cnn's van jones is calling out schumer.jones was having none of it when schumer denied democrats misled the public about biden's ability to serve. watch this. >> foolish. obviously biden was in bad shape and i was surprised but there were people who must've known better. obviously a lot was known and wasn't said and wasn't shared. it was leaking all the time anyway. i think to have any credibility and integrity people have to quit playing around. stuart: political commentator scott jennings noted that admitting to carrying up biden's help would be admitting to one of the biggest coverups in modern american political history. they are onto something. stuart: did they mislead the public covering it up? >> that's not a strong enough word. we were gas lit by the democratic establishment and told he was fine denying what we saw with our own eyes, he's fine and we have no idea who is running the country even though we can see with our own eyes the decline. stuart: thank. still had. meta ends fact checking on instagram and faceboo

just talk about kamala harris for a second there, van jones. she had the unenviable job today of certifying an election for a man that she doesn't like very much. >> well, i mean, whether she likes him or not, she could have been certifying herself. whether she loved the guy, didn't like the guy, she tried to become president of the united states. she had 100 days to do it. the ball had been dropped. she picked it up. so it's got to be -- it's got to sting, but class act. she did what she had to do. she put the country first. she did a good job. and it shouldn't be remarkable except that the guy she was certifying couldn't find themselves do it four years ago. and four years ago, we were sitting here watching this whole thing go down, watching the capitol be sacked, watching police officers be beaten up, and we thought that that was -- the question i asked then, is this the end of something or the beginning of something? was this a death rattle of a politics that had been defeat and was being ushered off the stage or the beginning of something.

. >>> live at the table, van jones, scott jennings, and ashley alison. americans with different perspectives are talking to each other , but here they do. >>> good evening. i am abby phillip in new york and let's get what america is talking about. now versus them. today january 6th played out as intended with the vice president of the united states notifying the election results to no violence, no injured police officers, no deaths. no fatal blows to american democracy. today unlike four years ago the president of the united states did not marshall a mob and point them for the p ago today, unlike than the outgoing administration listen to the will of the voters. today, unlike then, the loser of the election did not urge the supporters to fight like --, today kamala harris said this. >> it is about what the american people should be able to take for granted, which is that one of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. >> joining us in the fifth seat at the table, adam kinzinger is a former republican

i don't know if you heard what van jones said. i want to roll it. watch. >> i don't understand why anybody is mad at trump about this. i'm serious. if trump wants for canada to become the 51st country it would be a huge blue state. >> bill: might be right. let's push that to the side for now because what is happening in the market is something you follow very carefully. bitcoin is on a tear. are those who have always been skeptical like jamie dimon about to be proved wrong or will dimon will be proved right when an terrorist act is committed and they trace the funding for the act to bitcoin and the whole thing collapses? what is the fate as you see it now? >> terrorist acts have been around since the beginning of time and funded by various currencies including bags of the american dollar. i don't think that will trigger a change in what is occurring on digital currency. they have a lot of potential. we need regulation. jamie dimon is a smart guy. i have a lot of respect for him but he knows what matters are his clients. they want allocations between

. >> van jones. >> seconds. we're now just 10s away from ringing in the new year here in paris. let's listen in to the countdown. here we go. >> it's about to be midnight in angola and it is. >> happy new year from luanda angola feliz, ano novo. and the fireworks are up in the sky. it's all going down. three, two. >> one. happy new year! >> happy new year from london. wow! >> we had so much freaking fun. i love it. all right. to this now big ben striking midnight with its unforgettable chimes was resonating across london, especially as we rang in 2025. cnn's isa suarez went behind the scenes of the world's most famous clock to see just what it takes to keep that 165 year machine running on time, big ben. >> yeah. what does it sound like to you? you want me to imitate it? yeah. oh, no no no no no. ding dong, dong ding ding. bom bom ding dong ding dong. that's good. that's very good. that's the one. prepare yourselves for this moment. london. >> the old metropolis has been having a lot of fog lately. >> for 165 years, the bongs of big ben have kept londoners on time, consistently

>> van jones. >> hi, jake. yes. hi. >> coming to you. thank you. congresswoman friedman, sorry to meet you. under these conditions. congratulations on your race coming to you. thank you. next. thank you. >> lineup or watch for free. >> sling lets you do that as a cardiologist. >> when i put my patients on a statin to reduce cholesterol, i also tell them it can deplete their coq10 levels. i recommend taking quinol coq10. quinol has three times better absorption than regular coq10 quinol the brand i trust. >> closed captioning brought to you by book.com. >> if you or a loved one have mesothelioma, we'll send you a free book to answer questions you may have. call now and we'll come to you. >> 808 two one 4000. >> in our national lead. you can see homeowners in eaton canyon, california, scrambling there to save their homes, using everything from pots of water to garden hoses. the devastating flames of the eaton fire just one of four separate wildfires tearing through los angeles county right now, destroying homes, offices and lives. cnn national corres

van jones, cenk from young turks sitting defending, we can't be arrogant. we have to baptize.know the story. make some noise if you know who is rutherford. don't get upset. i'm telling you my opinion. he's the best pastor in america. you know what would happen to us over a span of 15 years, we out of insurance policy agency we recruited collectively we got a thousand people to get baptized in that church. you know why, we didn't invite them. the most basic way of doing it. you know how we did it by simply being interested in them. how is family? we may disagree politically. hey, you know what, i think we have some stuff in common. why don't you come and spend time was. you guys are conservatives, we are. my wife -- can i cook for you. let me cook for you. every tuesday night, i'm cooking for people at my house barbecue, come to the house. let me make some chicken for you. if i was to get into the chicken restaurant business i would blow it up i'm just not interested. we would sit there and people who would say they would never ever sell life insurance for the rest of of their

jones live on the ground in los angeles. thank you so much. and let's bring in cnn's meteorologist, derek van dam to get a sense on how the conditions may affect the emergency response. derek, is there any relief in sight or are there signs that things may get worse? >> unfortunately, manu, it's likely it'll get worse before it gets better. the critical fire conditions extended from today right through wednesday. two different santa ana wind events that are forecast. and i want to take you through the winds. but just keep in mind the tinderbox conditions that we are contending with the start of the water year in california begins october 1st. every year we've only had three hundredths of an inch of rain so far since that date. we're running just about 4.5in below where we should be, and that comes off the heels of a very wet winter last year, so there's a lot of vegetation that dried out rapidly leading to this tinderbox conditions. now, i want you to see the change in the wind directions that will be not from the typical northeast santa ana winds, but this onshore component that could take s