. >> kaitlin in the middle. >> she was more like a bookworm. loved to read, academics. >> lauren grew up in maryland, halfway between baltimore and d.c., with her friend, katie o'hare. >> we knew each other inside-out. i'd always know she could cheer me up. she was a funny girl. >> funny girl? >> oh, yeah. she was a riot. >> how would she make you laugh? >> the things that would come out of her mouth sometimes didn't have a filter. >> why did she go south to go to school? >> she loved the south. she was a country girl at heart, and when she got there, she loved it. she didn't want to come back up here. >> and lauren certainly knew what she wanted -- wanted to be a lawyer, but not one of those corporate types or even a crusading prosecutor. lauren wanted to be a public defender, a voice for the poor and the accused. why did she want to do that? >> she always wanted to help people, always. >> and mercer law school, perched on its hillside a lot of macon's sweet spots seemed just right for her. >> she was a fan of nancy grace. nancy grace graduate

kaitlin, the president is in crisis. his twitter megaphone has been taken away premier league andpe face a second impeachment for inciting a insurrection. the wheels are in motion to hold the president accountable. >> don, people around the president are stunned. this is the last two weeks of his presidency are looking like. and i think the twitter being suspended permanently was really kind of the topping of all of this and all of this week, white house officials have say they witnessed. the premier leagatient is upset brags about his way to reach these 80 million people, whether it's he is criticizing the vice president, pushing policies that he wants or what have you. it's still pretty stunning that this is the time that twitter has decided to go after the patient. of course, it does come as people in the white house are kind of in disbelief that they are facing down a second impeachment now. it seems likely it's going to go to the house, potentially not the senate given the condensed timeline. that is other people in

and kaitlin, congratulations. so let's start with you soon to be chief white house correspondent.ou're learning the president is consumed with thun raveling of his presidency and exploding with any comparison to nixon. tell me about that. >> yeah, the president doesn't want anybody to bring up richard nixon or any kind of situation like that. he says he's not going to be resigning. there was a casual conversation about it this week as they've been talking about of course how quickly things have been unraveling at the white house. but we're told by sources that the president completely shut that done immediately. he told people do not bring up richard nixon. in the past he has exploded when people have brought richard nixon up before. and he even remarked, you know, he would not get the same treatment nixon got from gerald ford meaning he could not count on the vice president mike pence to pardon him in that way if he did resign. of course that's unlikely. it is remarkable this last full week of donald trump's time in office is going completely opposite of what people expected it t

. >> cnn crime and justice reporter kaitlin polents joins us now. >> with these women, those chargescharges have become emblematic in this investigation. there are 175 people charged now by federal prosecutors, and those charges are people who were seen on video, took video themselves, went to the capitol and the fbi is identifying them. those are basic cases at this point. in the coming weeks we are going to start seeing additional cases, more indictments that fill out details, indictments that show us that investigators are really learning a lot more about what had happened behind the scenes, maybe before the pro-trump rally that turned into the siege of capitol and we may see some guilty pleas. we were in the basic stages of these cases. we still are seeing cases in the early stages, but people are talking to the fbi, those two women, one of them had said she wanted to shoot nancy pelosi or was looking for nancy pelosi, they did speak to the fbi. so those cases as they move forward are going to get more detail. we might learn about more conspiracies and things like that. >> detail

kaitlin makes another excellent point about the familiarity with the white house, which extends for the biden administration up to capitol hill as well. obviously we saw the president, who had very friendly exchanges with congressional leaders, went to mass with congressional leaders this morning. it's what's happening behind the scenes as well that underscores how this administration is approaching things moving forward. at 5:15 you will see the president sign 15 executive actions related to a series of items, whether it's rolling back very specific things president trump's administration put into place, whether it's addressing covid, addressing the economic issues. when you talk to administration officials, they acknowledge that the big picture things they want to accomplish, the real way to address all of these crises they're dealing with, that's going to take congress and take legislation. that's why what's been happening behind the scenes over the course of the last couple of weeks is so important according to sources i've been talking to. the biden team has been working behind the

take place in five days even though president trump continues to reject reality, as cnn's ka kak kaitlineports. >> reporter: instead of attending the inauguration, trump will leave washington early wednesday following a military sendoff and plans to be in florida by the time joe biden is sworn in. >> not going to the inauguration may be what's best now, given the situation we're in. >> reporter: trump was against the idea of leaving d.c. as an ex-president, meaning he will get one last flight on air force one and won't need biden's permission to use a government jet. military aides will have two nuclear footballs ready, one that will fly with trump and one that will be with biden. once biden is sworn in, trump's launch codes will no longer work. with five days left in office, trump is watching his presidency unravel after being impeached for inciting a deadly insurrection on capitol hill. he's leaving the white house with the lowest approval rating of his presidency you, after it fell to 29% in the latest poll, conducted by pew research, which also found that two-thirds of americans don'

kaitlin collins is over at the white house right now for us.at meeting on the front steps of the white house greeting one another. this is his first time coming back because there was no pre-inauguration walk-through like typically new presidents do enjoy. of course biden is already familiar with the white house and the west wing. he's not someone who has to have his first time in the oval office. it will be his first time in the oval office as president, which of course is notable for sure. and while he is at arlington cemetery on his way over for the parade in front of the white house, his staff is already under way getting to work inside the west wing, unpacking their offices, meeting with i.t. to get their computers hooked up and even the photos on the wall have changed, wolf, just in the last several hours. when we got here this morning they were blank walls. now they have been replaced with photos of the new president and the new first lady. those are already lining the walls of the west wing. just in a matter of hours. it's amazing how q