and now to yamiche alcindor at the white house. yamiche, the preside had an active hour or morsaking to his supporters, and everything fell apart after that. m thched to the capitol, they assaulted the capitol, people were hur a woman was killed. where do things stand tonight? >> judy, remarkably and in some ways troubling -- in a troubling way, president trump remains defiant, remains wedded to the idea that he is the rightful winner of the 2020 election. i was just talking to someone who is familiar with some ofhe conversations the president has been having as he's been watching all this unfd from the white house on tv, and that person said that the president is genuinely embarrassed, genuinelyworied about trying at all to say that he is not the winner of this ection and, as a result, there are some peple who feel like the president hast simply just is way. there are people telling me that the president has often walked up to the line, t then walked back right after -- walked up to not wanting to denounce white supremacists and th

we go to yamiche alcindor. trump becomes the first president in american history to be impeached twice. what do we know about how his reacting to this? yamiche: president trump is furious at the idea his marred legacy became even more tarnished today as he is the first president to be impeached twice. he spent the day watching the debate and vote play out on tv. he was lashing out at people. he saw a republican saying he betrayed his oath of office, along with democrats saying he is a walking impeachment offense. in the last few seconds he released a five-minute video where he said no supporter of his would be involved in any violence or attacks on law enforcement. he said he is worried about this free-speech issue, saying there are attempts to cancel people and unfairly target people. defenders of the president talked about free speech. he is talking about a small group of people defending him. a number of people say even if it is about free speech, the president should not have said what he said. judy: what do

yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "the pbs newshour." peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." and susan page, washington yamiche, let's start with y." georgia. stacy abrams and other democrats down there helped biden win the state in the presidential election. can that clition be re-assembled in early january? yamiche: democrats are really, really hoping they can get that coalition back together. the pitch from democrats is this. that this is really an extensio of the 2020 general election. you heard vice president-elect harris when she went down to georgia, she said this year isn't over, 2020 isn't over until january 5 making th pitch that her agenda and of course the agenda of president-elect biden could not ally go forward in a robust way without the help of democrats i georgia turni out to elect both those democratic senators. bidenen i talked to sources in the traition, they say the senate republican control, the senate beingco rolled by republicans is really the difference between a backing, being able

we heard yamiche alcindor reporting the vice president leaning against invong the me25th ame.t have him on board, more than half the cabinet, you can't get it done. that means you would be talking about congress impeaching. we know in a long, drawn out process that is. we know that we're very handicapped by theleailed ership of this administration. close up to this administration and knows better than you and io unfit this president is. we also have the complication of a cabinet that is in disarray. people are jumping ship many of , them are notonfirmed by the senate. amngress can play a role in invoking the 25tdment, if only we had some leadership from vice president pence. what you heard from speaker epelosi today was, there other tools at our disposal, emergency, urgent tools,s break-the-glols like impeach this president again. we can move with greaterpeed. i am still here ho d.c. i'ng we will be called back into session very, very quickly to move forward with either the 25th amendment or impeachment. if not, i don't know the legal possibility of both. this man is an extrao

i'm yamiche alcindor. welcome to "washington wk."t has been an historic and traumatic week in washington, d.c. esident trump encouraged a violent mob to storm the.s. capitol piercing the very heart of our democracy. after false claiming he won the 2020 election, there are just 20 days lt in president trump's term. but amid them there are growing calls for him to resign or be removed. house democrats are drafting articles of impeachment again. and some on president trump's cabinet are talking about invoking the 25th amendment to force him out. my sources tell me it's very unlikely that vice eesident peould aee to that. those close to the president say he is embarrassed and isolated. on thursday, house speaker nancy pelosi didn't hold back. >> the president has committed an unspeakable assault on our nation and our people. i join the senate democrat leader in cling on the vice president to remove thispr ident by immediately amendmenthe 25th if the vice president or cabinet do not act, the congress may be prepared to move forward with i

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. >> woodruff: and now we go to our yamiche alcindor. trump becomes the first president in american history to be impeached twice. what do we know about how he is reacting to this? >> reporter: president trump is furious at the idea that his marred legacy became even more tarnished today as he became the first britain to be impeached twice. the president spent most of the day watching tv, watching the impeachment vote and debate play out on tv. the president in some ways was really lashing out at people because what he saw were republicans saying that he betrayed his oath of office. of course, along with democrats saying that he is a walking impeachment offense. the president also just, in the last few seconds, released a five-minute video where he says that no supporter of his would be involved in any sort of violence or any sort of attack on law enforcement. he also said, though, that he's very worried about this free speech issue, saying there are attempts to cancel people and to try to unfairly target people for free speech. there we

alar >> yamiche alcindor: it is alarming and there are people telling me that the president is lookingat the people wh stormed the capitol and in some ways he doesn't want the capitol to be completely destroyed but in some ways theyell me the president is feeling as though he's being justified in his outrage that these are people that are essentially having his back because judy these are people who listen to the president. he did come before them and spook for more than an hour anda now we'll go to the capitol and fight and not concede. there are people who are looking at this and saying this is what the president wanted essentially he didn't want, of course, someone die,t he also wanted real mayhem, he wanted ch this could botic. a melee, he wanted these things to happen and for everything to be up ended and top the process. i will also note that there is k bout what happens next when it comes legally i've been talking to bin transition officials telling me there could be multiple investigations into what we all witnessed day. they said the fbi could be involved. they said thedistric

lissar desjardins, yamiche alcindor, thank you both. >> woodruff: as yamiche reported earlier, presidentillion economic stimulus plan is being met with bipartisan resistance in the senate. heather boushey is a member of the president's white house council of economic advisors and she joins us now from washington. heather boushey welcome back to the newshour, you were with us about a week and a half ago when president biden was still president-elect biden. first ming i-- thing i want to ask you about is the time table. the president stressing today he wants to get this economic package passed as soon as possiblement but we heard the senate incoming majority leader chuck schumer say march, mid rch. is chuck sheum-- schumer's schedule the president's schedule? >> well, let me say from the economic perspective, making sure that we have clarity, that we have the relief that we need for workers, for families, for communities, for state and local governments all across the country, is the priority to make sure that everyone kws what they can weather the storm of this crisis. now my understandin

to help us make sense of it all: our yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins join me now. so, yamiche, i'm going to start with you. after this terrible, terrible attack on the capitol last week, a lot of people are wondering about security, of course, for the inauguration. what more canou tell us about the plans and not only here in washington, but in cities around the country? >> reporter: well, federal officials are working very, very hard to ensure a safe inauguration, but they're tracking a number of threats, both to the capitol in washington, d.c., as well as in other cities and state capitols. today, vice president pence visited the fema headquarters, and there he met with a number of high-ranking national security officials, including the head of the secret service, the head of the homeland security, as well as the head of the f.b.i.-- the f.b.i. director, rather. and what vice president pence said was that he is really pushing all of these agencies to make sure that they're confident that they can find a safe way to haven inauguration for president-elect biden and v

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white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. che: a climate crisis and a call for dramatic action. today president biden underscored his sweeping break from former president trump, signing a new batch of executive odors -- executive orders. president biden: our plans are ambitious, but we are america. we are bold. we can do this. yamiche: president biden had already moved to rejoin the paris climate agreement, the me accord that president trump withdrew from. the new executive actions include pausing and renewing federal gas leases on lands, addressing injustices faced by disadvantaged communities, and building jobs focused on clean energy. during the campaign, candidate biden advocated a $2 trillion effort to reduce global warning. -- warming. today john kerry doubled down on that goal. >> it's a lot of money, but it costs more if you don't do the things we need to do. workers are going to see with the efforts of the biden administration, they are going to have a better set of choices. it will create more jobs. yamiche: most rep

our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. president's second full day in office and a focus on the pandemic's economic toll. pres. biden: we're in a national emergencies. we need to act like we're in a national emergency. so we've got to move with everything we've got. we've got to do it together. i don't believe democrats or republicans are going hungry and losing jobs. i believe americans are going hungry and losing their jobs. yamiche: last week, 900,000 americans filed for unemployment benefits. today, president biden signed two executive orders aimed at delivering some economic relief. they include boostingood assistance benefits, improving the equal distribution of previously allocated direct payments, protecting unemployed job seekers, and raising the minimum wage for federal employees to $15 an hour. the move comes as congress pushes biden to pass a $1.9 trillion covid relief package that would include an additional round of $1400 stimulus checks. at a white house briefing, national economic council director said the

our yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins join me now. so, hello to both of you. youir. raditionally,rsatn abu eson aut what president trump may do. what are you learning about that? yamiche: washington and the nation sits on edge waiting to e s se ictatpeo ex ted abe i have been talking to white house officials all day. they tell me that they do not believe president trump is going to pardon himself or members of his family, but he is looking at an array of people, including steve bannon, a former top white house official and someone who helped trump win in 2016, as well as sheldon silver, a disgraced new york assemblyman, and even rapper lil wayne, who was convicted of a gun charge. another thing to note is that the president, experts say, has really broken with tradition when it comes to pardons. he has not gone through the traditional process of going through the department of justice to vet pardons often. they also say that he's been a president, more than other presidents, who's leaned in on pardoning people who are close to him or who serve some sort of political m

correspondent yamiche alcindor has our report. today, president biden focused on his campaign pledge to strengthen obamacare. pres. biden: there's nothing new that we're doing here other than restoring the affordable care act and restoring medicaid to the way it was before trump became president. yamiche: in the oval office, he said the that effort more is urgent than ever. pres. biden: of all times that we need to reinstate access to, affordability of, and extend access to medicaid is now in the middle of this covid crisis. yamiche: his first action, expanding enrollment. beginning february 15th, healthcare.gov, the federal online insurance marketplace, will open an additional sign up period. the kaiser family foundation has found that 15 million uninsured americans are still elible for that coverage. but in december, the regular enrollment window closed and former president trump declined to reopen it. mr. trump: what we want to do is terminate it and give yamiche: great health care. yamie: during his term, trump repeatedly took

yamiche alcindor, reporting as we said on both the incoming and outgoing president, thank you, yamiche woodruff: in the day's other news, the united states neared 400,000 deaths from covid-19, with numbers rising in nearly two-thirds of the states. in all, the country has recorded more than 24 milli confirmed cases, out of 95 million worldwide. as the winter surge continues, the head of the world health organization warned today that rich nations are buying up vaccines, leaving poor nations wanting. >> ultimately, tse actions will only prolong the pandemic, prolong our pain, the restrictions needed to contain it, and human and economic suffering. >> woodruff: we'll return to the pandemic after the news summary. president-elect biden has named his choices to lead two major regulatory bodies. he will nominate rohit chopra r director of the consumer financial protection bureau. chopra is a progressive ally of democratic senator elizabeth warren. and, gary gensler is tapped to chair the securities and exchange commission. he's now at m.i.t. after spending nearly 20 years on wall street. th

. >> woodruff: and yamiche alcindor is at the white house with more on the biden agenda. hello, yamiche. we know the president's now been in office almost a full week. today, he was speaking both about the vaccine distribution challenges around the country, and about equity. so tell us more about what he's doing on those fronts. >> well, president biden is ramping up vaccine distribution around the country and he's also pledging to put equity and fighting systemic racism at the center of everything he does, on the covid vaccine and the response he's doing. he he said he's increasing weekly vaccines to states and tribe and territories by 16%. he is increase the total u.s. vaccine order from 400 million dopses to dix sell money doses. that means he says there will be enough vaccines for 300 million americans by the summer. the population is 329 million americans. that's a big deal there. the other thing, equity, he said, is important, not just for americans of color and black americans but for all americans. he said we will have a safer and more secure and more prosperous co

our yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins join me now. both of you, and to you first, yamiche -- we know traditionally presidents go out of office with a lot of conversation about pardons and commutation, and there's been speculation about what president trump may do. what are you learning about that? >> reporter: well, washington and really the nation sits on edge waiting to see what is expected to be a long list of people pardoned by president trump. now i have been talking to white house officials all day, and they tell me they do not believe president trump is going to pardon himself or members of his family but he is looking at an array of people including steve bannon, a former top white house official and someone who helped trump win in 2016 as well as sheldon, a disgraced assemblyman, and rapper lil' wayne, convicted of a gun charge. the president has broken with tradition when it comes to pardons. he has not gone through the department of justice to vet pardons. they also say he's been a president more than others who's leaned in

. >> woodruff: we turn now to our yamiche alcindor weeashon bat the white house all day. for all the pomp and circumstance of this day, the new president has gotten right town to business. >> reporter: that is right, judy. after 48 years of government service, joe biden is now the 46th president of the united states and he said he wasn't wasting any time. he signed 17 executive recorders, 17 executive actions. they're ocused on a number of things that will, i'm told, be the core of his presidency and how he governs. they include him rejoining the paris climate accord as well as instituting a national mass mandate on federal property. he also is going to be directing agencies to do an equity review, looking at all of their different policies to look at any sort of systemic racism that might be plaguing their agencies. he also directed some of his energy today to immigration reform, saying daca recipients -- those are le uncumented immigrants as minors -- that they should be protected. he also will be rejoining the thheinrlans osoaloioizrgatn. also, as he was signing in the

yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "pbs news-hour" and an msnbc political analyst. and yamiche, your friends in the white house press corps have been issuing new reports every hour at different news organizations about who's on the pardon list, who's slipping off the pardon list, is steve bannon going to get one, is rudy giuliani going to get a pardon, how much money, how big are the bags of money being dragged into this process to pay the people like giuliani and others who might be trying to secure pardons for others. and it seems at this point that tomorrow might be the day when we learn about at least some of these pardons. >> that's right. the reports are that president trump, who has finally turned a corner and realizes he has to leave the white house, has now turned his attention to pardons. the understanding is and the reporting shows that he might issue as many as 100 pardons all at once. at one point, there were supposed to be two batches of pardons. but because he was so obsessed with this idea he was going to try to win back the election and the electoral

our yamiche alcindor has been at the white house thrououthis day.li , to you first, this news that the woman who was shot has died casts an even grater pall over what was already anho ific seases set oaf developments. >> reporter: that's right and i believe the capitol hasn't begun to reckon with the eventst ofay. as i'm talking you can see next to me theagent of arms of the house of representatives passing me on his way into the house chamber and i saw high-ranking aides to nancy pelosi moving in. it looks to m like they're getting ready to allow people back into the capitol. i may be able to get that way myself soon. we know they have secured, according to capitol police, the u.s. capitol building and ain, as you say, judy, officials are planning to meet and continue and finish the electoral college count, the dcisive certification of joe biden as president tonht. there is curfew in place, as you've said, in washington, d.c. we've had announcements here. i don't for us.se were meant those were meant for protestors. i've never heard this kind of announcement before, a sort of siren an

. >> joining me now is yamiche alcindor from pbs news hour, and former political director of the obamatration and charlie sikes, editor-at-large for the bull work. yamiche, i have to go to you. this is quite different for you, madam, covering the white house. no one screamed at you and you don't have racial undertoned attacks on you, disrespect for you as a woman and a journalist. i just want to get your sense of how different it feels to cover this white house? so far? >> it is a new day, joy. we are in this situation where we are covering a white house the idea of truth, and we might have tense exchanges, but ultimately we view each other as human beings that we can talk to in a way that doesn't feel aggressive or charred. i think it is a feeling that i think both reporters here are feeling a bit of relief, frankly. this is again a white house that will be held accountable. we're going to ask tough questions. i'm going to ask tough question, but at least we're in a situation where they're saying we'll level with you and we're not going to lie up front and we're not going to make thin

yamiche alcindor, reporting on the white house. you, yamiche. >> woodruff: we now turn our attention to capital hill, and to our dan bush, who is tracking the action there. so, dan, late developments late this afternoon and early this evening observe the timing for that impeachment trial. >> that's right, judy. so much is fluid now and it's been changing by the hour, but the "newshour" learned senate majority leader chuck schumer and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell are nearing a deal to begin the trial the week of february 8. schumer is about to speak? a little while on the senate floor to provide more details. there are things we don't know, how long it will last, whether there will be witnesses or not. those details are being ironed out. democrats do want a couple of things, they would like to split up the days to conduct other business, firm biden's nominees, conduct covid relief while they have the senate trial. republicans pushed back on that. in the last couple of days, i can say support for conviction of former presi

for e pbs newshour, i'm john >> woodruff: so what now for this president, and the final yamiche alcindor has beenon? tracking the fallout at thewh e house, and lisa desjardins is tracking the fallout on capitol hill, from yesterday's shocking e we thank you both for being here, and, again, for extraordinary reporting yesterday. so, yamiche-- or lisa, to you first.ar we in john's report, the leaders, democratic leaders of both the house an the senate impeached.r the president to be how serious is this talk on the hill? >> reporter: i think that it's to be detmined, judy. among the factors, there are questions about what vicet, presidormer vice president and incoming president bidento wanto. but the timeline is really the big issue. for president trump, and thece senate trial of president trump last year, that took 49 days. but let's go through exactly what could happen if an impeachment were to happen at its fastest possible pace. now, impeachment can-- articles can come immediately to the house for. they do not have to go through the committee process, though that is what usually happeth

but, lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor reporting on it all. thank you both. i am stephanie sy with newshour west. we will return to judy woodruff after these headlines. president-elect joe biden has given the speech that yamiche previewed earlier. included in his stimulus plan is raising the national minimum wage to $15. the federal minimum is currently $7.25. coronavirus depths in the u.s. are nearing 390,000 tonight. that includes another 3900 deaths wednesday. members of the w.h.o. arrived in wuhan china today where it began. scientists caution their work will take time. >> after this initial mission, we would be on the way and in the coming months, hopefully completed by additional studies. stephanie: beijing has still not said if the w.h.o. investigators will be allowed to gather evidence. two former state health officials in michigan were charged with involuntary manslaughter today in the flint water crisis. it involves nine people who died of legionnaires' disease from contaminated water. former governor rick snyder is facing misdemeanor counts of will

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. >> aindor: today, all eyes on covid-19 vaccines.on & johnson-- a newshour funder-- announced that trials show overall its vaccine is 66% effective. that's not as strong as its moderna and pfizer rivals. both of them are more than 90% effective. but at a white house task force briefing, the president's chief medical adviser on covid, dr. anthony fauci, said the johnson & johnson vaccine showed very encouraging results in the worst cases. >> overall, in the united states, in south africa, and in brazil, the overall efficacy for severe disease was 85%. there were essentially no hospitalizations or deaths in the vaccine group, whereas in the placebo group, there were. >> alcindor: fauci also noted that unlike the other vaccines, johnson & johnson's requires just a single shot, and it does not need to be stored in super- cold temperatures. that could cut storage costs and help vaccinate more people, in a shorter amount of time. in early february, the company intends to request from the food and drug administration an emergency use author

yamiche alcindor, at the white house.u so much on this first day. >> thanks so much. >> woodruff: as we just heard, the president is calling for a "full-scale wartime" approach to the pandemic and its effects. william brangham gets an assessment of the proposals and real limits the president, the government and states are all facing. >> brangham: to look at little deeper at the biden administration's plans for the pandemic, and how steep a hill it has to climb, i'm joined by dr michael osterholm. he runs the center for infectious disease research at the university of minnesota, and recently served on the biden team's coronavirus advisory board. dr. osterholm, great to have you back on the newshour. before we get to the policy changes, can you just help us understand what has been the hik up so far in our ability to get vaccines to people? we know it's improving, but what have been the stumbling blocks so far? >> well, actually, there are three point to this. first of all, there has been a lot of misunderstanding to what's

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: a climate crisis, and afor dramatic action. today, president biden underscored his sweeping break from former president trump, signing a new batch of executive orders. >> our plans are ambitious, but we are america. we're bold. we're unwavering in the pursuit of jobs in innovation, science and discovery. we can do this. >> alcindor: president biden had already moved to rejoin the paris climate agreement, the same accord that president trump withdrew from. the new executive actions include pausing and reviewing new oil and gas leases on federal public lands and water; addressing environmental injustices faced by disadvantaged communities; and building jobs focused on clean energy. during the presidential campaign, candidate biden advocated a $2 trillion effort to reduce global warming. today, his presidential envoy for climate, former secretary of state john kerry, doubled down on that goal. >> it's a lot of money but you know what it costs a lot more if you don't do the things we need to do. workers are goin

yamiche alcindor, tim alberta from politico.t get to enjoy our new green room as well. i swear, it's unbelievable food and everything, david and andrea. you won't believe what you've missed. andrea mitchell, i feel like we're suddenly in a race here. we've got the impeachment trial, the pandemic, covid relief. we're going to know in about three weeks how functional washington will be in a bipartisan basis or not. do you see it the same way? we're going to find out quickly whether this is going to be a functional bipartisan government or not? >> absolutely. from my sources within the white house and the hill, the democrats believe that they can at least try to do this in a bipartisan way, that covid is so urgent, that the country is crying out for vaccines to be drishted equitably and quickly. the white house believes they have at least some time on their hands in the first few days to use pressure, public pressure against the republicans to try to get not only organizing the agreement and get the committees going, but get this l

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. >> alcindor: a bombshell phone call. and a president trying everything and anything to stay in power. in just over two weeks, the term of president trump, who lost the election, ends. but he is refusing to face that fact. instead on saturday, he personally made this demand of georgia secretary of state br raffensperger: overturn the state's election results. >> all i want to do is this. just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i ed 11,000 votes. give me a break. you know, we havthat in spades already. >> alcinr: raffensperger's office recorded the hour-long call. the audio was first rel"ed sunday by the washington post". president-elect joe biden won georgia by 11,779 votes. and the state has counted the baots three times. but president trump repeatedly insist raffensperger override that outcome. g >> the people rgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. and there's nothing wrong with sayin

chief washington correspondent andrea mitchell, "the new york times" columnist david brooks, yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs newshour and tim alberta, chief political correspondent for politico. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> good sunday morning from our brand-new studio where we are broadcasting from. after more than 60 years at our historic location in upper northwest washington. a new studio for a new administration. much as president trump sought to undo the legacy of his predecessor, barack obama, so joe biden is moving to escape the shadow of donald trump and unwind that presidency. four years after president trump's american carnage speech, joe biden stressed a theme of unity in his inaugural address. then, moving on from rhetoric, mr. biden went to work immediately to erase much of what he could with a pen of donald trump's presidency, issuing 17 executive orders on everything from economic relief to climate change to r

our white house correspondent, yamiche alcindor, begins our coverage. hon. please your right -- please raise your right hand and repeat after me. yamiche: a new president and a new packed agenda. today, on his first full day in office, president biden was eager to hit the ground running. pres. biden: this executive order i'm signing -- yamiche: he unveiled a number of new measures. he also pledged to confront the nation's public health crisis head on. pres. biden: we didn't get into this mess overnight. and it's going to take months for us to turn things around. but let me be equally clear. we will get through this. we will the defeat this pandemic. and to a nation waiting for action, let me be the clearest on this point. help is on the way. yamiche: today, he signed 10 executive orders to accelerate the stribution of covid-19 vaccines, bolster their supply, along with testing, by ramping up manufacturing, require masks on all public transportation, and address the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color by establishing a task force

. >> yamiche alcindor at the white house today. thank you much for your reporting. we'll check back with you later, for sure.th >> yamichek you. >> i am joined now by the district attorney, the attorney-general for the rasin, and he ison thecarl telephone talking with us today. mrrasin, are you there? >> i'm here, william, thank you very much. >> william: i wonder if i couljust initially get your reaction to what has unfolded oherey? >> well, it is several-fold. and i'll try to be as brief as i can. i think attorney-general barr's messan is pl, clear, and unquestionably the truth. was an americangedy.day it is outrageous. it is devaouating. and i add to form attorney-general barr's lards that it was ul, predictable, and encouraged by none other than the president of the united states. and so this is an unprecedented event. let me talk abutthe predictability for a moment. we know that tese hate groups and malitiagr ps -- i'm talking about not the peaceful protestors, but the people who bceroke po lines and assaulted the capitol and left senators and congresswomen and

. >> sreenivasan: yamiche alcindor, joining us from washington, thanks so ch. >> thanks so much. >> sreenivasanr a look at what to make of the week ahead with president-elect joe biden's inauguration, and potential impeachment trial and more, i spoke with special correspondent jeff greenfield from santa barbara, california so, jeff, let's start with impeachment, even some strong critics of the president are saying basically, what's the point? he will be gone before any trial even begins. and then there's the sort of separate question, can he be impeacd once he is out of office? >> the short answer to the question ofan he be impeached is yes, and the theory is, if you didn't have that power, the most wrongdoing miscreant could evade any of the consequences by just resigning and keep benefits and not lose what he would lose or she would lose if that person were convicted. the more serious reason is that if there were 17 republicans who would vote to convict trump this time, the senate would then move to a different question: should this person be barred from holding any office for the rest of his

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yamiche alcindor at the white house, you have been watching all of this.estations, we saw just now the ast, which is the limo that protects the president that he rides in, that license plate has been changed to 46th for the 46th president of the united states. inside the white house there are also changing the furniture. i also saw a number of workers run by with boat loads of cleaning supplies because as i noed, this is a white house that is getting a deep, deep clean, thousands and thousands of dollars ynd what is normally done because of the pandemic and because of course this white house was a white house that had multiple outbreaks with the predecessor of president biden. the other thing i want to know note is the president of the united states will sign 17 executive actions an there aistic that is right now, dealing with this country right now, a fact in this country and that is african-americans are some two and a half times to three times more likely to die of the coronavirus. there are also two and a half times, three times more likely to be kille

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports. yamiche: the nation still reeling.resident trump with no regrets. the president emerged in public for the first time since extremist supporters stormed the capitol. he rejected all talk of involuntary removal or a second impeachment. pres. trump: it's really a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics. it's ridiculous. it's absolutely ridiculous. for nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to continue on this path, i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger. i want no violence. yamiche: at his rally last wednesday, president trump urged the crowd to march to the capitol. he's since been denounced for inciting the mob. but today, he insisted his words have been "totally appropriate rate that brought new condemnation from the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer. >> what trump did today -- blaming others for what he caused, is a pathological technique used by the worst of dictators. trump causes the anger, he causes the divisiveness, he foments the violence and

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports on the day's events. sident biden's first full week in office and a flurry of executive actions. at a morning meeting with defense secretary lloyd austin, biden revoked president trump's ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. pres. biden: what i'm doing is enabling all qualified americans to serve their country in uniform transgender personnel qualified in every other way can serve the government of the united states going forward. yamiche: the president also issued a buy american order aimed at providing support to u.s. manufacturers. the order raises the threshold for products to qualify under existing buy american regulations calls for a review , of waivers ofuy american requirements and, appoints an official in the office of management and budget to oversee the order's implementation. the president is reimposing a covid-19 ban on foreign travelers from the u.k., brazil and ireland as well as other , european countries with open borders. south africa waslso included on the list over con

. >> yamiche alcindor, thank you and thank you both. joining me is representative jama jamaal bowman. lives were lost while counting votes to elect joe biden as next president of the united states. this was in your first week of the job. you are now in the process of drawing up articles of impeachment. >> absolutely. the president must be impeached immediately. we need to also look to invoke the 25th amendment. whatever we can do to get him out of office as quickly as possible is what we must do. but we need to understand white supremacists have just waged war on the united states government. so white supremacy has been around since america has been around for 401 years. trump has fanned the flames, trump has directed violence, he needs to be held accountable, we need to direct our attention to white national iists and white supremacists, law enforcement is in cahoots with them in many instances. they may have infiltrated capitol police. we have to stop the rise of white supremacy in our country. >> as a black man, you actually want to

judy: and lisa joins me urw along withhite house correspondent yamiche alcindor.lo to both of you. lisa, to you first. you gave us a sense of where things stand in the co. do you have a clear sense of exactly how this wou unfold at e capitol? lisa: i do. i will give you what we think is the most likely plan for timing. however, it is .fluid. there are still many details to be worked out. the firsthi as we reported, house democrats to announcedto y they plan to have the impeachment debate on the floor wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. they do plan to hold the impeachment vote wednesday. after that, the articles can be transmitted to the senate. it seems right now a liky path r that is that itap wouldn after inauguration as with clyburn suggested today. if that d happen, we would see probably a senate trial in late january, ely february. i would say there's also another option. senate democratic leader chuck schumer today said he would like to trigger an emergency session of the senate, which he can do, but only if senate republican leader mitch mcconnells. together, t

hispanic voters in the 2020 elections but there are not many hispanic voters to speak of. >> so yamiche alcindor certification. this amid donald trump's last-minute pleadings to mike pence for some sort of big reveal as if the united states constitution and everything this country is based on somehow can be whittled down to an idiotic reality show that the president himself can control as a producer. it appears mike pence is pushing him off but kind of in a spineless way saying he doesn't have the power. the day will be filled with symbolism. these republicans who are pushing to undermine the election will end up in the long run perhaps maybe regretting their actions, especially in light of what happened in georgia. your thoughts? >> president trump wakes today to a complete repudiation of himself personally and a disinformation campaign both in georgia and nationally and joe biden wakes to an america that is handing him in georgia in the win there a blueprint for how democrats could win in other states like texas, like north carolina. president trump tried and failed to convince georgians that

. >> mike memoli, peter alexander, peter baker, yamiche alcindor, thank for starting us off. the focus ahead of course for tomorrow's inauguration is security. this is an armed camp, washington. tens of thousands of national guard troops are on alert to stop any potential new threats as federal agents continue to round up suspects linked to the january 6th attack on capitol hill. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. pete, how confident are the security officials that everything will run smoothly tomorrow? >> well, that's their view so far, andrea. they say no plots, nothing uncovered that would in any way change the plans. we have heard that two members of the national guard who were assigned here have been relieved of their duty. that much we know. it's a little unclear about why they were relieved of duty. the a.p. says it's because they had some sort of links to radical groups, but we don't know for sure whether that was the reason. but in terms of the investigation, andrea, you're right, it's really going very fast. they've identified more than 330 people

let's go to yamiche alcindor. >> thanks for taking my question. i have two questions. first is are you differing how many vaccinations are currently available and that's left in the federal stockpile? are we dealing with a finite number of vaccinations? could you talk through the numbers again. the second question i have is what percentage of vaccinations, people that are already vaccinated, is coming back with racial and ethnicity information? i'm wondering how we know who is getting what and you're gauging success when it comes to people that are getting vaccinated. >> one of you take the first question and dr. nunez for the second, please. >> yep. so today we've delivered 47 million vaccines to states. and we are committed to delivering an additional 10 million per week for the next three weeks to states. now, we do not keep a stockpile of a large number of vaccines. we keep a two- to three-day supply as a practice just to account for variation in manufacturing production. that's it. the rest moves out to states. >> there was a practice early on before we were in of

for the first time as president of the united states, and as we do that, let's go back to our yamiche alcindorsident biden at the same time. >> well judy, i'm talking to you and listening to you. and i have an eye right over my shoulder because i'm waiting for all these military officials to get a view of the president and vice president walking into the white house for the first time. this will be the culmination of today's events but really it is the culmination of 48 years of public service for joe biden. this was not a moment that came easy to him. he had a lot of tragedy in his life. he had that, of course, really tough primary season. but he was able to pull through, really by leaning in saying that he was going to heal the soul of this nation, exposing himself. saying that he is someone who understands losing people that he loved in the middle of the pandemic, understands heartbreak, understands losing his wife, his young daughter, his son beau who he said would be the person that he thought would be president of the united states. you talked a lot to your guests about cory booker about