criminals can go underground. we can't track them as much. >> it's a catch 22. the word is com

let's check in with jennifer griffin as she continues her reporting on security from washington. >> wee capital you can see the national guard behind us, the national park service has announced it is closing the d.c. national mall and all d.c. landmarks until the day after the inauguration and they will not allow any groups larger than 100 people to gather together, that is going to curtail any of the planned protest in any of the protesters who do come to town will have to walk through metal detectors, we can confirm the pentagon has authorized up to 25000 national guard for inauguration security and increased due to more request for help from the secret service. we saw the special forces from the international guard arrived at the capital and staging at the library of congress, the fbi says online chatter is continuing on the internet and open forum even after the large pro trump mob stormed the capital on january 6. >> those of you who took part in the violence here is something that you should know. every fbi field officer in the country is looking for you. as a matter of fact even

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jennifer griffin following that. 25,000 troops. that's a lot of troops there.er fbi assistant director, what do you make of that? >> this inauguration has been in the planning for over a year in terms of security at the level we're at already. it's headed up by the secret service. they have the inner perimeter. now with 25,000 national guard troops and drones and someone will be on every tall building in the surrounding area. it's going to be buttons down tight. my concern is the soft areas outside the perimeter and around the country. >> neil: yeah, around the country that worries me the most. you and i have gotten this. i'm always confused with fbi officials talk about chatter. the talks about planned events not only in the nation's capitol but elsewhere. what do they pick up, especially when people are well aware that might be planning this stuff that people could be listening in and might go dark? what do you do? >> yeah, now that some of the more conservative platforms have been silenced and that was an assist to the fbi actually. not the silencing but hav

fox's jennifer griffin joins us from the pentagon.ter: there were complaints that the national guard were not involved enough yesterday but the pentagon is mobilizing more than 6,000 national guard troops mobilized from pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, delaware, maryland and virginia and will stage outside of the d.c. area in coming days in case they are needed to help the 1100 d.c. national guard who arrived last night as the d.c. armory. army national secretary announced a seven foot high scale fence erected around the capitol will remain up at least 30 days through the inauguration. the fingerpointing as begun as to why the national guard was not used to protect the capitol. the pentagon can only send in the national guard to d.c. at the request of mayor muriel bowser or if the president invoked sure recollection act which pentagon, mayor, pushed back against last summer. they did not want him to do so. this was something that became a huge issue during those june protests. president trump tried to federalize troops to tamp down

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madonna thought about blowing up the white house, kathy griffin held up a likeness of the president'sctual riot and a coup and tearing up donald trump's -- the weird equivalence, you have marjorie taylor green saying she's being silenced while she's on the house floor on tv. what's left in the party is the ridiculous. >> this whiny bitch victimhood from jim jordan and all of these other people, it is the most pathetic example of special pleading i've ever seen. they act that the world is against them somehow. twitter and facebook aren't banning you because you're a conservative. they're banning you because you suck. they're banning you because you support a revolution against the government of this country. this is the most remarkable thing about this to me is all of these tough guys swagger monkeys who act like their -- they're whining ability kathy griffin holding up a mannequin head, toughen up. >> the thing is, i feel like, rick, that this is one of those examples of when you open the door to the crazy and to the lunatics. they all come in and after a while the -- i remember when

want to go to jennifer griffin. she's been looking at how the capitol is getting ready next week for the inauguration and ample security concerns. thousands of national guard troops in the city. they beefed up police forces and the like. they're ready for anything and everything i. >> they are, neil. what a difference a weeks makes. we've seen dozens of platoons of national guard walking the perimeter here. some armed with m-4 rifles. they've been briefed that there could be vehicle-born ieds, truck bombs brought in to the capitol to disrespect the inauguration. they're giving the same briefs as if they went to a war zone. there's more national guard troops on capitol hill than there are in either iraq or afghanistan. by the time the national guard deploys the 20,000 troops that have now been approved to come to the capitol over the next coming days, that will be more than three times the number of u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan combined. so things are very tense in the city. no sign of large protests right now

drew griffin, excellent reporting. thanks very much. joining us now, former u.s. attorney, cnn senior analyst. these republican members of congress, like mo brooks, how culpable could they be here? >> it sounds very serious. hour by hour we're getting more information of people involved, s arguably, ing with others to depending what the facts show, seditious conspiracy. in the reporting that you just showed, i think it's very serious. i think you don't want to jump to conclusions when you have something as serious as this, and you're talking about a member of congress. you need to look at other communications, take other testimony and i think, you know, i'm not one to quickly say someone is fwilty of a particular crime. but what we're seeing and hearing that you just reported, i think, is as serious as it gets. >> certainly. stand by for a moment, preet. we're getting major breaking new news in. dana bash has that. >> from liz cheney, she just released a statement saying she will vote to impeach president trump, that she will vote to impeach president trump. she s

well, this is the time. >> that was drew griffin reporting.ver to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you, anderson. >>> i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." tonight there is reason for hope. things are very much i

jennifer griffin live from washington.et's bring in bill daly in on this, former fbi agent, control risk group senior vice president. good to see you, bill. you've been under these circumstances. jennifer brought up a number of interesting points. the fact we're so focused on washington, the authorities, i'm sure this is bothering people at the fbi, are worried about other cities and other state capitals and other places if we take our eye off the ball or resources even, should we be worried about other parts of the country next week or so? >> connell, the fbi bip put notice out to various state governments letting them know that this could find its way into and around the areas of the capitol or major cities. this is something we talked about, jennifer speaking about the security in and around washington, d.c., certainly around the event, the inauguration event, because it's a national level security event run by doj, dod, providing support, that of itself will be very secure. it is the periphery areas. the periphery in a

jennifer griffin as the story. washington d. c is largely locked down as we get closer to inauguration day, last week's capital riot, leading to a wave of new security measures across the nation's capital, the most visible coming in the form of thousands of national guard troops, dc's police chief says up to 20,000 members could be protecting the city by next wednesday. the intent is with the national guard the large security forces going down there. that it won the gate any any thoughts of violent protests are on protests. the guard is playing double duty across the country, as some members head to d, c and other stay home to protect their own states. public safety officials are installing chain link fences around capitol buildings and relying on public intelligence to enhance security. pretty much talked about it on an ongoing basis and. you know, we let our staff know that if they see something here, something something bothers them. something stands out. let us know. back in d. c construction crews are working around the clo

cnn investigative correspondent drew griffin joins us now with much more on that.g, drew. >> reporter: it is. congressman mo brooks of alabama already facing calls for censure, john. but as the department of justice announces, it's looking for instigators of what happened. these three congressmen could be in much worse trouble than just a censure. the siege on the capitol started with a protest just like dozens of "stop the steal" rallies across the country since the election. >> 1776! >> reporter: and one of the main organizers, extreme right-winger, ali alexander, who says he was getting help from three members of congress. >> i'm the guy who came up with the idea of january 6th, when i was talking with congressman gosar, congressman andy biggs, and congressman mo brooks. >> reporter: that's right. alexander says these three members of congress actually helped plan the rally. paul gosar, andy biggs, and mo brooks. >> it was to build momentum and pressure and then on the day, change hearts and minds of congresspeople's who weren't yet decided or saw everyone outsi

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. >> reporter: investigators said that coy griffin founder of the group cowboys for trump, climbed theitol's wall. and at a meeting with other county officials last thursday he said he was planning to return to washington for inauguration day armed. >> i'm going to leave either tonight or tomorrow. i've got a 357 henry rifle. i got a single action revolver and i will embrace my second amendment. >> reporter: the fbi arrested him yesterday in washington. in the meantime, agents say pro-trump troops are calling for storming of government buildings on inauguration day. the postal service has temporarily removed mailboxes from the streets in at least 17 states as a security precaution. back here in washington, an important procedural step today, vice president elect kamala harris will officially resign from the senate. mona. >> elizabeth, thank you. >>> president trump is poised to issue a final round of pardons before leaving the white house. he's reportedly planning to pardon or commute the sentences of about 100 people tomorrow. the president is not expected to pardon himself. a new pol

drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >>> again, those threats are about january 20th, inauguration day.ght be a threat three days earlier, on the 17th. as part of its announcement, twitter said quote the further incitement of violence, plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating, on and off twitter, including proposed secondary attack on capitol and state capitol buildings. brian stelter. and charles ramsey, also happens to be district of columbia's former police chief. chief ramsey, calls online for round two january 20th. doesn't seem to get more serious than that, does it? >> no, it doesn't. and i am aware of both. the one on january 17th targets, not only the u.s. capitol but, also, capitol buildings in all 50 states. especially, the swing states. it's going under the guise of being some kind of second-amendment rally. so, that would indicate that they are going to be armed, if they do, in fact, show up. one of the problems that we have right now is the fact that, in light of wednesday, the 6th of january, the capitol police chief has resigned. the sergeant in a

be in the in the digital age we think also nations could have done more to use beef and ignatius griffin show that you know a mask source so this is in context racing all of those step that help support could have been given in order specs so yes i think through timely and effective alarm system yes this big m 8 could not have spread at quickly and s. intensity intensively as it did. sirleaf there speaking a 2 earlier cheers to marx donald trump's the last full day as president of the united states while mr trump will leave the white house with what some opinion polls say are the lowest approval ratings of his 4 year presidency he will also leave washington d.c. in a state of high alert the f.b.i. is vetting all 25000 service personnel involved in president elect joe biden's inauguration on wednesday officials have expressed concern about a possible insider attack or another potential threat security concerns have gripped the city since a violent mob stormed the capital on january the 6th. in washington usually buzzing with people and traffic know a ghost town. on the other side's traffi

and for griffin at the pentagon right now following all of this. kind of a late development. a story about what vice president's role is in all of this, jennifer. >> bret come a lot of confusion about the d.c. national guard. remember, a request for the national guard has to come from the mayor's office so mayor muriel bowser requested some d.c. guards on monday. those were agreed to by the pentagon. the army secretary ryan mccarthy put in charge of the troops. there were 345 trips approved on monday. now we have learned a series of phone calls at about between 2:00 and 3:00 today, that is when vice president mike pence from the white house was on a series of short phone calls with the acting defense secretary chris miller, army secretary ryan mccarthy, and general mark milley, the joint chiefs authorizing and allowing the pentagon to authorize the mobilization of 1100, the entire d.c. national guard. that is what we have learned happened. we also heard that president trump was not involved in that decision. that it was mike pence on those phone calls. remember, he just came

capitol where griffin a new mexico county commissioner and founder of a group called cowboys for trump was also planning to travel to washington armed with a rifle and a revolver to protest joe biden's inauguration. of president trump is preparing to issue more than 100 pardons and communications on tuesday trump's last full day in office a list of clemencies include some white collar criminals and high profile contacts but reportedly will not include trump himself and meanwhile all. 50 us states are on high alert ahead of wednesday's inauguration of president elect joe biden which trump will not attend the some 25000 national guard troops have been deployed in washington d.c. fears of unrest from right wing protesters over the weekend proved unfounded but after january 6th law enforcement agents won't be letting their guard down. macam after the storm ahead of joe biden's inauguration wednesday the level of security in washington is on president it after the attack on the capitol on january 6th there is a fear of further on rast not just here but across the united states. that's all o

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parents like ryan griffin are frustrated. he says his six-year-old first grader is suffering. why do you want your son to go back to school? >> we're seeing the social- emotional strain that continued remote learning is having on him, and we need a path forward. >> reporter: in las vegas, there is a push to reopen amid student suicide. teachers are concerned about students' mental health and their own safety. >> if we don't get our vaccines, it's not safe for us to be back in the buildings. >> reporter: across the country, it's a patchwork of guidelines. some students haven't been in the classroom since march. others attending in-person, every day, since fall. in texas, where schools arergqu, free covid testing drive through sites for students and staff as cases there soared. parents still had the option of keeping kids home. >> what we saw kind of across the country when there were a lot of districts and schools that went completely remote, is as far as education and academics, it wasn't best for all kids and was actually harmful. >> reporter: the tension over whether to keep